Author's Note:
Hello everyone I wanted to thank you on behalf of my friend, for all of your kind words. for those of you on Fan Fic she saw your messages personally and they really brightened her day, and for those of you on Wattpad I sent her screen shots of them. Thank you all she's doing better and is going to continue to write after a short break for now.
I feel like just leaving my note on that happy thought and just jumping into the story so here we go.
Chapter Thirty-seven
Izuku walked past the guest rooms, and came to a stop in front of a purple door that had become Jiro's room. He hesitated for a moment before pressing a button beside the door. The hallway was completely quiet for a few seconds before the door opened allowing Izuku to look into the room. The walls were covered in purple, soundproof panels that had instruments hanging off of them. Per Jiro's request her room had been soundproofed so she could practice during the night without waking Eri. Coming back to his senses Izuku focused on the punk rock girl standing in the door. "We need to talk," his voice came across far more serious than he meant for it to, and a look of worry crossed Jiro's face.
"Sure come in," She stepped a side letting him into the room. As she shut the door he walked over and sat on her purple bed, then he noticed much to his amusement that her pillows were shaped like musical instruments. Jiro came over and sat down next to him and nervously fiddled with her jacks. "So what's up is something wrong."
Finally realizing why she looked so nervous Izuku back peddled fast. "No, No everything's, I just promised you some answers and I had a few questions for you."
Relief flooded her face as what she thought was coming turned out to be nothing. "I-I thought that you were rethinking things because yesterday happened so fast."
"No I was following through with my promise to tell you everything," Izuku pulled the punk rocker into a quick hug, before holding her at arms length. "But first you need to tell me everything."
"Like what?"
"Like why you were so willing to give up on your bright future to help me?" Izuku's intense stare made Jiro look away quickly in embarrassment. "You have to be 100% honest with me."
"I didn't want too up until you saved me in the forest, at least I didn't want to be a part of all of this," She vaguely gestured around them. "I was willing to be around you after a while, when I saw how kind you seemed to be, but I was terrified how could the kind boy I saw be capable of the atrocities that had your name smeared near them?" She took a breath calming herself before carrying on, "When we were in the forest I was still looking for any opportunity to run, but then you stepped in-between me and Mei, and that fire villain. No one's ever done that for me before, I've always been a bit of a tom-boy," she gestured to her clothes, and her self. "No one not even my parents have really ever treated me like a girl, but you did. Without asking me to change anything you gave me the same curtsies you gave Toga or Mei, and I wasn't treated like you thought of me as one of the boys like my old friends at UA did. Aside from the perverts," She muttered the last bit darkly. "I've never had someone protect me before, I never in all my life had a knight in shining armor, or in this case shiny red skin, but it made me feel special. I decided then that if you were willing to risk your own safety for me you couldn't be as bad as everyone said, and it was about then I developed feelings for you." She smiled at him sweetly nuzzling her head into his shoulder as they sat side by side on her bed. "Now I don't care what I turned my back on because I'm happy with you. But I have to ask did you feel the same about me?"
Izuku let out a sigh, "I'd be lying if I said I'd only ever saw you in a professional light, but I had Toga so I left things alone. I refuse to be the person to cheat on his partner or now partners, like my father did. I want to be faithful, and I want to be there for my kids."
Jiro nodded in understanding, "that's why Toga had to push me at you, she knew you wouldn't do anything on your own?"
"Yeah, when we first started, well I first started to see her in a romantic light I told her about my family life. I guess you get to hear it now, but just to tell you what I told Toga I don't plan to be anything like that bastard. He married my mother and as far as we could tell stayed faithful for all of two months, he kept it from her of course but when she had me he was gone on "business" more often. He got sloppy and my mom started to suspect something was up, they both got super distant, and my mom cried more often. When I turned four and it was said I was quirkless … "
"Wait you were quirkless then what do you call your powers?"
"I only got my quirk from trying to kill myself, my theory was that the adrenalin acted in a way with my DNA to keep my brain alive long enough that when it's code started to breakdown it made a quirk. I was alive while my brain started to rot (A/N: Brain cells start to decay very quickly and that's where Izuku's quirk started. Without oxygen intake (meaning none in your lungs and little in your blood) the brain starts to die in under five minutes). Anyways he found out and came home with his newest girl to rub it in my mom's face got his shit and left."
Jiro's sharp intake of breath cut him off from continuing his story, "that bastard how dare he." Jiro moved from leaning on the red haired boy to hugging him. "I know you Izuku maybe not as long as Toga, but long enough to know that's not who you are."
Izuku smiled and returned the hug, "thanks Jiro, but there's more to this than just why it effects how I want to act in a relationship, it's also a big [art of why I'm going the direction I am."
Jiro nodded before releasing the boy, "hey Red?"
Izuku smirked at his new pet name, before giving a playful reply. "Toga calls me Izu, you call me Red, my mother refers to me as some variation of sweetheart more often than not, and Eri calls me papa, guess I'll never hear my name around my family."
"Looks like your stuck with nicknames forever, but um what happened to your father? If you don't mind me asking."
"I don't care. He died when I was ten I think, long before I had my quirk and could kill him myself. The girl he was with liked to party, so did her actual fiancé, but they tried to scam the wrong people, and my dad got killed with her. Served him right but now that he's gone I find myself disappointed I couldn't show him how strong I've gotten before sending him to hell."
"You said that your story was a big reason as to why you're doing things the way you are, care to explain," Jiro asked trying not to let Izuku dwell on those thoughts.
"Yeah, but my story wasn't over. There was a reason I hated Bakugo so much and attacked him so violently at the USJ. Up until we were four years old we were best friends, but when he found out I wouldn't get a quirk he decided that he didn't want to be friends with someone who would drag him down. He turned everyone against me, anyone who got close to me he'd threaten with his quirk till they were joining in on tormenting me, and to make matters worse the teachers let it go since they thought if Bakugo liked them he'd be good for their reputations."
"That's horrible, how could anyone do that to a child?"
"The world is cruel and heartless if you let it, it will tear you apart with out hesitation. All of the torment taught me the worlds one undeniable truth, if you want people to listen you need to have power, and show them your not scared to use it in the cruelest of ways. But I don't think I need to keep doing this forever, I've made my point on how dangerous I can be, now I need to get everyone to listen."
"How are you going to do that?"
"I'm going to take over Japan, I'll be the first Emperor of Japan in almost a thousand years (A/N: The year of bnha was never given as far as I remember)." Izuku's face was a mask of calm hiding any emotions he had about his plan.
"Will you keep doing all of this if you become Emperor?"
"There were philosophers a long time ago that said all rulers had a powerful tool at their disposal, but it was the mark of a great ruler to only have to use that tool once. Do you know what they were talking about?" Izuku questioned and when Jiro shook her head he carried on. "They were talking about the use of cruelty I'm using my one use now hopefully I won't need it again to lead Japan down the right path."
Staring at him with a sense of awe Jiro started to smile, "I knew you were a good person at heart Red, maybe not everyone can see it but I can. So what's this right path you want to send Japan down?"
"I want to create a society where people aren't punished for being themselves so long as they aren't using their gifts to hurt others, like how we were before quirks. I also want to make heroing less of an idolized profession than it is. They should be civil servants not rock stars, and people should be allowed to not be judged based off how their quirks seems but by how they use it. Judgement only based off the contents of one's character."
"Those are all great things to say Red but they're harder to put into practice than that, did you have a plan to get all that done?"
"I've had plenty of time to mull it all over. First would come the banning of hero merchandise, followed swiftly by a requirement that once a situation is handled the heroes aren't able to dump off responsibilities such as paper work onto the police to talk to the press. They need to do that themselves instead of trying to seek the lime light. Then we'll need to rework the ban on public quirk use, as well as to create government run facilities to reform villains instead of shoving them back onto the street like we've been doing. There's so much more that needs to change after that, but it will have to wait till I can see how the laws have been worded personally."
"You really have given it a ton of thought haven't you Red. Well we can work on all your plans later now I need a nap," and with that Jiro flopped backwards pulling Izuku with her.
"Yeah me too, I've had a long day so far."
A/N
Done, so I wrote most of this (almost all) of this chapter starting at 12AM Monday since I can't sleep and I stay up till my body shuts down. So if there's anything really wrong with it I'm sorry.
I hope all of you enjoyed it, and here's a link to an image fit my week after I posted the last chapter. https / /pin . it /6LBvSJJ (get rid of the spaces, and add a colon after https, Fan fic didn't like the link)
Thank you all for reading Dante Out.
