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In her childhood, Iva went to the same school Garou was in, she was part of another class and seemed to be a joyous and social little girl, but in the other way, she was often changing who she was for the sake of belonging to the group. One day, during a lunch break she goes to a secluded part of the playground since her friends were ignoring her for saying something wrong, in this place she meets a little boy from another classroom, for the first time she sees Garou, who was focused on the catalogue of bugs he had. The catalogue and the boy’s loneliness caught her attention, especially because it was one of the catalogues she eyed from the store crossing the street from their school, at this, Iva impulsively walks towards the boy and stood behind him and says hi a little bit too loud, which surprises Garou, who stays quiet and awkwardly says hello back to her. Iva told him about how much she had always loved ants and if his book had information about them, that she would love to know what she should put on the tiny houses she did for them whenever she captured some, Garou seemed to be intrigued in her words but quickly changed opinions when she heard that she captured ants instead of letting them go their way with their crumbs, he mentioned to her that would be harmful for them and that she shouldn’t do that, Iva seemed surprised and concerned, and asked what should she do for them instead, the chat they had kept going and resulted in a long and peaceful conversation about an interest they both had, like little and new friends with big dreams and lots of passion. They both grew fond to each other and, one day, Garou told Iva how ladybugs were a bug that didn’t bite after she said how sometimes they scared her a lot due to venom and bites, he told her for the first time he thought of her as a ladybug, a red, dotted and lucky bug, explaining how they are a symbol of luck and that she was his luck just like ladybugs to farmers, this moved Iva a lot and while staring at him jumped closer and raised her hand to ask for a promise, she asked him to promise she would always be his ladybug, which surprised him and made him get nervous, but ended up promising it to her by intertwining their little fingers. Later, with the past of the days and a strong friendship, Garou found Iva getting laughed at while the other kids, one of them being tacchan, held her notebook in front of her and mocked the content of her small love stories and drawings her and Garou had drawn before, Garou yelled at them and stood for her, he told her she needed to be strong and stand for herself if she wanted them to let go of her and stop bothering her, and that it was unfair for her to have to hide how she truly is just to fit in, this shocked Iva but changed her perception of things, when the children pushed garou and threw him to the floor she snapped out and yelled at them to leave them alone, she started to scream for the teacher between loud tears, scaring the kids away because they knew they would most likely believe Garou now that she was with him. After they ran away, she knelt in front of garou and tried to patch the wounds they made when they pushed him away, he seemed upset and it made her scared, he reassured her but made clear he wished she stood for herself because of how unfair it was to not be what she truly is, then Iva finished placing band-aids and kissed the spot to heal him faster like her mom did to her, this made him nervous and looked away. One day, Iva’s education seemed to become more expensive than what her parents could afford, additionally, the suspicions they had over their daughter getting somewhat bullied due to the teachers attention to her interaction with other girls in her group, with those topics on their plate, they decided to get her into a new school far from her birth city since they also needed to move, this decision at first devastated a young Iva, since for the first time, in her own words, got something to lose in that place; when the time of telling Garou came, Iva tried to avoid looking at his eyes but when she did and saw his yellow and hopeful eyes and his genuine smile, she started to cry and concerned him in response, she apologized to him and when he asked what happened, she told him the news about having to move and the new school she had to go, she hugged him and told him how afraid she was to loose her only friend, garou hugged her back and told her to not be silly and that she wouldn’t loose him even if she wanted to, Iva after hearing that pulled away from their hug and raised her little finger and between sobs told him if he promised to never forget her, that they must never forget about each other and always be each other best friends, Garou stared at her in silence and didn’t take long in promise it to her by intertwining their fingers. The next week Iva had to go to her new house and with it say “see you later” to her dear friend, after say goodbye to garou, he ran to her and gifted her a pair of ladybug earrings, she concerned told him she didn’t prepare anything for him, but when he saw her in the eyes to say not to worry with a bit of a shy and grumpy face she smiled and kissed Garou’s cheek, shocking him, they were interrupted by her parents calling her and with it they sadly waved their last goodbye.

After almost two years she comes back to the city they lived in in the past and with it, after not seeing Garou for all that time, she visited their previous school, just to realize that Garou no longer stood in that place, she tried to ask for him but all she got was how he just started to be problematic and hurt other kids, this made her angry and told them that she didn’t believed them one bit, specially if Tacchan was involved. Iva tried to use her mother’s help to contact his parents, but it was useless due to his mother’s behavior. Since she didn’t find him Garou, she ended up having a star of her adolescence saddened due to the loss of the friend she once had but being unable to break their promise. In her middle school years, she found a small group she felt comfortable with and befriended a boy called Hybris who acted nice to her often and thought he was her actual friend, in those days, she would talk to him very often and exchange a lot of stuff, but never found herself enjoying the extra attention nor the voices of others and his mother, a teacher, about how much of a great couple they could be, while Hybris laughed at it and she became a bit shy about his presence. One day, during one of their chats, she told him about Garou and how much she loved him, but eventually corrected to how she loved him in the past because she was her friend, the sound of it made her apparent friend angry, he didn’t show it, but the next morning his mother acted weird to her even in school times as well as other teachers, he used his mother as a way to slut shame her and also, make himself look like a hero by ignoring her to protect her, which she didn’t bought for the good, this lead her to change schools and with it, at her highschooler years she finally found some peace in her social environment.

*During her late seventeens, she got accepted into Law College which was located on S-City far from the home she grew up on, at first it was a solid no from her parents, though the future her dad visualized for her needed her to be there and eventually accepted with the condition of her to call everyday and do her best avoiding monster attacks, they forbidden her from get out of the dojo she was learning martial arts and talked with people her father knew to keep an eye on her tracks, adding to this she also got into extra classes so she could polish her learning in law even though Iva never truly chose that degree.

*Bus stop

*Feeling like she wasn't no one if she didn't had the degree and stepped out the plans her father had for her, in a look for independence and after being under a monster attack and get injured by the crowd, the words of a hero and their actions about choosing her own path she chooses to be a hero and proof that she's capable of more.

One month after Garou went into havoc and in consequence got expelled from Bang's dojo and before Iva's first apartment got destroyed, she meets with him again on a rainy day at the bus stop she took every day for going to college, she had an umbrella while garou had nothing but the roof of the stop to cover his soaked self from the rain, this caught Iva's attention since the bus stop has stopped being used for a while now, which made her the only person who used it every day. At first, she didn't recognize the person at her right but the gaze he had brought her memories of the little friend she used to have back in her childhood, a long with that promise that she describes as “silly”, yet her expression shows her true thoughts over how important that promise and that friendship was for her, the resemblance she sees on the person next to her leads her to offer him her own umbrella, Garou was weirded out at the beginning and questioned her for her action due to him being a stranger, she insisted in giving it to him and showing genuine concern towards how rainy it was and justified herself by mentioning the extra umbrella she had on her backpack and the fact that she would be under roof for hours in the bus, garou kept rejecting it because she couldn't be sure he would give it back, she nonchalantly mentions that he would be in the wrong in that case, saying how she had to come back the next day and the day after it, stating that if he wanted to give it back, he could just leave it there since nobody came to the stop.

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