"Mommy? When is Daddy coming back?" The younger Izuku tugged on his mother's sleeve. His mother turned to face him.

"Soon, sweetheart," she said, voice uneven and cracking. "Soon."

Izuku seemed happy, hugging his mother's legs with a smile. "Yay! Daddy will be coming home soon!" He ran off to play with All Might figurines after that, leaving his mother to cook dinner.

Izuku was young, sure, but even he should've figured out that 'soon' meant 'never.'

— Chapter 3 —

"Hey, Ocha-chan," Izuku began. "You don't get homeschooled, so what's public school like?"

Izuku, living in an orphanage, was homeschooled like everybody else. The schooling wasn't that good. But it was enough to keep him caught up with his age group. (He did a lot of other kid's work, but that didn't matter).

"Oh, that's right! You don't go to school," Ochako pressed a finger to her chin. "Well, public school is actually pretty cool! The food is okay, though. I like ramen better," Izuku giggled at that. Ramen was basically their everyday food.

"If you guys keep eating ramen like that, you're never going to get your neutrients," Shouto piped in from his place on the bench.

"What about you, Shouchan? You go to the same school as Ocha-Chan, do you have a different opinion?" Shouto pondered this. Ochako and Shouto had never seen each other in school, but since they met they decided to walk to the park together.

"I agree with Ochako. Besides the food part, I take my own," Izuku asked 'really?', which Shouto nodded too, as Ochako just muttered something about rich kids.

"Izuku, how is your schooling?" Shouto asked. Izuku blinked before settling back on his heels.

"It's cool. A lot of the older kids let me do their work for them, so it lets me stay ahead of my age group!" He stated proudly. Shouto sighed.

"..you realize that those people aren't using you to get out of work, right?" Izuku absentmindedly scratched at his cheek.

"..Yeah. But it helps me get smarter, so I don't mind!"

Ochako hummed. "Your orphanage doesn't sound like the best," Izuku sighed.

"You're probably right. But I'm kinda stuck there, a-aren't I.." Shouto and Ochako decided to drop it; Izuku looked a bit sad.

"Do you remember anyone from school, when you went, Izu-kun?" Ochako asked. Izuku paused in his sketching and looked up.

"Yeah! There was this guy named Katsuki Bakugou; I called him K-kacchan. We eventually stopped being friends, though."

"Bakugou...? Oh! He's that really loud kid in my class! With the explosion quirk! Ochako exclaimed, shooting finger guns at Izuku whilst thinking of a picture of a giant explodo-crab wearing loafers and exploding things around him. "Explodo McGee!"

That startled a laugh out of Izuku's and a small smile from Shouto.

"E-Explodo McGee!?"

"Ochako, no."

"Ochako, yes." Ochako laughed at Shouto forlorn but still stoic-ish expression. "I'm so calling that for the rest of his life,"

"No Ochako he'd kill you—" Ochako only shrugged palms up in response, one again going into a small laughing fit.

"Okay, okay. What about Blasty McSplode?" Shouto asked. The two others looked at him in surprise. Ochako was grinning manically and Izuku's mouth was gaping open comically in surprise.

"I've got a name for you, Shouchan," Ochako began, ignoring the frantic waving of Izuku's hands. "Mr. Half And Half, the guy who can make hot or ice coffee."

Izuku groaned, while Shouto just accepted the silent challenge.

"GravityWhump, The Girl who destroys physics with the tips of her fingers."

"Ice Ice baby," Izuku snorted and Shouto Justin's looked indignant, but opened his mouth the speak again.

"Gravity WHOMST?"

"Zuko from Avatar 2.0."

This went on for five minutes, until Shouto just had to call it quits. He had no more insults. Izuku did an audible facepalm.

"Shouchan, Ocha-chan, why?" The two collectively shrugged. Izuku inwardly and outwardly groaned, before collecting his notebooks and standing up. "I have to get back for dinner. Tell Kacchan I said hi! See you guys tomorrow!" He waved before jogging off to the sidewalks. They waved back.

"..Who's Zuko?"

"..Bring a laptop or something tomorrow. We're watching it,"

They did watch it. And Shouto was shocked to see that he did relate to the guy called Zuko.

— — —

Ochako wasn't one to hold grudges or even hate anyone. She thought she was incapable of doing that. Katsuki Bakugo was quite the acception, however.

"Hey, Explodo McGee!" She yelled after class to Bakugou. She could practically see the smoke coming out of his ears. Maybe calling him that was a mistake. He turned, eyes twitching and a scowl on his face.

She he wondered if he ever smiled.

"What the heck did you call me, round face!?" He yelled. No use of inside voice. Was Izuku actually friends with him?

"I called you Bakugou," She answered. She saw Todoroki outside her classroom door, his brow raised as they locked eyes.

Bakugou had had two friends trailing behind him, both looked down on her with scowls. "Yeah, that's what I thought," He spat and turned to leave.

"Hey, Wait!" She called. Bakugou stopped, screamed 'What,' and smoke started emitting from his palms. "My friend Izuku told me to tell you hi!" Bakugou blinked, and then laughed. Todoroki now entered the classroom, his face pulled into a deep frown.

"That useless deku still thinks we're friends!? That's priceless!"

Useless deku?

"Izu-kun isn't useless. His quirk is so strong! And he's an amazing person. But I doubt you took time to even get to know him well," Ochako said, her voice dripping with venom.

"THAT NERD HAS A QUIRK NOW!?" Bakugou yelled. Ochako frowned. He didn't know that Izuku had a quirk?

No offense to Shouto, but Bakugou was on really thin ice right now. Izuku was the kindest person she'd ever met.

"He does." Ochako replied a-matter-o-factly. "It's really sad that you didn't know that as you were friends."

Bakugou scoffed angrily, grabbing the collar of Ochako's shirt. She wasn't scared of him. Shouto now cautiously approached. Ochako saw his hands twitching.

"Take me to him. I want to see the nerd after all these years," Bakugou said, grinning. For some reason, both Shouto and Ochako did not like the vibe it gave off.

— — —

They walked in silence, Shouto and Ochako weary of the ticking time bomb sauntering behind them. The temperature around them was a bit colder than it should be, signaling that Shouto was thinking the same thing.

They arrived to the park and they heard Bakugou tsk behind them, glaring at the park even though it wasn't even a living thing.

Bakugou was..certainly a character, Todoroki thinks. During their walk to the park, he kept glancing behind him at the explodo boy(TM). He gave off really, really angry vibes.

"Izuku," he called at the small greenette who was scribbling in his notebook already. He looked up, and the light in his eyes seemed to diminish a bit.

"DEKU!" Bakugou suddenly propelled forward with his explosions— Shouto thought they weren't allowed to use their quirks outside!?

Both Ochako and Shouto stared at the spot where Bakugou was. They took a minute to access their predicament.

This definately was a mistake, was the collective thought process of the two. They watched as Izuku blinked a few times before stuttering, "K-kacchan!?"

"DONT CALL ME THAT! NOW TELL ME HOW THE HELL YOU HAVE A QUIRK!?" Bakugou yelled. Izuku looked incredibly uncomfortable.

"I-it came in after I-I left s-school so I didn't get to t-tell you..?" Bakugou sent an explosion down at Izuku, which didn't burn him but it did cause him to lose his balance. The air got surprisingly colder.

"Well. Round face over there told me that your quirk is pretty strong. I bet it isn't so let's fight right here, right now, deku!"

"E-ehhh!?" Izuku exclaimed. "N-NO! Kacchan we're not aloud to use quirks outside-"

"DOES IT LOOK LIKE I CARE?!" Another explosion. Izuku flinched.

Just ahen Shouto was about to do something, Ochako confidently strided up to him. Her eyes seemed to say, 'I'd you hurt him, your new home will be the stratosphere.'

Shouto watched with a blank blank face ask she wrapped her arms around Bakugou's waist, used her quirk to make him weightless...

And then she freaking suplexed him.

Shouto was only really afraid of one person in his life; his father. But right now, he was pretty scared of Ochako.

And for a second, he pretty sure Bakugou was, too.

— — —

"Why did Kacchan come here?" Izuku asked when Ochako, quite politely, dragged Bakugou midair our of the park, and dropped him on his back outside. Aw even waved as he flounced home, obviously furious about being practically bested by a girl.

"We didn't think he was going to try and murder you first thing. I apologize, Izuku." Shouto said as he patted Izuku's mop of hair.

"He made a mistake trying," Ochako mumbled off to the side. It didn't go unnoticed.

"Ochako. Your aura suggests you about commit a homicide."

"I won't get caught."

"Ochako, please."

The two glared at each other. Neither backing down or looking away until a certain innocent greenette asked something.

"What's a homicide?"

Nobody told him.

— — —

"SHOUTO!" Ochako yelled as he entered the park the next day. He knew coming to the park with a black eye wasn't the best idea, but he needed to get out of the house again.

Izuku was snoring away against Ochako's shoulder and boy could he feel her glare from across the street. He was pretty tempted to run, in all honesty.

"What happened? Are you okay?!" She frantically asked as he approached. She would've moved if it weren't for problem child one sleeping on her shoulder.

He nodded. "I zoned out, and didn't block a punch." Ochako sighed. "It's fine."

"Shouchan, I don't think you understand how not okay that is."

"I'm used to it."

"Shoto that's not okay either." He only shrugged and sat down.

"I've been thinking," Shouto said. Rolling his eyes at the overexaggerated gasp that cane from Ochako, he continued. "When Explodo McGee was here, Izuku didn't know how to defend himself. Neither do you. And I think you guys should learn some simple self defense."

"..your saying you want us both to sign up for karate classes?" Ochako asked.

"No, I'm proposing that I teach you."

Of course, Ochako was all in for it. (They may or may not of had to force Izuku to join, claiming it was for his safety).

— — —

Aizawa Shouta pinched the bridge of his nose. He had a feeling that this was going to be a long night out on patrol. He expected to stop a store robbery or two, maybe just capture a wanted villain, maybe.

Now, what he didn't expect was to find three kids in a park— at nine o'clock at night no less, practicing self defense with the useage of quirks. Being a hero, he really was supposed to give them a warning about using their quirks in public.

But he hung back in a tree, watching them. (It wasn't stalkerish, he was a stealth hero, that was his job).

He watched with a small pang of interest as one of the boys, probably about seven judging by his height, blasted the taller boy back with what looked like telekinesis. After doing this, they all started discussing how Izuku could use his quirk depending on where somebody would grab him.

Aizawa really doubts that the split haired one was technically liscened to be teaching this, but they weren't doing any harm.

And Aizawa just didn't really care.

But he'd already dubbed names for them; because he just knew that they would be causing trouble in the future.

Problem child one, two, and three.

There was only one hour of patrol left. And by gods, he really needed coffee.

— — —

Shouto was sent back again. Something tells Izuku that he's getting better, from they way Ochako smiles at him. "It's getting late, we'll walk you back to your orphanage, Izuku." Todoroki said, Ochako nodded along.

"Oh no, it's fine. I-I can take care of myself," Izuku countered with a shaky grin. Ochako and Shouto shared a knowing look.

"Pleeeasee Izuzu?" Ochako pleaded. Izuku sighed. He knew he couldn't win an argument against Ochako. The trio began walking out of the park. Ochako and Todoroki made small talk, while Izuku tried to commit the self defense moves to memory.

They were passing a corner store when all at once the glass exploded. Izuku was drawn out of his thoughts in an instant.

A villain, probably a small time thug, jumped out from the store, it's eyes wild and crazed. The persons eyes were obviously panicked, and as soon as he saw the trio, he lashed out.

His arm elongated, the limbs cracking and shifting until the arm was three times as large. It rose above them.

"Look out—" Todoroki began to yell, but Izuku was already on it. He raised his hands, purely by instinct to defend himself and not get squished, and reversed the polarity of his telekinesis to send a wave at him. The arm that was coming down was thrown backwards. The man yelped, the huge arm retracting to its normal state.

This person didn't look sane. He soon lashed out again, the arm coming from the side again. Todoroki froze the arm halfway.

But the thing's arm broke out of the ice effortlessly. Shards of it flew everywhere. Izuku and Ochako were shaking, Shouto, trying to stay strong for his friends, put on a straight face.

"Izuku, look out!" Shouto screamed again, and Izuku used his telekinesis just in time To stop the arm and push it back.

"Release!" Debris fell onto of the villain's head as Ochako pressed her shaking fingers together. She was still scared, but her friends were fighting, so she had to fight, too!

Izuku was about to congratulate her, when a shadow raised over him. He was rooted to the ground. He waited for the impact.

His friends screamed his name.

The impact never came.

— — —

Aizawa didn't know who he was more angry at. The three problem children, who didn't run when they saw the villain jump out of a window, or the villain himself for attacking defenseless kids.

His scarf wrapped around the villains arm, pulling off balance. With a startled cry, another arm came at him. Another side of his scarf wrapped around the other arm and pulled them together.

Aizawa then hen put one foot on the villains back and slammed his head hard enough on the road for him to conk out.

He he sighed in irritation, called the police to take care of this, and then he turned to the cowering children

— — —

Ochako, Izuku, and Shouto all knew that they had messed up. So, now they sat in a police office with a pretty angry underground hero, three very angry parents, (Ochako was glaring hatefully at Endeavor), and a police officer.

Aizawa pinched the bridge of his nose, that was already pretty red, and stared at the children staring downcast into their laps. They knew they were in trouble. Good.

Izuku opened his mouth, but Ochako clamped his mouth shut. Yeah, he was probably going to be the most problematic problem child there ever was with the way he just used his quirk without a care if he got hurt. A no self-preservation matyr.

They got chewed out; but were left off with a warning. The girl left with her parents, and the boy left with his dad. (Whomst he did not like. Wasn't it illegal to be burning trash?)

The smaller boy sighed before getting up. When they got the name of the children and called their parents, the boy had none.

"Kid , where are your parents?" He asked before he closed the door. Izuku turned around. He was half in awe from meeting Erasurehead, half terrified for his life because Jesus Christ he was scary.

"I don't have any," He answered and then quickly scurried out, leaving no explanation. Aizawa burried his head in his arms.

"Somebody get me a god dang coffee."

— — —

After the whole ordeal, the trio didn't meet at the park for a week.

(AN: That took longer than expected. A few notes; SaveTodo2k18, DekuProtecctionSquad, and hOLY COW HOW DID I GET SO MANY FOLLOWS AND FAVORITES?! TANK YOU! ((Leave a review? :D)) Also, do you guys think Izuku should still get OFA? Let me know :3