Whenever Inko is out with her six year old son, Izuku, he’ll carry loads of stickers to hand out to every person they see on their outing. Most accept the sticker if they don’t notice his shoes first because as soon as they do that’s when their kindness evaporates, but, Izuku doesn’t give up because there’s only one person who’s seen his shoes and not given him a hard time for it. There’s a black haired boy with eyes the colour of liquid gold when the sun hits them who they always bump into when they’re out. Inko’s pretty sure the boy can’t be more than a couple years older than her boy. The boy has never said his name, and she can tell Izuku’s been itching to ask, but, knows better to be patient. She’s also noticed that he treats Shouta a tad different than everybody else, they get to choose which sticker they get. For this boy in particular he doesn’t get to pick which sticker he gets, instead, he gets given Izuku’s favourite sticker from that pack. After the first couple of times the boy received the stickers from Izuku, he realised it wasn’t going to stop, and felt terrible about not giving anything in return, so, he started giving him his favourite, most smoothest and prettiest rocks that he could find. Inko has to actively stop herself from squealing every time they interact because she’s obsessed with penguins, and she knows that penguins are one of the most loyal creatures out there because they choose one partner to spend the rest of their lives with. One of the ways they show how in love they are is by giving each other presents (mainly rocks, but, she reckons stickers can work just as well considering her boys aren’t birds) she can tell that this is only going to grow into something beautiful. She’d be right, it only takes a year for them to find out that the boy’s name is Shouta, and that he’s only a year older than Izuku. They start hanging out more, even going as far as going to each other’s houses. They make friends with Shouta’s parents and they have dinner together. Inko watches as their boys’ eyes soften and hands linger as they get older. She’s not surprised when her boys (they’re grown men to everyone else, but, she’ll always consider them to be her boys) come home one day for dinner to tell her they’re dating. There’s a lot of tears and tissues, but, ultimately she’s ecstatic for them.
