Sorry for the itty bitty next two chapters. Had a hiccup in my editing, so I've broken down one already short chapter into 2.
-x- Shoto -x-
"Hey, do you guys get affected by period blood?" Bakugo asked Shoto's foster siblings. Shoto shoved his shoulder in irritation. "I mean, you all live with two women, don't you?" he pressed, sounding amused now.
"Please, Kacchan, stop it."
"I'm just askin' a question I'm curious about!"
"Menstrual blood stinks and is not like normal blood," Haru said. "There. Let's change the topic. How are you doing, Midoriya? It's a shift." Shoto was pleased but also sad that his foster family didn't think Izuku smelled so good. Shoto knew that his instinctual attraction to him was not just because of his blood. He had very personal feelings for Izuku. He was his best friend and was always there for him.
So he wasn't just only wanting his blood, it was more of a side effect of caring so much for a human. Well, part human. He did indeed still get hurt from the sun. Flaky sunburns. Not the black, damaged skin like Shoto had. But he still needed sunscreen. So he wasn't completely normal, but he lost the worst aspect, which was the thirst for blood, and needing to hide that.
Even if he did crave some fresh blood, it never became so bad that it overrode his loyalty as a friend and loved one. He stamped it down and just drank a lot of blood before hanging out. It was working so far. School was starting the next week, and the three had their uniforms and backpacks ready.
They were in the same class. The school knew about Shoto and Izuku's more unique needs. So they were put n the same class, kept together to help with stress, and Bakugo was lucky to be places with them, too. It would suck if he was in a separate class again.
"It is weird, but it's not like not needing blood is bad. I do miss it sometimes, because Mikaela-san made the best food I've ever tasted, but now I can't eat it or the candies," Izuku explained. "At least I got to keep my heightened senses."
"Maybe you never got the strength because you were never a completely whole vampire. Maybe you were always going to end up this way, and it wasn't some random miracle," Maya suggested. "You don't remember anything odd or unusual happening when you were shifted? Bakugo-kun was the one to find you, wasn't he?"
"All I found him was bleeding from the face and screaming," Bakugo said angrily. "Maybe it's cause he was a quirkless loser." Was. Bakugo had improved a lot in his treatment. Well, bullying. He still yelled at the other two.
Shoto had thought about it being that he was quirkless, but couldn't see why that would be different. There had to have been quirkless vampires before. Izuku asked, "Is it personal if I ask how you three were changed?"
"Mine happened a few years ago, so I'm good," Maya replied, Haru agreeing. "I was out with my friends. I went to a bathroom, one you needed a key to. At a gas station kind of place. There was a window in it. It was very late, and I was tired. I was washing my hands when the window shattered and she was there. Yeah, it was a woman that got me. I still remember the stench of the soap and moldy tile floor. Since I was locked inside and confused, shocked, I never got the chance to hurt my friends before back ups were called. My assaulter was gone by then."
Bakugo looked uncomfortable. Haru spoke next. Shoto watched his fully human friend out of the corner of his red eyes. "I used to do horse riding tournaments. I got targeted by the second place guy after I beat him for the fifth time. I guess he couldn't handle defeat, so he turned me to fuck up my life. It did, I lost my parents, they ditched me. The vampire was arrested, thankfully. I was in rehab during the hearing, but he was sentenced to prison."
"Will you talk about yours, Shoto?" Maya wondered.
"I don't remember most of it. Just remember it hurt, but it only got worse and worse. Time warped, and I just don't have a good memory of that time. I don't remember the face of my attacker, I don't remember who found me, either," he said quietly. They all looked a bit awkward. "I'm glad you all had people to help you," he mumbled.
"Dinner's ready!" Mikaela called. It was no issue making human food beside vampire dishes. She just used different tools and kept blood out of the human food. When the sat down and started serving themselves, she asked, "Since I overheard, do you want to hear about the time I was changed?"
"Yes!" Izuku said excitedly. The foster mother vampire smiled.
"I was twenty when it happened. The college I went to was quite close the busiest parts of downtown. I walked off campus to get a coffee, about midnight after I needed to study. By the way, never pull an all nighter. You'll fail if you do. But anyways, I was walking back with a coffee, and it started to rain. Hard. I didn't hear the guy who attacked me. He was very, very heavy and large.
"The only reason I think more wasn't done to me was because a car came around the corner and slammed into him. It rolled over me, shattering my legs and ribs. But, I was already full of enough vampire blood that I healed and lived. But I never saw him again. I dropped out of school for a semester, but then returned the next one. I took three months in rehab."
"But your eyes are red. Doesn't that mean you drank from people?" Bakugo asked, eating the mabo tofu with a happy demeanor, any food that the foster mother cooked was fantastic.
"Yes. Most adult vampires have. But usually, with adults vampires and humans, it's consensual. Simply biting is not how it's transmitted. And if the vampire has self control, it's not uncomfortable for either party. It's not as taboo in the vampire world as it is for naive humans," she explained.
Izuku looked very interested. Shoto said nothing. He didn't know how it felt to drink from a human that wasn't killed because of it. But nobody here but for his two closest friends knew about that. He knew that for a fact.
After dinner, Izuku was sleeping over, and Bakugo was driven home. He said he was cranky and didn't want to ruin it for everyone else. Shoto's bed was a queen, and he and Izuku always shared the bed at sleep overs, not using the futon mats. They shared a bed sometimes in rehab for Shoto's nightmares. Those were few in between lately but did happen.
