Stuck In The Middle

Chapter Four: But Friends Turn Into Sleepovers

Jiro wakes up bright and early to get ready to workout with Midoriya. After taking a shower and getting into her workout gear groggily, she heads out to Municipal Beach where she notices All Might and the green haired boy were already there, and had already started.

"You guys started without me? What the hell!? It's like 5 in the morning, how!?" She questioned. She was appalled at the fact that these two are up and probably have been training for a while already. She could see the sweat beads on Izuku's face.

"A-Ah yeah, sorry Jiro! We usually get here pretty early.." He said, rubbing the back of his neck. Jiro sighs and runs down to the two, mumbling a bunch of swears as she does so. Once she reaches them, All Might hands her a strip of paper?

"What's this?" She asked, looking at the paper. It appeared to be a workout regimen, it even covered her daily intake of food and her sleep schedule! All Might didn't mess around when it came to this kind of stuff, though that should have been expected from the number one hero.

"Well, I made a workout routine for you like I mentioned yesterday. It has your body type in mind so you should adjust quite fine. It even includes some things you can do with Young Midoriya, like combat training and some cardio." The number one hero stated, watching as she took the strip of paper from his hands. "I think you'll particularly enjoy the endurance and free-running."

Jiro had started to drown him out and glance over to Midoriya who had gone off on his own and started lifting up a dryer with ease. This guy really changed after a few months of training with All Might. He was seriously beginning to show proof of being stronger than he could have let on. Not to mention his physique, though she could only get glimpses of his stomach and forearms

"U-Um, All Might? Where do you want this? In the back of the truck, right?" He asked, heading towards the stairs of the beach to where All Might had a white truck parked.

"Ah! Yeah just put it there for now, I'll take it over to the recycling center shortly. Anyways, Young Jiro, you can go ahead and get started, I'll be back to check both of your guys' progress." He said before heading up to the truck and driving off, leaving the two teens to their training.

'It's nice to see Young Midoriya as happy as he is. He's made a lot of progress in such a short amount of time, maybe his body's ready for my quirk already...' All Might thought, looking back at the teens interacting through the rear view mirror.

Maybe he truly was ready for One For All.

"So Midoriya..." Jiro starts, "How long have you been here at the beach cleaning?" She questioned, noticing how clear the beach has become. You can see most of the beach's coast line at this point it was astounding at how much progress the boy had made.

He stops to think, "About... 2 months? I started after the sludge villain incident. Th-That's why I've been too busy to hangout, sorry again. I-I don't want you to feel like I-I had been ignoring you..." Jiro glared at him for that, and let out a huff. Midoriya could feel she had probably been frustrated by that fact alone. He could've told her the reason sooner at least, but this guy was trying to keep everything a secret for the number one so she can't blame him. At the very least now she had the opportunity to hang out with him more.

"Well, that's in the past now," She says, patting his shoulder, "Now you have no excuses!"

She smiled at him. Midoriya blushed and returned the smile. Her smile really was infectious. She was right though, now he could spend time doing what he needed as a hero and still maintain his time with her. What better way could he spend his time? He could now hangout with his friend while getting some training done and hopefully accomplish his dream. Life felt good.