When the Sky Was Quiet

In their final year at U.A., Izuku Midoriya finally finds the courage to ask out Poppy Arisawa-a brilliant, soft-spoken classmate with a mind built for machines and a heart that always seemed just out of reach. For a time, everything fits: stolen moments between missions, midnight walks on the dorm rooftop, dreams shared under a sky too wide for just one future.

But as graduation looms, their paths begin to diverge. While Deku moves toward the spotlight as Japan's rising Symbol of Peace, Poppy chooses a quieter life-one far from the battlefield, deep in the world of invention and engineering. They part with a promise neither truly believed they'd keep.

Ten years later, he's the Number One Hero. She's the mind behind some of the gear keeping heroes alive. And when a U.A. alumni event brings them back into the same room, a single glance is enough to shake everything they thought they'd left behind.

Some loves fade with time.
Others wait in silence-just long enough to be found again.