AN: To address someone's recent review about Izuku not calling Kirishima by his first name. That was admittedly just an oversight. I get in the habit of thinking of a character by a specific name. Like I don't think of Mina as 'Ashido' I think of her as Mina. Jiro is the opposite. I plan to go back at some point and edit it, but it honestly was just an oversight so thanks for pointing it out as I hadn't realized.

AN: I'm going to start the Omakes next chapter for other ships and such. If you have any requests for who you'd like to see as an alternate 'what if' ship Omake let me know in the review. The current first one I have in mind is a look at him and Jiro so that'll be the first Omake shown next chapter.

A Fool's Bonds

Chapter 14

-Aizawa-

Sighing, Aizawa ran a hand back through his hair as he sat vigilant by his unconscious student. Midoriya lay in the hospital bed, an IV drip keeping him under even as his body was wrapped in bandages soaked in burn medicine. The kid's body was so low on energy that Recovery Girl couldn't safely heal him at the moment, so it had been left to the hospital to treat what looked like a bad full body sunburn.

Around Midoriya's bed were the rest of the confidants from his class. Or most of them at any rate, Bakugo wasn't among those waiting nervously for the verdette to awaken.

Yaoyorozu and Jiro were the shaken up the worst, with Kirishima and Ashido doing their best to comfort the two. He supposed Yaoyorozu was blaming herself for seeing her partner in this state while he was positive Jiro blamed herself for insisting that he leave Midoriya to handle the two by himself while he carried her to safety.

He also knew well enough that neither would listen to him trying to state that they weren't to blame until they were sure Midoriya would be fine. Still, Recovery Girl said he should have enough energy back by the end of the day to heal the worst of it and she could heal the rest after another day or two of letting the kid rest.

Honestly, the villains from the Mountain Zone where Midoriya and Jiro had landed were in worse shape from their lightning burns and the various broken bones from being sent flying or having rocks land on them. The commission had tried sending reps, but they'd been met off by All Might of all people, the man taking charge of the media and the politicians. Judging by his expression there was more to his frustration than just the attack on the students.

"He's in here ma'am." One of the orderly's voices made him perk up, glancing at the door to see the nurse leading a woman he remembered being Midoriya's mother into the room.

Rejecting the call.

As the woman stepped into the room, Shota noted her eyes flit from person to person. Showing confusion, hesitance, and even a dash of wariness at their presence in her son's room.

"W-who are you?" the woman clutched her purse nervously, "Why are you in my son's room?"

"I'm Shota Aizawa." He gave a tired sigh as he got to his feet, "Your son's Homeroom teacher. These are some of his classmates."

"I…I see." The woman's eyes narrowed at him, "I have no doubt you have some sort of statement about how what happened to my son was an isolated incident but save it. It won't matter anymore as you won't be seeing my Izuku again. I'm pulling him from UA over this."

At that declaration, the four awake students shot to their feet, a cacophony of shouted protests filling the room.

"You can't!" Kirishima was gaping, the hardening quirk user looking flabbergasted.

"Don't you dare tell me what I can or can't do with my family." The woman seethed. "I never wanted him to try and be a hero! He knew that! But I kept my silence and let him go to that…that school. And look what happened?!" the woman was getting hysterical, "I'm pulling him from UA! He can go to a better college and find a nice safe dream to try for!"

"You can't take his dream away from him!" Yaoyorozu's eyes were already puffy and red from crying, but she stood firm in front of Midoriya's mother "Being a hero is everything to Izuku!"

"you're still just a child." Mrs. Midoriya brushed off their protests, "Now get out of my child's room."

"Kirishima is correct actually ma'am." Shota intervened. Midoriya was his student and he'd protect the boy. His own feelings on the matter were irrelevant "You don't have the legal authority to remove Midoriya from UA."

"I'm his mother!"

"And he's a legal adult enrolled in university." Shota gave the woman a hard look, "If Midoriya withdraws from UA it would be his own choice. You don't have the rights to pull him." And he'd already texted Nezu about her statements so he'd be prepared. He didn't think she'd try to forge her son's signature on any documents to withdraw from UA, but he'd been wrong before.

Mrs. Midoriya was flabbergasted and indignant, but he refused to back down. He was well aware of the problems to Midoriya's confidence she'd caused that he'd been trying to fix.

-All Might-

Feeling every day his age and then some, All Might trudged into Nezu's office where the rest of his circle who knew of One for All were present either in person or via call.

"Ah, All Might." Nezu nodded, the rat's stress showing by the rapid speed at which the principal stirred his tea, "No need to worry about Torino, I explained to him why you hung up on him earlier." His old mentor grunted but didn't make a quip for once which he was grateful for.

"No offense, but right now I'm too frustrated to give a damn." All Might smacked his fist against a wall as a panel slid away to reveal the secret contraband mini fridge, grabbing a beer.

"All Might?!" Sir Nighteye was shocked at seeing him stress drink. In a school no less.

"There aren't students nearby and I need it." All Might scowled darkly.

"Did something else happen?" Recovery Girl frowned concerned as he drained the can.

"I went through the reports from the students." All Might scowled as he tossed a file on the table, taken by one of the police officers who'd come to collect the various criminals.

"From Miss Jiro?" Nezu looked at the name of the student in question at the top of the report.

"Her hearing picked up what was spoken from the leader of this attack and young Midoriya. She doesn't know the significance of what she heard. But with that 'Nomu' creation and what the reports list…I believe he was the power behind this."

"But he's dead!" Tsukauchi looked distinctly green at the thought of the Symbol of Evil still being around, "I thought you killed him!"

"And I thought I had too." All Might sighed, running a hand down his face and wondering if Recovery Girl would let him grab another beer, "But that Nomu seems distinctly like something he'd create. Not to mention it had multiple quirks. The big issue though, is that from how the attack leader was talking, they're All for One's successor…and they think Midoriya is mine." Nezu spat out his tea at that little reveal.

"…I beg your pardon?" the rodent gaped, wiping away the tea dripping from his chin.

"Midoriya's quirk is absurdly powerful." All Might pinched the bridge of his nose, "Both for the variety and the raw power output. He turned into fucking Thor when fighting them and that form had the strength to overpower something designed to fight me. Regardless on the fact that he couldn't hold that form for long, he's still in training. He's still young. Imagine what someone who knows of One for All's existence but not who the successor is might think?"

"Fuck." Gran Torino summed it up succinctly.

"We can't control what the enemy does or doesn't think." Sir Nighteye spoke up, the man's fingers steepled as his eyes flit about, brain clearly racing.

"And now they're liable to go after a child!" Recovery Girl snapped at the detective style hero.

"They already went after children." Nighteye met her glare stoically, "And even if they knew that Miss Yaoyorozu was the successor, Midoriya would still be liable to be in danger as her friend." The seer turned to Nezu "You said you wished for me to take him for the Internship period? I'll do so and ensure he is prepared for such threats. The biggest question is on if he should be read in. If the enemy thinks him the successor, they'd be liable to speak about One for All and All for One if they should strike again. Do we risk allowing him to learn from them? Or inform him ourselves?"

Echoing his old homeroom teacher, All Might slapped a hand to his face with a groan "Fuck."

AN: Before anyone says it. No, I don't hate Inko Midoriya. I just think she and Bakugo were both harmful to Izuku's self-esteem growing up for different reasons. Bakugo's complexes that nobody addressed caused him to constantly belittle Izuku and was encouraged to do so. Inko on the other hand was emotionally neglectful. She never noticed her son coming home constantly beaten and burnt by his classmates and never showed any support for her son's dream till he'd already gotten a place in the highly exclusive school for said dream. Hence the confrontation going on in here.