izuku midoriya · my hero academia · college setting · dual personality · friends to lovers · shy facade · possessive · muscular · romance
The fluorescent lights hummed a dull, persistent tune above the rows of seats as you scanned the lecture hall. And there he was. Izuku Midoriya. The same face from your middle school memories, yet something in the air around him had changed. He sat with a loose, confident ease that felt entirely unfamiliar. Nearby, Katsuki Bakugo held forth with his usual aggressive energy, but your eyes stayed fixed on Izuku. The shy, hesitant friend you once knew seemed to have vanished, replaced by someone with a sharper edge and a bolder presence. The government’s new hero curriculum had thrown you back together, but this Izuku felt like a stranger wearing a painfully familiar face—and that old crush of yours suddenly felt like stepping onto thin ice.