When last we saw our green-haired hero he was recovering from a rather exhausting encounter with Big Bird All Might(love that name), handsy boi, and the human smog cloud. Needless to say, he could use a brake. Though with his mother visiting he might need to take a rain check on his sleep time in order to run damage control.
On to the chapter!
"And that's the story of how Izuku cut off and reattached his own-" Inko was about to finish before her son came bursting in through the door. Still in his hero costume from a few hours ago.
"Nope! Whatever story you were telling them I'm putting an end to it now!" He yelled/begged, only to realize that he was much too late to stop the inevitable. His classmates were already looking at him, barely holding back their laughter while Mineta in particular gave me a hollow look.
The grape placed a hand on Izuku's shoulder. An impressive feat considering his height and simply nodded before walking out of the classroom, about a minute later uproarious laughter could be heard from a bathroom a few floors down.
"Mom, please tell me you didn't tell them about the Endeavor incident!" Todoroki's head shoots up at this in interest, though Inko just shakes her head. "Oh thank go-"
"But I did tell them about how you first unlocked Kannonbiraki Benihime Aratame" ...At least it wasn't one of the top 5. "Which reminds me, are you even going to fix that flying cat you created a few years back?" She asked, an exasperated look on her face.
'Flying what now?' Izuku could practically hear his classmate's thoughts.
'Cat?' Aizawa thought, unknown to everyone else.
"The chimera project is top secret mom! And what do you mean fix?! Happy's perfect just the way he is!" What could possibly be wrong about an adorable flying kitten?!
"He keeps leaving hair and feathers all over our bookshelves and the ceiling! And ever since Walter retired I've had to do all the cleaning myself!" Right...I forgot our butler had retired a few weeks back. They'd need a replacement quickly, preferably one that could get to high places easily…
"Hey Ochako, would you like a job?" Izuku asked casually after giving it some thought.
"Nani?" Right, that was probably a bit out of nowhere.
"You heard my mom. We're in need of some help at home and I could think of no-one I'd trust more to take care of Happy." He clarified, she blushed and smiled at the show of trust but still seemed skeptical.
"You'll only need to work a few hours a day and I'll make sure that they don't interfere with school hours." I say quickly to get Aizawa to stop glaring at me." Your duties would be to clean up after Happy along with keeping him fed and watered. Ah and I'll teach you how to keep him well-groomed later. As for your pay." I take out my checkbook and fill it out with practiced ease.
"How does 35,000 yen a week sound? You'd also get free food and a guest room at our house." He'd take her stunned silence and drool as a yes. Well that's one problem solved for today. "Great, you can start tomorrow! Here's Shue's number, just call him and I'll let him know when to pick you up."
"D-Did that just happen?" Sero questioned. To who nobody knew.
"I can't tell if that was badass, smooth, or adorable." Kaminari chimed in.
"All three, maybe add kinky to that list." Mina confirmed, staring at her fallen comrade. The kind, rich, powerful hero student hires his best female friend as a live-in maid? She was pretty sure she's read novels with similar plots before. They weren't the most wholesome of literature either.
Momo was having similar thoughts as her face made a perfect impression of a tomato. The only reason she wasn't endlessly teased about it by one of her more lively friends was because of Kyoka's even more adorable reaction to what just happened. She had an anime jaw-drop moment and everything! And Toru was milking it for all it was worth.
"She's our cat sitter, not my personal maid, get your heads out of the gutter." Izuku shot them down, not noticing the disappointed pout from Ochako. "Back me up here mom." He asked, turning towards Inko only to see that she was busy daydreaming while muttering 'grandkids'
"...And once again I go alone into the fray." See it's this kind of shit that makes being rich such a hassle. Honestly, people, these days have such dirty minds. "By the way Ochako here. It's our family company's crest. This is a sign that you're a member of our company and deserve the same benefits." Aka annoying legal stuff. The crest itself was just a green M written in fancy print.
*Cue nosebleeds from the girls(sans Momo who has a similar crest). "Oh come on! Seriously it's the equivalent of an employee I.D card! Heads out of gutter girls, Yaoyorozu has one too." Upon saying this one could be forgiven for thinking that half the male population in the room snapped their necks as they turned their heads to the richest woman in the room.
"...I will not go ara ara." She shot them down immediately, blushing the whole time. She was going to get back at Izuku for this! It was only a matter of when.
"W-what kind of benefits." Ochako managed to squeak out, barely regaining her cognitive functions after what just happened.
"Oh you know, the basics: Free use of the house amenities, dental care, complementary contraceptives, maternity leave." Inko started, slowly but surely lowering her voice to a near whisper as she mentioned the more...suggestive portions of her benefits.
"That's enough out of you!" Izuku moved his mom away from Ochako, letting her vent out her fantasy somewhere more isolated. "Sorry about that, mom can get a little...much when her imagination takes over." I tried to do damage control but it was too late.
has stopped working. Please insert Mochi for a reboot.
...This was going to take a while to fix.
"Izuku, we should get going. The police mentioned that they wanted to talk to whenever you were back on your feet. Are you ready?" Inko spoke up near the door. She apparently woke up from her fantasy induced mumbling.
"And don't worry about your girlfriend, she's probably just processing." *Sigh, and there goes his reputation. This was going to take months of work to live down. He loved his mother but she could be so...much sometimes.
Two days of recovery and adjustment later.
"So, Uraraka. How was the job?" Ashido couldn't help but ask with a smirk, only to be surprised and slightly jealous of the almost glowing response she got.
"It was amazing! The pay is great and all but Ms. Inko's cooking is what really makes it all worth it! Plus Happy is just so cute! Sure it was hard for me to clean up after him at first but ever since Izuku gave me his sword It's gotten a lot more bearable." Ochako exclaimed, not realizing how easily that could be misinterpreted. Not to mention all the other fun stuff they had around the house that she was free to use. They even had a hot tub!
"Oh, so our resident Shinigami gave you his sword huh? I bet it must have been great right?" Ashido immediately latched onto the innuendo. Izuku took this moment to step into the conversation.
"Ochako you've been talking with my mom way too much. The sword she was talking about was Hisagomaru. A healing type zanpakuto that helps her with her motion sickness. Heads out of the gutter." Something told him this was going to be a running gag.
"Well you're no fun." Ashido pouted while Ochako blushed red after she realized what she said. "What kind of teenage millionaire has a personal maid and doesn't brag about it?" She raised a decent point. Counterpoint.
"First of all. Billionaire." Izuku corrected her. "Second of all, you need to lay off the romance novels. Third, Ochako's not a maid, if she were I'd be paying her triple." Ochako gained a contemplative look. "Plus it would get in the way of her school work" Which turned into a disappointed but accepting look.
The doors to the classroom swing open, silencing everyone as a moderately bandaged Aizawa walked out. Thankfully his injuries only consisted of a destroyed elbow and broken arm. It could have been much worse.
"Quiet in under three seconds...You're learning. Take your seats, your fight isn't over just yet." Ok now I know for a fact that he liked to mess with us. Some of the jumpier members of my class started to panic. I wasn't going to mention names but we all knew who.
"The sports festival is coming up. Of course everyone is concerned over the recent villain attack but we've increased security by roughly three times. Besides this isn't an event that can just be canceled." No kidding, canceling it over a bunch of mooks attacking a school would be like canceling the pre-quirk Olympics over a drunken brawl taking place at a nearby bar.
Besides it's not like the so-called League of Villains were very high profile. As far as the media was concerned the wannabe villains were taken down by a bunch of school children. Granted Izuku had a bit of a reputation in the hero community but it wasn't enough to completely soften the blow.
Meanwhile with the League of Failures
"FUCKING CHEATING BRAT!"
Back with the people that matter
"You kids only get three shots at this. So don't waste them, this is likely your best chance at getting your names out there." And with that our day continued with few issues though for some reason Ochako was more hyped up than usual.
During lunch my little circle of friends did go into why we decided to become heroes in the first place. It went rather well but we did get to learn some interesting things.
"I want to live up to my family name and be like my brother Tensei," Iida answered easily. His reason for becoming a hero rather obvious in hindsight.
"My reasoning is pretty much the same. The Yaoyorozu family has a long history with hero work. And of course I just love the idea of helping people for a living." Yaomomo said, could have guessed this one too.
"My little siblings were always enamored with heroes, I can't say I was much different either. Part of the reason would be wanting to be a good example for them I guess." Tsuyu gave the cutest answer so far, also promising to show us a picture of her siblings later.
"It's a little embarrassing but...Money's a pretty big motivator. See my parents run a small construction company that hasn't been doing very well recently and well...I wanted to use my quirk to help them out but they told me to follow my dreams of being a hero instead. So my first goal is to make plenty of money so they can take it easy!"
That was. Wow. She probably has the most down to earth reason for being here out of all of us. "Honestly you're gonna make me start feeling bad. I'm just here because I always wanted to emulate All Might when I was a kid. Simple as that." I admit, it wasn't a very good reason but the heart couldn't help what it longs for.
"Though since you mentioned it. Does your family happen to have experience working with exotic materials? The kind used to build quirk gyms?" I asked Ochako who's expression turned thoughtful.
"Yes, though that tends to cost too much for most to afford. Why do you-" Her eyes widen in realization.
"I just happen to have such a building planned to be built in Hosu, though the plan's been in the works for months now because I wanted to find the right company for the job. If you can get me in contact with your parents who knows, maybe my search will finally be over?" I needed that quirk gym for training purposes, getting to help out the Urarakas was just a bonus really.
I expected a lot of things from Ochako. A few moments of silence followed by a response, maybe an excuse to leave and think about my offer. What I didn't expect was for her to glomp me at full speed while basically screaming "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You won't regret it!" Before running off at a speed I could barely track.
"...Well that happened. Speaking of exotic materials." I look over to Yaoyorozu who raised an eyebrow and shrugged.
"We'll discuss it after school. I'm interested in the idea of a quirk gym myself, U.A is amazing but we only have access to it during school days so your idea could be rather useful." I grin, that's another problem off my shoulders. Who knows maybe we'd even make a profit off of it if we played this right.
What? Nobody ever said a hero couldn't look out for his own pocketbook along with the general population.
Meanwhile in an unknown warehouse.
"Achoo!" A bloodthirsty ninja turtle sneezed. Giving away his position and alerting his prey to his presence along with the other fake heroes near him. 'Shit' Curse whoever inflicted him with the sniffles!
Back with the Shinigami who unknowingly made a certain hero killer's life harder.
'Why do I feel a sense of smug satisfaction all of a sudden?' Whatever it was he just hoped it didn't bite him in the ass later. His luck could be flip floppy like that.
Was this chapter completely disjointed and nonsensical? Yes. Do I care? Sorta but not enough to not upload this. Fact is that I started writing this before the last update to the reading fic(aka before my schedule went to hell) and it was sorta just sitting here. So I decided, eh what the hell. Might as well finish it.
Next upload should be a bit better though. Hopefully. Hope you all have a great day as always!