Thoughts

UA, Class 1-A...

The teachers and Class 1-A were in the room in a somber atmosphere, along with the police. Todoroki who was out visiting his mother that day came to class under 'Emergency Meeting'. The only one who was a no-show, was Bakugo.

Kaminari who woke up, was inconsolable, crying in his seat as his classmates relayed what happened in the mall to them.

'Izuku-san gave me the precise location in Kamino Ward.' said Iida as he stated the address. 'What will happen now?'

'We do what must be done, Iida-kun.' said Nezu. 'Its also a form of mercy for the victims as well. They've suffered enough. We'll check who's who by autopsy study as well but as you know...a funeral is not an option as the bodies are still useful for the League. Kaminari-kun, we'll have to put your cousin down and burn her.'

'U-uhm yeah...do it.' Kaminari choked out, his voice cracking and nose stuffy from crying. 'Misato-nee...she WAS gonna have her actress debut last year...she had it big. And she's got no boyfriend so eloping was a no-go too. What am I gonna say now?'

'We will talk with your family regarding this sensitive matter. We will also approach other families about this as well. Once we determine identities...we will approach families about this matter.'

'Sensei...I made it clear to Izuku-san that the League of Villains does this...I managed to plant a seed of doubt in her mind...she hasn't joined yet when I saw her expression earlier!' Iida reported happily, raising his hand. 'It's still OK!'

'Her actions are based on her partner's so we'll verify that first.' said an officer with a strained smile. 'We're looking for Dabi.'

'Hold up, Iida and everyone knows what's going on...and we don't...what's going on? You guys and this girl.' Ojiro raised his hand. 'We need to know the truth. You had us watch out for her without getting any details so Kaminari asked her out on a date to stall for time...'

'...'

The kids were nervous about the silence.

'Very well...we'll tell you. We'll have the officers elaborate the nitty-gritty details and hopefully, you learn something. A valuable lesson regarding how you treat people and how there ARE consequences.' Nezu told them about their...VIP Target. From the start of her history, to present date. But the officer omitted Bakugo's part in it. He was just referred to as 'this person' and if ever, they were just told his family was 'close to the Midoriyas' and dealing with it his own way, along with Counseling Sessions.

The class had no idea how and what to feel about their target's entire history.

Iida knew he had some gists of it and he knew Bakugo had a big hand in it but...for the whole picture to be aired out, stuff he didn't know about...he was horrified. And all her revenge crimes, and crimes done with her partner aired out since embracing Stain's ideals were told to them, but she also does Vigilantism on the side. Even breaks apart bullying among younger kids as seen in captured CCTV Footages as she sees herself on the bullied children. She would help Heroes who are truly good Heroes but to those Stain would deem garbage...they're all killed by her. Stain was an unforgiving perfectionist driven by disgust and emotion but she wasn't, as she was far more rational than he was.

Due to this, there was still hope in rehabilitating her and swaying her to the good side in spite of her crimes after the law deals with her and chances of her being a Hero are high despite everything. Aizawa and Midnight fought her once in a bid to capture her but while she can easily kill them with an item, she did not and merely bought herself time to flee as they were 'on the good list'. She healed Ingenium, Native and Iida, and a few Heroes maimed by Stain and the Nomu in Hosu but others, she left to their career-ending misery in hospitals or left them for dead as soon as she saw them even though she could give them miracle healing.

'So the murders you hear of on TV during dinner...those were all her from footages we got.' said Aizawa after the officer finished talking. 'And she's capable of mutilating people as her actions are fed by her hatred towards society.'

His students were all chalk-white.

'For now, until we see Dabi dealing with a known League Member, it's safe to say she's not an official member yet. Iida planting a seed of doubt is good as well. Because she WILL leave the League if they were dumb enough to make her a Nomu. She's a valuable asset, her own Support Company by her Quirk alone I don't think they'll be THAT dumb...and all of you, we will also be warning Class B when they're done shopping, re-evaluate your character and personality and why you want to be a Hero. Iida and Kaminari passed her test so they got her help, only this time, her help helped all of us too. On the other hand, some of you will be killed. So change while you still can before she meets you.' he said. 'The sophomores and seniors are well-grilled, some dumbasses justifiably expelled, we have no worries about them unlike you.'

And Aizawa pointedly looked at Mineta who gulped and began sweating buckets in fear.

'We will now launch a massive attack on Kamino once we get a strategy running after recruiting our strongest, and deal the League a fatal blow.' said All-Might. 'The trip to camp will continue as scheduled so they're none the wiser. I know you kids haven't done shopping yet, but for now, do so because you'll need it soon. More importantly, do NOT shop alone. Boys group together, girls group together. Dismissed.'

The class left, despondent while Yaoyorozu gave Kaminari a cream for his puffy eyes.

'Then there's this issue about Dabi...' said Ectoplasm. 'A fire quirk yet he's cooking himself each use. Low flame tolerance or a weak body unable to handle blue flames or he was born with it but no physiological adaptation and resilience to his own powers.'

'Which means he became a very cunning reserved fighter. He can't last long in a battle of attrition.' said Tsukauchi. 'Bag him, we get Izuku-chan away from his influence. But she seems to care for him based on what the kids got. We need to know the full scope of their relationship, if ever. They live in an apartment so we better ask landlords around.'

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At home...

Dabi returned with his badge and he was in pain. He stripped to his boxers and went straight to bed. His special bed made to soothe his body as it was very cool. He lied down while Izuku handled his treatments with her potions and she has been creating better quality each time to help him faster, cracking anatomy books and studying all forms of burn injuries and how to heal him.

His cool bed brings temporary relief, he wants full relief. His body has to heal first before he gets doses of drugs that improve his body's resilience levels. That, and tasty food helps bring up his mood. Because of Izuku's food, real-life cuisine is now bland in comparison his mood tends to plummet even if by normal standards, Kurogiri's cooking is good. But ingredients? Bland. Ick. He got so used to Fantasy Food darn it. He sometimes thought, 'Darn Human Imagination!' for coming up with stuff his partner can bring to life.

'Hey Dabi, how are things?' Izuku asked after he downed the last of his potions.

'We've got some people over, get-to-knows, while dealing with a bunch of crazies...oh yeah, and housing them too. I'm just glad we got our own place.' said Dabi. 'Like hell I wanna share houseroom.' he scoffed. 'We got a guy who can trap anyone and anything in a marble, a crazy who can clone himself, a serial killer called Muscular, some dude with Magnet who insists he's a she, a lizard Stain-wannabe and a junior high schooler who makes toxic gas. We're seeing what they can do for now. The strong fighters are two of us, dracula-girl, Muscular, and Magne in regards to fighting. The others are trick and trap types. Of course, they don't know you yet. They don't know you're a secret member through me.'

'Mm. But Dabi, I found something disturbing as well...never go with the League Leaders anywhere alone.' Izuku made him promise.

'How come?'

'Remember the monsters on TV? They were once human.' said Izuku. 'Someone in the League behind Shigaraki can do that to anyone. Be careful.'

Dabi narrowed his eyes as Izuku took out her crystal laptop and showed him the Nomu Factory in Kamino. Dabi took a long look at the monsters in tanks like some shitty sci-fi film...he grimaced.

'Tch...our goals coincide but prone to being stabbed, is that it? This is basically a black joke becoming reality on us.'

'Pretty much. Until we find out who can do this to us, we can't be alone with them and I won't officially join just yet. We need to know who can turn us into monsters, and if there's anyone among them who can steal and seal Quirks. Always keep my badges on you too so you can easily run.'

'Yes yes...food ready? Food at base sucks ass.'

xxx

Later that day, none of them counted on Toga paying a visit.

'Izu-chaaan I need new clothes but I got no money!' she complained. 'And no, I don't wanna do Enjo Kosai either! I can't wash my uniform without a spare and I'm starting to stink!'

Stink of blood, that is!

'Ahahaha...' the team sweatdropped.

'Yeah yeah, go take a shower while I take your uniform measurements.' said Izuku with a sigh as Toga squealed and dashed for the bathroom, stripping in her wake, leaving Izuku to pick up the clothing articles left behind.

'...you girls are damn carefree around me.' said Dabi wryly as the girls have no qualms being semi-nude around him.

'Because you're not a pervert.' said Izuku with a wink. 'You're that easily trustworthy. Most guys would take advantage and eye us like meat and you've never done that.'

'I got standards.' Dabi snarked with an eyeroll before turning on the telly. 'Not that any girl would look at me anyway. I'm a walking halloween costume by myself that girls run screaming and it killed my libido anyway.'

Izuku cringed at how he can say that when if he was fixed, Dabi was actually handsome. She carefully picked up Toga's uniform that smells of B.O plus blood that the smell made her cringe again. Poor girl only had clothes on her back and what little money her victims had as she lived in the streets and who knows where she sleeps at night.

She imagines fictional clothing material and fashions it as new styles of sailor uniforms for all seasons with hidden pockets for knives, spare shoes, types of socks and materialized a backpack bag to hold it all together. She then chucked Toga's smelly outfit to the washing machine and made sure to put in Antibac Fabric Conditioners, and dunked her shoes in a bucket of a chemical she made just to clean and make the shoes smell fresh again.

'Yeesh, how long did she NOT take a shower? And doesn't the League Base HAVE a shower?!' Izuku gasped out as she sat beside Dabi, gasping as if she just got fresh air.

'There ARE showers in there, but it's a dump, but still functional. Not clean like ours.' Dabi scowled. 'She doesn't take showers because what's the point indeed?'

'Yeah, I get'cha but her victims surely have money on them...'

'Yeah but not enough to buy herself a new shirt. The money she does get, she spends on McDonalds or something or bums food off Kurogiri.' said Dabi. 'Being a Villain means you're in the poorhouse unless they got Quirks like yours or jobs like we do. Come to think of it, you never did tell me why and how about crazy.'

'Well, I'm doing research on that...I recently got the full picture too.' Izuku gave Dabi her crystal laptop after opening a researched article.

Dabi took a read on the intel regarding Toga Himiko.

Toga Himiko is the eldest daughter of the Toga family. When she was a child, she showcased a rather disturbing interest in blood when she awakened to her Quirk at four.

Her parents were disgusted with her behavior and tried to suppress it from a young age. They put immense pressure on her to be 'normal', which she took to heart since it was what good kids do, obey their parents and with good measure, she was chucked to a Quirk Counseling Course that was basically 'do this and that but if you don't, everyone will hate you' form of psychological and emotional manipulation and abuse. Therefore, she began repressing her 'abnormal' tendencies just so she won't be shoved back there again, effectively traumatized by the nasty way of 'counseling'. She successfully hid this side of herself so thoroughly that by the time she was middle school student, Toga was known by her classmates as a 'cheerful and well-behaved girl', becoming a normal student with many friends.

However, this all changed when she graduated. She first felt 'love' for a one of her classmates, a boy named Saito, who she later attacked using a box cutter, sticking a straw into his wound and sucking his blood. All the while, she showed a face of ecstasy, greatly horrifying her classmates and teachers. Soon after, she disappeared and went on the run from both the police and Pro Heroes. Toga successfully evaded them for a long time. However, she still became a suspect in a series of bloodletting murders.

Toga disappeared because she knew that upon tasting 'freedom', everyone would be after her and lock her up for good when all she wanted was 'to be normal'. HER kind of normal as her mind was wired to her Quirk. She felt she had been living a lie all her life to please everybody, bottling everything up until one day, she basically reached the pinnacle of her thirst and desire to be herself. She felt that by living a lie, her parents showed her forced love. As long as she behaves, they be good to her. But they know her true nature so their 'so-called love' isn't sincere anymore. Even her siblings are wary of her. She too, was a rare Mutate as her Quirk wasn't like that of her family's.

She sought love while fearing her school friends would see her as a monster.

But the love she wanted, was the kind that would never leave out of trauma she suppresses by instinct to stay sane because her family no longer loved her. For her, it was only natural to want to be like the one you love, to the point of literally becoming that person. She compares that like how 'normal' people kisses the people they love as 'normal', she sucks the blood of the people she loves as this is her 'normal', further showing her twisted understanding of Love, Which thus then justifies her carving up and butchering 'guys who are tattered and reeking of blood',as they fit the description of her ideal lover. Toga's interest isn't just superficial, that although twisted she does indeed want to know more about the person she 'loves'.

Outside of that tidbit, she's actually a kind, cheerful, friendly person whose sole misfortune was her Quirk and the mentality she gained, making her a tragic figure, and knowingly became a Villain, joining the League in hopes of a life where she can freely be herself. Where she can freely love those who she loves...by sucking their blood and becoming the person she loves, as her way of having them in her arms or herself in their arms or be loved for who and what she was. But because of how her life had been, she developed her brand of normal based on how she sees 'love' to stay sane and happy. She falls in love easily with people covered in blood because her Quirk makes her love blood as blood ties her and her 'lovers' together. While she can befriend anyone, her taste in lovers is...eccentric.

'Well ain't this a kick in the balls.' Dabi was utterly disgusted at Toga's background, that she came out absolutely damaged for what was not her fault as society's 'holy standards' hurt her because as the world runs on a black and white plane, her nature and quirk was quickly deemed Villainous and Digusting(which it was) thus utterly failing to see a damaged and hurt girl who was a victim of standards.

'Isn't it? Just to be safe, don't appear bloody to her OK? Or she'll fall in love with you.'

xxx

Meanwhile...

The gloomy students of 1-A indeed, did their shopping but met up later.

'You know...how can we make that girl a Hero and leave the League?' Mineta wondered aloud. 'She's gone Stain 2.0 didn't she?'

'Well...she's 50-50.' Iida sighed. 'Kills Heroes Stain would deem trash and spares what she deems worth keeping around if only to better humanity. Heroes only for money and fame will die.'

Todoroki mutinously thought his father should be in the list, but he may be beyond her ability in battle which is why he's still alive.

'How do we approach her?' he asked Iida.

'She'll help anyone with good wishes and goals as she had done for Kaminari-kun but she will kill Heroes with selfish and greedy goals.' said Iida. 'At least that's one good thing. Should she be a League member, at least she won't kill us if only for Aizawa-sensei and Kayama-sensei.' he said.

xxx

Meanwhile...

When Dabi and Toga are gone...Izuku searched for All-Might with her computer.

'...he's at the police station.' she mused as she saw him around many police officers, government officials and notable heroes ala War Conference. And they would strike tomorrow.

They'll be attacking the Nomu Factory soon.

Well, not her problem anymore unless noteworthy heroes are on the deathbed. She created a crate's worth of 1-liter Energy Potions to drop onto Delivery Girl and twenty Teleportums. That's all they'll get from her for now. Then a final bottle for All-Might alone, containing a gold liquid.

xxx

'...after you drink in your true form, have Recovery Girl kiss you.' All-Might read. 'Makes me wonder what'll this do this time...'

'She knows you'll wage war with that Nomu Factory.' said Recovery Girl. 'These items just appeared in my office, brought in by glass birds. She's helping you more than other Heroes. Makes me wonder what that gold liquid will do indeed, so let's try it!' All-Might shrunk down to his skinny self, and began drinking. Once it's all gone, he felt a massive energy boost unlike what he got before. He could almost compare it to a full-powered OFA!

When Recovery Girl kissed him...he was slowly filling out...into a healthier, but lean and slender body he had since High School.

Due to OFA, he didn't see the point of buffing himself up because, why bother?!

He is also a man in his late fifties at that, yet he didn't appear his age at all. Rather, he's so healthy and youthful he has no sign of age whatsoever, Recovery Girl quickly had tests done.

'...it must be a super-health potion...despite how you look, you're still biologically 57 years old, Toshinori.' she said when she got results late at night. 'You're at your most healthy with no sign of health degeneration whatsoever.'

'O-oh my...I thought she deaged me...I was just super-healthy all along...' All-Might chuckled nervously. 'That's good...in my years of pain, I learned never to take anything for granted anymore. I took what I could get with my whole thankfulness...' he said with a somber smile. 'At least, I have more time since I couldn't pick a successor yet. I wish I could finally have one so incase anything happens to me...I and OFA can rest easy, knowing this power is in good hands after my turn. A successor is all I need and I can finally rest.'

'Well, it's tough to find the right person to be one's heir.' said Recovery Girl. 'Take your time. Do not rush lest you end up with an evil heir.'

Back at home, Izuku who watched all that wondered what the heck was that all about.

'Successor? Power in good hands?' she muttered, utterly puzzled. 'What're they saying?'