DEER
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Disclaimer: Boku no Hero Academia belongs to Horikoshi Kohei
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Genre(s): Adventure/Hurt/Comfort
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Warning(s): Typo is my most loyal fan, spelling mistakes because English is not my mother language, Possibly OOC. NO BETA, so beware of grammar mistakes
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Summary: Shota thought discovering their 'Nightwalker' to be a kid was bad enough. Not to mention how the said kid is literally Quirkless, meaning the law cannot touch him.
"I don't wanna be a Hero. It's too troublesome"
And then this?
Maybe it's not too late to ask Nezu for a raise this year…
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Or, being a good citizen and stopping an illegal back-alley transaction resulted in him getting some High-Ranking Villain's attention. He didn't even raise a hand at those A-holes. Just glaring at them hard enough, they turned tail.
This second-chance of life is so not worth it. What a drag…
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(A/N): I'm sure you guys can guess Izuku's late friends from the previous chap. I tried to write the hint as clear as possible. Izuku's mother and father are the super obvious one lol :'D
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Sansa was seen sitting on the chair of the lonely office, index finger tapping the metallic table in irritation. His face was unchanging, a peak of having a cat face as his head means he doesn't have that many expressions to show. People could usually tell by looking at his ears, where it acted like a normal cat usually do; facing to the side when he was in his casual or bored state, straightened up when he was interested in something, and flat down to the back of his scalp when he was disappointed, worry, or scared. There was also one other way people could use to guess the state of his emotions, asides from the ears. Mainly his fur. Where it will stand up even without wind, a clear indicator that he was irritated and angry.
And right now, every single hair on his face was standing.
(No wonder his subordinates won't come near him, even though they needed his input on the newly, important paperwork. Sansa was known as a polite man, very professional when he was on duty. But then if he lost his patience, well.)
(Just look at how cat fought their rival out of their territory and you know the gist)
Right now, the cat-human was completely consumed in rage. His eyes turned to slit, whisker quivered in anxiety. The cause of his ire was the lonely paper in front of him. Containing a summary of what had happened the day before. About the fight of the century. About the final battle of One for All and All for One.
And about the disappearance of his cub. Midoriya Izuku.
(Cub, what an animalistic thing to say. He blamed his, well, animal side for that. Sansa called Izuku as his cub secretly. And unofficially too. He already has a mother and father, he couldn't just adopt someone else's kid. But since three years ago, Izuku had been visiting the police office courtesy of his nightly walk. Everyone knew him. Everyone adored him, sass and sarcasm included. It didn't take long for the kid to aroused his paternal instinct and called him as his. Pretty sure a couple of officers did the same as well; he knew Naomasa did.)
Midoriya Izuku, Sansa tasted the name once more, feeling the bitterness within his mouth. That bitter wasn't aimed at him, but for him. He watched, from the safety of the office, of how he bravely fought All for One face to face. Never backing down, even though he just recovered from his breakdown (and that was another thing worth mentioning. If Sansa thought his heart clenched after seeing Izuku covered with blood, then it shattered as he cried on the live television. He was a silent boy, not one to show his feeling on the sleeves. To see him finally snap and bawl like a child should be was a punch to the gut). The (useless) heroes—who leisurely stay on their butt—finally deign themselves useful enough to aid the kid. Whatever it was that had held them down to the ground was nowhere to be seen, and they could act as support ally. Not because they were afraid of the villain. But because Izuku was fighting him too close, that they couldn't find an opening to be on the front line as well.
It was a tad bit too late, however. When Izuku bounced on the remaining wall, throwing broken glasses to the villain while dashing at his head, tanto glinted under the moonlight at the same time, All for One must've thought 'that's enough'. He used one of his strengthening Quirk and swat the child, so hard, his body flew and penetrated two of the ruined building. Causing the already-frail brick to fell and buried Izuku under all the rubble.
The audience screamed in horror. And Sansa stood up from the uncomfortable plastic chair in alarm.
But as expected of Izuku, he didn't go down without fighting. Somehow, in the middle of his failed attack, he nicked All for One with a bunch of senbons coated with paralyzing drug to every surface available (it was small, camouflage because of its unusual color. Though Sansa saw it anyway, a perk of having cat eyes as his sight). It didn't stun him too long—of course, the man had a self-healing Quirk in his repertoire of stolen powers—yet it was enough time for All Might—who ate his second soldier pill to stay in his prime form—to retaliate, landing a devastating blow on the criminal's face. It cracked All for One's mask to pieces, it cracked the earth, the air dispersed and the weather changed from sunny to a downpour.
(The oldest villain didn't even manage to change into his ultimate form, just like how he boasted to them all at the very beginning of the battle. That's what he got for underestimating Midoriya Izuku)
Their celebration didn't last long. After making sure All for One was secured by Best Jeanist's string, All Might immediately go for the rubble and dig through it. It had been five minutes since he wasn't emerging from the ground, one more and he'll suffocate. When he reached the end of the broken bricks and found the tiles, however.
They found nothing.
Izuku was gone.
That was alarming enough already. Everyone saw his condition. Bleeding, limping, gasping for breath. With that kind of merciless strike courtesy of the cruel All for One, there was no way he could escape that intact and most likely to have a concussion. Meaning, he was too disoriented to heft himself up from the floor. Worried with their division's favorite nightwalker, Sansa almost begged Naomasa to bring him along to meet Nezu when it was obvious the headmaster was trying to search the kid in his own way; mainly, hacking the nearest CCTV. When the rodent found the intact camera and watched the video in it, that warning bell turned into a gong of doom.
Because there, pulling out the unconscious body of Izuku from the messy wreckage, was Chisaki Kei.
The leader of Shie Hassakai.
Sansa let out a stream of curses, so unlike him, Naomasa fell to the floor in shock. Even Nezu's eyebrow rose in tandem.
Of course. Of course, the bird mask wearer will be there to assess the situation. He'd been searching for Izuku for all these years, wanting to capture him for some reason. When he saw the said boy on the television, he'll definitely go there to investigate.
Give Izuku a break already! He didn't even have the time to recover from his breakdown too!
At least the next incident lifted his spirit, although just a little bit; the tall paperwork their division got after that event was a bit overkill, after all. He was talking about the aftermath of the greenete's speech, along with his disappearance. When the battle was over, it finally dawned upon them that oh God, some heroes actually abandoned a pleading child. Causing them to whisper and the media to demand an explanation. Did Izuku tell the truth? Did they really ignore a kid's request for help? Forcing them to come to the front line and let them die in the process? And what about Izuku himself? He is gone. Do you think he'll turn to villainy now, that he realized fulfilling his dead friend's last wish means nothing if the heroes themselves won't change their life-view in this job of them?
Nezu immediately squashed that accusation down pat. This was a cruel thing to say to someone who lost his friends (friends. Plural. God, it was plural) in cold blood, but it was clear Izuku will be staying in the path of heroic, even if he hated heroes just as much as he hated villains. Someone like that, no matter how painful the past experience was, won't be swayed to the dark side so easily. Not when it was the main reason why the greenette's comrades' lives were extinguished.
(Nezu knew because he was one of them. Sansa tilted his head to the side. Not wanting to see the grief flashed in the rodent's eyes)
Anyway, asides for that assurance and a promise to find Greeny as soon as possible, Nezu couldn't answer their former questions. About whether the Heroes ignored Izuku's friend dire situation or not. They failed to pinpoint the exact place where the tragedy happened. Too many teenagers' death in a hero-villain's fight, that was the sad fact of this society. The reason why they couldn't narrow it down to get a clear picture of the event.
"But rest assured. I'm not calling you here for a useless meeting," Nezu chirped, producing a stack of folders from beneath the podium. His smile widened, it was borderline manic, as he pulled out a handheld tablet from between the paper and showed the bright light screen to the reporters around. It was a paused video, "there is one other important announcement I need to brief you all. Treat it…as the UA's staff's repentant"
When the content of the film was revealed, the cat-human officer had a hard time swallowing his gleeful laugh. He managed to disguise it as cough though. Albeit barely.
In there, was a video of the number two hero. From the first point of view (if he had to take a gander, the person who recorded it must've installed a hidden camera on his person to get this evidence), it was shown that Endeavor wasn't as white as people like to think.
Quirk marriage. Physical and mental abuse. Paying the protestor with a bribe or just a good, old threat.
If everyone thought Izuku's speech cause an unpleasant talk about Heroes and their title, then the secret of the second-place Hero being an abusive father elicited an enraged uproar.
Sansa didn't know why everyone was so shocked at the revelation. He already knew that man was nothing but bad news, his animalistic side hackled every time he saw him on the street. It may not be a good thing for Nezu to do, to showed the world that not all Heroes are good heroes. Half of the masses was doubting this profession already after Izuku's confession, he didn't need to fuel the fire. But Sansa silently approved the seemingly reckless move. Naomasa, who was standing alongside him, included. He remembered he watched the chaos ensued with maximal satisfaction when one of the reporters pointed the sentiment of instilling doubt in citizens. Nezu just leaned forward on his podium and stared at him with his blank, beady orbs. A dangerous glint flashed and Sansa could see every single one of them apprehensively gulped.
"Then do you want me to leave it be? To leave a small child in the hand of an abuser? Where there's a chance the said kid will go vigilante—or worse, villainy—because he believed nobody will ever help him and they had to take things into their own hand? Just like what we did to Midoriya Izuku?" the bear-mouse said. Or accused. When nobody could answer his question, Nezu eye-smiled and entwined his fingers, "that's what I thought."
It is indeed, a satisfying scenery to watch when the civilians started to have a verbal riot in front of Endeavor's agency. Wanting him to face the consequence and singing the victims justice. It warmed his heart when Todoroki Fuyumi cried senseless on the live broadcast, thanking Nezu and all of the UA's staff for freeing them from Endeavor's bad influence. It is a pity, that the father never tried to redeem himself so they could be a true, happy family like their mother wished to be. However, as the oldest siblings here, she only wanted her younger to be happy. If that means losing one of their parents, then so be it.
Yes. Everybody was happy to see the kid happy. But Shoto next word dampen the good mood. When he stared right into the lens of the camera and spoke.
"Our problem is resolved thanks to you, Midoriya-kun. So, wherever you are, wait for us. We will definitely save you"
The cat-human let out a low grow (his subordinates flinched fearfully).
Tamakawa Sansa was angry. He is mad because how dare that villain, holding Izuku captive right after his first kidnapping. Right after his emotion was in shambles. He needed a trustworthy person to be there for him. Care for him. Not another traumatic experience that'll add to his already-too-much PTSD, Goddammit!
And Tamakawa Sansa was guilty. Because what kind of officer we are, for not realizing the burden Izuku carried for all this time. Alone and scared. No matter how smart he was, he is just a kid, wanting to feel the warmth of the hope and future.
Until the day his cub was rescued from the clutch of Chisaki Kei, he didn't think this wrath will ever go away.
(A/N): All-Might never deflated because of the soldier pill. So, the masses still don't know his true form.