The ride to the police station was silent. At first, detective Tsukauchi tried to make some small talk but quickly gave up as Ethan looked extremely nervous. But that was to be expected. Not many people in the police force knew about Ethan's quirk. Tsukauchi could probably count the number of people who knew on his hand. All others just assumed he had no quirk at all. So, while most people ignored him, there were some that were rude and aggressive towards him. Sure, there were some people that were nice to Ethan and understood what he was going through, but most didn't.

Whenever Ethan used to get called in for something, Tsukauchi would do his best to get there as quickly as possible but there were times he wasn't fast enough and other officers got to Ethan first. They would make it seem like everything was Ethan's fault. If he ran away from his foster home, it was because he was a delinquent. If some people beat him up, it was because he was weak and deserved it. They never gave him a choice to press charges, not that Ethan would anyway.

The worst officer by far was Detective Kimura. For some reason that guy had it out for Ethan. Tsukauchi had no idea what would happen when Ethan was interrogated by him but after every time Ethan was silent and refused to answer questions. The worst had been when Ethan left with bruises. He was brought in after some kids beat him up and the report said he had gotten bruises. But after the interrogation there were multiple bruises that were bright red and looked like they were still forming while the ones from the fight were almost gone due to Ethan's healing factor. Tsukauchi tried to find evidence against Detective Kimura but everyone wrote it off as the fight. And on top of that all security footage from the interrogation room somehow got corrupted. When Tsukauchi tried to ask the detective about it with his quirk, he said that nothing bad happened and it registered as true. After that all that ran through Tsukauchi's head was that somehow that bastard though that beating a kid was ok. That abusing their power was ok. And it made him sick.

Saying that Ethan was nervous about going to the police station was an understatement. The entire ride he was torn between worrying about what was going to happen when he got there and why he was going there to begin with. Tsukauchi mentioned that Midoriya had already made is statement but if he did why was he still at U.A. and not the police station. It just didn't add up. For a brief moment, Ethan thought that maybe he was arrested for his quirk use and endangering his classmates. But the logical side of him said that if he was being arrested then his whole class would be. Just because his quirk could kill didn't mean everyone else's couldn't. But Ethan was a special case wasn't he. Unlike his classmates, his quirk wanted to kill. Just using it could mean that the police saw that as Ethan wanting to kill.

"We're here," Tsukauchi announced snapping Ethan out of his train of thought.

Without thinking, Ethan got out of the car and followed Tsukauchi. Luckily no one noticed him or at least if they did Ethan didn't know since he kept his head down the whole time and kept closely behind the detective, trying to stay as unnoticeable as possible. It didn't take long to reach the room so Ethan didn't have to worry to much about being out in the open. When they got there Tsukauchi got out his keys and quickly found the right one and opened the door for the both of them.

The interrogation room looked the same as the last time Ethan had been there. The walls were a dark grey and in the middle on the room was a silver table accompanied by two chairs made out of the same material. There was no light in the room besides the one ceiling light and there was also one large one way window that on this side of the room looked like a mirror. Without thinking, Ethan sat on the side of the room that had a direct view of the one way window and put his arms on top of the table, preparing to be cuffed.

"You can put your arms down you aren't going to be cuffed," Tsukauchi explained.

"Then why am I here?"

When Ethan had put his hands of the table so it would be easier to cuff him, Tsukauchi wasn't surprised. Whenever he used to come he was never taken out of his cuffs so it was an old habit. Most officers always cuffed people with quirk suppressant handcuffs even if they were just being questioned to be safe, especially people who weren't in the system. If that was the case then there was no way to tell what the persons quirk was until they were able to access that persons records. And there was always the slight possibility that the records were wrong. But, Ethan was a special case where no one was allowed to access his records. Even though the other officers assumed he was quirkless, they were still extremely careful. In the beginning Tsukauchi cuffed Ethan to be safe but after getting to know each other better Tsukauchi stopped since he didn't see the need to. Even now after Ethan clearly used his quirk, he didn't want to cuff the boy. But Tsukauchi could tell that Ethan felt like he should be cuffed and, knowing the boy, that didn't surprise him one bit.

But what did surprise Tsukauchi was what Ethan asked. The question kept running through Tsukauchi's head. Why am I here? It's such a simple and yet he had no idea how to answer it. Ethan didn't really have a reason to be here. Everyone else gave their testimonies either at USJ or at Yuuei. But Tsukauchi's superiors wanted Ethan to give his testimony at the station. The only other people that came in were the villains. And that's when it hit Tsukauchi. Of course the old bastards wouldn't trust Ethan. They probably thought he was a traitor or something. Tsukauchi didn't want to believe it but it also wasn't surprising.

"I wasn't told why they wanted to bring you in but it's probably the same reason your thinking of," Tsukauchi explained. Ethan just looked down, refusing to make eye contact with Tsukauchi. "And for your information I think they couldn't be more wrong. Midoriya told me that you were fighting the Noumu and that you were punched to the other side of USJ. You distracting them helped keep everyone else safe." Tsukauchi continued.

"…thanks," Ethan mumbled so low that Tsukauchi could barely make out what he said.

"I should be thanking you kid," Tsukauchi corrected, "You helped a lot out there and saved me from doing more paperwork. Now let's get this over with and then you'll be free to leave."

Ethan couldn't be more excited to finally be able to leave the police station. Tsukauchi was a good person but every time they met it wasn't under the best circumstances. The questioning wasn't that bad but again the circumstances sucked. USJ was horrible. Having to relive it was horrible. Ethan left out how painful everything was. He briefly mentioned healing from Shigaraki and trying to use his quirk but being stopped. At the end Ethan asked Tsukauchi about Aizawa and luckily he was no longer in critical condition but that's all the information he had for now. Thinking over everything again, Ethan wasn't sure how he was able to survive being punched by the Noumu. How his quirk healed him fast enough was shocking. Aku must have really been kicking it into hyperdrive to stay alive. Ethan froze. The only reason he was alive was Aku. Aku saved him. And even if Aku did it just for himself, Ethan was alive because of it.

…thanks.

Whatever asshole I did it for myself.

Oh wow so your talking again. It was weird not having you annoy me. It was kind of nice.

Whatever. I know you missed me. Screaming for me all the damn time.

Yea well when I have you yelling in my ear all the time having it stop all of the sudden is concerning.

So you were worried about me.

NO! I'm still mad at you.

About what!?

You making my head hurt like hell. I almost passed out!

HOW DO YOU EVEN KNOW THAT WAS ME!

I do now.

Well I saved your life so we are even.

Whatever.

Hi everyone I'm finally back. Lately I haven't had any motivation to write and have been stuck on a writers block. I'm not fully out of it yet so it may be a little bit till the next update. But on a completely unrelated note, I recently listened to the Beetlejuice musical and I loved it. If any of you like musicals and haven't listened to it I highly recommend it.