For clarification, anything in '' means it's on a phone, at least for this chapter. Also this chapter is a little bit more mature, just to warn you.
Chapter 10: Trust
Endo thought he was in his subconsciousness, the place where he usually talked to Karkinos when he was asleep, but that couldn't be right, there was someone else in the space. A man with a black suit and white undershirt. He had a weird sort of mask protruding from where his head should be, wires and tubes going everywhere. It looked as if the man was talking to Karkinos, until the two noticed Endo and the man pointed a finger at him. Endo felt like he was falling and sat up in bed with a start, breathing fast.
"Karkinos?"
"Yes what is it?" The normally calm Kaiju seemed excited, but Endo brushed this off as his own emotions leaking into the personality.
"I… did you see that man in our subconscious?"
The Kaiju took a second, "I'm not sure what you mean, we weren't in your subconscious."
"I just… it felt like it."
Karkinos did the equivalent to a telepathic shake of his head, signifying that no they had not been.
"Damnit, what's happening?" Endo reached for his phone and was about to text Momo, but saw the time '3:15' in the morning. Endo sighed and decided to try to go back to sleep.
He was back in the village, houses burning like crazy. Towering over a singular man he went to pick him up, but lighting, fire, and a huge wave struck him. It was enough to push him away from the man, who was dressed in fine robes and had a sort of aura around him, almost like a halo. The scene changed and suddenly Endo was holding the man in his taloned hand, and ate him.
A roar emanated from the Kaiju who had now succeeded in his goal, whatever it may have been. Just before Endo awoke he saw those three elements fly towards him once more.
This time Endo woke calmly, no urgent feeling of sickness or anything. "The dream was different this time. All the other times it was just me rampaging, not this."
There was no response from Karkinos and he checked his phone once more, '7:45.'
"Ugh, I shouldn't bother her. But, I can't just lay here, but… ugh!" Endo gave into his primal instincts and texted Momo, 'hey you up?"
She responded not a minute later, 'yeah what's up?:)'
"Did Momo Yaoyorozu just use an emoji of all things?" Endo shook the dumb grin off his face, 'just had a question for our date tonight?'
'Oh so it's a date then?'
'What were you planning on calling it ;)'
"Oh dear god I just winked at her via text, I'm so dead."
Despite Endo freaking out about his emotes she responded, 'just making sure we were on the same page. What was your question?'
'Well I had two ideas. Do you want to do a crazy date or a normal calm night?'
This time Momo took some time to respond as she thought it over, 'why not live dangerously? Let's have a crazy date.'
While this was great news to Endo, he had already planned a couple things for the crazy option, it also meant he seriously had to keep his promise with it. 'Ok cool. I'm just wearing a button down and jeans, so feel free to dress however. I'll pick you up at six pm your house, is that ok?'
'Sounds great, see ya then.'
Endo fell back onto his pillow, all the dreams and stress almost disappearing completely from him. Then almost immediately returning when he truly realized what he had just done, "I asked a girl, not just any girl, Momo, on a date and she said yes."
Endo spent the rest of the day acquiring what he would need for the night and setting it up. It was enough to keep him occupied the whole day and his parents were kind enough to give him pretty much all the money he needed to pull it off. He had considered asking his father about the redacted file, but if there was one thing he disliked more that not being in the know, it was his father being angry at him.
When Endo landed at her house and checked the time it read '5:50.' "Oh well I'm just a little early."
He knocked on her door, the butler answering, "oh yes, Miss Yaoyorozu will be right down."
Before the sentence was finished Endo saw a sweep of red behind the man. All Endo could say was, "wow." He tried to better articulate, but just couldn't get the words out.
Momo was dressed in a red dress that reached her ankles, her hair down in curls, something he'd never seen, she always wore her hair in a ponytail. Her face had no makeup on it, which was perfect, she didn't need it.
"Well… now I feel underdressed."
Momo blushed, "I'm sorry I must've misread your text."
Endo shook his head, "no matter I came prepared." He reached behind his back and pressed a button on the cube stuck to him, he had made a few adjustments to the device Mei had made him. A suit and tie folded around his body, now adorning him to better suit how Momo was dressed.
Momo raised her eyebrows, "were you worried I would overdress?"
"Well I… just figured since I didn't give you any specifications I should be ready."
She smiled, "so where are we going for dinner?"
"That, my friend, is a surprise." His clothes slipped off his body as he transformed into Aerodynamic Mode, his wings tucked in between his back armor. He held out a hand, "ma, lady."
She laughed as he accented his voice, trying to sound posh, and took his hand.
Soon they were airborne, hundreds of feet above the city. She seemed much more relaxed now flying with him, than the first time he had carried her.
Eventually their trip came to a stop at one of the tallest buildings, giving them a good overview of the city.
"Um is the restaurant up…" She trailed off as she saw what Endo had set up. A candlelit dinner for two.
"Is it… is it too much? You said crazy date so I went-"
She threw her arms around his now human body, "oh it's perfect!"
When she hugged him Endo was in shock, he didn't really know what to do with himself, so he kinda just stood there awkwardly hugging back. He had obvious feelings for her, he had just never gotten this far in a relationship, well to be fair he had never had any relationships involving girls that weren't entirely platonic. "Ok so I cooked the meal, just to forewarn you. I've always been a fan of cooking, but I can't be sure."
He pulled back her chair for her and she sat down, "I'm sure it's great."
Endo pulled up the cover for the food platter that made sure it stayed warm all the way up here. It was a steak dinner, nothing too incredibly intricate, but it was a fancier meal. He took his own seat and watched as she bit into it.
"Mhhhm, Endo this is really good. Thank you."
He smiled, "This night couldn't be more perfect." He thought to himself.
She was about to say something else when her phone began to go off inside her small purse, which Endo had only noticed when they landed. "Ugh, I'm sorry, Jiro's been texting me all day about our date."
Endo paled, "you told her?"
"Yeah, was that not ok?"
"No, it's fine, I just… when we walk into school two days from now we are definitely gonna get some looks."
She shrugged, "not a bad thing."
He laughed, "I can't say it would be."
The two continued to eat and talk throughout the night, the sky grew dark above them and the stars emerged, glittering like gems.
Eventually Endo stood and Momo almost looked sad, "are we leaving already?"
"Not yet if you don't want to, but I want to show you something." He walked to the edge of the building and sat down, his legs dangling into the open air.
Momo showed trepidation at first, but slowly inched her way to sitting next to him. She clutched at his arm when a gust of wind came by. Her skin was cool to the touch.
Endo looked at her, "do you trust me?"
She seemed confused, but answered, "yes."
Endo cupped her face in his hands and pulled her towards him and they kissed. He smiled through the kiss and began to lean over the edge of the building, pulling Momo with him into a freefall. But neither student seemed to mind as they ended their kiss and Endo took her in his arms transforming once more to a winged Kaiju.
"Some place a bit more romantic is in order." Endo flew straight to the coast and stopped just above the beach. "Also what the hell is wrong with me, I'd usually never be confident enough to do that. But oh my god, that was amazing."
"That was amazing." Momo exclaimed echoing his thoughts.
"You literally read my mind." He brushed her hair out of her face, "I love you Momo."
"Oh my god I'm moving this way too fast I need to slow down."
But Momo just smiled and wrapped her arms around his neck, "I love you too." And their lips met once more with the waves crashing behind them.
When they separated Endo was breathless, "shouldn't we…. I dunno take this a little slower?"
She shook her head and just smiled at him.
After some more quality time at the beach, Endo finally took Momo home.
"Stay here, just for the night."
"Huh?"
Momo walked through the door, now held open by the butler, "you said it yourself, it can get lonely here sometimes. We've got plenty of spare beds."
"Ok she meant separate beds. I was worried there for a minute."
Karkinos spoke for the first time that night, "what were you afraid of, having sex?"
"Uh, well, I mean I don't want our relationship to move that fast."
Karkinos chuckled.
"What are you laughing about?"
"I'm in your head, you were hoping you had sex with her."
This all happened in a second, but after Karkinos said that last sentence, Endo turned bright red and looked back at Momo, "sure, I'll stay."
"Great! Come on in." They walked into her incredibly spacious bedroom, "here I can make you some pajamas, but first… um… do you think you could…" She trailed off and turned her back towards him and pointed to her dresses zipper.
"Oh yeah sure." Endo silently berated himself, he thought he probably sounded eager when he answered that.
"Don't be Mineta, don't be Mineta."
He grasped the zipper and pulled it down her back. As soon as that was done he turned around to leave, "I'll let you get dressed."
Momo grabbed his arm, "wait, let me create you some clothes. There's a room to the right of this one. You can shower and change there." She turned him around.
As Endo faced her he noticed she was now wearing only a black bra and underwear. He blushed and looked up, "uh thanks." He grabbed the clothes she created.
She didn't seem to mind her near nakedness, but noticed Endo looking up and laughed, "Endo we're probably closer than most couples already, you don't have to be so careful about things like this."
"Wow does she really think that?"
He smiled and looked back down at her, "damn, how did I get so lucky?"
"I was just about to ask the same thing, now go take a shower you smell like a Kaiju."
Endo laughed at this and left her room to enter his own. He sighed with a huge grin on his face and pulled out his phone. He unlocked it and began to run a program, it was designed to search the government databases to look for any new info on Endo or his quirk. He set down his phone, face down as he undressed and got in the shower.
"Wow!" Endo couldn't help but say that out loud as he stepped into the bathroom. It was bigger than his room, closet, and bathroom combined.
He wasn't normally one for long showers, but much to his embarrassment Endo took forever to figure out all the nozzles. Once it got going though he was out of there in no time.
Endo wrapped the towel around his waist and walked back into the guest room, only to see Momo sitting on the bed, "ah! Jeez Momo you scared me."
She smiled, "you were taking a while so I decided to make sure you were ok."
"Yeah your showers are a bit too complex for me. Lemme just get dressed and I'll be right out." He snatched up his clothes and was about to return to the bathroom, but Momo stopped him.
She ran her hands down his muscled back, feeling the long white scars that ran down the entirety of his torso. He shivered at her touch, her hands were cold compared to his steaming hot body after the shower. Momo went to kiss him again, but he held a finger to her lips and laughed, "at least let me change first Momo."
She blushed as he reached past her and grabbed his clothes retreating once more into the bathroom, emerging not twenty seconds later in the silky pajamas, "see that wasn't so bad now was it?"
"I was counting the seconds."
Endo sat on the edge of the right side of the bed. Momo leaned down and kissed him. He grabbed her by the waist, feeling the perfect curves of her body, and pulled her closer. "Screw this." Endo gave in and just pulled her into bed with him. She was on top of him, the two were hungry. Momo began to take his shirt off, but he grasped her wrist, "isn't it a little early in the relationship to do this?"
"We get to decide what's too early and what isn't." She seemed out of breath and acting extremely impulsive, but Endo had been the same way the whole night so he went with it.
When his shirt was off, Endo went to work on the buttons on Momo's night shirt.
But Endo was struggling with the buttons, and Karkinos sensing his frustration, gave him a bit of extra strength. Endo just tore the shirt open before realizing what he did, "oh my god I'm so sorry, I ruined it."
Momo threw off her shirt, exposing her bare chest underneath, and responded by kissing him once more. She finally worked off his pants and he got hers. Their hands raced up and down each other's body, hungry to feel each other. But before either could make the next move Momo blushed and stopped. "I-I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me, but I don't think I'm ready for this."
"What? A relationship or sex?" Their bodies were both hot to the touch.
Momo smiled, "I will always be ready for a relationship with you."
"I love you."
"I love you." And that's how the two ended up with their pants on and nothing else just laying with one another, until they fell asleep in each other's arms.
Endo's next dream took off where the last left off, the three elemental attacks were racing for him. Lightning, fire, and what was essentially a tidal wave, hit him simultaneously stumbling back the giant monster that he was.
The attacks came again and again and again, but Endo couldn't discern the source of it, so his body got pounded with hit after hit. Eventually chunks of flesh began to tear off, he was being killed. The Kaiju collapsed to the ground and began to crawl towards the ocean. "Endo!"
He sat up quickly, hitting heads with Momo, "ow! Damn, sorry, are you ok?"
She nodded while rubbing her forehead, "You were kinda thrashing in your sleep."
Endo looked to the clock, '6:08.' "You should try and go back to sleep Momo. I won't be able to, so no more nightmares."
She frowned, "same one?"
"No, it's like it's some kind of story, each time I fall asleep a new part of it is revealed. This time, I was actually getting hurt, killed even." He sat up and went to remove the covers from himself, but Momo grabbed his arm.
"Going to bed or not, just lay with me, for a while." She pulled him into a spooning position, his burning hot chest pressed against her back.
Endo wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close. He stayed like that until he noticed Momo's breathing become a stable, constant pace. He gently removed his arms and crawled out of bed, grabbing his phone and shirt on the way out of the room. When he tried to turn on his phone its only answer was a black screen. Endo remembered that before he and Momo had climbed into bed he had set up the program and forgot to turn it off, draining the battery.
"Karkinos?"
"Yes?"
"Last night when I was trying to take off Momo's shirt, you augmented my strength without changing my shape."
"Yeah, it took a lot of focus, but I felt compelled to do so, because remember I was feeling your frustration with it."
Endo nodded, "so in a normal battle situation…"
"The ability to do that would be completely useless compared to Close Combat."
He walked into the kitchen remembering during his tour he had seen a charger in there. When he finally found it and plugged it in, he realized it would be a couple minutes, so he decided to make some breakfast for both of them.
By the time Endo had most of the breakfast done, the phone was starting up, reopening the program. When all the food was gathered on a tray he checked his phone, it had a hit.
Endo tapped on it revealing a symbol of Saturn, with the words, 'Saturn Six' as the rings. "Why did this get a hit? There's nothing else attached to it except this picture." Endo tried fruitlessly for another couple minutes before deciding to head back up to Momo.
When he silently opened the door she was awake, with the covers wrapped around her body. "Good mor- did you make me breakfast in bed?"
Endo smiled, "no this is all for me."
She laughed, it sounded so pure Endo couldn't help but smile wider. He noticed she had her phone in her hands and it went off.
When she looked at the message on screen she blushed.
"What is it?"
"Jiro just won't let up with the questions about last night. I have at least two dozen texts from her."
"How much have you told her? Cause you know it's going to spread to the other girls and then possibly some of the other guys."
She shook her head, "no Jiro will keep it quiet."
"Uh huh." Endo didn't believe it, but all in all he didn't really care who knew. He set down the tray on the bed next to her and then sat to the other side of the tray so they could share it.
"You know I've been thinking, about your dreams that is, I think that-"
Endo cut her off, "Momo we have one whole day left before school, just us. Let's just enjoy it. My dreams are the least of my concerns right now." He finished by taking her hand, "you are my biggest concern right now."
"You certainly are a romantic."
He shrugged, "I may be, but I refuse to watch The Notebook either way.
This made her nearly choke on the piece of bacon she had just put in her mouth. When it was finally down her throat she began to laugh.
"I like you with your hair down. I mean, honestly how do you even get your hair into that huge ponytail everyday."
"Lots of hard work." She joked.
The new couple spent the day just lounging around and enjoying each other's company until Endo had to leave at night, "I've got my backpack and all my school things at home, so I can't spend another night. Sorry, but I'll see you tomorrow."
The two embraced and kissed one last time before he left.
The next day Endo stopped in front of the 1-A door, what did he just hear? Was it shushing? He shook his head, confused, but he opened the door either way. When he walked in he discovered the reasons for the sounds, almost everyone was staring at him, either with a smirk or a grin. Some even had their thumbs up. Endo turned his eyes red, he thought it would be slightly more intimidating, and he glared at Jiro. She seemed to be trying to sink into her seat as far as she could. "Sorry." She was practically mumbling.
Endo couldn't hold the serious face anymore and burst out laughing, "sorry, sorry. It's fine Jiro, I kinda expected this anyways, and everyone would've found out eventually. I was just having a bit of fun." He noticed Momo in the back with her head down and her face bright red, she must've also gotten the same treatment, but she brightened up when he sat next to her. "I told you."
"Huh?"
"I knew Jiro couldn't keep silent." Endo was smiling, "I honestly don't care, just thought it was funny."
The door slid open once more and Aizawa walked in, "good morning class." He said it with his usual dead tone. "We are going to start today by going over the internship, first," Aizawa pulled his phone from his pocket and pressed a button, "this is a list of who got offers and how many in descending order of how many offers were received."
As the hologram popped up Endo scanned the list, on the top was, Todoroki? "Ok maybe people just saw his quirk as easier to control and more diverse." He looked to the next, "Bakugo?! He was chained up and yelling like a maniac." Endo began to skim through the others, until he found his name, at the bottom. He had just one offer, while Todoroki had just about four thousand. Endo raised his hand, "Mr. Aizawa sir? Are those-"
"They are correct Endo, they were double checked and triple checked."
Bakugo began to laugh, "wow what a loser, can't even get two offers. Even ponytail got more." He turned around to see Endo's reaction.
His eyes were practically emitting red throughout the whole room, "if I hadn't just had two amazing days off from school, I would literally throw you into orbit."
"Yeah, whatever."
Bakugo was nonchalant about the threat, but the class could tell that if he pushed Endo any further the Kaiju powered student may just follow through.
"That's enough. For those who didn't receive offers, there are many offices that partnered with the school, each one has their own speciality. We'll come back to this at the end of class, but for now we have our next big section. Hero Informatics."
While the rest of the class worried about a pop quiz or a boring lecture, Endo could only stare down at his desk in defeat, how had this happened?
"It's time to pick your hero names." As Aizawa said this Midnight walked in, "Midnight will be here to help you and will have final say on all names. Remember these could end up being permanent, so choose wisely." Aizawa crawled back into his sleeping bag and laid against the wall for a nap, while the class decided.
Endo could barely focus at all on his current assignment, so it was probably good he had figured out his hero name a while back. His marker squeaked along the whiteboard as he wrote it out.
"Anyone want to present already?" Midnight noticed Endo in the back staring off into space, but his board was filled out, "Endo? Would you like to go?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah sure." He walked to the front of the class and stood at the podium turning his board to face the class. 'Typhon.'
Midnight looked confused, "I like the sound of it, but what does it mean?"
"Typhon, in greek mythology, was the father of all monsters. He was usually depicted as being extremely large as well."
"Doesn't that seem like a bit of a villain name?" Mina was raising her hand.
"Perhaps, but I think it is just a wonderful name for him!"
Endo pretty much zoned out for the rest of the names, well except for Momo's.
When he saw it Karkinos couldn't help but complain, "The Everything Hero: Creati? Really? That's the best she could come up with?"
The names went on for a while, until Aizawa finally rose from his slumber and passed out some sheets labeling the offers some of the class had been given, "make sure you have your choice ready by the end of the week."
When Endo got his sheet he looked at the name and his eyes went wide, "shit."
Momo turned to him, "what did you say?"
"Nothing, nothing, just thinking out loud."
"I'm so screwed." The single name on his paper read, 'Saturn Six.'
Thanks for reading this chapter, I hope it was enjoyable, once again I must say I don't have any experience with relationships, so I have no idea how they actually are XD. I'm just kinda basing it off books, tv, movies, and just my own preference on it. Furthermore, I must say that if you think that Endo and Momo got together a little too fast, well it will all be explained in the next chapter. I just felt I had to say this so I didn't get hate for it, sorry. All constructive criticism is appreciated of course. Next chapter, will actually hold the answers to who Endo is, so stay tuned.
