Chapter 7

It's been a few months since Izumi was promoted as a Pro-Heroes, three months before his last school year. One month that she did not see Hitoshi in preparation for her new year at U.A, not as a student but as a teaching assistant.

It has long been expected that she would be a professor assistant, along with Nezu they anticipated numerous variations of actions that the world government could undertake. Of course, they did not rule out other threats such as slavery traffickers, criminal organizations (Mafia, Revolutionary Groups, Gangs, Triads ...), illegal research centres, and perverts/kidnappers.

(And yes, our Izumi is far too beautiful and young as many people fantasize about her. So much that on some sites created pornographic images with her face before she destroyed them and sent viruses to her sites and their creators.)

Her agenda is to help in the Heroic Classes within all Heroic practises with the Class A and B for all the first, second and third years. Plus she will in charge of the infirmary for an entire day, every week instead of Recovery Girl, helping the other teachers in the case by replacing them for an hour and will be the President of a 'club'.

In two days would the Entrance Exams for the future heroes, inventors and all. The Principal was thrilled about it along with some teachers, Izumi doesn't care about it because: 1. there will an angry Pomeranian and 2. excited and arrogant kids will strut when a quarter will be in the school for three years. In another side, she almost pities for Hitoshi how much the school has raised the exam level, being more tough and more sadistic.

At the moment she was preparing herself to pass the day with a friend and go pass the night with her 'brothers'. She wears a white tank top with a light green seafoam jacket, black shorts and black and green sneakers. She grunted at the size of her chest, already have a D cup, she doesn't like to be regarded especially with the way the men look at her.

Hearing her grunt, Hizashi Yamada comes from the kitchen with his casual clothes and a frying pan with fried eggs.

"What is it Little bunny? What makes you so grumpy this morning?"

Izumi glares or more pouts at him. "Don't call me Little bunny Cockatoos dad!" She ignores her adoptive dad shouting 'Hey!'. "I don't like how my chest grows fast, at this rate I will have a big chest and it will hard for me to fight! Moreover, I hate the way how people and especially the men look at me."

Hizashi puts the frying pan and hugs his daughter knowing what she talks.

"Hey, it's okay. Never, you hear me, never it will happen to you again. If someone tries to touch, I don't care but castrate him."

Izumi giggles sadly. "Do you imply that I do not know how to defend myself?"

"No, I know you can do worse than only castrate some poor guys but I think I will not able to support if you were taken again and... especially Shota. Still today he is still angry at himself what happens this day."

"It's not his fault, I stormed out of the apartment after our dispute without listening what he said. I let my guard off and I was kidnapped for three days. It's entirely my fault and I paid the price."

"A price you shouldn't have paid or anything else it should never happen in your life but it was your third times and it's three times too many. Besides we tried to force you to talk of your past and what... you have suffered, something that it's really not easy to talk especially to adult men you barely known for a few months."

They say nothing for a good minute, Izumi smiles at Hizashi and hugs him feeling a little better.

"I would never hate you two for what happened, I am more grateful you adopted me even it was a little forced. Let's go eat our breakfast before the grumpy caterpillar wakes up and yell at us."

"Let's eat, let's eat!" He laughs.

Ten minutes later Izumi reprimands his father and his eating tendencies, waking the grumpy caterpillar who summoning a dark aura around him with the level of a Dark Lord. Feeling that her other dad have wake up, she quickly gives him his morning coffee cup, dark and strong (as his soul). After he drunk his coffee he finally asks what issue early in the morning to hear Izumi shouting.

"First I didn't shout, second it's 9.30 so it's not early and finally Zashi doesn't listen to his doctor like you! Every time he eats eggs in every meal when he has already too much cholesterol in his body. If he does a physical activity daily I would say nothing but if he can't take some days off and take care more himself I think I will do something." She frowns at the cockatoo trying to eat his fried eggs in shame and to not look at her.

Aizawa rubs his eyes, he really doesn't want to deal with this shit in the morning when he could sleep. But alas the joy to have a loud husband and a daughter too much independable and intelligent ruin all his plan.

"Anyways tomorrow when I come back it would be a diet without eggs for a month because someone can't follow the instruction of his doctor." She grabs a toast ignoring the pleads of her blond father and the stare of her grumpy father who doesn't care a shit about it. "Luna and Michiya are in my chamber, they sleep with me. Dad takes a shower after eating and shaves that five-day beard."

The grumpy dad glare at his adopted daughter then observes she is too well dressed to go outside, his father senses were in alert (which he completely denied to have them).

"And where are you going?"

"Going kidnap the Ice Prince from the Flaming Trash Bag, go in date with him for the day and sleep with my demanding 'Brothers' and see my baby girl." She says proudly before closing the door. He nods accepting to date her friend and goes see her 'family'.

"Wait..."

" DATE!" He shouts loud enough for Izumi to hear. She giggles thinking at the face her dads have made.

Izumi doesn't take a big time to arrive at the Todoroki's Residence, a big traditional Japanese house perfect for a big family.

It's more an empty house deserted by almost all the family m with eldest presumed dead doing villain activities somewhere, the middles passed more their time out for their study and future job and the youngest supporting the 'training' of his 'hero' father. Plus the mother is in a psychiatric hospital after years of abuse and having grievously hurt her youngest child. In simple words, a broken family.

She didn't knock at the big door of the residence, she enters directly crossing the Japanese garden with exciting steps then knocked on the door of the house. A woman with white hair with some trace of crimson opens the door and beamed seeing Izumi.

"Izumi-chan! Good to see you! What are you doing here?"

"Well, I come to pick Strawberry Shouto to pass a wonderful day with me."

Fuyumi smile halted and her face began disturbed doesn't know which information to process, the fact she calls her brother Strawberry Shouto or to take him away today, two days before U.A Hero Exam.

"Shouto is... Or more father wants..." She tried to say but Izumi cuts her.

"It's ok. I just need to kidnap him under his nose then." She winks at her. "I don't need a guide, I know where to go!"

Izumi leaves a fluttered Fuyumi and goes fetch the Ice Prince, arriving in front of Shouto's room a silhouette appears behind her. She knows who is behind her, she raises her head to see behind to face Todoroki Enji pissed. His big posture screaming dominance and power, his blazing blue eyes with fury and his bear in fire could make anyone cringe in fear at the n°2 Hero Endeavour but for Izumi, she only giggles under his glares not impress or scared about the Hero.

"What can I do for you Endeavor?" She asks with a grin, he glares at her as it would make it her disappear immediately.

"It should be me to ask Izumi Midoriya. What are you doing in my house?"

Izumi snorts hearing calling this building a house, her impression as well of the other members of the Todoroki family that it looks more like a prison. She discovers everything he did to his family, to other heroes or people too curious about his life. She was disgusted about him, she can understand how he became a hero how politically and financially the Todoroki House is powerful (as he was not caught to have a Quirk Marriage illegal since five years after its appearance twenty years ago) but she wonders why he wanted to be a hero. Fame? No need the Todoroki is famous for generations to generate genius or important people. Money? They are rich. To save people? She hardly thinks it is the reason how he treats people during his patrols. So why he choose to be a Hero?

"I come to pick your son to pass a day with me, with a friend as any adolescents do."

He scowls. " He won't leave the house, he needs to train to be stronger when he will enter U.A and surpass All Might."

"Oh, so you want to abuse him?" She says with a sweet voice.

"I don't-" She cut him, and eye him like prey.

"So you want to abuse him?" She repeats with her sweet voice but hissing the word abuse with depth meaning.

Enji Todoroki halts all moves and thought at the moment to those eyes who were watching at him. Those eyes he will never forget, those eyes remind him the day he was beaten by a 12 years old girl, the day he was on his knees after fighting a vigilant-soon-to-be-hero in 10 minutes, the day he understood there not only Heroes, Villains or Civillains in this world but also Beasts that can destroy and kill everything at ease. He knows he can't do anything that would suggest a fight between the two of them, moreover, she has information that can't lead him out of his Hero path. He knows when a battle is lost when he sees one.

"I want out of my house." She smiles constantly at him.

"Then I take Shouto with me." She says leaving the Hero alone.

Izumi didn't take long to pick the young Todoroki, nearly surprised to see her if his face was not too emotionless. Izumi has planned to go to the zoo until the end of the afternoon then go to do some shopping and finally see her 'family'. She invites some at the moment to go with them and to present him to Shouto as future students in U.A, like they wouldn't be alone and be friends.

They bound rapidly talking about the subject who is about our little girl: Izumi.

Shinsou talked about how he met her that day and how she trained him, explaining she was a sadistic spartan trainer but also a sweet and gentle girl always worry about your health or listen to your problems when you feel down. Or how sassy she is, criticizing anyone Heroes, Villains or Politicians alike.

Shouto was agreed with him (minus the fact she was a sadistic spartan trainer) and explained how strong she is when he talks she kicks the ass of his father quickly. He talked also how she saved him from depression because the life with the n°2 Hero is not easy.

Hitoshi didn't ask why he didn't like to live with his father because he has the feeling of touchy subjects as Izumi had explained to him, same for Shouto who didn't ask why he was bullied.

Izumi was pleased, seeing them talking even if she is the principal subject of their conversation, they can finally meet and have friends other than her. She couldn't help but tease Shinsou about his reaction when he meets her dads. Shouto (knowing who are her adoptive dads) was sightly amused hearing that he was a fan of Eraserhead identifying how much they are alike each other. Izumi nods agree with him.

"Lazy, sarcastic, love cats big or small, can't take care of themselves alone and criticize anyone they label as stupid. Yep, they are alike, I could say Shinsou is a small copy of my dad but with purple hair."

"Can you stop you two? I didn't say that Todoroki is like his father. Besides his father is an asshole." Izumi smirks.

"Oh no~ Shouto is too innocent to be like his father." Hitoshi snorts while Shouto looks confused, "Yep and also too dense." Thought Izumi.

"And I agree with Shou-chan, Endeavor is a Fire-Asshole-Trash-Bag or simply a F.A.T.B."

The two boys look at her like she has grown a second head then burst in laughter and continue to talk together. They passed an agreeable day together at the zoo. In the morning they visited the minus animals at the aquarium, taking lots of pictures. Izumi also took selfies with the boys or with animals like those she sent to her fathers. One was when she was at the cockatoos writing that she was with her dad's brothers and sisters and then at mealtime where she was eating hamburger & fries with Shouto and Hitoshi with a big smile.

What they do not know (maybe Izumi knows) is that two men, two fathers, were raging for different reasons. One of them was planning two deaths, taking into account that he had not warned (threatened) them to not to be too close to his daughter. The second was pouting about his daughter teasing him and that she send this selfie to Tensei, Nemuri and the rest of the staff that commented and teased him too.

They can't complain that their daughter doesn't think about them, the two men who didn't want to adopt her in the first place are now so much in the parent mood that sometimes is little too much. Aizawa is not prepared for a marriage or boyfriend(s)/girlfriend(s), nope no one will take his precious daughter, NO ONE.

After eating they went to the aquarium and saw the dolphins and sea lions show. Then they bought souvenirs, selfies and fun were waiting for you. Hitoshi has brought three souvenirs relating to felines, not only him because Shouto has brought a lion, a dolphin and polar bear plushies while Izumi the fifteen years old girl with so much money has brought four onesies ( a cockatoo and a black jaguar for her dads, a white tiger for her and a panda for her 'little sister'), plushies a lot of plushies that she asked to be delivered to U.A and other things.

It was hard for them to leave the zoo especially for Shinsou wanted to adopt every feline in the zoo. Izumi has to drag him out of the feline zone along with Shouto, she can't help but imagine if her dads were here, one for sure would have stayed with him here with his yellow sleep bag. She wonders if she should laugh or sight about this.

Later, at the end of the afternoon, the three teens separated and go to their house minus Izumi who goes stray to a grocery store and buy enough to feed an army. she takes a train to go toward the Kokkyou District, the zone between the new Mustafa city and the ancient Mustafa nearly abandoned. Instinctively she walks toward an old and big Japanese house, she was about to open the door of the entry gate when two-man stopped her.

"Wait! What are you doing here missy? Do you know who lives here and who we are?" Say M-1 hauntingly, trying to be scary.

"And where do you think to go with those huge grocery bags?" Snort M-2.

Izumi raises a brow and opens the gate and enter. She inhales the shouts from the courtyard ignoring royally about the men/guards.

"KAI, HARI, GUYS! I AM BACK! GET YOUR ASSES FROM YOUR CHAIR AND COME HELP ME!"

"Wait! What you-!" Yell M-2.

The door of the house open brutally and two members of the Eight Expendables, the elite of the Shie Hassaikai appear and walk toward Izumi and the men. One of the guard walk

"Sirs this woman just enters and disrespects you and the Oyabun. You don't need to take care of it, we can do it and teach her a lesson."

The two Expendables didn't speak. Izumi doesn't say anything and give her bags to the two elites and walks to enter the house follow by them closely. Arrived at the door she turns toward them with an empty look enough to freeze you to the living hell.

"Newbies you guard the gate now? Well, I come every month, so you should be used to see me and shut your dammit months. If I hear you will I teach anyone with your lecherous month, I castrate you and make you eat your own dick."

The two guards were scared, they thought she a nobody, a simple servant that they can use to pass the time but they hit at something they shouldn't mess. She was soo important that two Expendables have become her handymen and she has menaced them to cut their dick and make eat them if they touch anyone for pass time. They have fucked a big-time here.

Izumi enters without letting them apologize, one of the Expendables the slimmer one who helps her follow her without care of the men leaving the biggest one to deal with them.

"I hope for you that Overhaul or Chronostasis will never hear you insult the One-san. She is their sister in everything but blood and one the strongest here, strongest to all of us the Expendables all together. I doubt you could able to do anything before she kills you with the most painful way." He states with his raspy voice making them shiver hearing that she is the sister of their boss and his righthand-man.

Their boss is merciful and kills anyone who he is displeased so an angry boss should be worse. Moreover, she was strong like him and the Expendables were listening to any orders she says and will gladly do it, they were not idiots at this point to not understand that they like her.

In the same time, Izumi with the Expendable Shin Nemoto she puts the grocery bags at the kitchen then sighs. Shin perk up hearing her sigh how it's so unusual.

"Is there anything that is bothering you, One-san?" He asks, defiant the hierarchy. Their One-san has the same authority that their Boss, their Oyabun and his righthand-man, all the Expendables recognize it. Strong as their Boss, a genius in many fields she as a woman couldn't have survived in the yakuza world without being a prodigy in her generation.

Women have a lower position in the hierarchy, the daughters or wives are treated as mere servants if the clan treat women sufficient or in the worse case they are used as prostitutes for the clan. The highest position they can have it's to be in charge of the finance or to be the wife of the Oyabun if they can prove their value as their Izumi. She held the title of One-san, a title only the wife of the Oyabun can hold but she is not the wife of their boss but his sister and NO ONE TOUCH HER.

No, because she is the sister of their boss but because she is loved by all the upper members of the Shie Hassaikai and possess a huge among of power. She has enough power to destroy the clan if she wants, with her connections and genius mind she created a group that can shake the world. Many important personalities and figures in the world are in part of the group, "Heroes", "Villains", "Vigilants", "Politicians", ''Scientists" and many more. She is a born leader that bring people on her with her personality and intelligence, she knows what to be in pain, to be hungry, things that no children should have experience. She has fought to survive, become stronger, learn to fight, she is a survivor and always be a survivor.

She has proved she can survive in the yakuza world, even Rappa the combat addict respect her, she is 'family' and family help each other.

Izumi sighs knowing she can't lie to him, no with his quirk 'Confession'. She looks at Shin sadly.

"My mood just drops, I nearly wanted to cut their dicks hearing that they wanted to teach me a lesson." She answers drily while putting the groceries in the fridge.

Shin says anything, all the Expendables and their boss knows her past. The previous Oyabun has found her with other kids with a slave trader in an old house who has the mission to train them to be perfect and obedient dolls for his clients.

Cute and powerful children are the tendance for the riches to possess, to show their power and Izumi with her cute figure and her quirk permit to be a high-class product. The slave trader was in their territory and when the previous Oyabun found her she had killed her abductor, she was covered with cuts and blood. Shin has heard she ignore the Oyabun and freed the other children when she was bleeding and healing ignoring the pain, the Oyabun was so angry that the man was doing here that he burned the habitation with his corps. The type of people like them that no one like, "rapist", thought Shin with disgust. Rapidly the previous Oyabun had adopted Izumi and the other children and she has bound with his other wards their Boss Chisaki Kai and his righthand man Chronostasis/Kurono Hari.

The kitchen door opens and reveals Rappa with the other bags, he puts them on the table and sits at a chair.

"Sorry for the wait, I warned the idiots outside. They will not bother you again Izu." Izumi hums and prepares tea.

"They are new."

"Just replacement place by Mimic, the last two are injured by a quirk and they need to heal."

"Weird, I thought that the other will hear me. No ones are here even Eri."

"A gang had tried to attack us during a father-daughter trip, they were rats between us that sell information to others gang. We found them and the Boss is dealing with them right now." Inform Shin putting the cups on the table.

Izumi jerks her head toward them frowning. "Eri and Kai are injured?"

"No, the little princess or the boss were not injured just the little princess was in chocked and the boss is pissed."

"Good, better they pay for what they tried to do. I'm sure their target was Eri."

The door opens and all the Expendables, Chronostasis and Chisaki Kai holding a little girl with white hair and red eyes enter clearly pissed and upset. The little girl immediately noticed the greenette and left her father and run toward her.

"Izumi!"

"Eri! How is my big girl?" She asks kissing her forehead.

"I was a good girl, dad takes to a park and I play with other kids!"

"Really? did you have your check-up?" Eri nods too happy to her older sister and mother figure. Suddenly two strong pair of arms hug Izumi. She raises her head and sees two moppings and tired men demanding attention. And the two men are Chisaki Kai and Kurono Hari.

"Too clingy both of you. Put away your mask all of you, seriously we not doing a carnival here."

Everybody put away their mask even the two clingy guys (minus Chisaki who wears a black surgical mask) don't want to be apart from her, the others did nothing, use to this scene.

"So mean! You can have nee-chan for yourself dad, Hari!" Shout Eri puffing her checks.

"See! Eri finds you...! Wait! What?!" She sighs. "Your love will kill me one day." She says as she kisses their check, the two men smile while Eri giggles. She claps her hands to gain the attention of everyone.

"I want two gentlemen who set the table, two to take a laptop and prepare the video projector, me and Eri will prepare the meal. I'm sure Shin and Rappa will have a talk with Mimic. The rest take a tour in the house, I feel agitation around and inside the residence." She ordered putting an apron, she quickly ignores what they are doing focusing to attach the apron on Eri and to start to cock a feast.

One hour later everyone was at the table with, obviously, Izumi was between Chisaki and Kurono, Eri on the lap of her adoptive father, Mimic (his real body not his puppet body) next to his boss and the rest take their seat as they want. Eri was bouncing on Chisaki's lap smiling proudly as she helped her Izumi to prepare the dinner. Soba noddles, Mapo tofu, Yakisoba, Miso soup, Curry and Rice, Sashimis, Sushis and Sukiyaki were one the table, a little feast when everyone was happy to eat.

"How the business is doing lately Kai?" Ask Izumi taking soba noddles and miso soup for Eri.

"Is doing well, we have one or two problems but nothing grave. The production and the evolution process of the drugs advance with a good pace while our clan growth up having more and more people to use our cause. Why do you ask?"

"Bad news, you gain the attention of the heroes." She answers ignoring that all of them had stopped eating even Eri.

"Meaning?" Ask Mimic feeling they will lose a huge sum of money.

"I mean, while you have expanded your territory and develop too fast and sell the drugs you have caught the attention of the Heroes and the Government. Especially because of the drugs. Your expansion worries the Department of Police while the drugs have attire the Government to finally to have a Heroes Agency to your ass."

Some of the Expendables scowls, only Rappa laughs to finally have some action. Kurono pounders, Mimic can see money flying away and Chisaki stays silence.

"The conquest of more territory is inevitable, we need to regain the ones we lost when the Old Boss was put in coma and gain more to have more money and manpower. Control the gangs in those territories would not be so difficult, with the right motivation they can be tame." Comment Hari after a while, taking Mapo tofu and Yakisoba.

"Quickly it is deal faster our plan will move on, moreover the development of the drugs move steadily as we expect. We will sell more the next week, need to clean more those morons about heroes, quirks and everything." Add Kai contently, totally unaware of the look of Izumi she makes.

She looks at them each turn as she was looking at her future students who didn't listen to a single thing she says. Yeah, her brothers are now labelled as idiots, she asks herself how they did to not be behinds the bars right now. She slaps them behind their head, thinking their idiocy will leave. Eri and the others look at her like she did a sacrilege, they look so terrified that Eri was trembling on the laps of her adopted father.

Chisaki and Kurono glare at her to why she hit them, the Expendables were looking between their Boss and Izumi expecting a fight to broke. Just seeing an argument between them scared them enough to make shiver but a fight, they will want to escape before it starts.

"Why did you hit me?" Say slowly Chisaki, his golden eyes ignite with cold fury.

"To make out your idiocy. Did you listen to what I say?! You need to slow down!"

"Slow down? No. The better is finish, the better will quirks disappear." Retort Chisaki looking at Izumi disappointed like he was betrayed.

"Are you thinking that it is a good strategy? The consequences? You both suck in strategy or what? All the books we read before are forgotten? What you are doing is not a race but a marathon Chisaki. The moment the government is now interested in your drugs, they will not let you alone. When your drugs will be compleat they will take you by force and by all means. I know how strong they are when they want something and your clan is something they can erase from the surface of the world anytime. You need a perfect defence and good financial infrastructures but also an image or reputation that the public knows and that would them to support you."

"Why race is bad? A marathon is very long and tired." Ask innocently Eri. Izumi looks at her and drink her tea then ear a bit of sashimi.

" Did you know the difference between a race and a marathon?"

"A race is a competition to see who is faster and a marathon is a long-distance running race to see who is the most resilient no?"

" Almost. A race is a compete against someone or others to see who is fastest at covering a set course or achieving an objective. When a marathon is like you said is a long running race belong-runningitors to see who will last long, who is more resilient and the more prepared. In our case, the government and our are the competitors."

"Prepared?" Izumi nods.

" For both of them, you need to prepare thoroughly. But a race lasts only a few minutes while a marathon lasts one hour or even hours. So the preparations are not the same for each them, one is for a short term and the other is for the long term. But many do not think about the mental strength deployed during a marathon, a marathon assesses your determination to accomplish the race and see if you resist to the pressure during the competition. A marathon runner always does a mental strategy training program to optimize his performance and decrease the risk of injury during the effort."

The Expendables was listening attentively her reasoning and they starting to understand where she wanted to explain. She explains slowly it to Eri with that she can understand, Chisaki and Kurono stay quiet but pounder on what she says.

"But for us, what it means?"

"Have you ever heard that if you did something too fast you could do it wrong? It the same for us. Many did like your father, running their business while expending it too fast. The government is used of this strategy and even specialized in the dismantling of his kinds of 'business' which grew up too fast but the government is bad against people who use their brain and play security like me."

Rappa laughs getting the attention of everyone. " You want us to do a slow war instead of doing direct confrontations."

"Yes but with 3 steps. First an economic warframe. This will be a calm phase in which the clan must focus on its economic expansion and business in the acquired territories."

Mimic beams hearing the word 'business' because it would mean money. "You suggest to stop our expansion for a while, spend our time to supervise our territories we conquered to maximize our revenue and develop a 'legal' business within them. As our principals businesses are pachinkos, casinos, love hotel and the black market, we can invest in them and even make them flourish on the market by upgrading with the low-cast or high class."

Izumi nods absently and eating her curry. Toya Setsuno having some knowledge on economy when he learned at a university remember something.

"Even with the business we have even it appears "legal, it would lead them to us anyways. Those sectors are well know to be crowded by villains and other of all kinds for information or anything. You talked of security, your security against the government is your cover, your image as the well know vigilant Little Angel now the youngest Pro-Heroe in Japan, like by many. If the government do somethings against you, population will know it rapidly especially with your networks. The government is most afraid that its image of protector will be destroyed, especially at a time when many criticize governments, politicians and other important people."

"Exactly! You need something that the people will protect you, that think you are essential to them Chisaki. Like... Being the youngest searcher to find a cure to incurable diseases. The Ebola virus, AIDS or allergies. Being a doctor now or even before when I was a student you notice that people a lot of time to take care of themselves especially our generations when where there is an increase in crime and the emergence of new diseases. You manage to create a drug that can erase temporary quirks at the genetic level, you can create a cure from this drug for a disease. You just need to erase the fact it create with the aid of Erin's blood, it would take time but I willing to help you."

"You suggest to create a laboratory to cover our business." Answer Kurono, she nods.

"You will be Chisaki's secretary while Shin will be the laboratory lawyer and Mimic on charge of the finances. Plus Chisaki could spend more time with Eri and you will have legal money. Oh and I suggest to buy or build another mansion somewhere else in Japan, Mimic and Katsukame, he has more experience in building and house construction and have connections in this sector."

"It seems good, instead to take the wooden bridge we take the stone bridge a little further to reach our goal... So the second phase and third phase, what are they?" Ask Chisaki serving more vegetables for Eri who pouts and grumbles don't want to eat vegetables.

"The second phase is political and image war. The political war will be hard but with the aid some media especially international ones who love criticize governments and information brokers you have nasty and juicy information against them. After all, 80% of our government is corrupted for decades. Create internal conflict between them will help you, besides I will clean up inside to in one way or another. If their image crumbles, people will less be trusting them and more will rebel against them. Then the last phase, you don't need to guess, it will be a guerrilla warfare. At this time, I hope you should complete your drug because you will need it against their military forces."

Kurono hums and drinks his sake. "Only the first phase will take time, one or two years, the last two will have an indeterminate time depending on the country's situation. The money will not be a problem, I don't see a problem to build another house but it not depends on my decision."

Everyone looks at Chisaki, waiting for an answer. Izumi doesn't care or more she knows he will take her warning and ideas to his heart.

"Why not? Everything seems good, we just need to be wary because it can be double-edged for us if we do a single fault."

The Expendables was sighing with relief, only Rappa grumbles wanted more fight. Izumi eating sushi remembered something.

"Did you hear about with a new group of villains the 'League of Villains'? Well, soon they will make noise, better to use the future commotions to expand your territories and prepare everything."

Hojo pears from his fried tofu at the name of the new group. "I hear about them from some tugs in dark alleys, they recruiting every villain they can."

"I will do a few research about it." Pounder Izumi feeling it would help her in her plans.

"By the way nee-chan why did you ask to prepare your laptop and a projector? " Ask Eri with her mouth full, Chisaki frowns and clean the rice next to her mouth with a towel.

"Ah! Thank to make me remember this. I found maybe the origin of the quirks!" Claim Izumi proudly, and of course she was proud she had searched in every database of every government and in the dark web and all. With the aid of her fellow hackers' friends, it takes four years to found a little piece of this find.

The wide eyes, she found how the quirks appear. It would make an uproar in the world. Izumi opens the laptop and inserts the USB key. She shows them twenty photos, very old, a man, a strange bottle with a strange substance, a strange slug of black sea then strange plan of building a city under the sea.

"So... Where to start? With everything I gather and didn't find everything but the summary. Well, this man during the end of the Second World War who made a fortune selling weapons during the war decided to build a city under the sea for people of genius and misunderstood. It was really a mini country and a few years after they discover a strange slug with mysterious proprieties that can give powers."

"Are you saying quirks come from this black slug !?" Yell Toya with disgust, Chisaki was not better.

"Yes and with few arrangements and experiences but the exploitation of the slugs made them disappear and there is here that it goes crazy. The substances they created have a bad effect on humans, disfigurations and malformations of the body, addiction and creating problems psychology of any kind. Plus you can add that this city, Rapture, was a purely capitalistic society have created a conflict between two megalomaniacs, the one who built the city and one of who want power under a mask of a revolution. I don't really know what he really happens there but I know there was a civil war. After this, I don't what happened, someone from the outside and change a thing but years later girls were kidnapped and were introduced in the city for experiments. For a city, cut off from the world, the nations could have information on it but now they are forgotten and erased little by little. You will have documents more detailed in the key."

" I will see it but let's change of subject. Are you okay to be finally a teacher?" Ask Chisaki knowing it doesn't please her to be with naive teenagers who believe that if they enter U. They will be heroes when they just enter a masked military school. Izumi grimaced just to think in two days it's just the entrance exam, boi just remembering the last generation. A band of rich and arrogant kids, only five between had the makings of a hero, the rest were half capable or normal or half arrogant and idiot with a powerful quirk.

Chisaki and the other can help to chuckle at her reaction, she pouts at them and Eri giggles.

" It's not funny if during the year I don't snape it would a miracle. Moreover, I sure to see Explosion boy, last time I save him it was limit he wanted to 'exploded' me."

"Need to 'take care' of this boy?" Say Deidoro Sakaki with a sing-song voice.

" I can defend myself, Didi." Roll her eyes the greenette.

"True." Snigger Chisaki patting her head, Eri yawn cutely.

"It getting late, time to go to bed."

"Don't wanna." Retort Eri fighting her envy of sleeping. Izumi takes her in her arms.

"Let's go to bed little princess, I will read you a story. These gentlemen will clean the table during this lapse of time."

Taking Eri to her room with Chisaki, this one can't help but observe the young woman in front of his having the maternal role that her daughter was missing. Feeling his stare, she looks at him with a questioning look, she notices at the same time that he changed both mentally and physically a lot these past months.

Mentally, she saw all his phases to reserved and obedient teenager under the Old Boss, to rough and heartless fresh young boss reading to use Eri, Old Boss' grandchild as mere tools to finally as a successful boss and caring father. She clearly likes more the caring father instead of the heartless, it gives more charms to his handsome features.

She smiles ignoring the soft sigh letting by him as he thought as something new. They put Eri to bed and walk toward their room. Bothered by Chisaki's stare, she faces him making a pouting face.

"Why are looking at me in deep thought?"

He tilted his head and smiles under his surgical mask. Izumi doesn't need the be a seer to know when he smiles, each time he smiles at her she can see so many emotions in them. His eyes bright like the same way of her fathers when they are together.

Ah.

The pure emotion she knows but was also foreign. She can love someone but to a certain limit which is for family.

She loves Aizawa and Hizashi, in first she didn't expect to care for them and love them later. It was not in her plans but she can't prevent those emotions to born and then she started to care for more people that she calls family. And Chisaki is part of this family, she can't love him more than a brother. Even she thought he was handsome, caring (only to some people) and loyal, seeing him as a man, she doesn't see the partner who she will (can't) engage with in the future.

She didn't want to lose him (as brother and friend) but also she didn't want him to cross the line.

"Kai, please don't cross that line." She says loudly surprising the young Yakuza Boss. But rapidly his eyes soften resisting to hug or touch her knowing she didn't like it and will surely react badly at his movements.

"Izumi..."

"I know that look but I just notice now that... You love me. Since when you are holding back?!" She asks crossing her arms, almost hugging herself.

She was scared, scared of his answer because depending on what he will say she may consider taking distances between them.

The young man sighs and kneeled in front of her. He tried to have a glimpse of her face, she was scared of course but not from him (that make him somehow happy) but for their relationship. If she tried to stop seeing him for that he thought he will go insane (again) and would pestering her until she faces him.

"It's been six years we know each other since the Old Man take you and the other under his wing. We rapidly become brothers and sisters but for me, it was another case. I fall in love with a stubborn and intelligent little girl with green forest hair and green emerald eyes that shine like a star. I love and I see the strong little girl growing, taking care of others and family and helping random people just because she can do it. But I know you will never consider or want a relationship with any men with those accidents."

Izumi breathes, almost holding back the urge to run away but she wants to hear the rest because she knows that Chisaki Kai doesn't become melodramatic without a huge speech behind.

"I hate quirks, you know it and I don't hate you to have one when it has permitted you to stay alive and allow me to meet you. I consider them as plague and when I propose to erase them you didn't laugh at me but encourage me. You were angry when I was using Erin's blood against her will and mistreated her and make me realise so many things. That I have a family to protect and you are in this family, Izumi. I want you to give me a chance to conquerer you."

Izumi opens and closes her mouth at his demand.

"Did he just ask me if he can courting me?!"

"Yes, I am." Izumi put her hand in front of her mouth surprised or more shocked that she loses her cool and let her poker face slipped and say out loud her thoughts.

Izumi was hesitating to answer at his demand. How could she not?! All the men she encountered have always wanted something and want to abuse her physically and mentally. But Kai's determination shining in his eyes with seriousness obliged her to give a response.

"I... I don't know, Kai. No one asks me that they can court me. Like you said I never think to have a relation with a man or a girl. And I don't want you to have you hope crush when I give you a chance but in the end I couldn't return your feelings."

"So give me a deadline. A deadline to capture your heart."

Izumi can't understand the man in front her, did he really listen her. If she gives him a deadline and doesn't return his love he will be hurt.

"But..."

"If at the end of the deadline you didn't fall in love with me than I will stop loving you."

" But it's the problem! Because in the end you will be hurt! I don't want to hurt you!"

"Izumi, anyone can't expect to continue to live without being hurt. It's the same for love."

Izumi was looking at her feet, a little ashamed but more frustrated because he has said her own words against her. But it eases the turmoil of emotions inside her.

"One year."

"I beg your pardon?"

"You could." She sniggers but returns seriously on what she wants to say. "You ask me for a deadline, I give one year. One year to make me fall in love with you."

Kai beamed at this, very pleased to have this chance. He kneels down in front of her and takes her hand.

"I accept." He says as he kisses the back of her hand.