Sachi's log, entry 5: What. The. Hell?! I come out of hiding for ONE day to get groceries and these bozos show up outta nowhere, coming for my head. Next thing you know I get punched through a wall into the storage room and find a secret stash of toilet paper.
While it seemed this was the end of me, turns out toilet paper is the new gold now, because every single person within like a 3 miles radius flocked to the supermarket and trampled my pursuers to death, besides Peter of course. Damn I loved the marshmallow squares he makes, kinda wish he gave me the recipes.
For the time being however, I'm have locked myself in the supermarket's broom closet, waiting for the rabid mob to clear out the last roll. Of course, I took a handful of rolls too, I mean, if they are really this precious, might as well make a few quick bucks while I have a chance.
*Sound of door caving in*
Oh god, they found me. OH DEAR GO-
Three months, that is how long Izuku has lead his double life as a villain for. After narrowly dodging certain death countless times, befriending dozens of allies and backstabbing only one non-trustworthy member, that being a murderer known as Muscular, the young boy had finally started to make progress in his quest to tear apart the hero society and get revenge on All Might.
And of all times, only now does he get sick.
"41.6?" Asked Inko, staring at the thermometer, "Your fever's only been getting worse Izuku!"
"I-I'm fine mom, really..." Izuku replied weakly, trying to get out of bed.
"Sorry dear, but you're not getting out of bed until this fever of yours goes down!" Exclaimed Inko, "Now stay put while I make you some rice porridge."
As she leaves the room however, Izuku punches his bed in anger.
"Damn it..." Izuku thought, his face, puffing red and sweaty, "Of all times to get sick and it had to be the day I get my first big mission in the League."
Struggling to get up, he hears a jingle next to him, his phone was getting flooded with notifications.
"Probably the guys, must... get... going..." Izuku thought, weakly extending his hand to reach the phone, "I'll reply to them and move out..."
However, merely lifting his head required him to use every ounce of strength he had to accomplish. As he picked up the phone, it felt like a brick of pure lead. His vision getting fuzzy, he hazily opened his Line app (Japan's messenger app), attempting to reply to the flood of texts from his friends and partners, telling him he was running late. Sadly, it was all in vain, as his phone fell next to his semi-conscious body, as he passed out.
After what felt like hours, Izuku woke up to distant voices, familiar ones that he couldn't make out. However, as his eyes adjusted, his eyes averted to two blond buns of what he deduced as hair, before realizing that his pillow felt a lot softer than before.
"Wakey wakey, sleepyhead." Said a familiar voice.
"T-T-Toga!?" Izuku exclaimed, realizing that he was lying on her lap, "what are you doing here!?"
"We came to check on you silly!" Toga laughed, booping Izuku's nose.
"We?"
Turning around, he saw the entire league of villains, barring Shigaraki, chilling in his room.
"I helped myself with your mom's rice porridge, sorry." Said Sachi, still with his mouth full, "It was really good if it makes you feel any better."
"37.9" Said Dabi, "Getting better."
"Congratulation little boss! You're terminally ill!" Exclaimed Twice.
"Wait, how did my mom let you guys in?!" Asked Izuku.
"Your mom's still home?" Asked Spinner, playing on Izuku's N*ntendo Switch.
"You didn't check!?" Everyone exclaimed, "You had one job!"
"Izuku? is everything alright?" Inko's voice came from outside his room.
"Shit! hide everyone!" Yelled Irina, as everyone scrambled into the closet as soon as the door opened.
As Inko entered, she saw Izuku, still on his bed, though a little flustered.
"I heard something coming from your room, is everything fine?" Asked Inko.
"Yeah." Replied Izuku, "Say, can you maybe make some Katsudon for dinner?"
"Sorry dear, but we're out of noodles." Replied Inko.
"Can you maybe go buy some?" Asked Izuku, putting up his best begging face, "Please?"
Inko's face suddenly became 10X more detailed, as she suddenly grew 10 feet tall with defined muscles.
"Right away!" She said in a deep pitch voice, fully motivated as she dashed out to the supermarket.
As that happened, the closet door caved in, as everyone in the league came barreling out of the closet.
"Okay, we had 2 quirk users who could have shrunken us down to take up less space!" Yelled Dabi, "So why did I have to spend 2 minutes with Twice's ass pressed on me!?"
"I think I broke something..." Groaned Spinner.
"Knowing Sachi, there's gonna be a coming out the closet joke in 3...2...1..." Said Irina.
"So this is what being gay feels like." Joked Sachi.
"Anticipation dampens the pain, but not enough..." She replied, collapsing.
Why this was happening, a portal suddenly appeared near the door, as Kurogiri came out with a pink apron, towel and tub of warm water. Everyone turned around, looking at him with deadpan eyes.
"Am I late?" He asked.
A few moments later, the league started making themselves at home in Izuku's bedroom. While Kurogiri wiped Izuku's back with a wet towel, with Toga watching, drooling, the sick boy talked to Dabi and Sachi about the mission.
"So, how did the mission go?" Asked Izuku.
"Oh, it went great!" Irina started, "Naturally, I did most of the hard work, while everyone admired my greatness."
"Translation, she stepped in dog turd, then spent half the mission looking for a stick to pick the crap off, then was hit in the head by a flying tire and knocked out of the rest of the mission." Sachi cut in.
"Hey! I helped you know! Who was it that shrunk the group so that they could fit through that gap and escape?!" Irina retorted, "And besides, all you did was try to sneak past the guards with a trench coat and get dogpiled!"
"Are we sure you guys didn't fail and the police are outside our door?" Asked Izuku.
"Let's just say it could have went a lot better." The two said in unison, lowering their heads in shame.
"Jeez, you guys are hopeless without me." Replied Izuku, "What was the objective of the mission anyways?"
"We were supposed to collect data on recent villains from the police headquarters." Explained Dabi, "We had a strategy meeting before the heist, and of course, you, the only one in our group that had authority to disagree with that hand fetishist's dumb ass plans, didn't show up!"
"I take it his plans weren't that good." Guessed Izuku.
"Well, I'm pretty sure every plan is a massive red flag when it is written in crayon." Said Dabi, "And step 4 was just a drawing of him stabbing All Might with what looked like a dildo."
"Scissors, they were scissors." Explained Kurogiri, as he set Izuku down on his bed, placing a towel over his head, "Now, you get some rest while I remake another rice porridge."
"Oh! Can you also make some pizza?" Asked Spinner, who just finished beating the last game Izuku owned.
"How the hell did he beat Rainbow Devil first try!?" Izuku commented in the background, looking at Spinner beating all the hard levels he couldn't complete.
"Oh, and fix me some sushi!" Said Twice, "I hate sushi!"
"And some beer, if there is some." Said Dabi.
"Guys! Do I look like a Butler!?" Kurogiri exclaimed.
"Well, if you added a bow tie..." Commented Irina.
"Forget it..." Kurogiri sighed, continuing his journey to the kitchen.
As this happened, Toga sat by Izuku bed, leaning on him slowly.
"So, Izuku, how's it been?" Asked Toga.
Izuku turned to Toga in shock.
"Wow, you of all people to ask me that."
"Excuse me?" Toga asked.
"Sorry, it's just that, we didn't really start off on a strong note." Izuku laughed, "You know, you kidnapped me, cut me, then tried to drink my blood. I know you're my friend, but the way you approached me never really screamed "I care for you as a person"."
"And somehow you assumed I didn't care for your well being after I caught you when you nearly fell off a building?" Asked Toga.
"Well, I dunno, maybe I'm just too used to the old you." Replied Izuku.
"I changed, Izuku. Sure, maybe not too much, but enough that I genuinely care for you when it really counts." Said Toga, "You may not believe it, but it was me who suggested everyone that we should check on you when you didn't show up for the mission."
"You did?" Asked Izuku.
"Yeah, and once we found out you were sick, I took the initiative of changing your clothes and bed-sheets." Toga continued, "Well, I had an ulterior motive THAT time, but you get the idea."
Izuku looked in awe at Toga's comment. Maybe it was because of his time spent with Katsuki, but he now realized that he seemingly forgot that people could change overtime. Looking down at his body, he also begun to realize how much he changed over the mere 3 months he had been active. His scrawny figure had been replaced with a somewhat muscular and lean body, with decently built abs and a sic pack that was looking more and more defined Despite doing nothing but running away from trouble, fighting for his life and having his close encounters with death the past 3 months, he had changed so much from his past self that all he had to do was take one good long look in the mirror.
But it wasn't just him. Looking around, he saw so many people in his room. So many people he knew. So many people that cared for him enough to actually show up when he was at his weakest. Only now that he has so many friends, did he realize how lonely he had been up until now. Seeing this, he felt an indescribable warmth within him. Unable to hold it bad, tears started to form around his eyes.
"Izuku? Everything alright?" Asked Toga.
"Y-yeah..." Izuku replied, "It's just..."
Suddenly, Izuku hugged Toga tightly, as everyone else noticed.
"Only now do I realized I have so many friends who care about me." Izuku cried, "Thank you all..."
"Aw, Izuku! No need to thank us, you're making me blush!" Sachi replied sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head.
Suddenly, a giant portal opened up above Sachi, as an entire table full of food was dropped on him.
"Dinner's ready." Said Kurogiri, coming through the door.
"Oh boy, finally, all this gaming's making me hungry." Said Spinner, stepping over Sachi's body.
As this happened, Toga grabbed the rice porridge Kurogiri prepared, topped with fried seaweed, sesame seeds and shredded dry pork, as she took a spoonful and extended it over to Izuku.
"Say Ah~" She teased.
"Toga, I can do this myself!" Izuku replied, embarrassed.
"I know you can, but I wanna do it anyways." Said Toga.
Seeing how she went through all this trouble merely getting here for him, Izuku let out a sigh, and out of kindness, opened his mouth, as letting in the airplane. However, as Izuku did so, Sachi, who just got back up pushed Toga aside with a piece of chicken cutlet.
"Say ah~"
"You to Sachi!?" Izuku exclaimed, swallowing his mouthful of porridge.
"I used to do this all the time with my little brother back at the hospital." Replied Sachi, "It was the cutest thing ever!"
"I'm not a goddamn bunny!" Izuku yelled, trying to grab the chopsticks from Sachi, but found himself too weak to do so, "Damn fever."
"Don't get too worked up, little Midoriya." Said Kurogiri, enjoying his dinner with the rest of the gang, "Fevers go down faster when you rest."
Unable to fight back, Izuku simply had to accept defeat, swallowing his pride, along with the chicken cutlet that Sachi fed him. However, that was not the end of it, as Spinner then butted in with a piece of sushi.
"Say ah~"
"Spinner, I see the giant chunk of wasabi you hid between the salmon and I see Mr Compress with the camera."
"Just do it for the lols!" Spinner replied, stuffing the sushi into Izuku's mouth as he was talking, as flames erupted from his nostrils as a result, as everyone at the table laughed.
Just then, Magne came in, patting him gently in the head.
"Don't take it personally, we're laughing with you, not at you. We still love you deep down." She said, handing him some milk, "Now open wide."
"Oh for the love of god." Izuku replied, gulping down another mouthful of milk, at least this time it wasn't shoved down his throat.
"Hey, you guys wanna join in? It's actually kinda fun!" Said Magne, "Like feeding a baby rabbit."
"One step ahead of you, sis." Replied Dabi, handing Izuku a handful of roasted peanuts.
"With your hand?" Izuku asked, "You want me to eat off your hand!?"
"Why didn't I think of that?" Toga said to herself, glaring at Dabi with jealousy.
"You're not actually gonna do it are you?" Asked Irina.
"I bet'cha 5000 yen he does!" Sachi replied.
Izuku on the other hand gave a disconcerting look at Dabi, trying to see if he was actually serious. Seeing how his hands weren't gonna leave his face anytime soon, and he didn't really have the energy to just take the peanuts out of his hand, Izuku actually started to lean forward.
"Oh dear god he's actually doing it." Said Irina, blushing.
"I can hear the typing of a thousand fanfictions right now." Said Sachi.
However, as Izuku closed his eyes, he felt something wooden enter his mouth. Looking up, he saw Dabi, using his other hand to stuff a mouthful of rice via chopstick.
"I was just messing with ya." Dabi laughed, "If Spinner hadn't done it already, I would have stuffed you with wasabi instead. It's a prank I used to pull on my little brother."
"Good damn it Dabi, just when it was getting good!" Toga pouted, "Now the rest of the scene can only play in my fantasy!"
Meanwhile, Kurogiri stared at his plate, as if he was in trance.
"Kurogiri? why are you staring at that fish?" Asked Sachi, "Trying to teleport it into your stomach or something?"
Kurogiri on the other hand turned to Sachi.
"Ever feel like your forgetting something?" Asked Kurogiri.
"If you forgot about it, then it was never important to begin with." Replied Sachi.
"I guess you're right" replied Kurogiri, as he took a bite out of his grilled mackerel.
Meanwhile, heavy rain poured, as Shigaraki stood at the side of the road, near the spot where he always stops by whenever he was done with a mission assigned to him by All For One, waiting for Kurogiri to warp him back to the hideout as he was getting soaked from head to toe.
"Any minute now." He said, as passers avoided him, creeped out by his appearance, "Wonder what's taking him so long."
Suddenly, a random bird swooped in, grabbing the hand on Shigaraki's face and flying off with it.
"God damn it! that's the fourth time today! Get back here you avian scumbag!"
However, as he chased the bird down, it dropped it's hand in midair, as it became too heavy for the bird to carry, causing the accessory to drop into a woman's handbag. Seeing this, Shigaraki grabbed the handbag, trying to take back his hand-mask while making sure to keep one finger away in order to not disintegrate it by accident. However, in doing so, the woman turned around, mistaking him for a mugger.
"Give me that bag!" Shigaraki yelled out.
"Wait, no, stop!" The woman exclaimed, "There's no money in there, only Izuku's groceries!"
"I said give it to me!" Shigaraki yelled savagely, as he lunged at Inko, trying to kill her.
As he did so, the bag tore open, as his hand fell out. Seeing this, he pushed Inko aside, attempting to grab it. Suddenly, he stopped midair, unable to even lift a finger. The woman let out a light green glow, as her hair raised up, her eyes glowing green and crackling with electricity.
"Forgive me for this." She said, as the villain was suddenly thrown against the wall, then on the pavement, before flying face-first into a trashcan, "Jeez, now the meat and noodles got all wet! I'm gonna have to go back and buy more."
"W-What the hell was she?" Shigaraki uttered, as he lost consciousness.
Back with Izuku and co, as they finished dining, the TV Spinner left open suddenly let out static, drawing everyone's attention.
"I was wondering why you didn't show up, young Midoriya." said a familiar voice, "I wish you best of luck on your recovery."
"Oh, it's Potato head." said Irina, nonchalantly with her mouth full.
"Kurogiri, you were supposed to report back an hour ago, what happened?" Asked All For One.
"My apologies, master, but Young Izuku was ill. As an important member and strategist of the league of villains, his well being as of a higher priority." Explained Kurogiri.
"Liar, you just wanted to pamper me because I was sick." Thought Izuku, thinking back to how enthusiastic Kurogiri sounded when he was taking care of him.
"I see." Said All For One, "However, I came for for a much bigger reason. According to outside sources, as of next year, All Might will be teaching at U.A"
The whole room went silent.
"Excuse me!?" Izuku exclaimed.
"Wait, why is that a bad thing?" Asked Twice.
"He used to be extremely easy to locate and lure out." Explained Dabi, "If he starts teaching at U.A, then a huge chunk of his day will be spent protected behind the walls of one of the most secured locations on the planet."
"Making our mission to kill him nigh impossible." Deduced Sachi.
"Then we have to kill him before the end of this year!" Exclaimed Izuku.
"We can't it's impossible." Said All For One, "We don't have nearly enough men nor firepower to deal with him in such a narrow time window."
"Then, what can we do?" Asked Mr Compress.
"There's one option I thought of." Said All For One, "Izuku, Toga, you two are around the appropriate age for high school. While Toga is actually a well known serial killer, it's nothing a fake name and hairdo can't solve."
"What are you implying here?" Asked Izuku.
"That you two infiltrate U.A in order to keep a close eye on All Might."
Izuku froze for a second to process his newly acquired info.
"WHAT!?"
"Is something wrong?" Asked All For One.
"I joined this league because I wanted to tear down hero society! Why must I, of all people, enter the one place where heroes are made!? I can't do this! I have to refuse!" Izuku exclaimed in anger.
"I understand your hatred, Young Midoriya, but you must understand that you're playing a much bigger role than you think. If we have eyes on our target 24/7 without him realizing, it will bring us massive advantages for future endeavors." Explained All For One.
"Must I explain what All Might did to me for you to understand!?" Exclaimed Izuku, "He rejected me! Called me worthless! Took my broken heart and broke it into even smaller pieces! And now you're telling me I have to act like he's still my biggest hero!?"
Upon hearing this, All For One let out a sigh of frustration.
"Of course you would, All Might." He muttered to himself, "You dumbass."
"Izuku..." Toga butted in.
"Not now Toga." Said Izuku, "I still have some dirt I have to let out."
"You mustn't let your personal hatred get you, Young Midoriya." Said All For One, "Perhaps it may not be clear to you, but he has the ability to transfer his quirk to another person."
Upon hearing this, Izuku froze in shock, along with the other villains.
"Excuse me?"
"The reason why he's teaching at U.A is probably so he can find himself a new successor." Explained All For One, "And if he does so, then he will no longer be the only threat to our organization."
"So you're saying that there could be another "All Might" like hero emerging in the near future!?" Exclaimed Izuku.
"Indeed, unless you stop it." Replied All For One, "Of course, that is your choice, and I cannot enforce you anything. Whatever it you want to do, only you can truly stop yourself. However, I will let you know that if you do infiltrate U.A, not only do you have the highest chance of killing him personally, but potentially even convince him you are a worthy successor."
Upon hearing this, Izuku became even more conflicted. Would he even want that? The quirk, belonging to the man who stabbed him in the back while he was at his lowest point in life?
"I will give you until tomorrow for you to make up your decision, until next time, Izuku." Said All For One.
And just like that, his shadowy silhouette disappeared from the screen, leaving Izuku with the hardest choice he has ever had in life.
To Be Continued...
