Author's Note:
Ladies and gent's I'm back and more fucked up than before so here we are. If my writing suddenly turns very dark then I had a bad day (was depressed) so be warned about that. Not to worry though I still plan to finish this story.
I also plan to go back through this story removing the author's note chapters, and fixing grammar issues but that won't happen till my beta readers can get to it or I get new betas to help me out. Doesn't matter too much but thank you all for being so patient with me.
And a special thanks to void_boi65 (Wattpad) being called a God is probably one of the nicest complements my works have gotten and it meant a lot after a bad week.
PS: Yes I go through and read all the reviews I might not respond to all of them but I do read them.
Chapter Thirty-six
Izuku looked at his phone in shock long after he had hung up, he didn't even respond to his two lovers trying to get his attention as his shocked expression became a shit eating grin. He quickly dressed himself before returning to the world around him. He sheepishly glanced over at Toga and Jiro, "sorry about that something really important came up. Normally I'd say it could wait, but if all goes well we might be able to get Toga to a real hospital without getting arrested when the baby's due," he said softly as he gave the cat eyed girl a gentle smile.
"Hey wait a minute you never told me what your whole plan was!" Jiro whined.
"And you never really answered my question of why you fell for me, I guess we both have some explaining to do later." He gave the Earphone Jack quirk user as sly smile before he started to dial up someone on his cellphone. He puts the phone to his ear and waits for a moment as the room went quiet. "Hey Kurogiri I need you to open a portal outside my house. … You know exactly where it is, I know sensei had you track my phone so don't toy with me. I need to see your boss soon unless you want to be out of a job."
A purple misty portal opened at one end of the room, which Izuku glared at the second it appeared. "No sense of tact at all," he whispered under his breath. "I'll see you two later, and don't worry Jiro I'll explain everything when I get back." With that the redheaded boy jumped into the portal.
Toga started to pout as soon the boy left "He didn't even kiss us goodbye."
Jiro sighed, "you know he's doing this for your sake right?"
"I know I just want him to be safe and, sniff, I miss him already." Toga began to tear up and quickly took refuge in Jiro's arms.
"Haaaa." 'Why do you always have your mood swings the second Izuku leaves? Am I going to be like that when ….' Jiro's face slowly began to turn crimson as she rubbed the back of the girl clinging to her.
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Izuku stepped out of the portal and into the other bar he'd become very familiar with the League's back up base. It took him all of two seconds to spot the first true villain he'd ever called friend sitting by himself nursing a beer. He nodded to Kurogiri and walked past all the people to get to Shigaraki, ignoring the glares of people who thought he didn't belong. He'd made it about halfway across the room before someone caused a scene, "your one of Carnage's lackey's aren't you, two of our people were murdered in our last operation together without explanation. Heroes don't work like that and now you think you can waltz in and collect a reward? I say we send you back to Carnage in a body bag for what you freaks did." Izuku glanced behind him at the lizard like man yelling at him.
At least the yelling had paid off in one way it had gotten Shigaraki's attention, the teal haired man slowly turned around. "Spinner leave him alone," his voice was soft and the depression could be heard from a mile away. "Izuku's worth more to me than you are so if he killed you, you'd be on your own." His red eyes leveled with the lizardman causing him to back down.
Izuku gave a sympathetic smile to his friend while he did feel bad for causing his friend pain he didn't regret it for a moment. 'this is necessary All for One and All Might were too dangerous to be left alone I couldn't let them ruin my perfect world. But the least I can do is clean up my mess and help my friend.' He let his hand fall onto Shigaraki's shoulder, "ya look like shit."
A chuckle escaped the older boy. "Yeah I guess your right." He looked back down into his drink like it held all the answers.
Trying not to let his friend dwell in his thoughts (A/N: What my friends did for me not the pool but keeping me from my thoughts) Izuku picked up a pool stick, and tossed it to the teal haired villain. "Hey how bout a quick game?" Then he tossed two gloves he'd cut all the fingers out of except for the pinkies. "Now you can't disintegrate the pool que."
Izuku was given a rare calm smile from his friend as he put the gloves on. "You know what that sounds nice."
After three games everyone else left, and Izuku was setting up the table while Shigaraki got ready to break. Izuku finally decided to cut to the chase without anyone else around. "So want to talk about it," he asked as he removed the triangle.
"Talk about what," the older boy asked feigning ignorance.
Refusing to let him off the hook Izuku pressed on, "disbanding the League, ring any bells?"
Instead of answering directly Shigaraki focused on the que ball, "Hey do you know where I was before sensei found me?" Shigaraki paused and looked at his redheaded friend before continuing. "I was orphaned in a hero fight, and everyone always blames the casualties on the villains you know." Izuku nodded prompting him to go on, "Well it wasn't that villains fault I lost my family it was the stupid fucking hero. He didn't give a shit about the bystanders and attacked with his full strength, against a villain with a shitty stretching quirk. He killed the villain and six bystanders just because he could." Shigaraki then took a long pause to reign in his temper. "I was left starving and on the street since no one wanted a kid who's quirk was as dangerous as mine and who had no control over it. I was half dead when sensei found me, he took me in and taught me himself. I knew what he did was seen as wrong by the world but I didn't care because for the first time since that incident there was someone who gave me a family and a purpose." Shigaraki's sad crimson eye's met Izuku's sympathetic ruby ones, "what am I supposed to do now that I lost my family and my purpose again? Was I just not strong enough to protect them?" He started to scratch his neck making it bleed, "I'm not sure I want to live like this anymore."
Determination rolled over Izuku, determination to keep his friend out of that place he'd gone through not to long ago, the line of thinking that had unlocked his quirk in the first place. He set the triangle he'd been holding up to this point down and stalked over to his friend. Izuku's fist fell onto Shigaraki's head quickly and without warning, "the hell are you thinking. Sensei would be ashamed if he heard you talking like that, he saved you and gave you a purpose, yes. But that purpose wasn't to mindlessly do what he told you. He's gone and he's not coming back, but your still here you can still make a difference. How are my kids going to grow up not knowing their Uncle Shigaraki?"
Shigaraki stared in shock, never before had Izuku in his regular form ever raised his voice to him, and never had he sounded so mad. Unsure of him self Shigaraki meekly whispered back, "then what am I supposed to do?"
"Live your life the way you think is right, and don't push people away because your scared to lose them cherish them while they're still with you." Izuku sighed and smiled at the older boy, "and don't worry about your life's purpose you don't have to know it you just have to keep looking, but there will always be a place for you in our group, because no one can make it alone."
Shigaraki paused for a moment then held out his hand to Izuku. Izuku reached for the handshake only to be pulled into a hug. "Thanks for letting me rant to you, Izuku means a lot." He then pushed the younger boy back to arms length. "I don't have all the answers yet, but you've given me a lot to think about and I'll contact you again when I get my thoughts together." Izuku nodded and turned to leave, "Hey Izuku did you mean it?"
"Mean what?"
"When you asked how your kids would grow up without their Uncle Shigaraki."
"Of course."
"Hehe. I've never had a brother before, glad it was you."
Izuku smiled and opened the door to leave. "Yeah me too."
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For the second time in that morning Izuku stepped through a purple portal linked to his home. "Kurogiri really needs to learn personal space."
He got about four steps after the portal closed till he felt two hands land on his shoulders, then one of the two voices he was dreading spoke to him. "Izuku it's time to talk, and you aren't getting out of it this time."
Izuku slowly turned around and looked back at his mother and unofficial aunt. "What about Auntie?" He was trying to act cute to at least lessen his torment.
"Well Carnage, lets talk about your recent activities." Mitsuki wasn't letting him off easy and grabbed his ear in an attempt to make him compile, only for her hand to pass through a red liquid. "Your going to tell us everything you've been up to now." Her motherly tone that seemed to force all naughty children into compliance seemed to still have its hold on Izuku as he stared at the ground.
"Where should I start?"
"Why don't you start at the beginning of all of this." His mother said while gesturing around them vaguely.
"That's a long way back." Izuku sighed and then sat on the couch prompting the two women to do the same, his mind was already working overdrive trying to figure just how much to tell them. "Well it I guess it started when I didn't get my quirk."
"Little far back Izuku," Mitsuki sighed.
"But it's important since that's when the world turned against me." Now he had both mother's attention as his depressed tone lured them in and no one noticed the pink haired girl hiding just around the hall listening in. "The second Katsuki found out I wasn't going to get a quirk he turned our peers against me, and the teachers didn't care about the quirkless reject being bullied. That was almost 13 years of my life, (he's 17 going on 18 and it started after age 4) there's no way to see things the same way after that. Everything came to a head my last year of junior high when Katsuki told me if I wanted a quirk so bad I should jump off our school roof. After years of feeling so powerless I thought that might truly be the best option." Izuku took a breath letting the information sink in with his listeners. "When I hit the ground I splattered completely, I'd never felt something quite as painful as that moment. My quirk activated and it began to dissolve every part of my body into the goo it is now, I wasn't able to move or even scream as every part of me was torn apart and remade. I nearly lost myself in it all the only thing I could focus on was a promise I made to myself before I jumped. "If I end up with I quirk, I don't care what I have to do I won't let the world stay as rotten as it is." Izuku paused smiling sadly to his mother. "I didn't realize how messed up the world truly was when I made that promise, but I'd been forged around it and even now it's like an ache in the back of my mind that won't leave no matter how much I get blown apart. I tried to save someone, but I look like a villain so without a hero license to prove I'm not heroes don't bother to look any further, even All Might wasn't an exception. He attacked me in a heart beat."
After an extended pause Mitsuki finally spoke up, "so you became a villain?"
"There were too many rules around heroes and politics, no one wants things to change when they have power. Why would they when they can watch it all from their ivory towers? I'd rather be seen as a monster than to sit back and say I watched. I only saw one option, to tear the fat bastards who run the show down and build a new Japan from the ground up, on the ashes of the old one." Inko who never expected to hear her son talk about revolution fainted on the spot, and Mitsuki kept her upright. "She never saw anything from the news about me did she?"
"How could she you know how your mother gets." Mitsuki sighed, "you and I will continue this conversation later, I need to take care of Inko for now." She gave Izuku a pointed look till he nodded, satisfied Mitsuki lifted her friends legs and laid her on the couch to rest. Once she was done she began to head to her guest room still unsure if she needed to contact the authorities. Deep in thought she failed to notice the flash of pink hair that disappeared down the hall in front of her.
Izuku sighed again, but smiled to himself. "I promised Jiro we could talk later, guess now's as good a time as any since that's what I've been doing all day." With that thought in mind he stood and began to search for his other girlfriend, a term that was still strange to him.
A/N:
Hey guys almost didn't make it were you worried? I'm going to address a few thing people complained about in the comments while I was gone.
I went way back into the comments and people were complaining that they didn't know Izuku's motivation I was trying to keep it hidden like his full plan for a suspenseful reveal. What did you all think?
Why Izuku acts the way he does was another thing people were upset about. In the comics Carnage is a flawed symbiote who was broken by the thoughts of his first host when they bonded, and they became a message he couldn't get rid of in his brain. Izuku's thoughts when he changed were I don't care what I have to do to fix the world, so that be came his message. His final plan (Next Chapter) is a big reason as to why they affect him that way.
People also complained about how after his first partner's betrayal he trusted again too easily. Izuku's philosophy is I'll trust anyone once, but if they break my trust they won't be able to do it again. One could say one of his flaws is he doesn't care who he tells certain things to, because in his mind it doesn't matter he can just kill them not like many (if any) heroes could stop him.
Finally (for now) the reasons Jiro decided to stick around will be coming up in the next chapter as well as why she threw away her chance at a hero career.
Thank you all for reading Dante out.
