"Oh I hate the camping trip."
Shouta furrowed an eyebrow.
"Why?"
"Because I don't get to see you for a week." He wrapped his arms around his husband. "And Hitoshi's going so I'm just gonna' be here on my own."
"I always call you."
"I know, I just miss you, that's all."
Shouta smiled, kissing his husband softly on the lips.
"We'll be back before you know it."
"I know you have to be Mr. Responsible about all the kids but send me a text every so often about Toshi, I get worried you know."
"I will, don't worry."
On the bus ride to the forest Hitoshi was sat beside the window with Kacchan and Zuku next to him on the back row.
Neither one of them had yet to bring up the whole Shigaraki incident which made him suspect Shouta and Hizashi may have had prior words with them.
"I heard Shouza arranging something over the phone with someone, I wonder if there's gonna' be like a special guest pro?" Zuku spoke up.
"Or it's just going to be a week in a damn forest." Kacchan groaned.
"Are you excited, Hitoshi?"
"I read up what camping was and it sounds awful." He admitted.
"It is." "It's fun." Kacchan and Zuku answered in unison, their replies vastly different to one another's.
Hitoshi smirked.
Kirishima turned in his seat and leant over the headrest.
"Hey, Shinsou! How come you still have to wear that bracelet thing, aren't you gonna' be training with us?"
He shrugged.
"No one tells me shit, I don't know what I'm gonna' be doing."
"Surely they wouldn't have made you come if you weren't."
"Maybe they want me to kill you all just to prove their investigation right?" He joked but as he looked around no one laughed. "Nevermind."
Hitoshi wrapped his arms around his stomach as he went back to looking out the window.
Kirishima sat back down as Kacchan turned to him.
"Hey, stop putting yourself down like that and stop saying you're evil. You're pretty far from evil."
"How would you know if I was exactly?"
"You're reading 'Tales from Moominvalley'."
Hitoshi looked horrified about his cousin's knowledge.
"What's that got to do with anything?"
"Oh yeah, I can imagine it now, All for One sat with his feet up after a hard day of being evil reaching over and grabbing his copy of the fucking Moomins." Kacchan sarcastically retorted. "Why are you so determined for people to think of you that way?"
"I obviously don't want them to."
"Then why keep bringing it up?"
"Because I get nervous and that's the first thing that comes out." He admitted. "I don't know if you've noticed but no one talks to me and when they do it's usually because they wanna' know something about my quirk or this stupid bracelet. On the rare occasion they don't ask about either of those things I have nothing to talk about. I don't know music, or films, or TV shows, I don't have memories from school or 'remember when's' to bring up in conversation, I just have shit that people would start pitying me over, either that or they'd just get awkward and wish they'd never came over in the first place. I'm not good at talking to people; I'm also mute half the time which doesn't exactly help either in case you forgot."
Hitoshi exhaled as he slumped back in the seat.
Kacchan, not expecting a full blown rant, nodded.
"Sorry I just… that whole thing with Tomura really threw me off, I…" He didn't continue.
"Getting all that off your chest probably made you feel better, right?"
"Yes…" The purple-haired teen reluctantly agreed.
"If you don't have any good memories then you just have to start making some."
"I wasn't eavesdropping on purpose, but when we get back home we could always go out and do stuff together. There're plenty of places in town we haven't took you yet." Zuku piped in as he peered around Kacchan.
Hitoshi nodded.
"I would like that."
"Good, then we'll do that."
When the bus stopped somewhere that clearly wasn't the forest he could see miles in the distance, Hitoshi groaned.
"They're gonna' make us walk all the way there aren't they…"
"Okay, everyone off the bus."
He threw his head back against the seat.
"Kill me."
"Come on Purple Hair." Kacchan grabbed his wrist and pulled him up.
"Ughhhhh but whyyyyy?"
"Because I'm stuck doing this shit then so are you."
"Booooooo."
Hitoshi followed his cousins down the aisle of the bus as he threw on his Hawks hoodie, really glad that he hadn't packed it in his backpack now.
Kacchan smirked.
He scowled and stuck his finger up at him.
"Woah, that's so cool!" Zuku's eyes practically lit up as he came closer to inspect his jacket, hands extending the wings hanging from the back. "I should have worn my All Might one."
"Ooh then you could have been matching!" Kacchan teased with a grin.
"Mitsuki said you have the same All Might hoodie as Zuku so you can shut the fuck up for a start." Hitoshi retorted.
His eyes widened, cheeks going blush as he growled, turning away.
Hitoshi turned to Zuku and gave him a smile.
"I got you." They high-fived before standing next to each other as the class lined up beside the bus. "Let me guess, the bus magically broke down, sensei?" He called out, knowing he was pushing his luck but not really giving a shit.
"Heyo Eraser!" Came a voice as the doors of an expensive looking car opened.
Shouta smiled.
"Long time no see."
In a matter of seconds two brightly coloured… women dressed like cats? emerged and began introducing themselves, twirling around like something from that stupid show he'd caught Zuku watching once. What was it called?
"…but you can call us, The Wild Wild Pussycats."
"Kawaii Kawaii Pussycats." He turned to his cousin and gave him a nudge, raising his eyebrows to purposely annoy him. "On a scale of one to ten how embarrassed are you in this current situation?"
"Shut up…"
Hitoshi laughed.
"I'm Mandalay and this is Pixie-Bob."
"Oh you're also the dress people."
The red one furrowed an eyebrow.
"What?"
"Sorry, do carry on with… whatever it is you're doing."
Kacchan was beside himself laughing.
"Anyway, these are the heroes you will be working with during the summer training camp." Shouta explained.
"Great…" His cousin groaned under his breath.
Hitoshi nudged him.
"Stop it or we're gonna' get in trouble off the cat lady." He tried to hold back his own laughter as he lectured him.
"The camp you will be staying at is over there in the distance."
So he was right.
"The current time in nine thirty in the morning, if you're fast enough you might make it there by noon."
Hitoshi took Kacchan by the arm and moved them both back two steps just before the ground disintegrated beneath the rest of the class sending them toppling down.
"Bye!" They waved with wide grins.
"WOAHHHHHHHHHH!"
Shouta looked less than impressed.
"That means you too…"
"It's fine, Howl's Moving Castle over here's got us covered. Ready?"
Kacchan climbed up onto his back.
"Yup."
Two blasts later and they were in the air.
"How far do you think you can get us?"
"I've been sweating to death on the bus, I'd say at least three or four miles."
"Sounds good to me." Hitoshi nodded. "And if you burn my fucking hoodie I will kill you!"
"That's my line!"
Kacchan sent out another blast.