3rd person POV:

As the end of the final exams came, every member of the Green Demons took their own fights differently. For Itsuka and Tsu, they began training once more with Jinbei to help grow their skills with Fishman Karate. "Keep going." Both repeated to send punches harnessing the power of the Fishmen in their punches with Jinbei to the side monitoring them and making sure they were doing it right. "Keep going-*BOOM*" All three stopped when they looked over to see massive explosions happen a distance away.

"Damned Pomeranian. Can't he just do something a little more subtle?" Itsuka scowls as she continues to give punches with Tsu smiling at this.

"He's doing what he can to get stronger. Can't blame him."

"True." Itsuka didn't stop punching the air while thinking of her own battle. "But no matter how big a blast is, it doesn't mean he'll be better from it."

As they continued, Momo began training with Ochako by shooting rubber bullets at her and using Haki to her own ability to dodge. "*BOOM* Quite a large blast that one was." Momo comments as she shoots another bullet and just misses Ochako's shoulder and see her eyes shut trying to calm herself. 'She's putting her all in it. I'm also trying to use Haki to increase the power in even these bullets.'

" *sigh* It's not enough. We need to get better. There won't be a chance for us to win in the future against more dangerous opponents. We gotta get stronger and Bakugou knows that."

The dark haired woman nodded before aiming her gun again. "He's very aggressive, but Bakugou always had some form of understanding what exactly needs to be done."

"DIIIEEEEE!!!" Bakugou sent aother blast with Todoroki using his ice as a barrier for him to hit before sending a blast of fire his direction. This was blocked by Ryukyu who was aiding in their training. "I can do this on my own! I don't need you to butt in!"

"I'm doing this so we can avoid someone getting hurt. You all want to keep your training to a maximum, so that requires you to be watched over to avoid someone getting injured. Or do you want to have an ear full from Recovery Girl?"

Bakugou scoffed at this before sending another blast to Todoroki. 'I need to get on his level. That's the only way we can win in the future. Even if he gets better, it's useless if we can't stand alongside him.'

Izuku calmed his mind while focusing on the inner darkness that was within him. He channeled Haki into his blades with a dark aura coming down them and infusing with the Armament. "Seems you're working hard." Kaminari walked over with a smile on his face beside Shiozaki. The two decided to check on their captain to watch him pull his blades up and give a downward slash that let loose the dark energy and made a path down the area he was facing, taking down any and all that stood in it's way. Once done, the slash went probably around a kilometer out right towards Inko who was simply sipping tea and talking with Aizawa and Hawkeye. "WHAT THE NUTS!?"

"Still not good enough. It's still unrefined." Izuku glared down at his hands while trying to think of what he's doing wrong.

"Captain. What exactly are you trying to do?" Shiozaki walked up trying to figure out with him explaining.

"I was able to use a power when I was fighting Roronoa. But I can't get it now."

Feeling the ominous presence from the attack, Shiozaki voiced her concerns. "I do not fully understand the power, but be extremely cautious when you are using it. There is something unnatural about it."

"And? If you want to be the best, you need to be ready to play with danger a little."

"Being ready to accept danger and being stupid are two different things. Or has your own battle with Jack and the incident with the Celestial Dragons made you that forgetful."

"I get it. I wasn't smart doing either one of those, but did I have a choice in either?"

"Hmmm....the one with Jack, no. We played with fire unintentionally and this was the outcome. The Celestial Dragon one, a little because you willingly raised a hand to them when the problem was no longer warranted it."

"Either way, we're walking down a path that brings us into a lion's den no matter where we turn. For that reason, we all have to get better at what we do. And when I mean better, I mean pushing ourselves to the absolute limit."

"Fair choice." Shiozaki turned to grab Kaminari by his arm. "Come along. We have our own objectives that I can only succeed in with your help."

"Am I getting some fun with you-" He was cut off by a knot of vines hitting his groin. "Point taken."

As everyone did what they were to get stronger, Hawkeye, Inko and Aizawa began talking about what Izuku showed in the final exams. "So is what he used a quirk?"

"*sip* doubtful."

"Most likely something base that isn't quirk related." Both parents gave a vague answer for Aizawa to ask further.

"So what is it then?"

"Who's to say?" Hawkeye once again gave an unrealistic answer to irritate Aizawa. "To be honest, I genuinely do not know what it is. If I did, I would attempt to give a pointer towards what exactly he's able to do. The only thing I can think is the powers of Muramasa, his power enhancing quirk and lingering resentment culminated into something that is entirely absurd. Though Izuku is doing what he can to control his power, what and how he does it is a position in which neither you, Inko nor I can assist with."

"To be honest, it seemed kinda like resentment and anger in what I saw. Sadly enough, my son knows far too much of that." Inko continued to sip her tea before having another slash come near her to use Haki on a sugar cube to disperse it. "The least we can do is offer what we might think can help in what Izuku decides to do with the power. Overall, we can't help him and I don't know who exactly can at this point in time."

"Is there a possibility this could be detrimental to him as a whole?"

"Yes, but there's limits to that concern. We are discussing a boy who has fought and started trouble with the World Government, the Beast Pirates and I would not be surprised if other pirates would wish to have his head including Doflamingo."

"So you're just going to let things play out with no care if what's happening would be dangerous to Midoriya. Both of you." Aizawa summarized to gain a confirmation from Hawkeye.

"Let me ask you this, if we did stop him would Izuku listen?" The pro stopped for a second before understanding what he meant.

"I love my son, but he can be somewhat stubborn sometimes." Inko smiled before catching a stray rock that was about to hit her in the head and crushing it with her bare hand.

'Apple doesn't fall far from the tree though.'

Later that evening

Izuku sat outside with his blades next to him meditating with a bunch of candles around him. Mineta decided to find out just how sharp his senses were to attempt to sneak in and grab one of his swords. As his hand touched Masamune, Izuku spoke up. "You touch the sword, be ready to lose your head."

"DON'T HURT ME!" He ran towards the door with Tsu coming out. He was about to go face first into her crotch before having the door slammed in front of him and knocking the pervert out.

"Saw that one coming." Tsu opened the door and kicked the small pervert in as she came over and sat next to Izuku. "You need something?"

"I'm trying to just spend a little time with you. You seemed to be a little down, so I wanted to know if there was anything that I could do to help."

Izuku shut his eyes and thought of how to ask this. Knowing Tsu, he decided to be blunt with his answer. "Do you think I'm a freak of nature for not having a quirk growing up?"

"I think personally that you're having personal problems because you can't get over the fact you didn't have something everyone else had growing up. Overall though, I think you're not a freak if anything. If anything, you're amazing with what you've done without it."

"But that doesn't mean that I'm not able to have reached the same levels I did if I didn't have a quirk. I might've held my title as best swordsman in Japan for longer."

"So what, you think you'd be a lot better if you just simply had a quirk?" Izuku shut his eyes trying to avoid the answer. "Ok, let's say hypothetically that you did have a quirk. Does that necessarily mean you would've had less of a hard time? Maybe. Does that mean that you would've been better at what you can do right now? Probably not."

"What makes you think that?"

Tsu tried to think of how to explain the logic behind it. "If you were not on an unfair playing field, you wouldn't have worked hard to close that gap. Even right now when you have a quirk, you're trying to increase your training. Nowadays, I think people have so much of a full head when they have a quirk when compared to a quirkless person that they forget the reality. They're still human regardless. It's hard to say, but people with quirks fall down this rabbit hole all too much and only those that have seen only the scrutiny of it tends to fall outside that category. Quirks do help, but the people have learned to rely on them a little too much to not fully understand the effects of hard work."

Izuku smiled understanding that he wasn't exactly throwing what he worked hard down the drain accepting All Might's quirk. However, there still was a question. "You regret joining our crew? Things are just gonna get messy going down the line from here on."

"It's fine." Tsu leaned on Izuku's shoulder for her head to rest under Izuku's. "It's madness, but that doesn't mean it's that bad. Besides, I don't think I'd be able to walk away even if I wanted to."

Izuku rested his head on Tsu's for the two to hug the other. They held each other close as the frog woman picked her head up. The two shared a kiss with one another for the sound of some people falling behind them to pull both out of their world and back to reality. "DAMMIT! WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU THREE LEANING ON ME!?"

"We wanted to see what was happening!"

"Yeah, and it was going good until you had to force us to trip up and fall down!"

"UP YOURS, COW TITS!"

"FUCK YOU, POMERANIAN!"

Both Tsu and Izuku looked at their group and began to laugh at them. "Even while we're trying to get better, they're still the same doofuses we know and love."

"WHO YOU CALLING A DOOFUS, DUMBASS!?" Ochako, Momo, Itsuka and Bakugou shout back for the ash blond to go over and pick a fight with Izuku.

"YOU WANNA START SHIT, THEN COME HERE RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW AND DO IT TO MY FACE!"

"That's actually pretty simple for me just cause you're that much of an idiot."

"WHAT WAS THAT!? I'M GONNA KILL YOU YOU BASTARD!"

"Try it. You know you can't."

"WANNA BET!" The two continued to fight one another with Perona and Todoroki coming out and seeing the ordeal themselves.

"So what's this fight about?" The dual hair colored man asked as Momo gave a base answer.

"Does it really matter?"

"Good point."

"You all act like children. You should learn to be more mature and not dumbasses." Perona shrugged at this with Tsu not even paying attention to her before responding.

"Look in a mirror and you might find out we're just as childish as you are at points."

"HEY! I'M PLENTY MATURE!" Everyone continued to laugh at this with Izuku and Bakugou soon beginning an arm wrestling match between one another. To the side, Zoro began listening while laying on the roof drinking some sake.

"These idiots. They're nothing but a bunch of fools. But then again, we're kinda a bunch of idiots too." He thought on his own crew and how they weren't exactly the picture of 'sane' either. "Guess being fine with some fun here and there is what makes their life all the more entertaining. You can't be able to succeed in stuff if you can't relax a little."

As he said this, a transponder snail rung for him to pick it up. "Zoro! Dinner's ready! Let's eat!" Luffy shouted on the other side with a happy tone for the swordsman to smile at this.

"Yeah. Yeah. Just don't eat all the meat this time."

"No promises." The snail fell asleep for Zoro to scowl at it.

"Idiot." The scowl soon turned to a smile before heading off towards his crew's ship in hopes to get something to eat before their captain takes it all...which wasn't a shock to him if it was.

And that finishes this chapter. See what happens next time with the crew. Hope you all enjoyed and thanks for reading.