Tomura hated shopping malls.

He hated how bright they were, he hated the stupid crowds and above all else, he loathed all the hero merchandise that seemed to be sold in every other store. If it wasn't for his promise to Sensei and Kurogiri before they dropped him off with the Midoriya's Tomura would have been tempted to use his quirk and destroy everything.

"Tomukun look, we're almost there."

Well … maybe not everything.

Looking at Izuka as she pulled his hand with determination Tomura sighed and allowed himself to be dragged through the crowd by the cheerful girl. Behind them, Tomura could hear Inko snickering but couldn't understand what she found so funny.

The trio continued their trek through the mall unhindered until Izuka came to a stop suddenly causing Tomura to walk right into her. Normally in this situation one or both of them would end up sprawled out on the floor. However, the decay user had experience with Izuka's unexpected stops so he was able to keep both himself and her standing.

Turning around Izuka looked at her friend seriously. "Close your eyes."

"What?"

"It's a surprise," the girl smiled lifting the Tomura's sleeves to cover his eyes so that he couldn't peek through his fingers.

Rolling his eyes at the girl's antics Tomura did as he was told and allowed himself to be led blindly the rest of the way into whatever store Izuka had been plotting to bring him to from the beginning.

"Ok now stay right here," Tomura heard her say before Izuka's footsteps ran off somewhere.

Feeling stupid the villain to be tried to lower his sleeves when he felt Inko's hands stop him. "I wouldn't do that, Izuchan has been planning this all month and I would hate for you to spoil the surprise."

Frowning Tomura looked backwards to where Inko was. "I feel stupid like this."

Inko laughed at how cute the boy was, even now two years later and Tomura still tried to act aloof, like he was just looking after Izuka because she was younger than him. However, the three adults in his life knew that Tomura secretly relished the love and attention that Izuka gave him. The young girl was on a very short list of people that he would let hug him, even Inko and her brother would still sometimes feel the boy stiffen whenever they tried to show him affection. Not to mention that Izuka would listen for hours on end as Tomura would tell her stories about Sensei and everything that he was learning from the man.

To Tomura the man was his hero, even if he hated the word and anyone associated with it Inko knew that he thought the world of Sensei which wasn't a huge surprise from what she had been told about Tomura past.

Sensei explained to Inko that Tomura had come from a very abusive household before he had found the boy, he apologized for not trying harder when it came to his new ward's injuries but given where he found the boy risk of infection and disease had blinded him to Tomura's emotional state.

Inko calmly accepted the apology and told Sensei what he would need to do to make sure the wounds didn't become infected before viciously scolding the man just like she had Kurogiri for being so reckless. Thankfully, Sensei hadn't gotten mad or defensive like many she had seen in the past do, in fact, he had listened to Inko and promised to do better even going so far as to give Inko daily updates so she wouldn't worry about Tomura or Kurogiri as her brother now called himself.

Now a couple of years later Tomura was a healthy and happy young man who aside from scratching his neck in times of great stress loved to visit the Midoriya's every few months. Tomura could go on for hours telling the pair all the things Sensei was teaching him which could be anywhere from the latest machine they built from scratch or current politics from around the world.

However, if Inko got even the slightest hint that there was anything wrong then she had sworn to herself that Tomura would end up in her care whether he wanted it or not.

Seeing Izuka running towards them present in hand Inko took out her phone and started to record the scene already planning on sending copies for Sensei and her brother.

"Tomukun," Izuka panted slightly out of breath as she held something out in front of her. "Happy Birthday."

Tomura taking the birthday wish as a sign that he could lower his hands and found himself face to face with a pair of bright red shoes.

"Mine?"

"Uh huh," Izuka nodded noticing the confusion on Tomukun's face putting the shoes on the ground in front of her friend before lifting up one of her own feet. "Now we match."

Tomura looked at Izuka's own bright red shoes and smiled touched by the fact that she had remembered him saying he wanted a pair of his own on his last visit.

Unfortunately for the trio, the heartwarming scene was interrupted suddenly by an angry voice.

"Thief! Somebody, call a hero!"

Heads immediately snapped in the direction the voice and saw that one of the shopkeepers was holding a student by the arm as he shouted over and over for a hero. It was hard to tell how old the boy was, he was very tall and although he appeared scary because of his shark-like face, obviously a mutant type quirk, the boy looked more terrified than anyone else.

"Give me that!" the shopkeeper roared again trying to grab the schoolbag.

Whatever the boy said in response as he pulled the bag away had the shop keeper going from a bright red to crimson and steam to literally come out of his ears.

"Look at yourself, you think something like you can be anything but a villain!"

Not wanting to be part of the growing crowd of spectators Inko steered the children towards the register so that Izuka could buy Tomura his new shoes. As they were paying the cashier apologized over and over to the trio for the disturbance saying that this particular shopkeeper thought everyone who had a mutation quirk was a villain.

Inko frowned at this but held her tongue as much as she wanted to help the student, she had the children with her and they came first. As the three walked out of the store Inko noticed that a hero had indeed arrived and was trying to defuse the situation.

Tomura watched also, unlike Inko though he observed the hero practically gave the crowd a show shouting for everyone to hear that there were better ways for the student to get attention then stealing well the shopkeeper looked on smugly. The last thing he saw before Inko dragged him and Izuka away was this so-called hero grabbing the bag from the upset students' hands and cruelly dumping its contents onto the ground as the crowd cheered him on.

Later that night after Izuka had gone to bed Tomura sat on the couch dozing and trying to get that students face out of his mind. It wasn't that he cared about what happened to the boy, whether he was a thief or not didn't matter, what bothered Tomura was the crowd of people who gathered to watch and applaud his humiliation as well as the hero's own grandstanding.

"Tomura," Inko's soft voice came snapping him out of his dark thoughts. "Kurogiri is here."

Looking up Tomura saw the warp villain standing next to his sister.

"It's time to go home Tomura," Kurogiri spoke holding the bag that contained Izuka and Inko's gifts to him.

Nodding the boy got off the couch and let Inko hug him one last time before the pair left disappeared through one of Kurogiri's warp gates and back into the bar where Sensei was already waiting for them.

The man smiled when he saw his protégé ruffling his hair slightly. "Welcome home Tomura, did you have a good time today?"

Tomura shrugged as Kurogiri handed the bag over to All for One. Every time Inko gave them something Sensei had to check it over, he claimed it was to make sure that Inko wasn't being used by some hero to find them but Tomura was convinced that Sensei was just snooping around for any homemade treats had been sent back with them.

For some reason anytime Inko sent food Sensei would claim to have put them away but Tomura would find it gone by the next day. Why Sensei finally didn't just come with them to meet Inko in person and have a fresh homemade meal instead of talking to her over the phone Tomura wasn't sure, he was just counting the days till Inko finally get fed up with the excuses and demand Sensei come for dinner.

"Ah red shoes," Sensei hummed examining the footwear before putting them down next to the custom game controller Inko had gotten him. "Izuka has a pair just like them, doesn't she?"

"Yeah."

Sensei noticed the miserable tone from his apprentice and frowned. "I know we missed most of your party today Tomura and I'm sorry but I think you'll like why."

Tomura looked curious now as All for One produced a simple black box and handed it to him. Taking great care to unwrap it Tomura gently lifted the lid eyes snapping up to look at the pair when he realized what it was.

"Father!"

The disembodied hand's fingers were now stretched out giving the appearance that it was about to grab you and there was also a gold band wrapped around where the wrist was. Tomura immediately picked the disembodied limb and placed the to large hand over his face like Father had done so many times when he was angry before he had died.

"I know I used a preservation quirk on i- him when you first arrived but I became worried about what would happen if it ever stopped working," Sensei explained chuckling when the hand slipped slightly on Tomura's face. "Kurogiri knew someone whose quirk could permanently keep it persevered but found out from Girian they were about to be arrested so we had to leave quickly so I could acquire it."

"I love it," Tomura smiled under the hand. "Thank you, Sensei. Thank you, Kurogiri."

"I'm just glad you had a good birthday." The warp gate user said placing a glass of water on the bar for the boy well he poured some alcohol for himself and All for One.

Tomura thought about how great his day had been before that nagging image of the student flashed in his head and he frowned.

"What's wrong?" Sensei asked seeing the unhappy look.

Tomura took Father off his face licking his chapped lips nervously. "Sensei is there … is there such a thing as a good hero?"

All for One and Kurogiri were both caught off guard by the question, normally Tomura wouldn't even talk about heroes except when he was telling the men about how stupid they all were and that one day when he was old enough, he would join them in making the whole system obsolete.

"Where's this coming from?" Kurogiri asked one golden eye raised curiously.

Tomura sighed told his guardians about the scene in the mall, about the shopkeeper and the hero had ganged up on the student for having what they thought was a 'villainous' quirk. How the crowd on onlookers had looked on not helping but instead feeding the hero's obvious overinflated ego with their cheers and cameras. By the time he was done ranting about it Tomura was completely red in the face and Kurogiri lost yet another glass to the boy's destructive temper.

"Sadly, that's just how heroes are," Sensei sighed sadly taking a sip of his drink eyes darkening slightly. "They serve themselves before anyone else and don't care who they hurt in the progress."

"I hate heroes," Tomura grunted playing with some of Father's fingers. "I wish they would all just die."

All for One smiled at the words knowing it was time. "Then why don't we do just that."

"What?"

"We'll find this hero, maybe the shopkeeper also and start you on the next phase of our training," Sensei answered giving a wide twisted grin imagining all the things he could teach Tomura to do with his quirk that would allow him to deliver the maximum amount of pain without killing the person.

Tomura returned the wide smile with one of his own and looked at the red shoes and thought about Izuka and how much she loved heroes. It might be hard for her to accept the true nature of heroes, that at their core all they really did was use violence to beat people down labelling them as villains and ruining lives just so they could keep giving society a false sense of security each time they flashed that stupid smile shouting 'I AM HERE' at the top of their lungs.

"Tomura?" Sensei said placing his hands on the boys own to stop him from scratching.

Realizing what he had been doing Tomura apologized and started to tell Sensei and Kurogiri all he could remember about the shopkeeper and hero before Inko had pulled him away.

'Izuka will see,' Tomura thought to himself as he allowed Kurogiri to wrap his neck in bandages. 'One day she'll see that Sensei and I are right about heroes. I swear I'll make her see, even if I have to force her to stay by my side as I rip their fake masks away one by one until she does.'

Tomura smiled again as he started to think about the future, a future where he and Izuka could be together forever without having to worry about some hero coming along and ruining the day. A future where they could stand side by side as equals and rule with Sensei from the shadows guiding society.

One day Tomura promised himself, one day.

Thanks so much for all the reviews I really am glad that everyone enjoys the plot especially since it's my first My Hero Academia story. Also, if their out there reading this chapter also for some anonymous reviewers I want to give a shout out and answer some things they said in their reviews.

CrazyFanGirlJ – Thanks so much for my first reviewer and in response to one-part Tomura is only three years older then Izuka mostly because I think that attacking the USJ is like a graduation gift from Sensei for going from apprentice to full villain. If you think about from another perspective Tomura had to make a plan, convince Kurogiri to help him, convince all those other villains to work with him and who knows if Sensei actually gave him Nomu or if he had to ask.