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InsomNyaC
Summary:
All for One just wanted his family back, he was not expecting to actually like the newest holder of his brother's Quirk
A non-bio Dad for One fic.
Now undergoing major rewrite.
Notes:
(See the end of the work for notes and other works inspired by this one.)
Chapter 1: Messing with the Heroes is Fun
Summary:
All for One having a bit of fun and learned about the Ninth more
Notes:
Originally posted June 27, 2022
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
It started off as a rogue thought. A random what if at the back of his brain. Strapped down to this horrible chair and lacking much of anything to do, Shigaraki Hisashi had found himself wandering down many of those lines of thought. Lines that he likely would not have humored had he been otherwise busy.
What would happen if he just shuffled around the Quirks of the classes 1-A and 1-B at UA? How would they all react when they realized that All Might's chosen successor was the only one unaffected?
How long would that take to do? Would he have to "break out" to do it or could he do it all fast enough that the guards would not notice that late at night? It wouldn't be hard. Kurogiri was also here in the prison now so all it would take was using a combination of Radio Waves and Technopathy to disrupt the cameras and internal communications in the prison and Warping to bring Kurogiri to himself. If he timed it right, they likely would not notice his absence right away…
He was seriously considering doing it, wasn't he?
Hisashi blamed the chair. He probably would not be so tempted to leave if the damn thing wasn't so uncomfortable. Of course, to be fair, he suspected that any chair likely would be this uncomfortable for him after not being able to move in roughly two months.
At least he thought that was how long it had been. He was starting to regret passing up that largely useless timekeeping Quirk but at the time it seemed silly to keep and clutter up his collection.
Hisashi found himself waiting for his neighbors to settle down for the night. While it wasn't a perfect way of judging time, meal times and the presumed lights out kept them at least on a daily schedule.
Hisashi was going to steal a cup of instant ramen while he was out. So long as he was using this particular respirator, they couldn't feed him real food. God, he missed food. Living off of IVs alone sucked.
Yeah he was going to do this.
After his neighbors had been quiet for what he hoped had been around 3 hours (but who knows, it could have only been like 30 minutes) he got to work.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Less than five minutes later, Hisashi was sneaking onto the UA campus. It had taken him a bit longer than planned to get past the Rat's security system so that it wouldn't trigger and ruin his plan. Now though, he had free run of the place so long as no one saw him in person. The first thing he did though was steal that cup of Ramen from class 1-A and start the electric kettle to boil the water for it while he worked.
He snuck back and forth between the two dorm buildings a couple times before he settled on who got what Quirk and threw in a quick visit to 1-C to add the one General Studies kid who had made it to the final round of the Sports Festival to the mix to even up the numbers.
As he leaned back and enjoyed his noodles he took the time to investigate the Ninth. Despite the angry buzzing he was picking up from his brother's Quirk, the boy could no more resist his Lullaby Quirk than the other students so he had free run of the boy's room. Picking up the boy's phone, he casually browsed the boy's social media and memorized his accounts and personal phone number as well as those in his contact list. Interestingly, the boy lacked a number for his father. Was the man estranged or perhaps deceased? That was worth digging into later perhaps. It at least explained why the boy was so happy to latch onto All Might at least. The man was likely the closest thing to a father figure in his life at the present much like Shimura Nana had been for the blonde halfwit.
He turned on the boy's camera to read over his school notes to get a better idea of how the boy thought. However, before he could start, the notebook resting a bit off to the side of his desk caught his attention. "Hero Analysis for the Future #15."
Well that would likely be more informative.
To Hisashi's shock, the boy's notes were good. Nearly at the same level of analysis as his own and he had not only a Quirk that naturally helped him with that when he used it, but two centuries on the kid.
For a moment Hisashi found himself wishing that he could swap successors with All Might. Sure his main plan with Tomura at this point was hijacking the boy's body for his own to replace this failing one but the fact that a kid this clever was working opposite him was actually a bit alarming.
Then he flipped the page and a new plan formed.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Hisashi feigned sleep as the guards approached his cell block cautiously. All in all, his little adventure had taken a grand total of maybe 20 minutes and now both he and Kurogiri were back in their places as if they had never moved in the first place. There was one difference though. Hidden in the folds of his straight jacket now was a burner phone with Internet access even all the way out here.
As the guards hemmed and hawed at the idea of opening his door they seemed relieved that the feared Scourge of Kimino seemed to have slept through the perceived network failure. Happy that the plan had worked out so well, Hisashi turned on his phone and began to make an account on the boy's favorite social networking site under that name AwayFromOffice before scrolling through the boy's Rollr (a site that Hisashi suspected was a spiritual successor to Tumblr from back when he was the boy's age) reading through the boy's posts.
GreenSmallMight
Yesterday I accidently kicked one of my classmates in the face during training and my brain couldn't decide between saying "I'm so sorry" or "are you okay?" so I panicked and yelled "Are you sorry?!?"
It took like an hour for him to get up and Kacchan still hasn't stopped laughing at me.
#UA #UA Hero Course #Class 1-A #Deku #Bone Breaking Kid #Bakugou
GreenSmallMight
You call it a near death experience, I call it a vibe check from god
#UA #UA Hero Course #Class 1-A #Deku #Bone Breaking Kid
GreenSmallMight
Kacchan: Oh God what fucking idiots
Kacchan after realizing it's Red Riot, Chargebolt, Cellophane, and Pinky: Oh no those are my idiots
#UA #UA Hero Course #Class 1-A #Deku #Bone Breaking Kid #Bakugou #Red Riot #Chargebolt #Cellophane #Pinky #BakuSquad
GreenSmallMight
Me: I love sleepovers
Recovery Girl: This isn't a sleepover. You're in the hospital.
Me: Then why do I have this nightgown?
RG: That's a hospital gown.
Me: Truth or dare?
RG:
Me:
RG: Dare
#UA #UA Hero Course #Class 1-A #Deku #Bone Breaking Kid #Recovery Girl
GreenSmallMight
[At the hospital]
Eraserhead: [About Me] I'm here for my student
Receptionist: Who's your student?
Eraserhead: You must be new here
#True Story #I got better #UA #UA Hero Course #Class 1-A #Deku #Bone Breaking Kid #Eraserhead
GreenSmallMight
Me: So what was it like working with Sir Nighteye?
All Might: One time when he was mad at me, I asked him to get me a glass of water. He brought me a cup of ice and told me to wait
#True Story #UA #UA Hero Course #Class 1-A #Deku #Bone Breaking Kid #All Might #Sir Nighteye
That last one caught him off guard enough to draw a small laugh out of him. It was a shame Sir Nighteye was so infatuated with All Might. As far as Heroes went, the man had always been entertaining. Curious as to how the man was doing, Hisashi opened a new tab and quickly searched for the man's hero name only for his stomach to drop. Slightly panicked, Hisashi sent a quick text to the Doctor.
Please tell you collected Sir Nighteye's body for the Nomu project
If we lost the man's Quirk just because I am taking a bit of a vacation in Tartarus…
Doctor:
Sensei?
Obviously
Doctor:
Not that I am not happy to hear from you but how are you texting me right now?
I broke out for a few minutes to screw with All Might and his new successor
I picked up a phone before sneaking back in so they didn't know I left
Now Foresight. Do you have it?
Doctor:
Of course!
It was trickier than normal since the heroes have caught on to what we are doing but still quite doable.
Good
I will collect it at some point soon when I leave for real
Hisashi internally grimaced at the relief he felt. While he was not looking forward to dealing with the man when he discovered what was likely happening to him now was his fault, the chance to talk openly with the Fourth's grandson would perhaps answer some of his own questions as to what had happened to the man who had all but vanished with his brother's Quirk after receiving it had more pros than cons. Honestly, if Hisashi couldn't feel when the transfer happened with One for All regardless of distance, he would have suspected that the man had passed it on in secret.
Taking a beat to clear his thoughts, he pulled up the Ninth's Rollr account once more and sent him an ask. To Hisashi's surprise, the boy responded.
AwayFromOffice asked:
I was wondering if you answer questions about your Quirk? As a Professional Quirk Analyst I was wondering about the whole "Bone Breaking" part of your Quirk. Are you using any support items to help negate the blow back? If not, you really should see about getting some.
It depends on the question! I can't give everything away about my Quirk on such a public site. That is just asking for Villains to take advantage of the information later. If you are really a Professional Quirk Analyst, you can send me another ask with your professional contact information and I can get back to you later. I have to ask what you are doing up so early though? I would think that a Professional Analyst would not be up at 3 in the morning.
I have figured out how to control my Quirk better so the chances of me breaking my bones is lower now and yes I do have some support items now to help. Thanks for the concern
・.。()。.・
Hisashi quickly drafted a response.
AwayFromOffice asked:
I am currently working overseas so really I should be asking you that Deku. You can email me directly at AthosHisashi@heronet. . I am sure you can verify my identity easily enough with that.
A few minutes later, an email appeared in his inbox likely aided by the fact that "Athos Hisashi" had been working as a freelance analyst on the scene for the better part of the past two decades. It was a hobby he had picked up recently when he realized how much easier it made it to find Quirks to steal later now that the Doctor had found a way to revive the dead in a state that allowed the recovery of the Quirk.
From MidoriyaIzuku@studentmail.ua
Oh My Gosh! You have no idea how much of a fan I am of your work! Your research into the correlation between how people with perceived Villainous Quirks, unemployment and crime was a great read! I can't believe you found me through my Rollr of all things! I didn't even realize you had an account!
Hisashi smiled. It seemed the Ninth was just full of surprises. He saved the boy's email under the name Ninth and made a mental note of his full name.
To Ninth
That is because I didn't have one until an hour ago. It is interesting to hear I have a fan though. There is not generally much interest in my field unless you have a direct tie to it. I notice you are avoiding my question though. Why are you awake at 3 in the morning?
From Ninth
One of my Dormmates woke me up making a Cup'o'Noodles with the smell so I am having my own midnight snack. I just saw I had an ask notification while I waited for my own cup to cook. I do Quirk Analysis myself as a hobby and you're one of the most highly recognized in the field right now here in Japan. If it is not too much to ask, why are you working overseas right now? I heard that most of the requests you have received recently have been put on a wait list.
To Ninth
The Villain from Kimino. I got hired to run a full analysis on the Quirks that All for One might have and what exactly they could do so that he can be better contained then just shooting him up with as much Quirk suppressors as they can and praying. This is a treasure hunt and a half. Especially since he only just relatively recently seemed to settle down in Japan. He spent a good chunk of time over here in the States a few decades ago. Unfortunately, unless he decides to list off all of his Quirks, we have no idea what he really currently has and what he has donated to those Nomus. And that is not even taking into consideration he might have lost some from the possible brain damage from the injury All Might gave him from their previous fight 6 years ago!
Sorry for rambling, this has just been frustrating for me. It is not often I run into such a wall in my research. You say you do Analysis as a hobby? Would you be opposed to sharing?
From Ninth
Oh that explains that. The only reason I know about the wait list is a little girl I helped save during my Work Study was put on it and I am not sure if they are going to let her live outside the hospital she is currently at until you or another analysis can look into her Quirk and help her get a bit of control.
To Ninth
What is her name? Depending on the complexity of her Quirk I might be able to knock her case out before I go to bed here in a couple hours.
From Ninth
Eri. She's 6.
Hisashi hummed lightly to himself as he read over the email regarding a request for a Quirk analysis on her. It did not take him long to mentally compare and contrast what the Ninth had noted on her Quirk in his own analysis with the data collected by the doctors at the request of the Hero Commission.
To Ninth
I can see why the doctors are holding her. Temporal Quirks are touchy things. From the data sent to me already, it seems to likely be a form of stockpiler that will need to be utilized regularly or she runs the risk of losing complete control again. I'll send her doctors a basic list of exercises she can do to get a handle on it and a recommended schedule. I will need more data of course to dial things in but that should be more than enough for her to return home.
From Ninth
Thanks! You have no idea how much that means to me! I have been so worried about her being stuck there all alone.
I almost forgot, you had questions about my Quirk?
To Ninth
It was no problem Midoriya, I normally would have gotten to her case already if it wasn't for All for One. As soon as I finish writing up my analysis for her I am going to sort through my waitlist to try and make sure there are no more urgent cases that I have been missing. Now that that is settled, go back to sleep. I will send you a list later when you should actually be awake.
From Ninth
Yes sir! (-)
Hisashi then proceeded to do just that. It was a bit of a hassle to try and maintain a current civilian identity but the freedom to gather information like this was well worth it. Little Eri's Quirk was still the only one of real interest to him but it was still a fun exercise to look into all the other Quirks and offer ways to better utilize or combat them.
It was interesting as the day progressed to be able to know the actual time that meals happened for others for a change as well as when his two daily set human interactions were as his IV bags were swapped out. Even knowing that the guard changing the bag would not speak with him, Hisashi still greeted him as he always did before being left alone once more.
Lacking anything to do while "Athos Hisashi" slept, he decided to stalk the Ninth on another site. He searched up the one other site the boy visited regularly that he did not already have an account on, Our Hero Archived Anthologies or OHA2 for short.
…
The boy wrote All Might fanfiction. Hisashi wasn't sure what he had been expecting but he wasn't sure how to feel about this. Especially since about half were reader gets adopted by the hero type fics from the tags. It was kind of… sad really wasn't it? While he had yet to formally confirm it, it seemed the boy was desperate for a good father figure and from the dates on some of the more recently started fics, All Might was most certainly not stepping up to fill the role his successor clearly needed from him.
Despite what some might think, Hisashi never attempted to act as a father towards his own successor not out of malice or neglect but because that is what the boy had needed when he was younger. Someone to trust that was as far removed from the man who had ruined his life as possible. A teacher, a Sensei, was what he needed, not another Father. Of course, his own injuries had forced him to make the hard decision to go from shaping the young man into a competent ally to that of a powerful future host body but that did not change the fact that he had never neglected his own student like All Might seemed to be doing.
He was about to resign himself to spending the next few days reading, uh gag, All Might fluff fics when he spotted something different from the rest in the boy's catalog. It had significantly less hits on it than the other fics as well as the Crack Treated Seriously tag but the summary caught his eye as well as a Tag with his own Villain and Quirk name as well as Tomura's.
A Different Sort of Hero by MightyBoytheMightySon
Summery:
All for One was a lot of things. A monster. A liar. A thief. But something everyone seemed to have forgotten was that he didn't start out that way. Once upon a time, he was an elder brother…
Since All for One's name is currently unknown, I am currently using the name Shigaraki Hisashi for him since he is Shigaraki Tomura's Sensei and I thought the pun of "a long time ago" was funny. His brother is going to be Yoichi for "giving one" for plot reasons later.
゚ ゚*()*゚ ゚*
Hisashi would have blinked in shock if he could. How did the boy know their names? No other holder had ever known them after his brother's name was lost in the transfer of the Quirk over the years.
He clicked on the fic and started to read.
Growing up, Shigaraki Hisashi had been told he was lucky. Born to a wealthy Metahuman free family in a nice safe neighborhood free of such contamination that was the Metahuman freaks of nature. He was healthy and receiving the best education money could buy. With slightly curly black hair and obsidian black eyes, everyone around agreed that he was the cutest kid in the neighborhood, only rivaled by his sadly slickly younger brother whose own dark hair had quickly fallen out to be replaced with stress induced white and shining green gems for eyes. There had been the fear at the start that his illness was a sign of his younger brother being born as one of the freaks but when he passed age 5 and showed no signs of being anything other than a kid with a congenital autoimmune disorder everyone relaxed and began to treat him just as kindly if not more so then they did Hisashi.
But there was a catch to this life because Hisashi was not in fact lucky. In a secret he would never share with anyone, Hisashi knew he was different. A freak.
He could see meta factors. Not all the time of course but if he brushed up his palm to the skin of someone with one there it would be plain as day…
As Hisashi read, his stomach twisted in shock. This was far too accurate. Somehow, the Ninth knew his own past. A past that he had begun burying the day he buried his baby brother. Somehow the Ninth was ghostwriting for his late brother.
As the story continued recounting his tale as he had once told it to his own brother, Hisashi knew he couldn't just ignore this but he couldn't exactly comment on this as himself right now without revealing he had internet access. While it pained him, he had an idea for a name that likely would never be traced back to himself.
SimpForOne on Chapter 5
I see you are a fellow degenerate who agrees that before his face got potato-ed All for One was probs a hottie. Why not make his hair white and eyes red from the start though if you were just planning on changing them so soon after?
He doubted he was going to get a reply anytime soon. The boy was likely distracted with the chaos Hisashi had likely caused with his class.
Checking the time, it was nearly noon. Three more hours before he would send his email of Quirk questions to the boy. Damn, he was going to have to read the fluff now wasn't he.
Notes:
Just noticed my notes got deleted accidentally. All Izuku's Rollr posts were inspired by incorrectheroquotes on Tumblr so credit where credit is due.
Chapter 2: Beginnings
Summary:
The Swap and the seeds of Doubt begin to grow.
Notes:
Originally posted June 28, 2022
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Midoriya Izuku had been having a fairly normal morning. He had woken up briefly around 3 in the morning but once the sun was up, he was up and going for his usual morning jog. He was just getting back when a scream rang out from his dorm. As he picked up the pace to try and make it back to help, another rang out and another and another. Before he knew it, his classmates and the students of class 1-B were spilling out onto the grass between their dorms. Except these weren't his classmates. Not really.
Aoyama's blonde locks had been replaced by vines.
Ashido was no longer pink and lacked her signature horns.
Iida now bore a set of shark-like teeth and metal around his eyes under his glasses. His hair a light steel gray instead of its normal deep blue
Uraraka lacked her signature pink cheeks.
Ojiro exchanged his normal tail for a shorter one and had gained a set of horns and a set of more hoof-like feet.
Kaminari had lost the black in his hair and golden eyes had turned a light blue.
Kirishima had traded his shark-like teeth for a more skull-like jaw and his red eyes for black.
Jiro's earphone jacks had been replaced with void black skin and her hair turned white
Sero's exposed elbows were just normal looking human ones.
Todoroki spilt coloration was replaced with black eyes and hair.
Bakugou's normally fluffy hair was a limp ice blue and his crimson eyes were black.
Yaoyorozu's hair had shifted into the green spectrum
Asui, Hagakure, Koda, Mineta, Sato, Shoji and Tokoyami weren't even identifiable either from the mutations they gained or the ones they had lost.
And that wasn't even taking into consideration class 1-B yet.
Somehow all of their Quirks had swapped across classes. All of them except himself with One for All.
As he stared at the group slightly dumbfounded, several of the teachers ran up from their own on campus housing. "What is going-" Aizawa-sensei cut himself off as he took in the panicked group. He seemed to freeze and quickly scan the group before stopping and relaxing slightly when he seemed to realize that whatever had happened to the group had not affected Izuku himself. Izuku wasn't sure if he should be flattered by the clearly targeted concern or not.
His sensei flared his Quirk at the group as Vlad-sensei stepped up next to him. "That's enough everyone. We cannot figure out what is going on if you are all panicking like this. Everyone, I want you to figure out who has your Quirk and stand next to them. We need to figure out if this is a one to one exchange or not."
Aizawa-sensei turned to the other teachers. "Check the other homerooms. We need to know if this is just localized with these two classes or not." As the other teachers, sans All Might, ran off to check on the other students, he turned to Izuku. "Problem Child, how is it for once you are the only one unaffected?"
Izuku felt a flash of panic as he waved his arms. "I have no idea! I just woke up and went on my morning jog and came back to screaming!"
All Might drifted over to rest a hand on his shoulder. "Is it possible that by going on his morning jog he avoided whatever caused all of this?"
Vlad-sensei nodded. "Yeah that seems like the most likely reason for now."
Before they could discuss other possibilities, Mic-sensei came back with a student in tow. A student who looked near identical to a younger Aizawa-sensei with his new now limply messy but still strangely fluffy black hair and black eyes. "Shinso was affected too. I'll be honest I nearly had a heart attack when I saw him though."
Aizawa-sensei and Shinso exchanged slow blinks before a voice that was clearly recognizable as Todoroki's drifted up out of the group of students. "Aizawa-sensei is Shinso your secret love child?"
Aizawa-sensei and Shinso snorted as Mic-sensei burst into a fit of giggles. Aizawa-sensei leveled Todoroki with a look. "I am both to young and too gay to be his biological father. As far as I am aware we are not actually related in any meaningful way." He turned back to Shinso. "Go figure out who has your Quirk."
The boy dawned a grin. "Sure thing Dad~. "
Aizawa-sensei surprisingly just huffed and let the boy's joke slide. It took a few minutes but soon everyone on class 1-A and 1-B had a match from the other class with the exception of a now lavender haired Monoma who was paired with Shinso.
Aizawa-sensei had Izuku run and fetch a notebook and pen so that he could help by making a list of who had each Quirk for each class. The lists were as followed:
1-A
Aoyama Yuga with Shiozaki's Vines
Ashido Mina with Komori's Mushroom
Asui Tsuyu with Rin's Scales
Iida Tenya with Tatsutetsu's Steel
Uraraka Ochako with Tsuburaba's Solid Air
Ojiro Mashirao with Tsunotori's Horn Cannon
Kaminari Denki with Kaibara's Gyrate
Kirishima Eijiro with Honenuki's Softening
Koda Koji with Shishida's Beast
Sato Rikido with Kamakiri's Razor Sharp
Shoji Mezo with Fukidashi's Comic
Jiro Kyoka with Kuroiro's Black
Sero Hanta with Awase's Weld
Tokoyami Fumikage with Kendo's Big Fist
Todoroki Shoto with Kodai's Size
Hagakure Tooru with Yanagi's Poltergeist
Bakugou Katsuki with Shoda's Twin Impact
Midoriya Izuku uneffected
Mineta Minoru with Bondo's Cemedine
Yaoyorozu Momo with Tokage's Lizard Tail Splitter
1-B
Awase Yosetsu with Sero's Tape
Kaibara Sen with Kaminari's Electrification
Kamakiri Togaru with Sato's Sugar Rush
Kuroiro Shihai with Jiro's Earphone Jack
Kendo Itsuka with Tokoyami's Dark Shadow
Kodai Yui with Todoroki's Half-Cold Half-Hot
Komori Kinoko with Ashido's Acid
Shiozaki Ibara with Aoyama's Navel Laser
Shishida Jurota with Koda's Anivoice
Shoda Nirengeki with Bakugou's Explosion
Tsunotori Pony with Ojiro's Tail
Tsubursba Kosei with Uraraka's Zero Gravity
Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu with Iida's Engine
Tokage Setsuna with Yaoyorozu's Creation
Fukidashi Manga with Shoji's Dupli-Arms
Honenuki Juzo with Kirishima's Hardening
Bondo Kojiro with Mineta's Pop Off
Monoma Neito with Shinso's Brainwashing
Yanagi Reiko with Hagakure's Invisibility
Rin Hiryu with Asui's Frog
1-C
Shinso Hitoshi with Monoma's Copy
Aizawa-sensei hummed slightly to himself as he looked over his copy. "Vlad you are seeing this too, right?"
Vlad-sensei shook his head. "What am I supposed to be seeing?"
"Hardening for Softening. Anivoice for Beast. Tape for Weld. Invisibility for Poltergeist. These are likely not completely random swaps."
All Might looked at the list himself over Aizawa-sensei's shoulder. "You think this was intentional on someone's part."
"I think that is something worth considering."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Understandably classes were canceled for the day and students were locked down in their dorms, the exception being Shinso and Izuku himself since it seemed that the boy had been affected in his place. As a result, Shinso was left in the 1-A dorms as Izuku found himself locked in an otherwise empty meeting room on the main campus while they waited for the police to arrive and help investigate.
So given that Izuku was alone with his phone for the foreseeable future, he decided to log into OHA2 to check for messages on his fics and to see if any of the fics he was following had updated. He had been stuck killing time in the room for a few hours when to his surprise, someone commented on A Different Sort of Hero. It was such a different fic from what he normally posted that he was always surprised when someone commented on it.
It probably didn't help that he generally wrote chapters of the fic when he woke up apparently in the middle of the night so completely dead to the world he often only half remembered even waking up.
He read over the comment and frowned at the Anon's chosen username. SimpForOne? Really?
MightyBoytheMightySon on Chapter 5
Quirk triggered hair and eye color changes used to be pretty common in my research of early Quirk manifestations. Up until that part of the story All for One hadn't actually used his Quirk fully so the change got delayed several years. Given how Quirks were viewed at the time, many kids repressed their Quirks subconsciously until puberty when the changes in their hormones made accidental use more likely. I hope that clears things up. (-)
It only took a few minutes for SimpForOne to respond.
SimpForOne on Chapter 5
How can someone with such a talent for research on obscure Quirk history knowledge waste so much time writing All Might Adopts Reader fics? I feel like I should ask if you are okay? I can only assume that given the ages that the Reader is in each fic are slowly aging that you are around the same age as the most recent one so 16ish. Also shouldn't you be in class right now?
MightyBoytheMightySon on Chapter 5
Yeah I haven't really been hiding my age have I? Classes have been canceled while the police and heroes investigate an incident at my school so I have a free day today. Can I ask about your choice in username?
SimpForOne on Chapter 5
I think it is pretty self explanatory. I simp for one man and one man alone.
MightyBoytheMightySon on Chapter 5
Why, though? Surely there are better options.
SimpForOne on Chapter 5
Most people close to my age aren't in nearly that good of shape, sans the head injury. Before you ask, yes, I am old enough to be your grandfather. No, I am not ashamed to admit that. I am old, not dead.
Izuku snorted to himself as he read the apparent man's last comment.
MightyBoytheMightySon on Chapter 5
If you're that old, why are you reading my adoption fics?
SimpForOne on Chapter 5
A combination of curiosity as to what else one of my new favorite authors writes and boredom. Retirement is not terribly exciting on the day to day.
MightyBoytheMightySon on Chapter 5
I'm one of your favorite authors?! (。‿‿。)
SimpForOne on Chapter 5
Sure kid. You are one of the few people on here that seems to know what they are talking about when it comes to Quirks and Hero law. You working on going into heroics or something heroics adjacent?
MightyBoytheMightySon on Chapter 5
Yes actually. I won't say more since I would die if my classmates linked his account to me though.
SimpForOne on Chapter 5
That is more than fair, kid.
Feeling the conversation had run its course he resumed browsing the site. He had just started reading another author's Reader is All Might's Sidekick fic when there was a knock on the door before Tsukauchi entered with Aizawa-sensei and All Might on his heels. Izuku quickly flipped his phone face down on the desk and gave them a wave.
"Hey detective."
The man offered Izuku a smile. "I would say good morning but the fact that I am even here sort of negates that. I was hoping you can recount your past 24 hours for me…"
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
"...had a pretty good night's sleep for the most part. I mean, I still woke up for about 30 minutes a little after 3 since I was hungry but I fell back asleep immediately after I finished my Cup'O'Noodles and didn't wake up again until my alarm went off for my run this morning. Up until I heard the screams on my way back from my run, nothing seemed out of the ordinary this morning."
"You wake up in the middle of the night often?"
Izuku shrugged. "Some nights are better than others."
The Detective nodded. "Well that should be all for now. If you think of anything out of the ordinary, let me know. Eraser, if we could, I would like to start interviewing the rest of your class now."
Aizawa-sensei paused at the door as he followed the detective out. "All Might make sure Midoriya stays put here and out of trouble until the investigation is done will you."
All Might was quick to nod. "Of course Eraser! I will be more than happy to keep young Midoriya company."
Izuku thought he might have heard his teacher mutter something along the lines of "of course you would" before the door slid shut. All Might turned to give a smile to him that Izuku had always found made him feel nice and fuzzy on the inside. "So young Midoriya, I noticed you were reading something on your phone when we came in. Anything interesting?"
Izuku flushed as the memory of what he had been reading hit him. He quickly fumbled for a less embarrassing answer. "Oh, uh, a professional Quirk Analyst stumbled across my Rollr and we have been exchanging emails. He is the one the doctors were trying to contact about Eri's Quirk so I was able to talk him into looking into her case a little sooner in his off hours."
All Might pulled out the chair the detective had sat in and sat down. "Really? I am not sure if I should applaud your efforts to help young Eri or frown disappointingly at you for making the poor man likely work overtime."
Izuku winced. "I mean the moment he heard she was stuck in the hospital until either he or another analyst got to her case he immediately offered to look into it before he went to bed. The only reason there was such a large backlog for him is the HPSC hired him to research and analyze All for One's Quirks to try and help ensure his containment."
All Might scratched his chin. "Ah… That would be Athos Hisashi if I had to guess. Perhaps I should send him some of my own notes from my own investigations before my fight with All for One six years ago to see if that maybe could help him."
Izuku shrugged. "Hold on, I can send him an email to ask him if he wants them real quick for him to see when he wakes up. He is currently in the States right now chasing some old leads so is probably still asleep."
"Ah well if he is already there, he might not need my notes after all but feel free."
To Athos Hisashi
I know you are probably asleep right now but I mentioned that we exchanged emails to All Might. He wanted to offer his own notes on All for One to help with your research.
To his surprise, the man responded almost immediately.
From Athos Hisashi
Gimme.
In all seriousness that would likely be a huge help. I would have contacted All Might directly for his notes but I thought I would give him a bit of time to recover from the fight and forgot I never sent the request. Thanks for reminding me, Midoriya.
Also I will send you that list of questions in a bit. I am going to make myself some coffee first.
Izuku looked up from his phone at All Might who had leaned over to look over his shoulder. "What is he talking about? The list of questions?"
"Oh, that is why he contacted me originally on my Rollr, he wanted to ask a few questions about my Quirk to help me with the whole bone breaking thing. Uh, it is kinda embarrassing, but one of the common tags people use for me is Bone Breaking Kid because of my fight with Todoroki back during the Sports Festival."
All Might smiled. "Ah, that was nice of him. It is not often he analyzes a Quirk for someone without being asked first. I do have to wonder though if he is only asking due to the similarities of our Quirks. The fact that I refuse to answer some of his questions about my own has always seemed to annoy him in our few email exchanges."
"Just email? You've not met him in person?"
All Might shook his head. "No, I am not sure who all have but I suspect it isn't a long list. As social as he is online, he has terrible social anxiety to the point there have evidently been a few times he had met with heroes and they don't even realize that fact until after he turns in his report on them later. It doesn't help that he has gotten to the point that he can get independent doctors to run his tests for him and review the data later. I suspect the HPSC are only letting the man get away with it because doing things this way has only made the turn around on his reports that much faster."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
It started as an innocent question.
"Does anyone think it's weird that Midoriya was the only one not caught up in whatever this is?"
All of class 1-A's attention seemed to turn to Hitoshi sprawled out on their dorm's couch, arm slung over his eyes to better ignore them as he failed to fall back asleep. God he wished he could have slept in more after only falling asleep a little before 3 the previous night.
A voice he vaguely recognized as belonging to Kaminari responded. "What do you mean?"
"I am just saying it is weird that a couple days after he spontaneously seems to gain a second Quirk out of the blue during the joint training this happens to everyone else that participated except him."
A weight seemed to settle on the back of the couch above him. "You think the two things are related?" Kirishima was leaning over him.
With a sigh he pulled his arm back to look up at the red haired boy. "Seems less likely then that they aren't."
"If that is true then how Midoriya reacted to his new Quirk seems kinda sus in retrospect. I mean while he definitely seemed startled when it first happened, he didn't seem confused at all about it. He also figured out how to use it almost immediately too."
Uraraka seemed to glare at Sero. "Wait, you can't seriously think Deku had something to do with this!?"
Yaoyorozu bit her lip. "It is a good point though as much as it pains me to say it."
Bakugou huffed. "You can't seriously fucking think this was him?"
Ashido scratched her chin. "I mean there is that rumor going around that the teachers think there might be a traitor that was at the Training Camp that is working with the League of Villains. Isn't the whole MO of Shigaraki's sensei that he can give and take Quirks? Maybe he isn't the only one."
Sato crossed his arms as looked over at Bakugou. "Am I the only one who remembers that Bakugou called Midoriya Quirkless at one point?"
Bakugou seemed to tense and repeatedly clinched his hands. "What of it? Fucking Deku's Quirk came in late because it would have probably fucking killed him had in come in sooner."
"Did it though? Or did All for One give it to him shortly before he came to UA in exchange for him to act as his spy?"
It devolved from there. Before he knew it, Hitoshi found himself in the middle of a massive argument between a class divided. Hitoshi was shocked at how fast some of the class flipped on Midoriya and started to blatantly accuse him. With each point raised, the more and more damning things were looking for the boy.
A part of him felt guilty even if he was pretty sure he was right. Still, there were a few of the class who steadfastly refused to believe in the possibility but only a few. And slowly, bit by bit, they were starting to cave too.
Bakugou finally folded when he couldn't explain away the second Quirk even if he swore up and down that the first was the other boy's own. That left only Todoroki at this point who steadfastly refused to believe in the boy's guilt in spite of all the mounting evidence.
"Midoriya would never betray us like that. He has been nothing but a loyal friend to all of us." The boy stood up and walked over to the stairs leading up to the dorm rooms. "I just hope you will all remember that when you realize how big a mistake you are making."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
If Shoto was honest, he did agree with the class that Midoriya was likely involved in whatever was going on with their Quirks. That didn't change the fact that he would stand with him regardless. As Natsuo had commented when he had spoken with him after his return from Hosu, Shoto and Midoriya were "Ride or Die" friends. While he was uncertain exactly what that meant, from his brother's slightly amused tone and smile, it was probably a good thing.
What he did know was that he was going to take Midoriya's Quirk Analysis notebooks and relocate them to the safety of his own room so that the others would not attempt to use them as proof of wrongdoing on his part or otherwise destroy them. While he knew that Bakugou at least likely knew about them, he was uncertain the others knew for certain just what Midoriya was always scribbling away at in his notebooks given that none of them had brought them up despite the boy's obsessive habit of excitingly picking apart Quirks.
He suspected that Bakugou likely was not going to bring them up. While he knew Bakugou's and Midoriya's relationship was complicated, the fact that it was clear Bakugou was only agreeing with the group on the whole to get them to leave him out of it suggested that he would at least not reveal any more possible damning evidence against him for the rest of the class.
As Shoto picked up the notebooks and shuffled a few things on the other boys' desk to hide their absence, he noticed one of them was different from the others. He opened it, read a few of the first handful of sentences and immediately decided to leave that one there.
Perhaps the content in there would help remove the suspicion from Midoriya.
Notes:
All for One just here breaking into people's homes at night and looking at the Quirk and then sending the report in the following afternoon to mess with people. Also yes All for One has contacted All Might as Athos in the vague how to get the man to do the work of finding his own weaknesses for him to exploit for him. All Might has no idea that Athos and All for One are actually the same person obviously. Bakugou is here in the awkward position of knowing that Izuku is the last person they should be suspecting since he is All Might's successor and can't say any about it. It doesn't help that he is still in the dark as to how Izuku spontaneously gained access to Blackwhip either.
Chapter 3: Family History
Summary:
All for One accidently becomes attached
Notes:
Originally posted June 30, 2022
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Hisashi was surprised to find he had not lied to the Ninth about the boy being one of his new favorite authors. If he set aside the All Might aspect of most of the boy's writing, he clearly had a talent for it. He had actually found himself annoying hooked on the boy's most recent story where the reader insert was a 16 year old orphan enrolled at UA that had caught All Might's eye when the staff had gone to visit the boy's home to discuss the new dorm system and discovered he had been living on his own for years.
As much as he would deny it, he actually was starting to get curious about the boy's home life. Looking at the other stories, the boy had only just started writing the Reader insert as an orphan. The sudden change suggested that something recently had made it impossible for him to continue with his old fantasy of his mother and All Might ending up together in the end. He found himself wondering if it was just that the boy's mother just didn't get along with the man or that something had happened between the two of them. Based on what he had learned thus far about her from reading between the lines though, she had always been someone who cared deeply for the boy, even when the boy had been discovered to be Quirkless so losing her likely would have been a major blow for the boy.
It had been several hours since he had sent the boy his questionnaire on his Quirk and he had resigned himself at this point that he was not going to respond with all his answers today. That was not terribly surprising given that one of the questions was asking for a family medical and Quirk history and the boy would likely have had to consult with his mother for that if he even answered that question at all. Plus there was the chaos at UA currently from his little prank to consider. While the boy had had some free time that late morning and early afternoon, who knows how long that grace period had lasted for him.
Hisashi found himself yawning as he struggled to stay awake going on hour 38 of being up continuously without interruption. He just had to make it a bit longer so he could greet his guard for his second IV change of the day so they would not suspect anything. He could hold out that little much longer.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Izuku found himself fidgeting at his desk with a pen in hand to half distract himself. Upon his return to the dorm, his stomach had sunk when it slowly became clear that in his absence suspicion had fallen on him from most of his classmates for this freak Quirk reshuffle. Only Kacchan and Todoroki seemed to not agree with the class consensus. After he had retreated to hide here in his room, Todoroki had quietly dropped by to explain he had relocated his notebooks to protect them and him since his obsession with Quirks had apparently been one of the points of suspicion raised against him in his absence.
All of his notebooks except his fanfiction plot notebook. One that Todoroki now knew existed and had admitted to reading the first page of. The page with a story blurb that Todoroki had liked enough to ask if there was an actual story to read like that which led to his showing Todoroki the fic on the site that the boy had just commented as looking forward to reading later.
In his embarrassment Izuku felt that death could not come fast enough.
At least Kacchan's visit hadn't left him longing for the earth to open up and swallow him whole. He had just swung by for a minute to tell him in a lowered voice that he and All Might needed to get their story straight since he had not been able to really cover for them and asked what was up with the second Quirk anyway. When Izuku had admitted that he was likely going to get 5 more Quirks from the previous holders of One for All, Kacchan had just rolled his eyes and commented that of course he would and left. Or, well, the conversation had held more cursing on the other boy's part but Izuku had long ago trained himself to tune the spicier part of his friend's language out.
Now he was considering how to respond to the emailed list of questions that Athos had sent him. Some of them were easier than others of course since they were questions that he knew the answers to well enough about his Quirk now but there were some that he had to consider how he worded things so as to not reveal the truth of what One for All really was.
But then there was the first question. The question he had been forced to skip over for now. The one that basically forced him to have to call his mother if he was going to answer it. The question he was not entirely sure if he should answer.
"If you could provide as complete a family Quirk and medical history for me as you can, I might be able to help find the root cause for your Quirk causing such unusually high backlash for you."
It was a perfectly reasonable request but there were two major problems with it. One, his quirk was so completely unrelated to either of his parent's Quirks that it would likely draw unnecessary attention. Two, Izuku honestly knew basically nothing about his family medical and Quirk histories. Sure, he knew his mother's Quirk like the back of his hand and yes, he knew at least on an academic level what his father's Quirk was, but that was basically it. The only other thing he knew about his family history was that his mother was evidently fourth generation but that was it.
Most people who had met him over the years growing up had often assumed that his father must have walked out on him and his mother after his diagnosis as Quirkless but that wasn't the truth. The truth of the matter was this, Izuku had never even met his father. In fact, Izuku suspected that the man might not even know Izuku was his son.
That wasn't to say he didn't know who the man was, his mother had never hidden that from him, but the fact of the matter was this, Izuku had come from a one night stand of his mother's with a one of Endeavor's long standing Sidekicks, Salamander. A man who his mother had discovered after the fact was already married. His mother, not wanting to be a homewrecker, had decided to just be a single mother. Between her well paying job in law and the help she had gotten from the Bakugou's early on, she had more than succeeded in giving him the best childhood she could given the circumstances.
After a lot of mental debate on the topic, he picked up his phone and called his mother.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Hisashi had been struggling to keep awake as the guard changed his IV when he got his email response from the Ninth. That helped perk him back up a bit alongside the ice now flowing into his veins from the chilled IV fluid.
From Ninth
Sorry that took so long but I needed to call my mother to ask about the family history stuff not that it really helped. My mom grew up in the foster system so all she really knows is what was listed on her file when she was admitted when she was still a baby. Outside of my Dad's Quirk his side is a mystery too but that is due to the fact that he and my mom never really had a relationship and he has no idea I am his son so on that note, his Quirk is a fire breathing one.
Mom's Quirk is called Attraction. She can use it to remotely call any small object back to her hand. My mom is listed as being fourth generation but beyond that we don't know any more. Her parent's information was largely redacted so all we know about them is that her father died a few weeks before she entered the system and her mother apparently died less than a year later. Everything else like names, Quirks and medical history are unknown.
The rest of the questions are much easier to answer. For starters, my Quirk manifested extremely late in an incident that broke every bone in three out of my four limbs upon activation. We think that if it had activated sooner that I might have blown off a limb so my body was repressing the Quirk up until I gained more body mass that I wouldn't immediately lose a limb when I used it for the first time…
The boy then went on to give a rather impressive analysis of One for All and, shockingly, Blackwhip after playing off the latter as a different form of expression in the Quirk with which he could channel the stockpiled energy besides the strength and speed boosting aspects. He was using a Quirk of one of the previous holders as his own. Hisashi's thought that the boy was different from the previous holders was looking to be correct. The boy had the potential to use all the Quirks of the previous holders and was already on his way to unlocking them.
He couldn't help but wonder how that possibility would affect things with the boy's class.
Still the possibilities that implied about his brother's lost Quirk were intriguing. Add that with the fact that the boy had access to his brother's memories in some form was giving credence to his hope that if he obtained One for All, he would regain his brother.
Perhaps with some work, he might be able to talk the boy around to relinquishing the Quirk in exchange for one significantly less harmful for his Quirkless body. Or at least he presumed that to be the case given that he described himself as an extremely late bloomer over having undergone a Quirk mutation like the other holders excluding All Might had.
With that all in mind he drafted one last email before he allowed himself to succumb to his bone deep exhaustion.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
As Izuku sat in his room anxiously avoiding his largely distressed classmates, he had begun to write to distract himself. Writing had always been a great source of stress relief for himself growing up. Whether it be writing up notes on heroes or just getting his thoughts down onto paper, the process of writing with pen on paper had always been soothing. Now that he was older the sound of his keyboard keys clicking away helped tune the static out of his brain.
He had nearly knocked out a new chapter of his most recent fic, A Plus Ultra Life, when he got a response to his earlier email.
From Athos Hisashi
Give me a couple days to review what you sent me properly and possibly do some digging into your family history on my end. From the sound of things your Quirk is likely not well suited to your body due to it being a mutation given it is so different from your parents at first glance, but it is possible it might not be and merely skipped a generation and came back stronger in you then your grandparent who had carried the Quirk before.
I have some friends in high places that might be able to find out why your maternal grandparents were redacted from your mother's paperwork since it sounds like she was possibly entered into the system under witness protection. Of course if you and your mother are uncomfortable with me doing so, I can drop it. Unless you can give me a name for your biological father there is not much I can do on that end given how prevalent fire elemental Quirks are.
I suspect I might actually need to have you run a few tests on your Quirk at some point to really figure out how it ticks even with how unexpectedly in depth your notes were. Out of curiosity, have you ever considered a job in the Quirk Analysis field yourself? I know you mentioned it being a hobby of yours but it seems to me you have skill in that area beyond just someone who dabbles in the field. Your analysis was better organized and more in depth then what I have received from other professionals in the past. What I am saying is if you ever need a job, I would be more than happy to take you under my wing.
Izuku stared at the email dumbfounded.
Athos thought he could make a living from his notes? Izuku felt a watery smile spread across his face. No one had ever said anything nice about his analysis before outside of his mother. The best he had gotten was Todoroki who had taken to seeking him out for his thoughts on how to improve in training. Most either ignored his efforts or thought them creepy. But here was the leading professional in the field saying his notes were better then other professional analysts he had worked with.
Last year, he had thought All Might telling him he could be a Hero was the best thing he had ever been told but as time passed that moment had soured slightly. Sure All Might believed in him as a Hero but he had never truly refuted his first response to Izuku's question, that someone Quirkless could be a Hero like him. A part of Izuku couldn't help but just feel like a vessel for the Quirk and not someone with the potential to be a great Hero without it from how he had often talked. Of course now he knew that All Might himself had been Quirkless and his own history had soured the idea of a Quirkless Hero for the man but being constantly thought of as only a possible second All Might was grating at the edges of his mind. Part of the reason his relationship with his idol Sir Nighteye had been so turbulent was the man had struggled to see past that idea and see Izuku as he was.
Izuku knew he would never be a second All Might so now that he was here getting recognition he had earned without once being compared to the man was like walking on air. He felt seen. Seen in a way he had never been before. It felt good.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
The rest of the week for Hisashi was spent sporadically messaging Midoriya and tampering with the digital security of the prison. As the glitches became more and more common and lasted longer and longer, the security guards had slowly started to relax as it seemed that their most dangerous charge seemed to be unaware of the technical issues. It was taking longer and longer after each glitch now for them to come check on him with the glitches coming closer and closer together. Finally, by Friday afternoon, they didn't even come check on him until his "dinner" time despite the system being down the whole afternoon.
From the messages he was intercepting they had made a call out during one of the up times to the mainland for a tech specialist to run a diagnostic and repair the system but he would not be arriving until the next day. It was time.
As he took the system down for one last time, he made sure to trash the servers to delay their return as long as possible. Then it just took a quick activation of Warping to bring Kurogiri to himself as he tore himself free of his restraints that frankly had never really been doing anything to hold him. Since Kurogiri was still very much under sedation, he used Force Quirk Activation on the Nomu and opened a Warp Gate to an alley next to the hospital that the little girl was being kept in.
Hisashi leaned Kurogiri to rest and recover up against the wall hidden between one of the dumpsters and a stack of wooden pallets. He then activated his Technopathy Quirk and quietly slunk through a side door and up to her room remaining unseen by allowing his injured and medical scrub covered form to blend with other patients going to late evening walks. All it took was a brief activation of his Lullaby and he was past the police officer posted at her door.
The girl looked up from what Hisashi assumed was a coloring book from the sound of crayon on paper. "Oh! Hello? Are you lost, Mister?"
Hisashi slowly slid into one of the chairs next to her. "That depends. You wouldn't happen to be the Eri my new friend Midoriya Izuku was telling me about, would you?"
The girl seemed to relax slightly at that. "You're friends with Deku?"
Hisashi nodded with a smile. "Quite the nice and brilliant boy."
"Then yes! Deku talks about me with you? Do you know why?"
Hisashi gave the girl his best soft smile given the state of his face. "But of course he talks about you. You are his hero too after all. You using your Quirk on him not only helped him save you but saved the lives of so many-" Hisashi found himself cut off as he started to cough. From the metallic taste, there was blood.
"Oh no mister! Are you okay?"
Hisashi gave a small chuckle. "No not really but I was hoping you could help me fix that. Could you try and use your Quirk on me?"
The girl bit her lip. "I can't control it. I don't want to make you disappear too."
Hisashi reached out a hand to ruffle the girl's hair gently. "Don't worry, so long as I have my hand on you like this I can take it away to stop you with my own Quirk if you lose control."
She perked up. "Oh! Like Mr. Aizawa can!"
He nodded. "Exactly."
She gave a determined nod and reached out to put her hands on Hisashi. Hisashi felt the power of her Quirk racing over him. It took mere moments before he was blinking his eyes open once more for the first time in over six years. Quickly sensing the girl had lost control badly enough to not be able to stop on her own, he used his own Quirk to momentarily disrupt her Quirk factor, effectively shutting it off.
She sat blinking on her bed in surprise before breaking into a wild grin. "I did it! I fixed you!"
Hisashi laughed and removed his hand from her head with another ruffle of her hair. "That you did. So how about as a reward I take you outside for ice cream or something tomorrow?"
She grinned. "Can we go see Deku?"
Hisashi smiled at the little girl. "We can try. However if we do, I want to ask that you keep it a secret that I had you use your Quirk on me. Deku doesn't know I was hurt and I would rather he not worry about that fact now that it doesn't matter anymore."
She seemed to consider that. "I don't want to lie to Deku…"
"It would not be lying so much as not mentioning it. You are more than welcome to tell him the truth if he ever asks but what he doesn't know won't hurt him. I think we both know how much of a big heart he has and the last thing he needs is to be fretting over me when I am perfectly fine now thanks to your help, my little Hero."
She brightened. "Okay, mister-" Her smile faltered. "You never told me your name."
Hisashi gave her an apologetic look. "Ah, that is my bad Eri. I am Athos Hisashi. I help people with their Quirks for a living which is how I know Deku and why I have been chatting with him. We both want you to be able to go home sooner rather than later."
She bit her lip. "What if I don't have a home to go back to?"
Hisashi felt himself actually softening, old memories of him and his brother living on the streets dancing through his head. "Well maybe I will have to just take you home with me."
Her eyes widened. "You would want to take me home with you?"
"I know the pain of not having anyone to fall back on Eri." He took her hands in his own. "Besides, who better to help you become the best you can be then someone who can help you train your Quirk without any danger to themself?"
As she looked up from their hands and met his gaze, her eyes were watering. "Thank you."
In an impulse Hisashi had not felt in over a century he leaned over to plant a kiss on the crown of her head. "No Eri, thank you."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
The next few days passed in a chaotic blur for Izuku. They had picked back up normal classes the next day but until their Quirks were restored to normal or it was found to be permanent, all practical heroics lessons had to be suspended with Izuku being the only one that would have been able to participate normally.
Some had taken to the change in their Quirk better than others. Todoroki, while not entirely sure how to feel about his new Quirk, was thrilled at the fact the change had erased the only physical features he had inherited from Endeavor and had confessed to Izuku in private that he honestly wouldn't mind if the change turned out permanent. Hagakure was in a similar boat in that she was so happy that she was visible for the first time in her life that she couldn't care less if she got her Quirk back right away or not. Of course, Izuku was slightly saddened that apparently, the happiness she felt from being seen didn't change her thoughts about the class's thoughts that he was the traitor.
That was something he was pretty frustrated about. Despite the fact that most all of their teachers had said that Izuku was free of any suspicion about all of this, they seemed to refuse to think otherwise. Izuku was at least relieved that the teachers seemed to actually be on his side for a change which was a bit of a novel experience. In fact, the reason that they were so certain that someone from the outside had broken in and done this was there was clear proof of it. Just after 2:45 am that day, all of the security system was taken down for 20 minutes and Hound Dog had picked up a stranger's scent around the affected dorms.
Even knowing this the class still claimed that he could have easily helped the outsider inside. There was a theory that one of them had thrown out that Shigaraki had sent a special Nomu for the task and it was acting under his own directions as the traitor.
Izuku was so frustrated that he was going to scream.
That is why this weekend he was going home to visit his mother and get out to the mad house that was the dorms. As the only hero student unaffected he was the only one of them not being held back on campus to keep the media from catching wind of the incident before they knew if it was permanent or not. He was also moving his analysis journals back home to further protect them.
He was just rounding the corner at the top of the stairs of his apartment when he spotted a man checking his phone in front of his apartment door. He was tall but not in the lankly way that Sir Nighteye had been or bulky like All Might's Hero form with slightly messy white curls. But it was the tiny figure in his arms that really caught his attention as she seemed to spot him. "Deku! You're here!"
Eri wiggled in the man's arms as he struggled not to drop her. "Ah! Eri let me set you down!"
The moment the girl's feet hit the ground she was off like a shot to slam into Izuku's legs. Scooping her up with a smile, Izuku gave the girl a tight hug. "Eri! What are you doing here? I thought they were still holding you in the hospital?"
Eri pushed away lightly at his chest to point back at the man who had clearly brought her here. "Mr. Athos talked to the doctors about letting me leave to see you!"
"Athos?" Izuku's eyes widened as his attention snapped up to the man. "Wait, you're Athos Hisashi?! Why are you at my apartment? I thought you were still overseas?"
The man gave a bit of a sheepish grin. "Ah, sorry Midoriya, I might have accidentally agreed to bring her to visit with you while Eri and I were chatting. I have been back in the country for a little under 24 hours. I called your school and they said you would be here so here we are."
It was strange, Izuku had not met a man of All Might's physical stature before besides All Might himself that gave off such "please do not pay attention to me'' vibes. Suddenly Izuku was hit with the realization that as much as they had discussed Quirks over the past several days, the other man's had never come up.
Before he could comment on that or the fact that Athos had turned up uninvited at his home address out of the blue, his mother opened the door to see what was going on. She took one look at the massive man in front of her door before shoving past him to give Izuku a hug. "Well who is this you have here Izuku?"
Izuku gave his mother a sheepish smile. "You remember me telling you about Eri. Eri, this is my Mom, Midoriya Inko."
Eri's grin was blinding. "It is nice to meet you Deku's Mom!"
His mom chuckled. "Just Inko is fine dear." She turned back to Athos who was still there standing awkwardly but was softly smiling at the three of them. "Are you little Eri's escort for the day?"
He chuckled and sheepishly nodded before giving a bow. "Athos Hisashi. I am the Quirk analyst working with her to help her with control over her Quirk. I've also exchanged a number of emails with your son recently."
His mother seemed to take a long look at him before she nodded. "Izuku mentioned that the two of you were working on figuring out how to get his Quirk better under control so he stops hurting himself. Not that I don't appreciate the work you are doing but I have to ask how much this will cost?"
Izuku felt embarrassed that the fact that the man did this sort of analysis for a living would probably charge them for the help he was offering had never occurred to him. Athos though gave a laugh. "Oh it is free of charge so long as I can convince your son to allow me to bounce ideas off him from time to time. I am not going to lie, I am extremely disappointed your son is so set on heroics, not that I don't think he will be a good Hero but because I really wish I could hire him to work with me. Your kid is something else when it comes to quick Quirk analysis."
That earned the man a bright smile from his mother as Izuku felt his jaw drop. "You would really hire me?"
The man nodded. "On the spot if I could. I was not being hyperbolic when I was praising your work in our emails. You remember that analysis you sent me for Death Arms's Sidekick Slugger after I mentioned that I was going to work on his analysis while I took a break from my current research project right? You basically did all the work for me on that one so I will be paying you for that work whether you like it or not."
His mother gave the man a considered look. "We should draw up a contract. What is the current going rate for that sort of analysis..."
As he followed his mother and Athos inside his apartment he was slightly torn between horrified that his mother and the man were now verbally sparring over his possible part time employment contract and happy that despite this the two of them seemed to be enjoying themselves. It was only hours later that Izuku had spent mostly watching a movie with Eri and braiding her hair for her that he realized that the man had at some point switched to openly flirting with his mother and to his mounting horror he realized his mom was flirting back.
The two of them had seemed to have just finished writing up a proper contract when a hurried knock at the door interrupted them. Izuku was quick to hop up from the couch beside Eri and waved his mom off with an "I've got it." To his surprise a rather frazzled looking Aizawa-sensei stood at his door.
"Problem Child, why have you not been picking up your phone?"
"Oh, Aizawa-sensei! I'm sorry I must have forgotten to unmute it. Sorry, I have been distracted. Did something happen?"
"Grab your things, you need to get back to the dorms. There has been a breakout from Tartarus."
There was a curse from the dining room table where his mother and Athos had been sitting for the past couple hours. "I told them they needed to sedate him on top of the Quirk suppressants."
Aizawa-sensei looked past him at Athos in confusion. "I thought you and your mother lived alone."
"Ah sorry, Aizawa-sensei, Athos Hisashi. Athos, Aizawa Shouta."
Athos waved Izuku off from his seat at the table. "I know who Eraser is, kid. There aren't many other guys out there with Quirks that can cancel the effects of other's."
Aizawa-sensei was giving the man a strange look. "I was under the impression that you refused to meet anyone in person."
Athos shrugged. "I made an exception for a cute kid and my new part time employee." He held up the sheet of paper that had been in front of him.
Before Aizawa-sensei could comment, Eri rushed past Izuku to tackle Aizawa-sensei's legs. "Mr. Aizawa, are you here to watch the next movie with me and Deku?"
Aizawa-sensei looked down at the girl slightly dumbfounded before he gave Izuku an accusatory look before turning to look at her. "Sorry but if the two of you are going to be watching more moves it will have to be back at UA. There is a bad guy running around and I came here to take Deku and I suppose you someplace safe."
Izuku saw his mother frown before looking at Athos. "You were expecting the breakout right? Should we be concerned?"
Athos scratched his head. "To a degree? The kids should go to UA so the campus can fully lock down since All for One has helped target them in the past. As long as your address is unknown to All for One, you should be theoretically fine but it would probably be safer if you went with them to UA or tag along back to my bolthole with me since I am fairly confident that All for One has no idea where I live."
Aizawa-sensei gave the man a questioning look. "What makes you so sure of that?"
The man shrugged. "I mean if the Commission can't figure out where I live, I doubt All for One will. The man is powerful and smart, yes, but he is hardly omniscient."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Hisashi wasn't quite sure how it had happened but now he had the Ninth's mother in one of his safehouses. A woman who he had a sneaking suspicion was the missing second child of Shimura Nana. A woman with a sharp tongue and wit that her son had clearly inherited. A woman so both unlike her mother and yet so similar it was shocking.
A woman that made his heart skip a nervous beat.
It had been a long time since he had met anyone who had him feeling this flustered just by talking with them. People who were not only not afraid to verbally spar with him but out maneuver him were rare and the raising joy he felt as she kept him on his toes as she hashed out a freelance work contract for her son was euphoric. The last person he had sparred with like that to such a degree had been his brother all those years ago.
So he had tossed out a complement to her and found her returning one in kind. A part of him had been glad for the interruption by Eraserhead since it had stopped them before he had found himself asking her on a date but that brief reprieve was interrupted by himself opening his stupid mouth and inviting her to stay with him to hide from himself.
It was probably the worst decision he could have made but he couldn't bring himself to regret it. As he watched her exploring his largely empty kitchen he had a sudden realization. He couldn't kill the Ninth.
It was not that he had really wanted to at this point, he had not been lying about his thoughts on how brilliant the boy's mind was but the idea of how the woman would react if he did that to her little family- how she would react if she knew what he had already done to her family- was enough to put his stomach in knots.
He couldn't risk messing this up. He couldn't risk losing this, whatever this potentially was.
He couldn't be All for One anymore. Not if he wanted to stand a chance with this little family.
Shit...
Now he knew why he was so hooked on the Ninth's fluff writing. He didn't want to be the Reader in those scenarios, he wanted to be All Might.
He wanted to fill the void in the boy-no in Izuku's life. A void he had been unable to fill with Tomura due to lack of need on his part.
Hisashi wanted to be a father…
Notes:
All for One, no, you cannot just walk up and call dibs on people. That is not how this works. And before you ask. Yes, All for One literally just walked in and kidnapped Eri the next day fully intending to keep her.
Chapter 4: Shimura's
Summary:
The thoughts of the other Shimura's
Notes:
Originally posted July 3, 2022
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
"So are we gonna talk about the fact All for One has Ninth's mother basically hostage right now?"
Nana bit her lip as a few of the other previous holders turned their attention away from Izuku playing with Eri in his dorm room to the Fifth who was standing with his arms crossed. "I would rather not think about what that monster might be doing to my daughter if it is all the same. It is bad enough knowing he has my other grandson under his control."
Her direct predecessor En picked at a loose thread on his sleeve to seemingly avoid meeting her eyes. "There is also the fact that he seems to have tricked little Eri into healing him of his injuries as well as the fact he has been messaging Ninth while he was supposed to be imprisoned in Tartarus."
"I mean we all knew he wasn't all that well contained after he broke into the dorms a few days ago so I don't know why you find that last part surprising," Fourth pointed out.
"I am more interested in how he was acting around Eri, Ninth and his mother. I am pretty sure Hisashi spent more time flirting with Inko than anything else."
Nana turned to give First a bewildered look. "You can't seriously be implying that your brother is planning on trying to seduce my daughter to get to Izuku."
First shook his head. "Not exactly. I've seen my how my brother acts when he is trying to trick someone like that and if that had been his intention from the start he would have been a bit more openly flirty with Inko from the start. It wasn't until they had been going for a bit that he started. As slightly disturbing as the thought might be, I do actually think he was being serious about that."
Nana felt her stomach twist at the thought. "And the kids?"
First bit his lip. "It's strange but he was looking at Eri like he used to look at me. So there is a chance that if he gets spooked he might steal her away to somewhere hidden and lock her away from the perceived dangers there are from the outside world for her like he did me. In other words, he is completely smitten with her, though I am not sure how much that is him seeing her as a hurt little girl or if the fact she reversed the damage Eighth gave him. Only time will tell for that but I don't think he would intentionally hurt her at least. Ninth is a bit more complicated. While I am pretty sure his praise of Ninth's analysis skills was real he could just consider that a novelty."
"I mean it is obvious he is still a threat. You all know what he has done to try and get his hands on the Quirk." Fifth pointed out.
"Except he isn't." Just like that all attention was focused on Fourth.
"Come again?"
Fourth gave Second a shrug. "You know how he has always triggered my Danger Sense before without fail even with us like this?" At a round of nods he continued. "Well he didn't trigger it this time."
Nana felt her jaw drop as she struggled to find words. Fifth beat her to it. "Wait are you saying that-?"
"That All for One had no feelings of aggression towards Ninth? Yes, that is exactly it."
First broke into a broad grin. "Huh, so my brother is capable of letting something go after all."
Fourth shrugged. "Possibly. Honestly, it is just as likely that whatever plan he has to take the Quirk doesn't involve harming the boy. Or more likely even given that I doubt he would just drop it completely."
Suddenly Nana had a thought. "Wait, you don't think he plans on trying to legally gain custody over Izuku do you? Become one of the boy's legal guardians like he did Tenko to turn him into Tomura?"
First grimaced. "Damn, that is possible. Couldn't you have let me enjoy the thought that maybe my brother was going to leave us all alone for at least a few minutes?"
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Contrary to what some might think in wake of Inko's decision to follow what was essentially a stranger back to an undisclosed location, Inko was not stupid. As much as she claimed to be in the dark as to the truth of who her parents were and how they died, she knew the truth. Despite sealing her file after giving her up for adoption, her mother had left her a letter to open once she was old enough to explain things. With the letter was a print of the man her mother claimed was likely behind both her and her husband's deaths. She knew perfectly well who the man who had turned up unannounced really was.
All for One had seemed just as startled by her as she had been of him. So worried that she might never get the chance again, she pushed past him to give her Izuku one last hug. Only the attack she expected never came. Instead the man ended up introducing himself as the Quirk analyst that Izuku had looked up to for years and began to sing Izuku's praises.
When it clicked that the man was there not as the recently escaped and healed Tartarus prisoner All for One, but as a man who was offering to pay them money, well, Inko decided to try and push her luck. Something the man had reacted to rather positively based on what she quickly realized was an awkward attempt to flirt with her.
Inko was a bit ashamed to admit that his advances weren't totally unappreciated. Inko had been single for a long time and well, murderous villain or not, the bastard was quite attractive. She had not planned on living her life basically celibate outside of one passionate night that had eventually bore her her son. After the 2 hour mark she had to admit to herself that the man was actually not at their home out of malice and the flirting seemed to be genuine interest in her on his part.
Plus there was the smitten looks he was giving not only Eri but Izuku as well when her son was not looking. So when her son's teacher eventually came looking for Izuku to warn him of the Villain that was sitting at her dining room table she was actually a bit glad the hero seemed to be just as in the dark as Izuku and little Eri as to who the man really was.
So here she was in a largely empty apartment alone with the man who at this point seemed more nervous of her then she was of him. Yes, she knew he could easily kill her but the longing that she had seen in him while looking at her son made her inclined to think she might have a bit of wiggle room before he would resort to killing her.
She took a sip of the tea she had made with the limited supplies that were in this presumed safehouse. "So I take it you are not planning on killing me or my son like you did my parents then."
The man flinched as if Inko had struck him. "You are Shimura's child then? And you know that I am-"
"All for One, yes. And yes I was born Shimura Inko."
The man nervously fidgeted with his own cup of tea but did not avoid her gaze. "I'm not sorry for her death or your father's as unplanned as that one was. Your mother was rather intent on killing me for a cause given to her by her mentor who had received it from his and so and so forth. It is the same cause that started my conflict with All Might as well, though he likely would have drawn my ire sooner or later regardless with his whole symbol of peace nonsense."
"And what cause is that?"
The man sighed before taking a quick drink of his tea. "Before my brother died, we had a falling out... He was less than happy with me giving him a Quirk without asking despite that it was to save his life. My brother was born sick and I was getting desperate to save him as his body started to fail him shortly before he even turned twenty. The thing was, he was not Quirkless as we first thought but had a Quirk in the same vein as my own. One that allowed him to pass on his Quirk after it hybridized with the power stockpiler I had gifted him. He passed the Quirk onto a terrorist that fancied himself a freedom fighter. That man passed the Quirk on to the next and so it went until it found its way down the line to your mother who passed it to the Eighth holder, All Might, who just at the end of February passed it to your son, the Ninth."
Inko tensed. "So what does that mean for Izuku? Are you going to kill him too for it?"
The man was quick to raise his hands in a defensive manner. "Of course not! Killing my brother's successors has never been my goal! I just wanted my brother's Quirk back."
"So you plan on stealing it from Izuku?"
"No." He lowered his hands. "One for All cannot be forcibly taken. I would like to offer a trade for it at some point down the line, preferably for a Quirk that would not harm him so badly, but I don't mind him holding it for now. Quirks have a direct tie to one's soul so as long as that Quirk exists, it holds my only chance to see my brother again."
"So what are your intentions for my son then?"
The man nervously averted his gaze. "I am not 100 percent sure. I have deeply enjoyed chatting with him over this past week. I wasn't lying when I claimed his quirk analysis impresses me. He is on the same level as I am and my Quirk naturally helps with that. If I am honest, I suspect UA is failing him immensely by not nurturing that aspect of his talents. If Sir Nighteye had lived to continue your son's Work Studies then I suspect the man would have eventually corrected that oversight but there is no knowing that for sure. Additionally I think your son is intentionally lowering his grades to not draw attention to himself though I am not sure how Nedzu hasn't caught it yet. His grade point average has never once fluctuated in any of his academic classes which clearly suggests that he is calculating how many questions he needs to answer correctly on each test to get the same score…"
Inko found her jaw slowly dropping as the man went on to bring up every single concern she had felt about UA for Izuku without prompting as he slowly seemed to get more and more upset about it for Izuku. Sure, she had expected the rant about All Might's failings as a teacher but this, this showed that the man shared a genuine interest in helping her son succeed. "Can I stop you right there to ask a question? Izuku mentioned that you are Shigaraki's Sensei. How is it that you can talk about UA like this when he is, well, the way he is?"
The man paused with a wince. "Tomura has always been difficult. The trauma that came from his Quirk accident left him with mental scars that I frankly had no idea how to really deal with. You are likely not going to like to hear this but your elder brother was abusive to both his children. Between the shock of accidentally killing most of his family and him making the active choice to kill his own father, the boy that had been Shimura Tenko had been long dead by the time I found him. I had hoped that allowing him to repress his memories and acting as only a distant teacher figure would help him more than it did. Besides, up until fairly recently, my plans for him largely did not have him living to see another year."
Inko grimace. "You are telling me you were planning on killing him, the boy who is essentially your son, and you still judge how UA is treating mine?"
The man averted his eyes once more. "Not exactly. My body was dying and I needed a replacement. It was easier to change Tomura's training so that his body would become better suited for myself to take control."
Inko looked at the man bewildered. "You can do that?"
He shrugged. "I am just as capable of transferring my own Quirk as any other. Not all of me would be transferred over of course but it would have been better than nothing. Of course, that plan is defunct now in wake of my discovery of little Eri. I am going to have to do some major course correction with Tomura to reign him back in now. Hopefully the return of Kurogiri to him will help."
"Can you stop him? Stop the League of Villains from hurting Izuku?"
The man quickly nodded. "Easily. I had planned on telling them to back off from him at least when I went to visit them later today. Any that refused I planned to kill or Vault in Tomura case."
"Vault?"
The man blushed. "Oh, um, I have a Quirk resistant living space inside my treasure vault hidden away in a mountain. It is where I would keep my brother and Tomura when either was being difficult. Think of it as advanced Time Out."
They sat there in an awkward silence for a bit. Inko studied All for One. For a two century old Supervillain he really just gave off the air of a socially awkward nerd. "So what now? I can't imagine you are planning on letting me leave with all this information."
The man winced. "Ah, no, not until I am certain you aren't going to share it with anyone at least."
Inko felt her eyebrows raise at that. "Oh? And why would I not?"
The man averted his eyes with a blush. "I, er, was hoping I might be able to convince you not to?"
Inko considered the man. "What's your name?"
All for One blinked at her in clear confusion. "I'm sorry?"
Inko rolled her eyes. "Athos Hisashi is a fake name right? What is your real name?"
"Oh, um, Shigaraki Hisashi."
Inko blinked. "Wait really?"
"Yes?"
Huh. "Just so you are aware, Izuku has been writing a story about you with that name."
The man nodded. "Yeah I noticed. If you have read it then you should probably know that everything he has posted online so far has been true. I am not sure if my brother is possessing him through the Quirk to write it or if he has been feeding your son the memories subconsciously somehow. My brother's name is really Yoichi too."
Inko blinked in surprise. "You have been reading Izuku's fanfiction."
The man gave a sheepish nod. "I thought reading them would give me insight into how your son thinks, which it did, but after I caught up on his most recent one beside the one telling my life story, I might have found myself enjoying them despite All Might's presence in them. The fact he is still writing them sort of implies a major failing on All Might's part. He really wants a half decent father figure from as best I can tell."
Inko studied the man as everything clicked. She gave the man a glare. "I am not letting you try and steal my son."
The man bit his lip. "I mean I wouldn't mind sharing. There is no reason for me to rob him of his mother. If anything, it would give him a more complete family unit."
Inko started the man down. "And how would your son take the news that you want to replace him with his own cousin?"
The man sighed. "Not well if he takes it like that instead of as gaining a younger brother. Tomura has been an only child for a long time but he wasn't always. I had wanted to feel out his reaction to the revelation that he was at the bare minimum your nephew and your son's cousin first before even bringing up the idea he could maybe become an older brother."
Inko considered the man. "You better find out the answer to that question soon, Hisashi." She downed the last of her tea and pushed her chair back. "Now if you are staying here in this apartment with me, you are sleeping on the couch. That being said, before you run off to deal with your son, we need groceries. Let me write you a list for you to get while you are out."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Tomura had not been expecting to see Kurogiri again. Not until they had broken Sensei out of Tartarus at least. But here he was, seemingly just as surprised to be here as Tomura was to see him. "Kurogiri? How did you get here?"
Kurogiri gave him a puzzled look. "I don't remember. I presume Sensei must have brought me with him while he escaped the prison but I was still sedated at the time."
Tomura stared at him and found himself scratching idly at his neck. "So Sensei is out? Where is he?"
"I am not entirely sure. He just told me he would send me a message with coordinates when he was ready for me to pick him up before he had me open a Warp Gate near the Tokyo Downtown Hero Hospital. He said he was clearing his debt with the one that repaired the damage to his body."
Tomura paused in his scratching. "Sensei…He's healed?"
Kurogiri nodded. "It appears so though I missed how it happened."
"Huh." There wasn't much else he could think to say to that though he found himself looking at his own mangled hand. "Do you think that the Quirk that fixed Sensei could heal all of us?"
Kurogiri flickered in a pattern that Tomura recognized as surprise before reaching out to take his hand to inspect it better. "What happened?" Tomura was surprised at how cold the question sounded to his ears.
Tomura yanked his hand back. "You would know if you hadn't let yourself get captured." No he wasn't bitter about that. Not at all.
Kurogiri sighed. "If I had not been taken to Tartarus, it is unlikely that Sensei would have been able to leave the prison as easily as he did."
Before Tomura could think of an argument for that, there was a beep from the other man's pocket. He quickly fished out the phone and opened the Warp Gate. Tomura felt his breath catch in his throat as a perfectly healthy Sensei stepped through holding a paper list that he seemed to be reading over. He looked up and locked eyes with Tomura. He turned and shoved the paper at Kurogiri. "See to it everything on that list ends up back at the coordinates I just came from." He turned back to Tomura. "Tomura we need to talk."
As Kurogiri quickly vanished to do as Sensei asked, Tomura found himself alone with the man. Sensei slowly took all of Tomura in before he startled Tomura by yanking him into a hug. "I apologize Tomura, I have been doing you a great disservice."
Tomura froze, terrified to move and slightly in shock. "What-? No! Sensei you're the best Sensei I could ask for!"
Sensei released him but shifted his hands to rest on either of Tomura's shoulders. "No Tomura I have not been. If I was, I would have been helping you learn how to be the best you you could be, not trying to forcibly shape you into another me. You are not me- not another Shigaraki Hisashi, you are Shigaraki Tomura, my heir, not clone."
Tomura had always known that Shigaraki was Sensei's family name but it wasn't until that moment that that little fact finally clicked. "You gave me your family name. You named me as your family." Tomura couldn't help the slight awe he felt at that realization.
The man hummed as he seemed to let Tomura process that for a moment. "After how you lost your first one, I did not want to push a possible relationship you didn't want. I merely thought that I should ensure that we are both on the same page before continuing with this conversation."
Tomura was at a loss. He anxiously began to claw at his neck as he struggled to process. "What-? Why?"
Sensei's smile softened as he gently tugged Tomura's hand from his neck. "Because if I have it my way, you will be gaining two younger siblings."
Tomura blinked. "What is so special about those two brats?"
Sensei chuckled. "Well I know for certain you know one of them. Midoriya Izuku from class 1-A at UA."
Tomura growled. "What the hell is so special about that kid! He freaking worships the ground All Might walks on!"
"Well for starters, he has my brother's Quirk. I am hopeful I can win him over to regain it. Additionally, despite what it might seem like with how he keeps breaking himself like he has, the kid is sharp and knows his stuff when it comes to Quirks. Plus there is the fact that the two of you are actually biologically related."
"We're WHAT?!"
Sensei patted him gently on the shoulder. "Had his mother's family name not been changed while she was in the system, he would have been Shimura Izuku. Your aunt bears a rather strong physical resemblance to your grandmother actually."
Tomura needed a minute to process all of this. He hadn't killed all of his family after all but had things played out a little differently he easily could have. Memories of Hana were overlaid with the memories of the green haired boy shaking slightly with his own hand wrapped around his throat. His family.
He had to quickly bring a hand up to cover his mouth as bile climbed up his throat. Maybe he wasn't quite so over killing his old family as he had thought. Disassociating slightly, he felt himself being pulled back into Sensei- no his real Father's arms. As he fought to keep his breakfast down, Father began to quietly murmur reassurances in his ear, one hand on the back of his head and the other rubbing his back. Tomura was uncertain when he started to cry as all the emotions he had buried under his rage began to bubble up all at once.
He was not sure how long they had been standing like this when the door into his office slid open abruptly. Hawks really was bad at remembering to knock. As Tomura desperately tried to regain control of himself, Hawks stood frozen in the doorway with Twice staring at the sight of him and Father. "Uh, is this a bad time?"
Twice shoved past him to rush over to check on Tomura. "Boss, are you okay?" He snapped his head around to glare up at Father. "Who the hell are you making the Boss cry like this?"
Father chuckled lightly and released Tomura from his grip. "It is nice to see you are doing well, Bubaigawara."
Twice jerked back and pointed an accusatory finger. "You're Shiggy's Sensei guy! I thought that you were in Tartarus? Didn't you used to have a potato face?"
Tomura noticed Hawks tense slightly as clear fear came off of him as he stared at Father. Father though just chuckled again. "Yes I was and yes I did. I expect the news of Kurogiri's and my escape will be making the rounds soon. The first thing I did before coming here was deal with my injuries. Kurogiri should return here soon enough as well, he is merely running a few errands first."
Hawks, still tense as a coiled spring, tried to fake an air of disinterest. "You're All for One, then?"
Tomura rubbed at his tear stained cheeks as he nodded. "Yeah it's him."
Father reached over to ruffle his hair before turning to stare down Hawks. "If you want to run off to tell the Hero Commission that you have found me, feel free. You can helpfully inform them that Quirk suppressants don't work on me for future reference and that the glitches were in fact me if they hadn't figured that bit out yet. I would advise against returning though if you wish to keep those pretty wings of yours."
Hawks was gone so fast that if Tomura didn't know better, he would have thought the guy teleported. Twice looked back and forth between where he had been and Father. "Wait, don't tell me I messed up again!" The man gave a cry of anguish at the idea.
Tomura rubbed his cheeks to wipe away the last of the tears before patting the man carefully on the shoulder. "Don't worry, I had Dabi keeping an eye on him. I didn't really trust him much in the first place. You haven't told him anything he didn't already figured out himself yet."
"But it is just like Overhaul all over again! I'm going to get everyone killed!" Tomura winced. It probably was good that both voices seemed to be on the same page for once but he couldn't have his cheat code drowning in guilt over something that Tomura himself had done.
"Twice I put him with you on purpose because I know you are good at seeing the best in people. If we wanted to try and truly convert him over to our side, you were our best bet. After all, it is thanks to you that Giran was as loyal to us as he was. He could have sold us out before he lost all his fingers on his right hand but his friendship with you converted him from a neutral third party to one of our units."
Twice sniffled. "Really? You are just saying that to make me stop crying aren't you?"
Tomura shrugged. "Well it doesn't make it less true. You are a core party member for a reason Twice."
Tomura heard a hum of approval from behind him, reminding him of his Father's presence. "I am glad to see that you made real friends in my absence but I do have to ask, what happened to your hand."
Tomura quickly withdrew his hand from Twice's shoulder and shoved both into his pocket to hide the damage. "Lost a couple fingers. It's fine, my Quirk still works just fine."
His Father sighed and gently tugged his hand out of his pocket to inspect the damage. "I assume you killed the one responsible for the damage already?"
"No. Didn't think Re-Destro's cult would follow me without him telling them to. I destroyed his legs though so we're even."
His father clicked his tongue. "We'll see about that. You will have to introduce me to him." He released Tomura's hand. "Well the good news is that I believe that the damage should be easily reversed once I have permanent access to your soon to be little sister."
Tomura blinked. "Why did you not just take the Quirk?"
"Rewind is a form of stockpiler. While I most certainly could have taken it, after I used up the reserves she had built up, I would have had to have it running passively continuously to recharge it. It would just be easier to leave it in her hands so long as I keep her cooperative, which given what she wants most at present is a new family, should be easy enough to do so long as my civilian identity remains uncompromised."
"But Hawks just saw you! Yeah, I would say you are totally busted!"
Father chuckled. "True but your friend Giran is not the only one with a Quirk that muddles memories. I only wish I had gotten it a bit sooner. If I had, then even All Might would be in the dark as to my true face."
It took a bit but suddenly something clicked in Tomura's mind. "Holy shit, you are sleeping with Midoriya's mom! That's what you mean about me possibly getting a younger brother!"
Tomura was slightly horrified that his Father didn't even try to deny it. "That is the plan, yes."
"Gross!"
His Father just laughed.
Notes:
One last thing to post before my trip. Inko at this point is frankly more worried about All for One hurting Izuku then dislikes him for hurting her biological family. It is not like she remembers anything about them. As far as she is concerned her only family is Izuku and so long as the crazy murder wants to keep him safe, she is hardly going to pick a fight with him.
Chapter 5: Gone Fishing
Summary:
The worry starts to set in properly for the Heroes as the pecking order begins to shift for the Villains.
Notes:
Originally posted July 10, 2022
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Yagi Toshinori was having a really bad day. First of all, not long after his successor left to return home to visit his mother for the weekend, someone at Tartarus prison called asking him to make the hour long trip down for something relating to All for One only for him to arrive and discover that the man in question had been missing for likely hours even before he had received that call. After immediately calling Nedzu to raise the alarm properly like should have been done immediately by the guards after the man's cell had been found empty, Toshinori then tried and failed to call Young Midoriya a few times before resorting to calling Aizawa to go try and find the boy to return him to the safety of the school. Now nearly an hour later, he had finally received a message from Nedzu that Aizawa had returned with both Young Midoriya and Young Eri and the school had entered full lockdown but here he was still at the prison trying to figure out what had happened.
Then the HPSC had called the prison to inform them that All for One had been spotted by Hawks before they demanded to know why they had yet to be informed that the breakout had even happened yet. Additionally, Hawks claimed to be struggling to remember what had even happened when he had crossed paths with the man outside of the fact that he thought other members of the League of Villains had been there. His one fairly clear memory of the man was of him letting him go to pass the message on that Quirk suppressants didn't work on him and he was the source of the "glitches" that had allowed him to escape.
Additionally, apparently, Athos had warned them that would likely be the case and the prison had elected to ignore his advice. So, yeah, Toshinori was not having a good day.
As he sat with his head cradled in his arms, Toshinori had mostly tuned out the Commission representative who had turned up shortly after Hawks had broken the news to them as he verbally lambasted the heads of the prison. After a few more minutes of this, he pushed his chair away from the meeting room table. "I'm clearly not needed for this at this point. I should get back to UA."
The Commission representative cleared his throat. "My apologies All Might but before you go, you wouldn't happen to have any theories as to what his next move might be?"
Toshinori sighed and sat back down. "Honestly, my guesses likely won't be all that much better than your own. I would have thought he would have broken out weeks ago if it truly was this easy for him the entire time. Outside of seeking his successor back out, which Hawks has already confirmed him as having done, his next immediate action is still a mystery to me. Long term, I suspect he might assist Shigaraki in his apparent goal of repeatedly attacking UA and myself but beyond that is something I am just as much in the dark about as you."
The man from the commission frowned. "I was under the impression that given you had a history with All for One you would have more understanding of how he might be thinking."
Toshinori sighed. "So did I but then he vanished off the face of the Earth for 6 years, using the fact I thought I had killed him to his advantage. If it wasn't for the Nomu having multiple Quirks, I most likely would have not connected them and Shigaraki back to him as soon as I did. Investigative thinking like this was always Sir Nighteye's specialty, not my own. You would be better off consulting with Nedzu over me on this."
The man seemed to accept this. "I suppose that is true." He stood up himself. "I will see about passing that message along if you could ask Nedzu to talk with us to try and find where All for One might be hiding." He gestured to the head of security. "Now, you are going to show me to the man's cell…"
Finally, Toshinori was free to go check on Young Midoriya. He only hoped the boy was not worrying too much about the breakout.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
A part of Izuku was pretty sure he should be more freaked out about the fact All for One was on the loose again but he found himself a bit more than a little distracted by Eri now that they were back in his dorm. Or more accurately distracted by his dormmates because of Eri.
Given his perceived status as the UA traitor, several of his classmates had not reacted well to Eri refusing to leave his side which had in turn spooked her into being even more adamantly gluing herself to him. As a result, they had retreated to his bedroom to calm her down with Todoroki who had been the only one to agree with her. Currently, the three of them were playing a simple card game of Go Fish on his bed after spending a few minutes teaching her how to read the face values of all the cards. She had yet to catch on to the fact that they were letting her win.
Eri puffed out her cheeks in concentration as she looked at her cards and looked back and forth between the two of them. "Deku? Do you have any 6's?"
Izuku pulled the 6 from his hand to hand it over to her with a smile. "Here you go, Eri."
She gave him a wide grin and snapped it up to put all four of the 6's down. "What about 4's?"
Izuku shook his head. "Sorry, no 4's. Go Fish."
She huffed as she drew a card and turned to Todoroki. "Your turn."
He gave her a slow nod. "You wouldn't happen to have any Kings?"
She giggled. "Nope! Go Fish!"
"Oh darn."
Izuku flashed Todoroki a smile as he drew a card. "Todoroki, I will take those Kings of yours."
"Ah." As he pulled his two Kings from his hand to pass them over, there was a knock on the door before it opened to reveal Aizawa-sensei who closed the door behind himself.
"I just got off the phone with Eri's doctors. In the wake of the escape, they have agreed to transfer custody of her for now to here at UA."
Eri's eyes lit up. "So I get to stay here with Deku?"
The man shook his head. "Not exactly, kid. You will be sleeping in the teacher's dorms, not Midoriya's bedroom but you will get to see plenty of him I'm sure."
Eri frowned slightly. "Does Deku have to stay here alone then? The other people here are mean."
Aizawa-sensei frowned before giving Izuku himself a questioning look. Izuku briefly averted his eyes but Todoroki clarified the statement. "With the exception of Bakugou and myself, all of our class is still convinced that Midoriya is one of the ones behind our current situation."
Aizawa-sensei's frown deepened. "Midoriya, do I need to move you away from your classmates until they realize the truth of how ridiculous they are being?"
Izuku considered that for a moment. "...Where would you be moving me to?"
The teacher sighed. "Like Eri you would be staying in the Teachers' Dorm. Unlike the student ones, all of the staff have more than just a single bedroom in case one of our students needs to stay closer to staff for whatever reason. The plan was for Eri to stay in my extra bedroom but we can have her stay with another member of staff unless you would prefer sharing a space with a different teacher. All Might for example." Aizawa-sensei gave a rather pointed look around the room at Izuku's collection of merchandise.
Izuku flushed. "All Might is fine if he says it's fine!"
His teacher chuckled slightly in a rare display of positive emotion. "If what I have seen from Yagi is the norm, I suspect he will be just as thrilled to have you as you are at the idea. I'm going to notify Nedzu of the change and warn Yagi before we move you over. He is not back on campus yet but should be soon."
Izuku frowned at the reminder. "Is there any news about All for One?"
His teacher seemed to consider him for a moment before answering. "Not really. Hawks apparently crossed paths with him while he was spying on the League but he doesn't remember much of the encounter which suggested that All for One used some form of memory Quirk on him."
"That's weird, why would All for One tamper with his memory of the encounter but allow him to remember that it happened?"
Aizawa-sensei shook his head. "Leave the speculation on that to the heroes, Problem Child."
Eri narrowed her eyes at the teacher. "Deku isn't a problem!"
Izuku laughed at her offense on his account. "Eri, he doesn't mean it like that ."
Todoroki nodded. "I assume the nickname has more to do with the fact that every time something happens, Midoriya finds himself in the middle of it somehow."
Aizawa-sensei nodded with a hint of a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth that Izuku himself almost missed. "I refer to Midoriya as Problem Child for that reason, yes. If I really thought of him as a problem I would not have kept him in my class with all the headaches I have gotten from the trouble he attracts."
Izuku gave his teacher a grin as Eri brightened. "Oh, that's okay I guess."
Aizawa-sensei nodded before meeting Izuku's eyes. "I would start packing, Midoriya. I'll send All Might to come collect you and help you move once he returns."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Hisashi was probably going to kill someone. He hid his anger well of course with so many years of practice but the rage that had been bubbling at his core since he saw the damage to Tomura's hand…
Even if he hadn't made the readjustment to his plans in the wake of finding Eri, Tomura's injury would still have drawn his ire. The fact that someone had crippled his successor in his absence would have nearly defeated the purpose of his plan to body snatch the boy. After all, that would have just been trading one major injury for another. It was interesting that the Quirk that had saved Tomura from that fate would also be what restored the boy's body back to what it had been before he had left him.
Hisashi felt his fingers twitch as he held his current calm smile as he followed along behind his successor turned future body turned son . That was something he was going to have to readjust to himself, Tomura being his son, but he did have to admit Inko did have a point. If he ever wanted to hopefully be a good father figure for her son, he should start with the boy he already had.
As they walked the halls of the base, more than a few of the new faces around them did clear double takes watching him following along behind at his son's heels. The fact that he was being pulled along with a hand in Tomura's five finger grip but was completely at ease and not decaying most likely confused them. Hisashi was a bit proud of the boy's new found control. He didn't even have to take away Decay for this anymore.
On the other hand it might have been his son's smile.
Tomura shoved open the door to what seemed to be a meeting room where four men that Hisashi was not personally familiar with sat. That wasn't to say he did not recognize any of them, just that he had never had the pleasure of crossing paths with them before. Yotsubashi Rikiya looked up from his conversation with Hanabata Koku as they crossed the threshold. "Grand Commander to what do we owe-" He cut himself off as he saw Hisashi's hand released Tomura's grip as Tomura pulled them both out chairs. His Quirk briefly flickered across his face as the shock of both the fact Tomura had been holding his hand and the fact Tomura viewed him as either an equal or someone to defer to.
Hisashi's grin widened as he took the offered seat beside Tomura at the head of the table. "Tomura, would you be so kind as to introduce me to your little friends here." The men were now all staring at him, clearly unnerved by the fact that Tomura was clearly deferring to him now.
Tomura's grin turned a bit predatory as he seemed to realize Hisashi's intentions based on his own earlier comments. He began to gesture around the table to each of the men. "I'm sure you know who most of them are except maybe Geten. His Quirk is Ice Manipulation so uses the name Iceman. Beside him is Skeptic-"
"Chikazoku Tomoyasu, Anthropomorph." The men at the other end of the table began to pale.
"Right. And at the other end is Trumpet-"
"Hanabata Koku, Incite." Hisashi pushed himself back up to his feet. Yotsubashi's Quirk was really dancing over his form as he started to shove himself back away from the table in an attempt to scramble to his feet to flee.
"Exactly. Finally we have Re-Destro-"
Hisashi had rounded the table and crossed the room to pin the man, lacking his original lower legs, down to the floor with the crack of breaking bone. "Yotsubashi Rikiya, Stress ."
Tomura laughed behind him as the three other men scrambled to their feet, seemingly trying to decide how to react. "Everyone, meet my Father and Sensei, Shigaraki Hisashi. You probably know him as All for One."
Re-Destro screamed as Hisashi not to gently yanked with his Quirk to pull Stress from the man's body. As the new Quirk settled into his hoard he turned to the other three before settling on Trumpet next. "Tomura, do you have any preferences about these other three?"
Trumpet took a frightened step back to bump back into the table as he seemed to realize the severity of his current situation with the knowledge that his fate was not in his own hands any longer. Behind him, Tomura shrugged in his seat. "As far as I know they're fine. Re-Destro is the only one that I know of that has a thing about removing peoples fingers. That being said I am not all that attached so it is up to you really. You can go nuts."
Hisashi was moving before Tomura had even finished speaking to grab Iceman and Skeptic for their Quirks before releasing their faces to snatch Trumpet who had just managed to get his feet underneath himself and moving again when Hisashi grabbed the back of his head from behind. Hisashi let the man follow his companions' lead and crash to the floor in shock triggered unconsciousness.
He shared a smile with Tomura as he casually strolled around the table back to him humming a cheerful tune as three more Quirks clicked into place. "Well that was fun. Is there anything else I can help out with before I leave to see the Doctor about a few things?"
Tomura scratched lightly at his neck. "Well you should probably go see Gigantomachia before you go. He has been crying over the sound of your voice when the Doctor has played recordings of you while you've been gone."
"Ah. Yeah, that would probably be a good idea. He didn't give you too much trouble in my absence did he?"
Tomura frowned. "Well he really didn't want to listen to me at first and refused to listen to Kurogiri when he went to retrieve him which is how he got caught."
Hisashi winced. "My apologies Tomura, I didn't think he would be anything less than perfectly cooperative but I should have realized he would likely not respond to my vacation well. The Doctor, I assume, got him to behave eventually?"
"Nope. I had to win him over myself. Had to level a good chunk of a city to do it too."
Hisashi frowned. "I see. It seems I will be having words with both of them. Especially the Doctor if he is planning on going off script so much without my oversight."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
As Tomura led his Father away from the likely dying Re-Destro and his unconscious companions, he couldn't help but feel a bit giddy at his Father's casual display of violence for him . His Father had asked for his okay before just taking the three other Quirks because he wanted to make Tomura himself happy. His Father really did love him after all.
As they walked, his Father trailing after him casually toying with Geten's former Quirk and the small amount of ice that had been in the water pitcher and water glasses on the table, frightened whispers seemed to be breaking out from the NPCs that recognized the Quirk as having belonged to Geten. Soon the hallways largely became emptier and emptier as the NPCs began to hide. Just before the final turn to the final staircase down to Gigantomachia, Twice reappeared with the remains of their core party as well as Giran who seemed less than happy to have been dragged out of his hiding place by Twice.
"See I told you that they would be coming to see Gigantomachia! What are we? Chopped liver?"
Dabi seemed to freeze as he looked his eyes on the shifting form of ice that Father had been toying with. "Huh. Is Geten dead then?"
Father closed his hands together around the mass of ice before opening them to reveal a small perfect sphere of ice not unlike one of Compress's marbles that was cold enough to give off smoke before tucking it into his button up shirt pocket. "No, he should live just fine. He is both young enough and in good enough shape that the shock of losing his Quirk won't kill him. The others are a bit more up in the air. I was only really trying with Re-Destro, mind."
Tomura rolled his eyes as many of the group eyed his Father nervously. "He isn't going to take your Quirks."
Compress immediately relaxed. "My apologies, it is just that in the wake of my injury I couldn't help but fear the worst."
"Injury?"
Compress lifted his prosthetic arm and tugged back his sleeve to show it. "A loss courtesy of Overhaul's little group."
Father frowned. "Tomura, would it be alright if we prioritized repairing his injury over your own if necessary? As you said earlier, your own Quirk was unaffected by your injury but his most certainly has been."
Tomura shrugged. "I suppose it is only fair that the guy who has been injured both the worst and longest gets priority healing. Giran can go before me too."
Father nodded and reached over to ruffle his hair in a manner he had only ever done a few times before his own injury. Giran was openly staring at them in clear shock. "I mean you don't have to worry about me! I can manage just fine with one hand!"
His father snorted. "Last I checked you were right-handed, Giran. I suspect we will be able to heal your damaged hand before you can reteach yourself how to do everything left-handed."
Toga looked between the two of them and Dabi. "Wait, does this mean you can also fix up all of Dabi's scars?"
Father shook his head. "Not unless he wants to be physically deaged several years. It is the same reason I am only going to have Tomura's hand repaired and not any of the rest of his scars. The Quirk used to repair my own damage shaved several years off of me which doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things but losing the number of years it would take to erase those scars would not be insignificant for the two of them."
Spinner gave him a questioning look. "So why haven't you fixed the Boss up yet anyways?"
"Simple, the Quirk still is in the hands of its original owner."
That earned some confused reactions making Father chuckle. Tomura rolled his eyes. "Father decided he wanted to keep the kid who the Quirk belongs to so she gets to keep the Quirk. He has a plan to snag her legally too so the Heroes won't know we have her."
Toga's attention snapped over to Tomura. Her smile turned a hint mischievous. "Father not Sensei?"
Tomura flushed and averted his eyes before he found himself being wrapped up in his father's arms, draped in a lazy hug over his shoulders. "Well there is little point in hiding it any longer given that Tomura bears my own family name."
That perked Giran back up, an info broker to the core. "Your name is Shigaraki?"
Father hummed. "Shigaraki Hisashi though I still generally prefer All for One or Sensei from all of you. It will make things easier for both Tomura and I if you are only calling one of us Shigaraki after all." He released his hold on Tomura's shoulders with another ruffle of hair and began to walk past the group who parted for him with little prompting. "Come on, I still have to talk with Gigantomachia before I leave to speak with our good Doctor."
Notes:
Slightly shorter chapter to come back with but I wasn't really feeling like adding much more after my long drive home. I headcanon All for One being very touch motivated due to his Quirk. He has no impulse control when it comes to putting his hands on other people especially after so long basically in isolation from human contact.
Chapter 6: Changes in the Status Quo
Summary:
All for One falls even harder for Inko
Notes:
Originally posted July 13, 2022
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
If you had asked Iguchi Shuichi, better known now as Spinner, a week ago if he thought Shigaraki could ever be considered cuddly, he probably would have laughed in your face. Yet here he was in the wake of All for One's return leaning into the man's touches like an affection starved stray cat. It was a bit jarring to be honest.
It wasn't as if Shuichi could blame him for it. Given the guy's Quirk, it was not like he normally would have been able to do so before a few weeks ago. Besides it was not like any of their own group outside of Toga had even tried and given Toga was just as likely to stab as cuddle, it was just self preservation to reject the offer.
Of course, maybe Shigaraki was just enjoying having his father back.
Gigantomachia on the other hand's reaction was more to be expected. The moment the man had stepped into view, the larger man was on him crying in happiness. All for One apologized for taking so long to visit him again but Shuichi doubted the larger man even registered any words after sorry.
After a bit of prodding on All for One's part, the massive man released him and All for One resumed draping himself around Shigaraki as he had at the top of the stairs. They hadn't been chatting long when the radio around the giant's neck crackled to life. A few exchanged pleasantries later and a familiar sludge erupted from All for One' mouth and he was gone.
Dabi gave their leader a curious look. "You and your old man always that touchy feely or is the man a different kind of Daddy for you?"
Almost instantly Shigaraki seemed to flip back to his normal standoffish self as he practically lunged at Dabi with an angry cry. "Fucking take that back!"
Toga giggled. "Well I think it is kinda cute to see Shiggy go all soft like that around him."
Giran, who had been struggling through the process of lighting a cigarette (Twice ended up doing it for him with a "Here let me do it. Wow, you suck at that. "), shook his head. "Nah, from what I've seen from the brief times I have crossed paths with All for One in person the guy is just constantly petting everyone. I think it is probably a Quirk thing."
Shigaraki frowned and began to worry at his neck in a habit they had not really seen from him since the MLA attacked them all. "No he is definitely more touch happy then normal. I think not being able to touch anyone for a few months has made it harder to stop. If it was just his Quirk making him want more Quirks, I am not sure he would have controlled himself from taking the Quirk that healed him."
Compress cleared his throat to draw attention. "Were you being serious about letting Giran and myself be healed first?"
Shigaraki nodded. "Yeah? Why wouldn't I be? It is not like I won't get my hand fixed too eventually and unlike the two of you I am less affected by the damage. I would rather have my core party at 100%."
Toga practically threw herself in a hug around Shigaraki's neck. "I knew you really liked us!"
Shigaraki grumbled and only lightly pushed her off, not denying anything. "By the way, there is a slight change in plans when it comes to one of the UA brats. Father is working on winning him over to our side so if you come across any of the students back off for now."
Dabi frowned. "Did he not say which one?"
Shigaraki shrugged. "He did but I wouldn't be surprised if the brat reacted badly if we were to target any of his current party members before he converts. Maybe if we get lucky he might bring some of his more loyal party members over too."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
While Tomura was dealing with his own most loyal followers, Hisashi was speaking with one of his own. "There has been a change in plans obviously."
Dr. Garaki nodded. "I had assumed as much given your clear restoration to full health. I take it you no longer plan on giving Tomura the original All for One?"
"No, I think I will take that back actually. I may give him the copy at some point but I haven't decided yet. There are other factors to consider now. You mentioned that you have Foresight?"
The Doctor smiled. "Oh yes. Not the easiest acquisition but that is to be expected. It is right over here…"
Less than an hour later, Hisashi was stepping out of a blind alley with both his original Quirk and several new acquisitions buzzing under his skin not far from his safe house. For the first time since he had received his injury he felt whole.
He unlocked the door to the apartment with a smile. "I'm back."
Inko looked up from where she had been working chopping vegetables. "You've been gone for a while. Dinner will be ready in about an hour. Did you eat lunch while you were with your son?"
Hisashi's stomach growled slightly in response, making him flush red. "Uh, not exactly. I was distracted making sure that everyone was on the same page about leaving you and your son alone. That and I might have had to deal with a man and his most loyal followers who had thought it was okay to destroy one of Tomura's hands."
Inko fumbled her knife. "Destroy his hand? What happened? Is the poor dear okay?"
Hisashi smiled slightly at the concern in her voice. "He lost a few fingers but the damage should be easily reversed by Eri's Quirk later. I am surprised that you care about that given he has tried to hurt your son in the past."
She frowned and set the knife down to wipe her hands before walking out into the living room to stand closer to him. "He is still my nephew even though I didn't know about him until fairly recently. Besides, if you are serious about being interested in a relationship then if things do work out between the two of us, he would be my son as well."
Hisashi's heart seemed to skip a beat. "You would want that?"
Inko reached up with one hand and used her Quirk to tug him down to closer to her eye level by pulling on his tie. "I'll be honest, I am not sure how I feel about you yet but the fact you immediately seemed to take what I said about taking care of your own son first seriously does give me a bit of hope that perhaps you are not a complete lost cause."
Hisashi's brain seemed to short circuit. "I am the Villain that killed your parents. You know I am."
She nodded. "Yes you killed my biological parents but as far as I am concerned, my real parents are just fine living their best retired lives up north in Hokkaido with my older foster brother's family. You on the other hand are a fairly attractive man who is willing to fight for my son's best interests who has been spending the better part of the past week indulging him in his favorite hobby, one that you share. You also seem to be just as smitten with the little girl who looks up to my baby like he hung the moon. I don't see a reason we can't at least try and see if we are compatible."
Hisashi's mouth felt dry. "So you wouldn't be opposed to me kissing you?"
She rolled her eyes and closed the distance between their faces. It was a brief caste thing but Hisashi found his legs almost giving out from under him. Sweet and gentle, it wasn't like any other kiss he had ever had. Impulsively he stole another as he swept her off her feet to hold her at a more comfortable height for himself. She gave a small startled squeak but didn't raise any protests but did wrap her arms around the back of his neck. Another kiss, this one deeper. He got an appreciative moan as he began to explore the inside of her mouth. The next kiss he planted on the side of her jaw as he carried her into the bedroom. As he tugged lightly at her blouse he nipped lightly at her ear. "Should I keep going?"
Inko now tucked comfortably below him, pulled at his tie again. "Depends. Do you have condoms here?" Hisashi paused as he had to actually check. When he realized his bedside table was empty he gave a curse but forced himself to pull away with a sigh only to find himself being tugged back down for another caste kiss. "Good, you passed the test."
Hisashi blinked as he was allowed to pull back away. "What?"
Inko smiled and sat back up to pat him on the shoulder. "If you hadn't asked permission to continue or had tried to continue when you didn't find any condoms I would have ended things right then and there."
Hisashi gave her a bemused smile. "Oh, and how pray tell would you have done that?"
Her grin turned just as feral as it had earlier that morning when they had been negotiating with him over the business contract. "Oh you would be surprised at just what all counts as a small enough object for my Quirk to work on."
Hisashi felt even more blood rush south at the implication. "Fuck that's hot." Inko burst into laughter at that, falling back to rest her head on one of the pillows. Hisashi gave her a flushed grin as he leaned over to sprawl out over the bed next to her.
Inko turned her head to bury it into the crook of his neck. "I'm sorry, I really shouldn't find that so funny. I just wasn't expecting that sort of reaction."
Hisashi grinned and snuggled up to wrap his arms around her. "It is true though. You are a very attractive woman Inko."
He felt her frown into his shoulder. "No I am really not. I haven't really been all that attractive in years with all this weight I have been putting on."
Hisashi ran a hand down her side, memorizing every curve to her figure. "No, you're beautiful. The most beautiful woman I have seen in years."
Inko scoffed as she rolled back away. "You haven't seen any woman besides me in years, Hisashi. If I recall correctly, you were blind yesterday."
Hisashi reluctantly released her from his hold. "Oh I saw plenty of other women today while visiting Tomura. None of them held a candle to you. Besides, you have another thing going for you that none of them do."
"Oh?"
Hisashi leaned over to plant another soft kiss on her brow. "It's simple, you're my favorite color."
Inko giggled at that. "Seriously?"
Hisashi hummed and gave her a shrug as he rolled back away to stare up at the ceiling. "You know, one of my first thoughts when I saw your son Izuku's eyes was that they reminded me of my brother. Not only are they the same color but Izuku holds the same fire in his eyes that Yoichi did."
He could hear the frown in Inko's voice as she spoke. "Izuku isn't your brother, Hisashi, even if he has his Quirk."
"I know but I can't help but see the similarities. If I am honest, from speaking with Izuku he reminds me more of myself then Yoichi at this point. Tomura is the same but in the reverse. The older he grew the more he reminded me less of myself and more of Yoichi. The way he can go off on rants about a game's lore reminds me of how Yoichi would try and explain the comics he was constantly reading. Between that and the health issues he has due to the stress his Quirk puts his body under, at times, raising him was like I was back taking care of Yoichi."
Hisashi could hear his voice cracking as his throat constricted as he openly spoke of the one thing he had been avoiding thinking about. He turned back to Inko as she took one of his hands in her own. "Is that why you were keeping a wall between you and Tomura? You were scared to get too attached and lose him like you had your brother, right?"
Hisashi gave a watery chuckle as tears pickled in his eyes for the first time in years. "Unfortunately it was a bit late for that. You know, part of the reason I was going to give him my Quirk was so I never had to worry about losing him too. Once he had my Quirk, I would always be with him to keep him safe even if it would have cost him his autonomy."
Inko gave a soft sigh. "Hisashi, for someone as intelligent as you clearly are, you are a complete idiot. Your plan would have just harmed the both of you more than it would have helped."
Hisashi hid his face behind his hands. "Please don't remind me."
He felt the mattress move as Inko seemed to get up. "I am going to finish making dinner. You can come join me out in the main room when you are done sulking."
Hisashi sighed and moved his hands to look up at her. "I'm sorry. You are right even if I don't want to think about it."
Inko shook her head with a soft smile before disappearing back out the bedroom door.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Izuku was a bit disorientated when he woke up. There was something off about the room that took him a moment to place as he switched off his morning alarm. Oh, right, he was staying in the Teachers' Dorm now.
Izuku lay in bed as he allowed his eyes to wander his new space. He had not put any of his All Might merchandise up around the room so outside of his very clearly All Might themed bedding the room was hardly identifiable as his bedroom even if it was likely only temporary.
Izuku did not think he could live with the mortification of living surrounded by his merchandise with the hero in question just sleeping on the other side of the wall. He had still moved over all of his belongings, not wanting to risk them being destroyed in his absence.
His heart twisted at that thought. It hurt how fast his classmates had turned on him. After all he had been thorough with them, that they could think he could do such a thing to them made his heart hurt with betrayal.
A dark part of his mind whispers to him that he really shouldn't be. After all, it was no different then how his preschool class had turned on him back when it was discovered he was Quirkless. That he should have seen it coming when they found out that he used to be Quirkless. A useless Deku.
A whisper at the back of his mind that sounded a bit like the vestige of the first holder reminded him that at least this time he wasn't alone. That cheered him up enough to drag himself from his bed to go do his morning run. This time was different. He wasn't alone this time. He had Todoroki, Eri, All Might, and the other teachers on his side this time. Even Kacchan was being less of a dick about things.
The run helped clear his mind of the dark thoughts for a while at least. Izuku was making himself a glass of orange juice post workout when he saw his first other person, a half awake Present Mic out of costume, stroll into the staff kitchen and start pulling things from the cabinets. "Morning Listener, did you sleep well in your new room?"
Izuku gave the blonde a nod that earned him a smile as he started the coffee pot. "I didn't think you would be up this early."
The Voice Hero shrugged. "I am mostly a morning person, the only exception being Saturdays since I am up late for my broadcasts. I think Thirteen and Nedzu are the only ones up at this time with me generally. Sometimes All Might too, but he has been sleeping in more since Recovery Girl put him on that new stress medication to try and help him relax more about his forced retirement from Hero work."
Izuku nodded. "Yeah that makes sense from what I've noticed from my morning runs. What are you making over there?"
His teacher smiled. "I thought I would make some American style pancakes for Eri to celebrate her first morning here."
Izuku brightened. "Do you need any help? While I am not a great chef on my own, I have lots of experience helping my mom prep ingredients."
Mic-sensei gave a delighted smile. "Sure thing Listener. You think you can wash and cut out the fruit to go with them while I prep the batter?"
The two of them fell into a comfortable pattern. As they cooked, his teacher revealed that he, Aizawa-sensei and Midnight-sensei often like to take turns cooking for one another though he was the only one of them who ever did breakfast given the other two never would willingly be up before they absolutely had to be. They had attended UA all together and had been close friends ever since.
Izuku also noticed the wedding ring on a chain around his neck. "You're married?"
The man nearly dropped the spatula in surprise. "How-?!"
Izuku pointed at his own neck. "The ring."
The man flushed and buried his face in his hands with a groan. "Fuck, Shou going to kill me. Er- pretend you didn't hear me curse."
Izuku rolled his eyes. "I grew up with Kacchan and his family. I have heard worse."
"Oh, right. I suppose that is true huh?" The man shook his head and tucked his ring down inside his shirt.
"So my theory that you and Aizawa-sensei are together was right then?"
"Yeah but if you could keep it to yourself that would be great. Shouta prefers that our private lives stay generally private from you kids and if people found out I was not as single as I pretend I am on air it could hurt my ratings."
Izuku was suddenly struck with the thought that one of the most popular ships on OHA2 was Present Mic/Reader only behind Midnight/Reader. Not that he had read any of those. He never would have been able to look either them in the eyes again if he had. "Yeah I could see that. Don't worry, your secret is safe with me."
"Speaking of romance though, are there any Listeners out there that have caught your eye?"
Izuku frowned. "Not anymore." He sighed.
The man frowned sadly and reached over to give him a gentle pat on the back. "Maybe it is better this way? If the drama going on with your class was enough to ruin things, they probably wouldn't have worked out anyways. Maybe you should look outside your class? There are plenty of fish in the sea after all."
Izuku considered that. "I'll think about it."
That brought back the man's smile. "So since you are obviously not a thing with Todoroki, I assume he is just a close friend then?"
Izuku blushed at the implication. "You thought that we-?!"
Mic-sensei laughed. "I'll let you in on a teacher secret, we are constantly making bets behind your backs about who is interested in who. Since you kids are so new to dating, we see a whole lot more about what is going on between you guys then you pick up from each other. If it makes you feel better, I could tell that neither of you liked the other that way but Midnight is a hopeless romantic at heart and though that your best friend's loyalty to you through all the recent drama was romantically motivated and not him just recognizing the fact you had nothing to do with the Quirk switching mess."
Izuku's blush deepened as he thought back to some of his and Todoroki's more dramatic moments together. "I suppose that is fair."
Another chuckle. "It is not like she isn't the same way with me and Shou. I guess that since the three of us have been so close for so long it stopped registering."
Izuku opened his mouth to respond when he found it snapping shut as something small and furry brushed up against his leg. He looked down to see an orange tabby weaving between his legs to run up to Mic-sensei with a loud meow. His teacher looked down in bemusement. "Oh, hello Sushi. You ready for your breakfast?"
There was a yawn behind him that made Izuku turn to look in the direction of the elevator. Midnight-sensei looked so different dressed down in what were strangely conservative style pajamas for her. "Morning Hizashi. Midoriya."
She opened a cupboard that Mic-sensei had skipped past earlier to pull out a small plate and small can of wet cat food. With what was clearly years of practice, she popped the top on the can and inverted it over the plate before placing the plate down on the floor off to the side of the kitchen so that the cat could eat in peace without them tripping over it.
Izuku stared at the cat in a bit of confusion. "Principal Nedzu doesn't mind that you have a cat here free roaming in the Dorm?"
Midnight-sensei gave him a puzzled look before his question seemed to click. "Oh, no, he doesn't mind Sushi. He spent most of his first year living basically on the campus so he knows to not try anything with Nedzu. He actually bought us some kitten formula at one point while we were still having to bottle feed him. Honestly I think the only one who doesn't like him is Vlad but that is only because he is strictly a dog person. Even Hound Dog likes him and he has issues with cats sometimes because of his Quirk."
Izuku found himself nodding as he walked over to reach down a pet the tabby. "Why the name Sushi?"
Izuku watched a bitter sweet look cross both of their faces. He was named after the favorite food of a friend who originally found him after Nem here suggested the idea after she found us with him up on the roof eating lunch the day he was found."
"A friend?"
Mic-sensei sighed with a pained look on his face. "He is one of the reasons Shouta was so against you and your classmates doing your Work Studies this year. We lost our friend during ours in our second year and it is still a major sore spot for him."
Midnight-sensei sighed and shook her head. "It is for all of us really. Oboro was really something special."
They fell into an awkward silence after that. It only breaking as more of the teachers filtered out down stairs. Izuku had been chatting with All Might about his upcoming lesson plans for the class when a cry of delight came from the elevator. "Deku!"
Suddenly, Izuku found himself being tackled in a hug from his favorite little girl. "Good Morning Eri! Did you sleep well?"
She nodded with a smile. "I didn't have any bad dreams at all! Mr. Mic gave me a dream catcher to help catch all the nightmares before I can have them!"
Izuku flashed Mic-sensei a grin. "That was a great idea, I am sorry I didn't think to find you one sooner."
"It's okay, Deku. You helped save me from my nightmares already." Eri patted his leg with the sort of finality only a small child could have.
There were soft snickers and awes from the teachers around them reminding Izuku of their audience. Izuku scooped Eri up in his arms earning him a delighted squeal and giggles. "Well now that you are awake, why don't we get you some food?"
Notes:
After writing most of this chapter I decided to bump up the rating since while I will not be writing actual sex scenes because gross (I'm ace) makeout sessions are still on the table and I would rather rate higher then needed to be safe rather then sorry. Background Erasermic because why not. Also, yes, Izuku was totally shipping the two of them together.
Chapter 7: Connecting Dots
Summary:
Izuku's family tree gets even more complicated.
Notes:
Originally posted July 17, 2022.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Inko smelled like strawberries. It was a small innocuous thought to wake up to for Hisashi. After dinner Inko had decided that so long as he continued to behave himself, that he could sleep in his own bed with her that night. To his immense pleasure, it seemed that at some point during their sleep the two of them had shifted from sleeping back to back with a pillow between them as a buffer to completely entangled with Inko's head resting on that pillow under his own chin. It wasn't just his doing in his sleep either since one of her arms was wrapped around his side and it felt like she was holding a fist full of the undershirt he had slept in.
It was like they were two puzzle pieces made to slot together perfectly. He was not sure how long he lay there soaking into Inko's presence but eventually she seemed to start to wake up. After a few moments of shifting around on her part and burrowing her face into his chest as if to avoid waking up, she suddenly froze before jerking back away with a wild blush. Hisashi snickered. "Good morning Inko."
Inko buried her face in her hands. "Morning. Sorry, I forgot I am a cuddler in my sleep."
Hisashi chuckled before reaching up with one hand to expose her face. "Oh, I most certainly didn't mind. Plus I have to admit I am a bit of one too. That was probably the best night of sleep I have had in over a century."
Inko averted her eyes, "...Mine too. Not in a century mind, just in a long while."
Hisashi leaned over to give her a peck of the cheek before pulling away and beginning to untangle himself from their bedding. "We will have to do it again tonight then. Now I think it is only fair that I cook you breakfast since you made us both such a lovely dinner."
Inko, face still beet red-no strawberry red, gave him a small smile. "You don't have to do that, I don't mind cooking."
Hisashi waved her off and he strolled over to the bedroom door, "Nonsense, I haven't been able to properly cook for myself in over 6 years. I am actually a bit excited to."
Hisashi smiled to himself as he heard her get up to follow. "So what exactly were you eating for the past few years anyways?"
Hisashi sighed as he pulled out the rice to begin. "When I got to eat real food, mostly instant meals or meal deliveries. Neither Tomura or Kurogiri really can cook well since Tomura's Quirk makes it harder for him and he is bad about remembering to start cooking early enough that he isn't starving by the time he starts, ruining any patience he has and Kurogiri lacks any sense of taste so has a horrible habit of over seasoning things to the point of rendering them largely inedible to anyone outside of himself and Tomura who when he is hungry has zero standards when it comes to food. My Doctor, of course, theoretically could have cooked me something but he viewed cooking as a waste of time so would just order a meal delivery when I asked him for real food. Most of the past few years though I have been living off IVs and for a good while a feeding tube."
"That sounds miserable."
Hisashi nodded as he pulled out an onion and began to chop. "Oh it was. Tartarus was worse, of course, since they couldn't be bothered to keep me on a breathing tube and had me using a breathing mask instead due to fact the machine was cheaper. Because of that, they couldn't feed me real food without risking suffocating me so I had only had IV drips outside of my stolen cup of instant noodles I ate during my brief escape just shy of a week ago before I broke out for real. After I visited Eri to have her rewind away my injuries, I honestly spent most of the night in a 24/7 convenience store eating my way through all the different prepared meals before getting sick from eating so much after not really eating for months. Honestly, it is kind of strange how her Quirk worked. I was under the impression that I would have totally been rewound to before I received the injuries but she seemed to target them specifically first before her control slipped. As a result she only rewound my head and lungs, which while that is all I really needed leaves me curious as to what it would have been like if she had rewound all of me all at once. It is possible that if she could affect my Quirk with it, I could have regained and lost a number of Quirks that way."
Hisashi looked up from the skillet he had been cooking the onions in to Inko who had been standing off to the side of the kitchen out of the way and was surprised to see her smiling at him. "I'm sorry but your rambling about little Eri's Quirk reminds me of Izuku when his mind goes off on a tangent."
Hisashi gave her a smile before reaching into the refrigerator for the eggs and milk. "Well, I will take that compliment quite happily."
That earned him another soft smile as he whisked the eggs together with a splash of milk, salt and a bit of pepper before pouring mixture into the pan. "You were right, you know, yesterday about Izuku being like you. If I was to be completely honest, if you had been put in a line with Izuku's biological father and people were asked which of the two of you it was that was his father, I am pretty sure most of them would probably pick you. It doesn't exactly help that Izuku looks so much more like me than anything. I am pretty sure the only physical traits that Izuku got from him are his freckles, curls and maybe his height since he is getting taller then me now and you definitely have all three of those physical traits."
Hisashi grinned at that happy thought as he pulled two omelets from the pan to place on a pair of plates as the timer for the rice went off. "And given he has my brother's Quirk, it could be argued that he takes after me in the Quirk department as well."
Inko helped him spoon the rice into two dishes and carry her serving of breakfast over to the table. "You know… The only ones who know who Izuku's father is are Izuku, my friend Bakugou Mitsuki and her husband Masaru. Since I didn't want to deal with the drama of naming his actual biological father back when he was born…"
Hisashi's eyes widened as he nearly dropped his chopsticks in surprise. "Are you asking me if I would allow you to put my civilian alias on his birth certificate?"
Inko nodded. "I would only do it if Izuku was okay with it too but I don't see any harm in it. You seem to get along with him better than I suspect Izuku would with his sperm donor."
Hisashi was quick to nod with a grin. "You know when I warned Tomura he was probably getting Izuku as a little brother soon, I was honestly not expecting to until after I asked for your hand in marriage."
Inko waved her chopsticks warningly. "That better not be a marriage proposal before we have even gone out on a real date."
Hisashi blushed as he realized his mistake. "Of course not! I plan on having a ring for any real hypothetical proposal."
Inko gave him a soft smirk. "Oh I'm sure."
"Out of curiosity though, who is his actual biological father?"
Inko poked her food in thought for a minute before answering. "He is one of Endeavor's long-time Sidekicks, Salamander or Iguchi Houryu if you would prefer his actual name, though I only found that out later. We met while I was working a lawsuit against Endeavor for excessive property damage and he offered to take me out for drinks. I woke up the next morning to an empty bed and wrote it off as just a drunken mistake to forget about. A few weeks later I discovered not only did he not use any form of protection but he was also already married to another woman who he had conceived a child with under similar circumstances. I decided that he wasn't worth the headache and left it at that."
Hisashi sat there with his jaw dropped as the realization that his Tomura's friend Spinner was Izuku's biological older half brother hit him. A fact that Inko was clearly still in the dark on given how she spoke. "The child's name was Shuichi right?"
Inko looked puzzled but nodded. "Yes? Why? Do you know him?"
"He is a member of Tomura's League of Villains. He goes mostly by Spinner now."
Inko dropped her chopsticks in shock. "Wait, are you telling me that not only has Izuku's cousin attacked him but his actual older brother has too."
"That seems to be the case." Hisashi considered that. "I wonder if I should maybe start counting him as my kid now too since I doubt he has any interest in acknowledging his father as his anymore." A beat. "Actually I probably could claim most of Tomura's friends. I think Mr. Compress is the only one of them with a good family relationship with his parents and that still has both of them alive."
Inko laughed at that. "Oh dear I shouldn't be laughing, that is horrible for the poor dears but your expression ." Her eyes were practically tearing up from her case of the giggles.
Hisashi shifted into a wry grin. "Well I know what I likely will be doing later. I do have to wonder how Tomura and Spinner will react at the revelation that they are technically cousins."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
The answer to that question was Spinner dropping in a dead faint. Tomura himself was slightly perturbed by the revelation but he was only dealing with just the one reveal and not the fact that both of them shared a relative in Midoriya Izuku. It probably didn't help the Stain fanboy that he just found out that he was related directly to the one Hero besides All Might that Stain had ever recognized as a true Hero. Thankfully Father had caught the man-his cousin(?)- before his head had a chance to hit the ground.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Izuku had been spending the day in Aizawa-sensei and Mic-sensei's small living space that their bedroom and Eri's new temporary room adjoined when his phone rang with an incoming call from his mother. Mic-sensei looked up from where he had been sitting grading papers curiously. Izuku pointed at his phone. "I need to take this. Eri, do you think you will be okay for a bit with just Mic-sensei here while I talk with my Mom?"
After a nervous nod on her part, Izuku stepped into the room serving as her bedroom for a bit of privacy. "Mom?"
"Hi sweetie, uh, are you somewhere private right now?"
That was worrying. "Yeah, why?"
"I'm sorry baby it is just that while Hisashi and I were chatting over breakfast he pointed something out I should have realized a while ago. You remember how I mentioned that things didn't work out with your father because he already had a family?"
Izuku bit his lip. He was not sure where this was going. "Yes?"
"Your older brother is a member of the League of Villains."
Izuku nearly dropped the phone. "What!"
There was a rush of footsteps before the door cracked open to reveal a worried Eri and Mic-sensei. "Is everything alright Listener?"
Izuku waved them off as he responded to his mother. "What do you mean he is a member of the League?"
Mic-sensei froze up in the doorway but thankfully held in any verbal reaction. On the other end of the line his mother sighed. "You know your father's real name right?"
"Yeah, Iguchi Houryu, why?"
"Do you know what the Villain Spinner's actual name is?"
Izuku's jaw dropped. "Wait! He's Shuichi? How did you find that out?"
"Hisashi wrote up an analysis on most of the members of the League the day after Katsuki was kidnapped for the Heroes looking for him. He put two and two together once he heard who your father was."
Izuku half registered Mic-sensei furiously texting someone in the background. "Oh... Why were you talking about who my father was anyways?"
There was a pause as if his mother had to consider the answer to that. "Well the thing is that I might have joked that Hisashi could pass as your biological father with how much you share in common. Baby, how would you feel if I put him down as your father on all the paperwork?"
Izuku froze as he had to process that. "Athos wants to adopt me? Wait, since when is he Hisashi? "
His Mom laughed on the other end. "He accidentally indirectly proposed to me because the subject when I mentioned the possibility."
All fondness for the man immediately flew out the window. "He did what? "
That earned another laugh. "Honey, he admitted that part of the reason he wanted to talk to me in person was because he wanted to cut a deal with me to share custody over you. He wants to take UA to task for how they are failing to nurture your true academic talents and for how they have allowed you to sustain so many serious injuries without once considering calling him for help in figuring out the issues you were having with your Quirk."
"You are avoiding the question Mom."
She sighed. "Izuku, you told me that you were okay with the idea of me dating someone if I happened to find someone I liked."
Izuku blushed as he remembered that talk back when he first started training with All Might when the dream of his mother and All Might possibly dating seemed like something that could happen in real life and not just in his fan fictions. "Yeah but I wasn't expecting-"
"That Hisashi would be my type?"
Izuku sagged in on himself. "Yeah that."
"Izuku, I will admit I don't exactly have high standards given everything with your father but the biggest criteria that a man had to have was that they saw just how special you are and Hisashi meets that in spades. As a bonus he is also not hard on the eyes."
Izuku flushed at that and covered his face with his free hand. "Mom! TMI!"
That earned a laugh on the other end. "Sorry baby."
"So the two of you are dating then?"
"Yes, though who knows when we will get a chance for a proper date in wake of the break out. How are you holding up at UA?"
Izuku sighed. "I am doing okay now that I got moved into the Teachers' Dorm. Things with my classmates are tense right now outside of with Todoroki and Kacchan. I was hanging out with Eri in Aizawa-sensei's living room when you called."
"What is going on, Sweetie? Did something happen with your class?"
Izuku pause and considered how to answer that. He covered up his phone's mic. "Mic-sensei, can I tell my Mom what is going on with my class? The only person she can tell right now is Athos and I don't think he would tell anyone else."
Mic-sensei looked up for a beat. "Hold on, I am asking Nedzu." A pause and then a thumbs up.
"Sorry Mom, I had to ask a teacher if I could talk about it since the situation is still sort of ongoing. Basically nearly a week ago all of my classmates along with all of class 1-B and one other student woke up with their Quirks shuffled around. Since I was the only one unaffected, most of my class has gotten it into their heads that I had something to do with it."
"I see." Izuku felt himself freeze at that tone of voice from his mother. "Well I will have to talk with Hisashi about that. Perhaps he knows of a Quirk that could straighten this mess out."
Izuku blinked as he pulled his phone back from his ear. "She hung up on me." He shook his head before turning back to his teacher. "Sorry about that. That was a more exciting call then I was expecting though given I saw her less then 24 hour hours ago, maybe I should have been more worried that it might have been."
Eri hummed and hugged him. "You seemed upset! Is everything okay Deku?"
Mic-sensei lowered his phone. "Yeah, you wanna share what all that was about?"
Izuku sighed and sat down on the edge of Eri's bed. She was quick to scramble up next to him. "Apparently Athos and my Mom had a fairly exciting conversation over breakfast this morning. I am not one hundred percent clear on events but at some point they realized that Spinner was my half brother that neither my Mom or I had met, Mom offered to Athos the chance to be listed on my birth certificate as my father and he accidentally admitted to planning to ask my mom to marry her at some point. Apparently, I should have been more suspicious about him offering to let Mom hide out with him at his place since apparently they are now dating, which I really don't know how I feel about."
Mic-sensei patted him on the top of the head. "If it makes you feel better, I've heard Athos is a pretty rocking dude from those who have consulted with him."
Izuku rolled his eyes. "I mean I know that. I have been emailing back and forth with him since not long before all of this Quirk nonsense with my class started. That is part of the problem. I like him but a part of me feels I should hate him on principle for trying to seduce my mother."
Eri blinked up at him in confusion. "What does seduce mean?"
Mic-sensei without missing a beat explained, ever a teacher. "It means to lure someone in with something they find desirable."
"Oh! And that is a bad thing?"
Izuku sighed and shook his head. "It can be but it isn't really in this case. I just find the idea of him and my Mom as an actual couple weird. I am glad that they are both getting along but my Mom has never seriously considered dating someone before now so the idea caught me off guard. And it is obvious she is seriously considering him or she never would have considered offering to share custody of me with him otherwise."
Mic-sensei nodded. "Yeah it sounds like the two of them are going about things in a strange order. Normally I think the topic of adopting a potential step child is normally something people wait a little while on, not that I have any personal experience in that since Shouta and I have been together since our Second year here as students. By the way, I thought you might find it funny to know that All Might freaked out when I mentioned in the chat what you said out loud on your call about Athos adopting you."
Izuku flushed. "Wait, you were gossiping about my phone call with the other teachers?"
Mic-sensei's grin turned sheepish. "Well when you put it like that… I was originally just asking if anyone knew the name Iguchi Shuichi but then you seemed to change the subject to possibly being adopted by Athos and it sort of spiraled out of control from there. Oh, by the way, apparently Nedzu knew about you being related to Spinner this whole time so you can be mad at him not telling you if you want. Oh, erm, do you know about the Shigaraki thing too?"
"Shigaraki thing?"
"That your mother is a Shimura by birth and given he was Shimura Tenko apparently…"
Izuku frowned and shook his head. "Mom grew up in the system. I had no idea." Izuku took a beat to process that. "In hindsight, maybe I should have been suspicious about that. Underneath his scars he shares a lot of facial features with me and Mom. That makes sense if he is apparently my cousin. Wait, please don't tell me I am secretly related to anyone else in the League without knowing it."
Mic-sensei frowned before texting Nedzu again directly. "...Mr. Compress is evidently sort of your cousin too. His father is your mother's foster brother. You are not known to be related to any of the other League members but given that Dabi is a major unknown and he possesses a fire Quirk like your father does Nedzu said to not rule out that possibility."
Izuku just let his face fall into his hands.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Hisashi was not expecting Inko to be so mad when he returned from his brief visit with Tomura and Spinner, but the glare that she was leveling him with both made his stomach twist and his heart skip a beat from how attractive she looked with it. If only he knew why she was directing it at him. "Inko? Is something wrong?"
"I am not an idiot, Hisashi. Tonight you are going to UA and fixing all of Izuku's classmate's Quirks. And no you cannot keep any of their Quirks for yourself."
Ah. He had forgotten about that. "Oh yeah, I did do that didn't I? I'm sorry, I was planning on shuffling them randomly around every couple nights for a week but then I got distracted by Izuku and sort of... forgot? I will straighten that out tonight. Out of curiosity, what was their reaction to Izuku being the only one in their class unaffected?"
Inko pinched the bridge of her nose. "His class is convinced that he had something to do with it."
Hisashi frowned. On one hand, he was happy that Izuku's class was ostracizing him since it made tempting the boy to join him far easier but the part of him that now worried for the boy's well being was making him tense. "Is Izuku okay?"
Inko sighed and nodded. "The teachers move him from the 1-A dorm to the staff one to protect him and his belongings from his classmates as they get more and more hostile towards him. The only ones treating him normally still are Mitsuki's son Katsuki and the Todoroki boy from his class."
Hisashi considered his Quirks at his disposal. Maybe those two deserved rewards for staying loyal to his son.
Oh.
When exactly had Izuku crossed over from being just the Ninth holder to his kid in his mind? Was it when Inko had offered to put him down as Izuku's father maybe? No it was before that. When he had mentioned the possibility that Izuku would become Tomura's brother maybe?
"Hisashi?"
He blinked back into focus. "Yes?"
Inko seemed to sag in relief. "You scared me. You suddenly went completely catatonic for a few minutes there. Are you okay?"
"Sorry, I think I just gave myself a panic attack. I am not sure though. I have only ever witnessed them from the outside before. Is the offer to list me as Izuku's father still on the table?"
Inko sighed and nodded. "As mad as I am about the Quirk shuffle you did, so long as you fix it, I will drop the matter since you clearly did that before you became attached to Izuku. Izuku doesn't seem opposed to the idea, just surprised. He was more agitated by the fact that we are dating then anything but I think the fact that you are the only person I have dated since he was born that he is aware of is the part that actually bothers him about that."
Hisashi sagged in relief. "Sorry, I just realized that at some point I switched from thinking of Izuku as your son and started to think of him as ours and the fact that I can't pinpoint exactly when that happened freaked me out."
Inko gave him a soft smile. "And it is things like that that make me willing to put up with your ridiculous Supervillain nonsense."
Hisashi puffed himself up in mock affront. "It is not ridiculous nonsense. It is serious business coming up with those dramatic Villain monologues and planning the best ways to mildly inconvenience the Heroes."
Inko snorted, causing Hisashi to break into a smile of his own. "You see, that is another thing to like about you. I don't think I have ever met a man that makes me laugh as much as you have."
Hisashi reached up to brush a stray hair that had fallen in her face back behind Inko's ear. "That is a badge I will happily wear with honor."
Notes:
Man I really can't leave Izuku's family tree alone in a fic huh? Surprise Spinner is now an older brother alongside Tomura for Izuku because Izuku needed an older sibling and well, it was a toss up between him and Mr. Compress. On one hand, Compress shares a few physical traits with Izuku but on the other, well, not only is this funnier but the idea that Compress has a perfectly healthy and normal relationship with his family unlike literally any of the other members of the League and being a Villain is just in the family business like is implied by him in canon sort of appeals to me. That being said he has no intention of bringing his murder family anywhere near his thief family. Not that it matters when they are already linked without him knowing.
Continuing my trend of explaining the names I have invented we have Salamander, Iguchi Houryu (伊口 倣竜) or One Mouth Emulate Dragon. He has a relatively weak fire breathing and slight heteromorphic mutation granting him scales on his arms and dotted over his face as freckles as well as lizard-like teeth. He however longs for the attention that going solo would give him in the industry but is resigned to his fate as one of Endeavors Sidekicks since with the birth of Izuku's older half brother, he couldn't afford the financial risk of going solo. Now though there is the other issue with who his known son is. Endeavor sure as hell is not letting the man slip off with the knowledge of that and he has the standing order that if his son tries and makes contact with him he is to inform Endeavor immediately so that they could arrest him.
Chapter 8: Atsuhiro's Bad Day
Summary:
Atsuhiro comes to the startling realization that his murder family and his thief family are now the same thing
Notes:
Originally posted July 19, 2022
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Yoichi found himself sharing a baffled look with Seventh inside the Quirk in the wake of Ninth's phone call. "Well so much for hoping that Inko would figure out the truth of who my brother is and dump him. Even if that happens now, he still would have the legal claim on Izuku if Inko files the paperwork to update his birth certificate soon."
Seventh bit her lip. "...It is actually fully possible that Inko does already know who he is. I left her a letter with a photo of him as a warning that she theoretically would have received on her 18th birthday. If she received it and opened it, there is no way she wouldn't."
Second gave her a puzzled look. "Why didn't you mention that earlier?"
She shrugged. "I forgot about it in my shock that All for One had the audacity to flirt with her in the first place."
Yoichi winced. "Yeah that is fair. How are you holding up with the revelation that my brother seems rather intent on becoming your son-in-law?"
She sighed and shook her head. "Honestly I have no idea. I think a part of me is still too in shock about the whole thing."
Yoichi sighed. "Well we can look on the bright side, if he really is serious about dating Inko, it is more and more likely he will leave us alone."
"I think she might know." Fourth cleared his throat as attention shifted to him. "I have been thinking about her reaction to the revelation that All for One swapped the Quirks of Ninth's classmates and well…"
Yoichi considered that before looking back to Seventh as he failed to come up with a denial for that. "Maybe she at least doesn't know about One for All still? Even if she might be willing to ignore the fact he killed both you and her father, I doubt she would let him possibly hurting Izuku later slide."
"Maybe…"
Suddenly a thought struck him. "Wait. Holy shit, this means Ninth is my nephew now." He felt a grin break out at that idea. "Okay, so maybe it's not all bad."
Seventh rolled her eyes with a hint of a smile.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Izuku decided the worst part of Nedzu's casual revelation about his relationship with not only Shigaraki and Spinner but Mr. Compress as well was the fact that one of the first things that crossed his mind on that last matter was 'yeah that checks out.' While he had never met his cousin Sako Atsuhiro in his waking memory due to the man being 16 years his senior, he knew from his uncle and informally adoptive grandparents that the man was a professional magician and that he had a Quirk that helped with his sleight of hand. In hindsight, he probably could have guessed that one himself given his Quirk Compress was the logical combination of his uncle's own Magic Trick and his wife's Glassworking.
There was no way that the man didn't know that they were related too, unlike the other members of the League. Hell, he had once babysat Izuku when he had been still a toddler. There was photographic proof and everything. Suddenly the playful teasing that had seemed largely targeted at himself during the attack on the Summer Training camp seemed to make a little more sense.
Not wanting to think too hard about it anymore, he quickly sent his mother a text that just read "Atsuhiro = Compress" and threw his phone away from him as he buried his face into his bedding. If any of his classmates found out all of this he was screwed . How the hell would he be able to prove he wasn't the traitor when he was related to three of the members so directly?
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Hisashi blinked as he read Inko's text over her shoulder. They had been cuddling on the living room couch watching one of his older films that Inko had never seen before (the first Indiana Jones movie) when she asked him to pause it to read a text message from Izuku.
"What is Atsuhiro equaling Compress supposed to mean?"
Hisashi blinked. "Inko, what does the name Sako Atsuhiro mean to you?"
Inko turned to look back up at him. "He is my foster brother's son, why?"
"Ah… I suspect that message is referencing the fact that he realized that the one cousin he did know about is also a member of the League as Mr. Compress."
Inko seemed to consider that for just a moment before she turned back to her phone and dialed. A beat. "Onii-san, when were you planning on telling me that your son joined the group of villains that has attacked my son multiple times?" A pause. "I don't care if he told you that part of the reason why he joined was to try and help Izuku from getting too hurt by them, a warning would have still been nice. You know how hard it is for Heroes when people find out they have Villains in their family tree. Izuku is already dealing with issues with his classmates so I can only imagine how badly they might react when they find that out. Imagine how much worse that would have been if Izuku had not figured it out first." Another pause. A sigh. "If you hear from him before I find him, tell him to call me." A pause. "I love you too." She hung up and buried her face in her hands with a groan.
Hisashi, at a bit of a loss as to what the right next course of action would be, gave Inko a comforting hug. "Would you like me to bring Compress to you for a chat or would you rather I take you to visit him?"
She nodded. "I think I am overdue for meeting Tomura and maybe Shuichi as well. Would going to wherever they are hiding out be safe though?"
Hisashi planted a kiss on the crown of her head. "So long as you are with me then yes. I wouldn't dream of letting any of the other Villains harm a hair on your head."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Atsuhiro frowned down at his burner phone. There were only two people out there that had this number so it was not a complete mystery who was calling him. "Hello?"
"Atsuhiro, you need to talk with your aunt. She and Izuku just put two and two together and realize you are running with the League right now. She is not happy with you and I advise you to talk with her over the phone before she finds a way to track you down herself and gives you a demonstration of what all her Quirk classifies as small enough to Attract."
Atsuhiro paled behind his mask knowing full well what his father was implying. "Text me her number again and I will do just that."
He had just finished dialing when he heard a phone ringing out in the hallway leading to the room he had been napping in. She didn't bother picking up but yanked the door open and reached out with her Quirk to yank off his mask and balaclava, taking his hat off with them.
As Inko crossed her arms and leveled him with a stare, Atsuhiro watched as All for One gave them a little wave. "I'll be with Tomura when you are done Inko." He closed the door trapping him in with her.
"Atsuhiro, care to explain?"
Atsuhiro nervously re-Compressed his phone and began to nervously fidget with the resulting marble. "Hi, Auntie, um, I'll be completely honest I don't really have much of an explanation at this point. Originally I only planned on joining up for the raid on the summer camp but then the heroes knew who I was when they crashed the bar and it all kinda spiraled out of control from there. Since when are you friendly with Shigaraki's father anyways? I feel that that is so much worse than my joining the League."
Inko huffed before freezing as she caught a glimpse of his prosthetic. She reached out and physically grabbed the arm and pushed up his sleeve paling. "Oh Sweetheart, what happened?"
Atsuhiro slumped into himself in relief. If she was still calling him Sweetheart, then she wasn't actually that mad at him. "The League lost a fight with a guy called Overhaul. I was shot with one of their experimental Quirk erasing bullets so couldn't defend myself when I got my arm ripped off. They killed Magne as well. One second she was moving to defend me and the next she was just a fine mist of blood, torn to shreds on the cellular level. Shigaraki and I got some revenge for it though. I actually still have his arm that I Compressed to keep as a souvenir."
Inko frowned. "That is the same person who was torturing poor little Eri right?"
Atsuhiro nodded. "I will admit, had I known about her, I would have pushed for the League to help get her the hell out of there. We only found out about her after Izuku and the Heroes with him on the raid had already found her."
Inko gave him a soft smile. "Well good, he probably deserved whatever you all did to him. Thank goodness for Eri's Quirk, as soon as Hisashi and I can borrow her for a day we will get all of your recent serious injuries squared away."
Atsuhiro paled slightly. "You are on a first name basis with All for One? How the hell did that happen?"
His aunt gained a mischievous grin. "Oh you know, when a man and a woman like each other-"
Atsuhiro felt his face rapidly heat up in complete mortification. "Nope! No! Stop! You are not finishing that sentence."
She laughed and gently patted him on his shoulder. "Hisashi and I are currently dating."
Atsuhiro was not ashamed to admit that he had to process that. "Wait, Izuku is who Shigaraki was talking about when he said All for One had a plan to win him over to our side."
Inko raised her brows at that. "Did he now… It seems I might have to have another little chat with Hisashi about that."
Suddenly Atsuhiro felt he should be concerned for All for One.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Tomura looked up from where he had been sitting sprawled out over a couch with Skeptic's laptop. The man had not survived long enough to flee for outside help. Tomura, having gone back to chat with him, Geten and Trumpet only to find that the shock of the process of having their Quirks removed had killed him and Trumpet. Geten had been a wreck curled up under the table, refusing to leave their bodies but terrified of staying there and dying himself. Tomura ended up having Twice drag him down to one of their holding cells while they decided if they could risk him being let go with all of the information he knew about the League or not. With his father's return there was no point in continuing to play with the expanded party of NPCs that were the MLA.
To his surprise his father stood in the doorway. "Are you winning, son?"
Tomura snorted. "Not playing a game right now. I was digging through Skeptic's files of the members of MLA to see if I could pick out the strongest and most useful Quirks that you could steal before we cut the group loose."
His father grinned and strolled over to perch on the arm of the couch that he had been using as a headrest so he could read the screen too. "Now there is no reason to waste perfectly good cannon fodder. Especially given that the Nomu project is now defunct."
Tomura looked up at his father questionly. "Why is that?"
Father shrugged. "Now that the Heroes have a kill on sight order for dealing with Nomu, it would just be a waste of perfectly good Quirks."
That was fair. Wait. "Does that include Kurogiri? It seems like a waste of resources keeping him alive and locked up in Tartarus to go and kill him like that later on."
His father began carding a hand through Tomura's now snow white locks. "True. I believe they are making an exception for him due not only to his sentience but because the identity of the body that was used for a base being a former Hero student. It is silly really."
Tomura snorted. "Yeah that sounds about right. What are you doing back here so soon? I thought you were busy trying to seduce my aunt."
Father clicked his tongue in a bit of annoyance. "It seems that your friend Mr. Compress has been keeping secrets. Evidently he is the son of your aunt's foster brother and Izuku put two and two together a little bit ago. Inko is currently busy letting him know how much of a mistake it was to join the League and not tell them."
Tomura's jaw dropped. "Fucking seriously? At this rate the whole League will be related. What's next, Toga or Dabi? Twice?"
His father seemed to consider that. "Well given that all purely Japanese Fire Quirk users can trace their families back to one man, Dabi would most likely technically be a distant cousin of both Izuku and Spinner. Additionally, based on how their quirks work and a few shared physical traits, it is likely that Toga and Twice are related in some fashion relatively closely."
Tomura slammed the laptop closed and stood up, flinging his arms up in defeat. "Of fucking course. Why the hell not. I am going to go somewhere else and Decay some shit while my brain reboots."
His father just laughed at him, the bastard.
Tomura pointedly ignored the part of his brain that was slightly happy that his found family was turning into a real one.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Eri was not stupid. Sure, she didn't know a lot but that had been Overhaul's fault since he never let her learn to read or teach her anything else. The point of this being was she could tell something big was going on for her Hero Deku with his class that was hurting him. Not only that, whatever he talked with his mom about clearly upset him too.
After the call, he had asked Mr. Mic if he could take her to hang out with Lemillion while he "processed" what was going on. So here she was having a "tea party" with Lemillion. They had been sitting drinking tea and eating a couple sweets when Eri felt compelled to ask him about what had happened since Mr. Mic had not explained anything to her and Deku looked too scared to stay and talk.
"Um…Lemillion? What is the League?"
He froze for a beat before he turned to look at her with a small frown. "They are a group of not very nice people that have hurt Deku and his class a few times now."
"So it is a bad thing to be related to them?"
Lemillion bit his lip. "I mean how bad it is depends on the person but yes it would be. Why do you ask? Did you overhear something?"
Eri looked down at her cup. "Deku got a call from his Mom while we were playing in Mr. Mic's living room. I don't think he had planned on me overhearing everything but he pretty quickly forgot me and Mr. Mic could hear him while he was talking. At the end he seemed a bit scared and asked Mr. Mic if Mr. Principal knew if he was secretly related to anyone else in the League that he didn't know about."
Lemillion looked sad at that. "Ah, yeah that would be pretty bad for him. Most of his class think he has been working as a spy for them for a silly reason and they likely would not take a reveal like that well. Did you get any names as to who?"
Eri nodded. "Spinner, Shigaraki and Mr. Compress. Oh, and Shigaraki's real name is Shimura Tenko which is how they found out that he was Deku's cousin."
Lemillion winced before he scratched his chin. "Yeah we need to make sure that no one finds out about that. His class might have considered letting go of it with either Spinner or Compress since while they did help with kidnapping Bakugou, they haven't really hurt anyone as far as we know, though not for lack of trying on Spinner's part. Shigaraki is a whole other issue. He is one of the big bads behind the League only behind All for One in danger rating. He was the one behind all the attacks on Deku and his class."
Eri frowned and puffed out her cheeks. "He sounds mean. How is it fair that he gets to be related to Deku when he does stuff like that? Deku deserves a better cousin."
Lemillion sighed and patted her lightly on the head. "I couldn't agree more."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
When Yamada had started messaging in the group chat about the contents of Young Midoriya's phone call, Toshinori had tried to get him to stop gossiping behind the boy's back but found himself unable to stop the chat as several revelations broke thanks to the combination of the boy's call and Nedzu casually dropping bombshells of information that he had wished he had known earlier.
Toshinori laid back on his bed and closed his eyes. Like this he could focus on listening to the sound of the boy's breathing in the other room. Calm and slow, likely suggesting the boy had nodded off in an attempt to not think about things.
Okay, let's go down the list.
Toshinori finally had confirmation of what he long suspected; the fact that the boy's biological father was not involved in his life.
Toshinori had evidently been too slow to act on that hunch since this Athos guy had apparently swooped in and won the boy and his mother over enough that he would be adopting the boy as likely his step-father.
Young Midoriya's biological father had another son who had joined the League, Spinner making the lizard mutation man young Midoriya's older half brother.
Midoriya Inko was by right Shimura Inko by birth and Toshinori couldn't help but think himself an idiot for not realizing that sooner. Even lacking Nana's slightly darker hair, taller height and black irises, Inko was nearly the woman's spitting image.
That fact made Shigaraki Young Midoriya's biological cousin. A fact that was tragically horrifying as the thought struck him that the two very easily could have grown up living the other's lives had All for One found Inko before he had found Kotaro.
Mr. Compress was fairly openly easily identifiable as young Midoriya's cousin as the son of Inko's foster brother and Nedzu had been the most surprised that the boy had not known that fact. He had made very little effort to hide that fact.
Apparently Inko had grown up being raised by a family of career thieves that traced themselves back to the Peerless Thief Harima Oji though it seems that with the exception of Compress, they had largely taken up breaking into places to test the security systems as independent contractors. Like white hat hackers but in the real world.
Interestingly Nedzu had actually hired the family to crash both the UA Sports Festival and the School Festival to find all the easily exploitable points in the security and had only gotten in the second time with the incidental help of Gentle and La Brava.
A part of Toshinori was guilty of feeling a bit glad that Mirai never got a chance to hear about this mess. He had enough issues accepting Young Midoriya as Toshinori's successor as it was at the start, goodness only knows how he would have reacted had he known all of that.
…
On second thought he probably knew more about all of that then he had mentioned given how he had reacted to the news that Toshinori had never run a background check on Young Midoriya before choosing to make him his successor. Given how obvious the connection was between him and Compress, he probably had been rightfully worried. The HPSC had never treated a hero well when they knew of a connection between a Hero and a Villain, either pressuring them to deal with their errant family member or stripping them of their license. The only thing that had likely saved Young Midoriya from the commission was the fact that his mother's foster parents had never gone through with a formal adoption of her since they didn't seem to consider that a long term foster kid that wasn't adopted formally as having strong familial connections. A fact Toshinori knew to be incorrect since Midoriya had to miss a week of one-on-one training with him during the lead up to the entrance exam when his mother had taken him up to Hokkaido the previous summer for his birthday. A birthday that Compress had missed evidently given the fact that Young Midoriya failed to recognize him immediately back at the Training Camp.
Toshinori would have to ask when he had last met the man in question in person outside of run-ins with the League later.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Mirai woke up.
It was a strange thing to realize had happened given he was pretty sure he had just died.
It was strange. Wherever he was, his body felt wrong .
It was when his body moved to sit up from the couch he had been stretched out on without him prompting the action that he realized two very important things. One, this was not his body and two, who ever it belonged to now had him as an unwilling passenger.
The man, whoever he was, might have been a bit taller then he himself had been but was broader in the shoulder less like Mirai who looked like someone had taken an average person and stretched them up to his above average height but instead scaled everything about him proportionally. The man lifted an arm to check a rather nice watch. "Just shy of 23 hours on the dot. I wonder if that means he used it right before he expired then? It would probably be a good idea to do a few practice runs before I use it on Inko or Tomura then…"
As the man trailed off quietly talking to himself in thought, Mirai began to freak the hell out. He was inside All for One's body. An All for One that was very clearly not in Tartarus and clearly could see despite the last he had checked the man had lacked eyes. The man had stolen his Quirk from Mirai's own dead body.
Suddenly there was a feeling of something vice-like wrapping around him. "Stop that. If you can't behave then I will just have to make a copy and dispose of you later."
Mirai was sure that if his mouth had been his own it would have gone dry. "What-?"
He cut himself off as he realized the man's voice had come out with his question. That earned him a chuckle from the monster. "I had forgotten that Mental type Quirks like you are prone to doing that. After all, I bound up Search long before I tried to use it." An unfamiliar grin tugged at his cheeks and Mirai reflexively tried to break free of the man's grasp. "Aw, there is no reason to panic, Foresight. If you behave, you'll get a front row seat to the fun I have planned for your old Hero partner. Oh how I can't wait to see the look on his face when he realizes that I not only stole young Tomura from him but Shimura's last remaining child and her son from him all thanks to him ignoring their needs." Mirai actually shuttered as the man purred out the last word, an image of Midoriya's mother pinned below him on a bed flashed through his mind and to his shock feeling of actual affection.
Mirai's head spun at the fact that All for One could even feel such a thing. The man however chuckled to himself as he walked over to a mirror, handing on the wall. A fully intact All for One started back at him in the reflection with his own golden eyes in place of the man's normal blood red. The grinning mad man reached out to touch the mirror before Mirai felt his Quirk activating.
Images flashed by for them reflected back in the mirror as if it had been turned into a screen showing the future. There was All for One with eyes shifted to a black sclera and bright violet glowing from two clock like discs replacing his irises and pupils. The picture sped past that as All for One scanned forward. Now the image revealed All for One greeting the far smaller Midoriya Inko in the doorway shadowed by one Mr. Compress. A few minutes of her seeming to yell at him before yanking her hand in a way that made All for One wince and grab at his own chest before she seemed to release him. All for One, who had fallen to the floor slightly in his pain, looked up at her with an expression of awe before tugging her into the room with a kiss and using a Quirk to yank the door closed behind him.
What followed, that All for One quickly sped through, was frankly pornographic. To Mirai's horror he could feel not only the man's arousal at the sight but some of his own. The man only stopped when he saw the door to the room being yanked open by a flustered looking Tomura mere moments after they had finished redressing.
All for One pulled his hand back, ending the vision. "Well that was rather informative, don't you think?"
Unable to stop himself, Mirai asked. "You're a masochist?"
All for One's smile widened. "Oh, that recent revelation surprised me too. Inko is something else isn't she? I had never met another woman brave enough to do so."
Mirai hardly needed to watch as the vision they had seen in the mirror began to play out beat by beat. After she made it perfectly clear to All for One exactly what she thought about him trying to manipulate her son over the the side of Villains and him half heartedly trying to explain that was not what he had planned at and that either Tomura had misinterpreted things or had just said it to get the other members of the League to back off faster, Mirai felt a horrible vice like grip around his-no All for One's-heart. The woman yanked and he momentarily saw stars as the heart completely stopped. On the floor, All for One clawed at his-their-no his chest before Mirai felt the strange sensation of another Quirk not his own activating (A distant scream of panic quickly blotted back out) and a small jolt of electricity restarted his heart.
All for One looked up at the woman in wonder. "You actually killed me for a second there."
Her anger shifted to panic and actual fear as what she had actually just done hit her. All for One's gut twisted at the sight. "Oh my goodness, Hisashi I am so sor-!"
All for One (Hisashi?) quickly reached up to tug her into a kiss. He looked down at her startled expression before reaching out with another Quirk to shut the door in the other man's face with another Quirk (another pained voice calling for help). "You have no idea how attractive that was."
He scooped her up in his arms and walked back over to the couch in full view of the mirror and began to tug at her clothes. "Hisashi, stop, we don't have-"
He held up a condom with a smug grin. "I might have picked some up while I was out the first time."
This time she was the one who started the kiss.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
When the first moan of pleasure from his aunt came from behind the door confirming that All for One was not murdering her out of his line of sight, Atsuhiro was quick to unCompress one of his extra ties to place over the door hand before turning and marching away from the door with his face burning under his mask, thankful that he had managed to convince his aunt to return it. Feeling on the verge of a mental breakdown, he wandered blankly in search of any of his friends.
He found Giran smoking out one of the windows. He would have to do. Atsuhiro fell into the seat beside him and buried his head in his arms up again the wall with a small thankfully muffled scream. "Wow, what has you so worked up?"
Atsuhiro turned to look at him and tugged his mask off so the man could see his expression. "All for One is currently having sex with my aunt of all people."
The man dropped his cigarette out the window in shock as his jaw dropped. "You're fucking with me."
"Oh god I wish. I want to go back to earlier in the day when I was blissfully unaware that my sweet Auntie who cries at a drop was fully capable of murder. She actually stopped his heart with her Quirk and I was so terrified for her when he reached up and dragged her in the room before slamming the door in my face. I was debating opening the door back up when the moaning started."
The man looked just as shocked as he was about the development. "Holy fucking shit. Wait, does this mean that Shigaraki is sort of your cousin now?"
Atsuhiro blue screened for a moment as he realized that yes, that was probably true. "Fuck."
Giran snickered. "I think this the most I have heard you curse at one time Compress. You know, for a while I wasn't sure you even did."
Atsuhiro sighed and rubbed his face before replacing his mask. "When I was still a teenager I used to babysit my little cousin. Auntie had a swear jar that she was rather strict about using since her best friend curses like a sailor and she was trying to prevent little Izu from picking up any swears before he was old enough to watch his language around other kids."
Giran tapped his lip in thought. "Izu huh? That is Midoriya Izuku then? Assuming he is the kid that Shigaraki was talking about."
Atsuhiro winced behind his mask. "That is correct."
"So when you approached me to ask about joining up with the League if they planned any more big attacks on UA after the USJ you had an ulterior motive."
"I did at first, yes. I originally planned on snagging him with my Quirk to prevent him from joining the fray before he could hurt himself. Sadly Muscular found him first and I didn't know we had the Doctor at our disposal so I thought he would have better chances of recovering with the Heroes. His Quirk destroys his bones from the inside out when he uses it wrong and with how late he got it he basically still has no control over it in the grand scheme of things."
The man pulled out another cigarette. "Does Shigaraki know all this? Here, help me light this since you made me drop my last one."
Atsuhiro shrugged as he lit the cigarette with the man's lighter. "All for One knows presumably given that he is in some sort of relationship with my Aunt. He might have told Shigaraki about it while Auntie was still yelling at me for not telling her I had joined the League."
"She doesn't approve of you living a life of crime then?"
"Oh no she is fine with that. I come from a long line of thieves after all, and while she was informally adopted into the family and found her interests lay elsewhere, she is more than aware of what the family business is. She was just mad that I left her and Izu out of the loop because my hiding things could have accidentally hurt his chances at his dream career because he would not realize he should be lying about how close our family is and accidentally implicate himself. There was a reason my grandparents only fostered Auntie and not adopted her."
"What is this about your Aunt?"
Atsuhiro looked up to see Dabi strolling up to them. "Oh hello Dabi. Giran is helping me distract myself from the thought that All for One managed to seduce my Aunt and are possibly trying to give both Shigaraki and my cousin a baby sibling right now."
Giran nearly choked on his smoke. "Fucking phrasing!"
Dabi was staring at him slightly dumbfounded. "Wait, are you related to the hero kid that Shigaraki was talking about?"
Atsuhiro shrugged. "So it seems. If I had realized the plan All for One had was seducing my Aunt I probably would have run out to her apartment and dragged her up to my parent's place to hide her from him."
"So what, you joined us knowing that we attacked your cousin? You hate them or something?"
"The opposite. My cousin Izu's Quirk is extremely dangerous for him to use so I had hoped to catch him with my quirk to stop him from hurting himself."
Dabi thought for a moment. "Wait, you are related to the bone breaking kid?" He seemed to study Atsuhiro as if imagining him without his mask. "I think I can see it."
Atsuhiro laughed. "Just a coincidence I am afraid given my aunt was adopted. As far as blood relations go I believe you should be looking at Shigaraki. He is her biological nephew after all."
Dabi scratches lightly at the base of one of his staples on his cheek. "Huh. Is Shigaraki not All for One's bio kid or did he used to fuck your aunt's sister?"
Atsuhiro shrugged. "No idea. My family did not know much about her birth family outside of the fact she apparently had one sibling who produced Shigaraki. We will have to ask him at some point."
"What are you all doing hanging out in the hallway?"
Speak of the Devil.
Dabi looked over at Shigaraki. "Hey, is All for One your biological father or not?"
Shigaraki sighed. "I wish." He shook his head. "Why do you want to know anyways?"
Atsuhiro shrugged. "I was curious if when my Aunt and your father eventually have a child together if they would be your half brother or biologically your cousin."
Shigaraki froze. "I'm sorry, what?"
Giran smirked slightly. "Your old man traumatized poor Compress here by sweeping his Aunt off her feet and slamming the door in his face. Apparently he heard her moan before he ran away up here."
He didn't respond, just turned and ran off down the hallway.
Notes:
Sir Nighteye is back! Sort of! His vestige is anyways. The reason he gets basically a front row seat to everything All for One now, is because, like Eri, the Quirk has to be held active to build up a charge before it can be used, thus the once in every 24 hour issue. Also, Compress's parents have Quirks now figured out but no names as of yet so I will have to circle back to that at some point. The Quirks, Magic Trick (a Quirk that allows the user to switch any two objects so long as one is in their hand and they know the precise location of the other) and Glassworking (a Quirk that allows the user to change the form of silica products at will aka a very precise form a earth bending).
Bonus:
Tomura slamming the door open at the sight of the tie on the door: Dad what the actual fuck?!
AFO wildly grinning: Dad? Not Father?
Inko giggling: It is nice to meet you too Tomura.
Tomura looking at her ruffled appearance as what he had very clearly just avoided walking in on registered: You- He- Do you have no standards?!
AFO: Which one of us was that directed at?
Tomura: Fuck I don't know?! Both?!
Chapter 9: All for One and One for All
Summary:
All for One is never letting go of Izuku now
Notes:
Originally posted July 20, 2022.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Breaking back into UA for the second time proved to be a little harder. It was still quite doable for Hisashi of course, it just took longer to sneak past the firewalls to loop the camera footage smoothly and turn off the alarms.
With the goal of shifting everyone back to normal, he did a quick loop through the three dorms, starting and ending in class 1-B due to having to visit it twice regardless because of the swap between Copy and Brainwashing. He quickly swept through the first dorm, snatching up all of the Quirks before moving on to the next with class 1-A, exchanging them, visiting the class 1-C dorm briefly for the one swap before returning back to where he started and returning the last 20 collected Quirks.
It was a quick and efficient transfer. However before he left he had one thing he wanted to do.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Izuku was having one of those weird waking dreams again. The ones that usually lead to him writing a chapter of his All for One themed story in his hazy state. He was typing in a bit of a hurry before he lost his train of thought when a voice drifted in from the other side of the door singing a familiar tune-one that he had never heard before.
"Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious…"
His mouth moved without his asking, speaking in a voice that wasn't fully his own. "Hisashi?"
His head crashed down onto his laptop as he blacked out.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
The crashing noise from the next room over had Hisashi cutting himself off from using his Lullaby Quirk with old meme songs for the hell of it. He carefully opened the door to find Izuku passed out on the floor next to his desk chair. He paused to make sure that the Quirk had held for the building and no one would wake up before he left or had been woken by the sound. Carefully he entered the room and knelt down to carefully scoop up his sleeping son.
He gently carried the boy back to the bed before nestling him down in his messy bedding that he assumed was a sign that the boy had woken up and not been able to fall back asleep. He tucked the boy in and gently brushed his fingers though Izuku's curls before making another impulse decision.
As he rested his palm on the boy's head, One for All began to buzz beneath his skin like a swarm of angry bees, readying to fight him trying to take the Quirk once more. But that wasn't the plan now was it?
Hisashi peeled back all the Quirk copies that had stuck to the copy of All for One that he had been using as his own in the original's absence. He felt One for All recoil slightly when he pushed instead of pulled. He continued to run his fingers through his son's hair as he monitored the Quirks to ensure that they settled down together properly. He didn't want to risk his son's well being after all.
Slowly but surely the two blended together into one before the buzzing picked back up again, stronger now. Enough to light the room with flickers of green lightning. Before Hisashi could remove his fingers, Izuku's eyes snapped open looking up at him and glared.
"Hisashi what did you do?"
Ah. Not Izuku after all. "Hello Yoichi. I doubt my son appreciates being possessed when he should be sleeping."
His brother pulled away ruining his hard work tucking Izuku in and flipped him off. "He doesn't remember much of it after the fact and hasn't minded it so long as I don't do it too frequently and disrupt his sleep too much. Also he is not actually your son. Now answer my question."
Hisashi hummed and reached out to ruffle his brother's hair. "I just finished switching all the Quirks of Izuku's classmates back to normal and just want to swing by and check in on my son. I was considering defacing a few of All Might's belongings on the way out."
Yoichi glared harder. "You are not his father regardless of any paperwork you might have tricked Izuku's mother into signing."
Hisashi grinned. "Oh I wouldn't be too sure about that. It is ultimately up to Izuku now isn't it? He most certainly had no objections to the matter outside of being torn over the fact that Inko and I are in a relationship."
His brother frowned. "Does she even know the truth about what you are?"
Hisashi hummed lightly. "Oh she knows pretty much everything at this point. I have hardly tricked her into doing anything. If one of the two of us is trying to seduce the other I think that you would find Inko winning on that front actually."
Yoichi turned a bit green at the thought. "I am going to regret this but I have to ask, how?"
Hisashi chuckled. "Oh you know, the threats of bodily harm that she is actually willing to back up. She actually stopped my heart earlier." He let out a wistful sigh. "She is so beautiful when she is angry."
Yoichi's jaw dropped. "Holy shit you are actually serious."
Hisashi reached out to tug his brother into a firm hug that he knew from experience his brother would be unable to wiggle out from. "But of course."
Yoichi still tried to shove him away regardless. "Get off of me."
Hisashi nuzzled into his son's curls. "No I don't think I will. Not yet anyways."
Yoichi slumped in on himself in resigned defeat. "You never answered my first question."
"And spoil the surprise?" Hisashi grinned. "I suppose I could give you a hint though. I gave him his own Quirk. Before you complain though about me forcing another stolen Quirk on you, I will clarify that the one I gave never belonged to anyone before I held it given it is an artificially created copy. It is all his now."
Yoichi tensed. "You can make copies of Quirks now?"
"But of course. Surely you did not think I would waste Quirks on mindless soldiers for Tomura to use and throw away if I could not make more of them. Besides, surely you noticed more than one Nomu had Super Regeneration?"
"How?"
Hisashi shrugged. "I will admit to not knowing much about how the process works. Credit for the process would have to go to my Doctor. Brilliant madman that man." He reached up to run his fingers through Izuku's curls. "You should go back to sleep. Izuku needs his rest."
Before his little brother could attempt to fight back, Hisashi reactivated Lullaby and began to gently hum what he remembered to be the tune of Yoichi's favorite show. "Hisashi stop…" Yoichi's struggles slowed before Izuku's head slumped over and burrowed into his chest.
Hisashi absently wondered if it had been Izuku or Yoichi's shade who had subconsciously recognized the safety of sleeping in his arms. With a sigh, he unwound himself from around his son and tucked the boy back in, earning him a small whine of protest in the boy's sleep as he pulled away. He leaned over and pressed a goodnight kiss to his son's forehead before quietly backing out of the room. He was still on borrowed time before the cameras came back on and there was still one thing left to do after all…
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
The next morning was filled with excited cheers from 40 students and a scream of panic from All Might. When Izuku stumbled in a half asleep panic to find out what was wrong he was greeted to the sight of massive lettering carved into the plaster of the walls.
"I fixed the Quirk issue your students were having XOXO -AFO"
Izuku blinked, torn between fear that AFO had been so close to him while he was sleeping and confusion. The latter won out first. "Did All for One seriously sign that with hugs and kisses?"
Then he spotted All Might's face and froze. Across the top of the man's face the words "AFO was here" seemed to be tattooed over his brow in sharpie. Additionally there was a small doodle of All for One's helmet from Kamino and a small thumbs up next to it on one of the man's cheeks.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Shoto was the only student in the class walking from the dorms that morning not celebrating the return to normal. If he was honest, he had enjoyed his Quirk being replaced by something so far removed from his father's fire. The lack of red in his hair and blue eye had been a dream come true for him after all, even if it was strange not seeing himself in the image reflected back to him in the mirror.
Despite this, he couldn't help but notice that the staff seemed extra tense this morning. Shoto couldn't help but wonder if their Quirks had been swapped back at the cost of another break in that they were not yet mentioning.
Of course even the joy of everything returning to normal didn't stop their class from collectively tensing and glaring at Midoriya as he walked in on Aizawa-sensei's heels. Shoto couldn't help but worry when he saw how shaky his friend looked even before he seemed to register their continued hostility.
Aizawa-sensei glared out at the class and flared his Quirk. "That is enough. As we have told you multiple times at this point, Midoriya has nothing to do with the Quirk incident. You are all hero students, act like it." There were grumbles around the room but everyone seemed to back off for now. "Now for today's announcements. As of this morning we have confirmation of the fear that we held about the incident in question. All for One broke into the campus again last night and this time made it perfectly clear that there is little anyone can do to stop him. Despite the tightening of our defenses he not only broke into the student dorms again to swap your Quirks back to normal but the teacher's as well to deface All Might's belongings. The threat he was making is painfully clear. With that in mind I have to warn you all that there is talk about temporarily shuttering the school and moving you all into witness protection until the man is dealt with. That being said, until a decision is reached, we will have to continue on as best we can normally to try and teach you how to defend yourselves. With that in mind and in wake of everything that has happened, I have finally gotten approval to make sure that your Quirkless sparing is up to snuff this afternoon like I had wanted to do all of last week…"
As the man continued on with the more normal morning announcements, Shoto found his gaze drifting over to land on Midoriya who was still curled in on himself at his desk as the realization hit him that Midoriya could have very easily woken up this morning to his father All Might's corpse had All for One chosen differently. A fact that he suspected the other boy knew. He would have to check on him later to make sure he was okay.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Izuku never gave Todoroki the chance by fleeing before Mic-sensei finished their last class before lunch to hide with his phone in one of the janitorial closets. His mom picked up on the first ring. "Izuku honey, is something the matter? You should still be in class right now."
Izuku gave a choked sob. "All for One broke into the school last night and admitted to causing the Quirk swap by carving a message in All Might's wall. He was right here and I couldn't do anything about it."
His mother made a noise he recognized as of concern. "Baby are you okay? Do you need Hisashi to come and get you to bring you to the safehouse?"
Izuku wasn't sure. "Maybe after class? I don't want to miss out on Heroics after the classes were basically canceled all last week."
"Okay baby. Would you be okay if I hand you over to Hisashi? I think he wants to talk with you."
Izuku nodded to himself. "Yeah, okay."
There was the sound of the phone being passed along. "I'll meet you at the gates after school finishes but if you decide you need to leave sooner, let me give you my number so I can come and get you…" Izuku reached into his bag to pull out a scrap sheet of paper and wrote out the string of numbers to add to his phone after the call. "Izuku I know this is not really the time, but I can't help but worry a little. I know Inko said that you didn't seem upset with the idea of her registering me as your father but I have to ask, are you really okay with the idea?"
Izuku, happy for the distraction, allowed the change in topic. "I mean I am torn about how I feel about you and Mom dating since I do enjoy talking Quirks with you but I feel like I should disapprove on the principle of the matter but on the other hand, yeah, I don't hate the idea of you as my father. Honestly if I hadn't known who my bio-dad was when we met I'll admit I think I might have been suspicious that you actually were him."
Athos laughed on the other end of the call. "You know your mother said the same thing so I will tell you what I said in response. I will take that compliment since being compared to such a brilliant young man is definitely one."
Izuku felt a watery smile on his lips. "Thanks. You're not half bad yourself."
Athos chuckled again. "Well, son, if you still need a bit of a distraction, why don't we talk about your classmates Quirks…?"
The next thing Izuku knew, they had talked through his whole lunch break, Izuku riding the high of the man showering him in compliments and calling him son with an easy that felt natural. While the warning bell rang Izuku spoke without registering what he was saying. "Shit, I have to go Dad. We can talk more after school."
"Good luck in your training Izuku."
It wasn't until after he hung up and was opening the door to the classroom that he was hit with the mortifying realization of what head just called the man without hesitation.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
"He called me Dad!"
Inko huffed and crossed her arms to level Hisashi with a glare. "As nice as that is for you, you still scared the hell out of him with your little stunt. What were you thinking breaking into the staff dorms like that?"
Hisashi gave her a sheep look. "That Izuku looks really cute when he is asleep and I didn't want it to be obvious that I only broke into the dorms to see him? Honestly, they should be happy all I did was deface a wall and draw on All Might with a permanent marker. If I hadn't been worried that Izuku would have been the one to find his body in the morning I would have smothered the man with his own pillow. The temptation was real."
Inko just shook her head. "You better apologize to him properly for it later when you finally work up the courage to actually admit who you are to him."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Hikage really hated his father at times. The way he treated Izuku as if he was a normal father to him all along made him feel a bit sick. After all, he had never treated him that way.
A traitorous part of his mind remind him that perhaps that is only because the man hadn't know who he was.
That was the one thing that Hikage had wondered the most often about. Hikage had the honor of being the only one in the Quirk the man had not killed, even if First's death had been unintentional on the man's part. For the longest time he had wondered if the reason All for One had not hunted him down was because he was his son but now he was fairly certain that his and his mother's attempts to hide that fact from him had actually succeeded. It was the only explanation he had for why the man had never seemed to care about Hikage's own descendants.
While he was uncertain what had become of his daughter, his son was less of a mystery given that one of his great grandsons was sitting in the same class as the Ninth under his wife's family name. It was a shame that his grandson turned out to be an even bigger bastard then perhaps even All for One. At least All for One had always treated Quirk marriages with the distaste that they deserved.
The Todoroki family name had deserved better than Endeavor.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Izuku scratched lightly at an itch on his palm as he stood off to the side as Aizawa-sensei worked with All Might to pair them off for sparring, matching more experienced fighters with weaker ones to help speed up the improvements of the weaker ones. All Might had mostly managed to get the ink on his face off but there was still enough of it left to be easily read by his classmates.
Finally Aizawa-sensei pointed him and Hagakure to a mat. "Hagakure, for someone who should be one of the best Quirkless fighters because of your Quirk, you have a lot to learn. Midoriya, be careful to not hurt her. Even without your Quirk you are a lot stronger physically then she is so be careful of the strain you put on her joints and pull your punches."
Izuku nodded, having already realized that a while ago. Thankfully for him, since they were in their gym uniforms instead of costumes today it was easier to track where her limbs were so it would not be much of an issue.
They had barely started when Izuku wrapped his hand around her wrist to pull her into a grapple. His vision exploded into stars as suddenly, he could see her plain as day, glowing slightly from below her skin with a beautiful light. A light that he instinctively felt the urge to pull-
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Shoto's head snapped up from where he had been looking down at a pinned Tokoyami at the sound of a girl's scream. It was not hard to realize the cause, as Hagakure was hitting Midoriya in the chest as he held her arm in a vice-like grip in some sort of daze. She was fully visible as she had been when her Quirk had been exchanged with one of the girls from 1-B.
The gym exploded into chaos as everyone realized what Midoriya had just done. Running on instinct, Shoto dropped his hold over Tokoyami and used his Quirk to throw up walls of ice between Midoriya and the other members of class before running over to peel the boy off their classmate's wrist.
That seemed to snap him out of it as he fell away shaking from the shock of what he had just done. "I didn't- I don't-"
Shoto reached out to wrap the boy in a protective hug but he recoiled and jumped back before activating his Quirk and fleeing from the gym.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Toshinori was kicking himself for freezing up as Young Midoriya disappeared out the doors but for one horrible moment he had not seen the boy he loved so dearly standing there but the ghost of All for One when he had fought him six years ago and when he had killed Nana years before that.
A horrible thought crossed his mind that this wasn't the first time he had made the mistake either.
He knew logically that this was either the doing of All for One last night or perhaps the stockpiling aspect of One for All had made a copy of All for One before it had even become One for All. Regardless, what had happened was clearly a Quirk accident and would be easily reversed when everyone calmed down and they found where Young Midoriya ran off to.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Izuku didn't stop running until he found himself in a back alley several blocks from the school in shocked tears. He had only deviated from his path long enough to grab his cell phone from his gym locker. Tears streaming down his face he called the number he had just barely added 15 minutes ago to his phone. "Dad- help." His voice caught in his throat choking out those two words.
"Izuku? Where are you? Are you hurt?"
"Alley few blocks from school. Not injured. Stole a Quirk. Help."
There was a small curse from his father on the other end. "Can you move without being seen?"
"Yes."
"Okay I am going to come get you but it will be better if we meet in the middle. Do you know where the grocery store nearest your apartment is? I want you to go to the alley behind it without being seen but first you are going to have to turn off your phone and pull the SIM card if we are going to keep them from tracking you. Leave the phone in the alley. I'll meet you there shortly. You got that?"
"Yeah. Bring clothes." Izuku's throat barely let the request escape. He hung up and followed his father's instructions, taking things a step further by smashing his phone to pull the card, leaving the pieces for the heroes that would surely be chasing him to find. Then, feeling slightly disgusted with himself, reached into his Quirk to activate what had been Hagakure's Invisibility before peeling off his clothes and burying them in the nearby dumpster.
Invisible, he wandered the streets and alleys completely hidden from sight, careful to not bump into anyone. As he walked he watched as an alert went out for him over one of the large screens overlooking the street, asking that anyone who had any information about his location to contact the heroes at UA.
Soon, he found his father pacing in the back alley with a worried expression, a backpack over his shoulder. Without thinking he rushed forward to cling to him in a tear filled hug. "Dad."
After just a moment's hesitation he found himself cocooned in the man's arms. "So Invisibility then? Well as far as Quirks go that you could have taken, at least you picked the best one to help you get out of there."
"It was an accident. I couldn't give it back. My Quirk ate it. "
His father sighed and nodded. "It probably would be safer if I wait to give you this change of clothes until we get to the alleys backing onto my place. Are your feet still okay or should I carry you?"
Izuku reluctantly pushed back, wiping away his tears. "I can walk. It would be obvious if you carried me."
His father released him before holding out a hand. "Here, you can hold my hand without drawing too much attention."
"You aren't scared I will take your Quirk?"
His father laughed. "Oh, well, you are more than welcome to try."
It wasn't until palm rested against his that Izuku understood.
The man glowed like a galaxy of stars. More quirks than Izuku could count swirled around him in a dance of colors and patterns. More Quirks than he could take in even an hour long walk.
"All for One."
The man smiled. "Hello son. It is nice to finally properly meet you."
Notes:
Don't be suspicious - Parks and Rec (original source clip)
/\ Just in case you missed the reference or forgot the tune. Other songs he was singing before were the Mission Impossible theme and All Star. Lullaby works by lacing the Quirk into a tune that the user sing to sedate the listener for about half and hour before they either wake up naturally or continue sleeping normally.
Also, yep, because of the fusion between All for One and One for All, any Quirk that Izuku takes just becomes a permanent part of his new Quirk. Theoretically he would be able to pass on his future hoard if he passed it one like One for All in the past but it would probably kill anyone that wasn't Quirkless to start near instantly. So yeah, Hagakure is just Quirkless now unless All for One gives her something else. I feel mean doing this to her but it was a necessary evil.
Chapter 10: United We Stand
Summary:
Izuku finds himself falling into Villainy as much of who he is gets recontextualized.
Notes:
Originally posted July 21, 2022
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Izuku stared up at his Dad一 no All for One一 no his actual father in shock. "What?"
His Dad tugged him back into a hug briefly. "We can chat more about this back home with your mother when you are properly safe." His father straightened up and gently tugged him along out of the alley.
As they walked, Izuku walked in the man's shadow to avoid bumping into other people, Izuku couldn't help but freak out about how much sense this made. He and his Dad shared far too much in common to not be related somehow and his own Quirk proved it. Because it had to be his own Quirk . Izuku knew a lot about stress triggered quirk manifestations and his own had all the hallmarks of it. Honestly it was more surprising that it hadn't happened sooner.
Perhaps his father's break in had been the straw that broke the camel's back.
Izuku stumbled slightly at that thought.
It was his father's fault for starting all the drama with his class in the first place. If he had never switched their Quirks, they never would have considered a connection between them. Had this all been planned? He knew that All for One had clearly twisted Shigaraki into a weapon against All Might but had that been the plan for him as well? Was it still the plan?
They turned into a blind alley before his father stopped at the base of a fire escape. "Izuku are you okay? I can practically hear the gears turning in that wonderful brain of yours."
"Why did you switch my classmate's Quirks? Surely you must have realized that they would at least suspect something was up when I was the only one unaffected."
His father hummed and lowered the bag from his shoulder. "Honestly I did it mostly for shits and giggles after being strapped to a chair for so long with no outside entertainment made me think it was a good idea. At the time you were just the Ninth holder of One for All so any blow back there was something I saw as a positive outcome. I am sorry about that. I should have switched them back sooner but as I told your mother when she confronted me about it, I found myself distracted by you and forgot."
Izuku sighed and took the clothes the man had pulled from the bag. "So you weren't trying to drive a wedge between me and my classmates to turn me into another Tomura then?"
The man grimaced. "Please don't remind me how much I have screwed up your brother. Inko has yet to let me hear the end of that."
Izuku nearly fumbled his clothes at that offhand remark. "Wait, is Tomura actually my brother? Like biologically?"
The man's eyes widened as he seemed to realize what Izuku was actually asking. "No just legally. Biologically you are both cousins. Izuku I am not your biological father any more than I am for him…" He tilted his head in consideration. "Though given the fact I haven't really traced your biological father's family back at all, I can't rule out the possibility of being related through him in some fashion. It would most certainly explain a lot if you were descended from me from a child I might have unknowingly conceived at some point back when I was less careful about that sort of thing. All I know with any certainty is that you are not my decadent on Inko's side since I know the Shimura family tree fairly well for obvious reasons." Then his face seemed to glaze over as a stray thought seemed to hit him as a look of horror dawned on him. "Wait, shit, that explains so much."
Izuku flickered back into the visible spectrum now that he was dressed in pants so that putting on his socks and his extra pair of shoes would be easier. "What is it?"
"The Fourth holder. Tomura's maternal great-grandfather. He was my son." His father leaned back against the wall nearest to him and slowly slid down as he buried his face in his hands. "I didn't know. He died all alone and I didn't know."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Inside the One for All there was an explosion of activity as the group turned on Hikage seemingly as one. First got to him first. "Why the hell did you never mention that you were my nephew! We could have bonded over how shitty my brother is and how much it sucks to be related to him!"
Fifth shoved First away. "Forget that, you actually reproduced? Like, spent enough time with a woman to get a kid?"
Hikage groaned and buried his face in his hands mirroring the gesture that his father had done. "This is why I never talked about it. I knew you guys wouldn't leave me alone about it. Can I please go back to ignoring the vast majority of my living family."
Seventh slung her arms over his shoulder. "Well I assume this means your granddaughter married my Kotaro?"
Hikage shrugged and nodded. "I assume so. I don't know anything about my daughter's family but I know at least where part of her twin brother's family ended up since they still carry their mother's family name."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Tooru was not sure what was going on. One second she had been just about to spar with Midoriya and the next she was here, wherever here was.
"Twins? Damn congrats!" Tooru turned to look over to see a cluster of adults grouped up around one man.
"Erm…Hello? Where am I?"
A few of them jumped and looked around to spot her. A set of green eyes like Midoriya's set framed by straight white hair met hers despite her invisibility and softened. "I'm so sorry, kid. You are inside One for All. Hagakure Tooru, right?"
Tooru fidgeted with her hands that the men and one woman couldn't see as she nodded. "Yeah that is me. Um, is One for All related to that All for One guy from Kamino?"
The man sighed and nodded. "My brother." He gestured around them. "This used to be my Quirk, a stockpiler Quirk that can change hands like the passing of a sacred torch but thanks to my brother's recent tampering with the Ninth holder, it has changed to be more like his own. To put it simply, Midoriya Izuku's Quirk ate yours so now you are stuck here with all of us."
Tooru suddenly felt completely justified in her suspicions. "So we were right! Midoriya did have something to do with the swap!"
The woman shook her head. "While we can't deny the fact Izuku now has firm ties with All for One, he didn't when you first started to accuse him. Izuku is just as much a victim in this mess as all of you. The only reason his Quirk was untouched is the fact that the Quirk can't transfer from one person to the next without First here giving the okay."
A golden figure of mist tapped the woman on the shoulder and pointed over at the window hanging in thin air over the edge on the crumbling platform that the chairs ringed facing. Suddenly Tooru was very much aware of the fact she had been tuning out Midoriya's voice muttering in the background out of habit. "...Should I go and try and find Mom? She would know how to handle this, right? Which apartment even is it though? Is it even this building or was the plan to roof jump from here…?"
Through the window she could see a man on the ground with his face buried in his hands that, from his appearance, she could only assume he was Midoriya's father. As a hand appeared in the window's field of view it suddenly struck her that she was looking out of Midoriya's eyes. He tentatively reached out to shake the man's shoulder. "Dad? Er… Do you need me to get Mom for you?"
Behind her, Tooru registered a couple of the men muttering. "I still can't believe he is still calling him that. He knows who the bastard is now."
"Give the kid a break. You heard his question a little bit ago. He is still under the impression that his Quirk naturally is the same as All for One. He thought that he was secretly actually his father. Besides, the kid is on the run now regardless and at least All for One can get him back to Inko."
Midoriya's prodding seemed to shake the man out of it at least. "Ah, sorry Izuku. Yes, let's get back to Inko." He pulled himself to his feet (damn the bastard really was tall) and gestured towards the fire escape. "Third window up leads into the hallway outside of the apartment. I'll open it from the inside when the coast is clear." He then scooped the bag back up and walked back out onto the street in the direction of presumably the front door.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
It was only once Izuku was alone again that everything hit him all at once. He had just come here with All for One. Willingly. He was just what his classmates had been accusing him of being the whole time, a traitor. Hell, he had literally spilled his class's weaknesses to the man over the phone with barely any prompting despite knowing the man for less then a week! Surely he wasn't actually that starved of fatherly affection.
…
Ah, who was he kidding? Anyone who read his fanfics could see that he was. Izuku tugged at his curls in frustration.
This is the man who killed his grandmother. The man who nearly killed All Might twice! Who relentlessly hunted for his Quirk-
But One for All wasn't his real Quirk now was it? He had been born with All for One.
So the two of them were related on his father's side, somehow. Maybe the reason his Quirk took so long to manifest was because of One for All? With the exception of the Slime Villain incident, every other situation he had been through that could have forced the Quirk to manifest before now had been while he was in possession of One for All. Maybe the fact that All for One was his innate Quirk was why he could use the Quirks of the previous holders when none of the others could?
Looking back it was possible the only reason the Quirk didn't manifest during the Slime Villain attacks was because it really would likely not have helped. Who knows how badly for either him or Kacchan it would have been had he stolen the Villains Quirk.
Plus It explained the Hunger .
Why it only had gone away for a while when All Might had given him One for All. Why it had only dulled after starting to come back when he stole Hagakure's Quirk.
No.
When he consumed it.
Stole implied it could be possibly recovered but Invisibility's light was now blended into the swirling mass that was his Quirk. Much like One for All and the traces of the other holders had. Traces that he could practically taste.
Something that Izuku had only half registered over the months of using it was the faint taste of ozone that came from using One for All. It was barely there, the taste of raw power. Something that had registered a bit more fully was the taste of salt that accompanied it when he had tapped into Blackwhip. A flavor he now could pick out from the roiling mass with ease. And there was the soft floral taste of Invisibility beginning to properly blend.
Curiously, he browsed the flavors of the Quirks he had yet to try. He easily picked out the sharp acidic taste of what he sensed was a form of mental Quirk. Prodding it gently to activate it, he felt it click into place. The hairs on the back of his neck shot up as a feeling of unease settled over him. Oh, Super Anxiety. Fun (Inside the Quirk there was a laugh as Fourth muttered that the new name was fairly accurate). Izuku shook his head as he deactivated it. He should be safe enough shortly and he didn't need the taste souring the others. He had just picked out another light floral taste (this one more like the taste you get when near a woman wearing too much perfume compared to the mellow floral tea of Invisibility) when the window above him slid open. "Izuku?"
Izuku looked up at his Dad in the window, looking at him surprised as if he hadn't expected him to still be where he left him. Without really thinking, he activated the weak flight Quirk (Float he recalled Gran Torino and All Might calling it. His grandmother's Quirk) and drifted silently up to the window. "Sorry. I just realized that I could probably tap into the Quirks of the other holders of One for All more easily now that my Quirk is finally properly active."
His father gave him a look of understanding as he sifted out of the way so that Izuku could maneuver through. "I can help you sort through them later if you want. With the exception of your eldest brother Hikage's Quirk, I have seen all the others in action myself."
"Who had the Super Anxiety?" Izuku switched off Float after his feet touched the hall's tile.
That earned him a puzzled look. "Assuming you didn't pick that up on the way here, presumably him. All the others had clear, obvious emitter type Quirks. He would be the only one that could have had a mental one." His Dad shook his head. "This way, I am sure your mother is worried for both of us." He lead the way over to the closest door and unlocked it with just a gesture of his hand before pushing it open. "Inko, we're home."
Izuku had barely set foot in the Genkan when his mother grabbed him to tug him into a hug. "Oh baby are you okay? None of your classmates or teachers hurt you before you got away?"
Izuku shook his head as he carefully kept his palms as far away from his mother as possible. "Todoroki threw up some ice between me and everyone else to stop them. I think he probably would have come with me but I was afraid if I grabbed him, I would have accidentally eaten his Quirk as well."
Inko pulled herself back to give him a questioning look. His Dad cleared his throat. "Izuku's version of All for One is more possessive than even my own of other Quirks. I think it is a side effect of having One for All being the first Quirk he gained in his hoard. It has a nasty habit of triggering Quirk evolution in the Quirks of the holders. If I had to guess what happened, Izuku had been carrying most of the genes needed to have been born with my Quirk but lacked a crucial piece that One for All provided. Of course since he basically gained Seven Quirks for the price of one, it likely satisfied the urge that comes from All for One to collect more Quirks. Today just happened to be the first time he properly came in contact with another Quirk since it came back so he instinctively stole the Quirk to satisfy the Quirk Hunger." He considered Izuku for a second. "Is it gone now or do you need me to help you with it? We don't need you stealing Attraction from your mother because you can't control yourself."
Izuku considered that before he realized even the idea of obtaining another new Quirk was making his mouth water slightly. "You would let me take from your hoard?"
His father smirked and held out a hand. "I have some duplicates that you can take. The redundancy is useful when stacking effects but I can manage without a few copies." Izuku latched onto the hand and began scrambling at his father's Quirk trying to pull the stars from the gravity well that was his father's. His Dad chuckled. "Oh dear, it is hitting you hard isn't it? I suspect you managed to put this off for so long only because your Quirk didn't know how to cope with it yet. Here, let's start with some of the basics that should play well with what you already have thanks to your Uncle's Quirk."
A light broke away for Izuku to snap up. It wasn't a great taste, like licking an old tire, rubbery and very artificial. "Shock Absorption? Like the Nomu from the USJ?"
His father nodded as he released his grip on another light. "Next is Super Regeneration." Sickly sweet like an artificial sweetener.
"They taste… off?"
"That would be because they are lab grown. My Doctor who created the Nomu at my request has been working on ways to artificially recreate Quirks. I believe his ultimate goal is to try and recreate my own. His success thus far has been rather limited."
Izuku felt his mouth go dry as he was struck by two horrifying realizations. "Nine was one of his test subjects right?"
His father hummed in confirmation. "So he tells me. As should be obvious, his experimental copy had the major flaw of a hard limit to how many Quirks it could hold, unlike real versions like ours. The fact you feel the hunger at all is more than proof that your own is a real manifestation on your part. I assume that the idea that I could have given you an artificial copy of my own Quirk was a concern with the knowledge it was possible."
Izuku slumped in on himself. "The timing was suspicious. I know you broke into the dorm last night."
Another light peeled free. "My apologies. While I will admit that there was another copy of my Quirk made. It had a hard limit of 30 Quirks before it would destabilize." A strong umami but not a great one, a basic strength enhancer. "I actually gave my original Quirk to a Nomu in the Doctor's possession temporarily and used that copy prior to my incarceration so I wouldn't have been driven mad by the Hunger in those short months. It no longer exists though since I did not want your brother to become tempted to try and convince the Doctor to give it to him."
Another light. "What did you do with it?" Bitter like a cold coffee but with a plasticky after taste, Forced Quirk Activation.
"I combined it with another Quirk. It was cannibalized for parts. Do you still need more?"
Izuku had relaxed more and more as the craving faded. "Maybe two more. You can do that? Mash two quirks together to get a new one?"
He nodded as he plucked out another light. A horrible taste, like he had accidentally bitten into an ink cartridge. Warping "How do you think Kurogiri's Quirk came about? That was quite the happy accident really. I had not expected the body's native Quirk to naturally combine with the coordinate based Warp I had created by combining a line of sight based teleporter and a long distance sight based Quirk."
That caught Izuku of guard. "Kurogiri is a Nomu?"
The father sighed. "I presume that they would have kept that information on a need to know basis after they figured it out." A final light. "Kurogiri is the only successful example of a high end Nomu that the Doctor succeeded in creating before I had to scrap that project. With the current kill on sight orders for them, it is just a waste to let them keep original copies of Quirks. He might pick the project back up on his own with any Quirk copies he's made but I don't intend on letting him keep originals again until things calm down.
The first original Quirk, extremely spicy, caused him to release his father' hand and cough for a few seconds. A lick of flame escaping his mouth like he had once imagined himself doing as a kid. Fire Breath.
"Hisashi, really? Did you really go out and steal Salamander's Quirk just because he is my ex and Izuku's biological father?"
Izuku was suddenly reminded of the fact that his mother was still in the room with them. His Dad gave her an unrepentant smile. "Well if what he did with you and what Spinner tells me about him is true then he definitely deserved it. Besides, the idiot was doing a patrol by himself while there is a Quirk stealing Villain on the loose. He was basically asking for it."
Izuku offered her a grin. "I mean he has a point there. It is against regulation for Sidekicks to patrol on their own unlike full Pros. He should have been walking with a partner at least."
His mother sighed before opening her arms for another hug. "I can hug you now without risking another Quirk accident?"
Izuku rushed into her arms and buried his face in the crook of her neck for a moment as she squeezed him back before pulling back to level a glare at her. "So when were you planning on telling me that Dad was All for One?"
His mother looked slightly guilty about that. "When I decided whether to accept his proposal from breakfast yesterday or not. I was still not one hundred percent sold on him being truthful about not wanting to try and use us for nefarious purposes. Honestly, if I had wanted to live a life of crime I could have just taken my parent's and brother up fully on their offer."
Okay Izuku was officially lost. "I'm sorry what?"
She rolled her eyes fondly at him. "Atsuhiro is hardly the first thief in the family Izuku. He just happens to be the first to be named a Villain officially since your great-great-grandfather. A fact that he seems to be quite proud of from our chat yesterday. Before you ask, he join the the League because he was scared about your Quirk backlash getting you killed if the League attacked you again. He was rather upset that Muscular found you before he did since he had just planned on temporarily removing you from the board without anyone knowing."
His father nodded as he fell back onto the couch. "He got really lucky that Tomura developed a fondness for him and he with the rest of the League before he was found out. I supposed in taking his arm, Overhaul accidentally did him the biggest favor he could have."
His mother shook her head before seeming to consider both of them. "So Izuku just happens to have the same Quirks as you?"
His father sighed. "So it seems. It is possible he is a descendant of my one biological son on his father's side like Tomura is on his mother's but I would have to actually check. When I was looking into Tomura's family tree to try to trace the origin of his Quirk, I only checked for parents not siblings so it is possible either his mother or maternal grandmother had a sibling that I missed."
That caught his mother off guard. "I thought Tomura was your only other son?"
That earned a laugh. "So did I before I really thought about it. I wasn't aware that I had a biological child but it was the only way that explains the existence of Izuku's Quirk as well as explains away the physical similarities that both he and Tomura share with me. I didn't think much of it at first when the records for one branch of his family tree stopped at Shinomori Hikage who lacked any record of his biological father. In hindsight the connection was obvious, not only did he share physical similarities in his height and hair color but he died relatively young from the same autoimmune disorder that was killing my brother. It was a genetic issue he inherited from me acting as a carrier for it."
His mother frowned. "Should we be worried about Izuku or Tomura possibly having it?"
He sighed. "I will have my Doctor run a test on Izuku to double check for it but the Super Regeneration Quirk I just gave him should protect him from it. Unfortunately Tomura does have a milder form of the Disease. It is what is causing his skin issues but outside of being irritating and triggering Marie Antoinette Syndrome back when he was a child, he is perfectly healthy. Technically speaking he is just allergic to himself and he would feel better if he was better about taking his antihistamines every 12 hours like he is supposed to. I should probably try and get some of his friends to help him remember since he just ignores Kurogiri when he tries to remind him."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Tomura sneezed, earning him a cooing noise from Toga. "Aw~ You sneeze like a kitten, Shiggy!"
Tomura blushed. "I do not!"
Dabi snickered. "I mean you kinda do. What, are you getting sick?"
Tomura flipped him off. "Fuck off it is just my allergies. I just forgot to take my antihistamine again."
Kurogiri sighed and produced a small bottle of prescription strength antihistamines and a glass of water from a small Warp Gate. "I tried to remind you earlier."
Tomura sniffled. "Yeah, yeah. I just got distracted."
Twice rested his elbows on the table. "Ooh, maybe someone is thinking of you! Of course they are, the heroes are trying to arrest us! No, I don't think that's it."
Spinner looked up from the knife he had been sharpening for Toga. "I mean it is possible that his father is. He's not here right now after all."
Tomura shook his head. "Who the fuck would he be talking about me to while playing civilian for the heroes? The only person he would with would be Inko and he can just bring her here if she had any questions about me." There was the chirping noise of an incoming text, prompting Kurogiri to fish out his phone. "Speak of the Devil." He opened a Warp Gate into the room that Dad was quick to step through with Inko. But they were not alone.
Midoriya Izuku gave a small nervous wave. "Er, hi?"
Tomura dusted the glass in his hand, remaining water falling onto the table in front of him and his lap. His gaze shifted between the boy's palm and his father with his stupid smug face. "What the actual fuck? You gave him a copy of your Quirk?"
His Dad brightened. "He actually already had it to my surprise. He just had to flee UA after losing himself to his Quirk Hunger after it properly manifested finally and stealing a Quirk from a girl from his class!"
Tomura's stomach dropped. "I thought Spinner's old man was supposed to be his biological father."
Inko rolled her eyes and walked over to one of the free chairs in their pseudo-bar they often hung out in. "He is. However it seems likely that Hisashi's actual biological son is the great-grandfather of all three of you."
Now it was Spinner's turn to lose his grip in shock. "Wait really?"
The hero brat-no wait he was now on the run from the heroes wasn't he? His and Compress's mutual cousin scratched his head awkwardly. "Yeah, hilariously that would mean that the two of us are doubly each other's cousins, what with us being cousins through your Dad and my Mom being siblings and your Mom and my bio-father being either siblings or cousins. That is the part Dad still needs to confirm either way. Unless of course there was another secret kid of his that he missed."
Tomura glowered at him. "Don't fucking call my piece of shit birth parents that. The old man was an abusive dick and the lady and her parents just fucking watched. After all who the fuck cares about the useless Quirkless kid? Dad is my only parent."
That earned him confused looks and concerned noises from the rest of the League as well as both the greenettes. Oh right he never spilled his guts about his origin story. His father just shook his head. "Before anyone asks, no I did not give Tomura a Quirk, I just found him after everything went horribly wrong. Tomura experienced a force manifestation much like Izuku just did earlier today. His Quirk was originally dormant because he is actually allergic to it so his immune system attacking it delayed the activation. Between that and the incorrect assumption that a toe joint even remotely factors into whether or not you have a Quirk and he was falsely classified as Quirkless much like Izuku was."
Compress had tugged off his mask and balaclava. "But what do you mean by Izuku's Quirk just manifesting today? He has a Quirk. He used it to break all his bones during the Sports Festival and in his fight against Muscular."
The greenette in question blushed. "I might have accidentally conned All Might out of his Quirk because we both made the incorrect assumption that I was actually Quirkless. His former Quirk One for All was originally Dad's brother's Quirk and is a transferable Stockpiler. It actually is the only reason I didn't manifest my own Quirk sooner since it satisfied the Hunger for a while. If it hadn't my control might have snapped and I would have stolen a Quirk sooner."
Suddenly Toga had thrown her arms around the boy in tears. "That is so sad! I know what it's like to have to deprive yourself of what you crave but you didn't even know what it was you needed to fix it!"
Inko's face turned dangerously blank. "Himiko dear, are you telling me that your family was intentionally starving you?" Toga- or well shit maybe they should be calling her Himiko because fuck her family- nodded in tears. Inko nodded before turning to Dad. "Alright, you are going to take me back to my apartment so I can make some phone calls with the associates from my law office. I don't care if she is currently on the run as a serial killer and Villain, she never should have been put in a situation that forced her to become one. Someone needs to be held accountable…Actually while I am at it, are there any others here that had to deal with home situations like Himiko and Tomura?"
Spinner shook his head. "I mean Dad is a dick but he and Mom were never a problem for me. That was society in general looking at me and telling me I couldn't work as a doctor because I have fucking scales."
Twice shook his head "Have been an orphan since I was still a teen. Got screwed by the system. Fuck that shit. "
Giran waved her off. "Took care of the problem myself but thanks for the offer."
Compress laughed as eyes fell on him from a few members of the League. "I mean obviously I was fine. Stealing is just in my blood."
That left all eyes on Dabi. Tomura wasn't sure he would answer because he had always been pretty cagy about his past. The man fidget under Inko's gaze for a bit before eventually folding. "My original name was Todoroki Touya-"
"Ah that makes sense. Fuck Endeavor." Everyone looked at Midori-no he should try and think of him as Izuku- like he had grown a second head but Dabi broke into a wide grin at that.
"Yeah. Fuck Enji. Gonna be honest I thought you were some kind of super Hero nerd from some of the stuff we had heard about you."
"Oh I am but I stopped counting him as one the moment my best friend told me about how he was being abused and the whole Quirk marriage thing. I assume that you were the one he was 'training' originally?"
Dabi frowned and nodded. "So Shoto is your best friend? Surely your stealing a Quirk put a damper on that."
Izuku shook his head. "He helped me escape by holding off our classmates with his ice."
Dabi seemed to consider that, as if his entire view of the world had shifted slightly. Inko shook her head. "So did you want me to rake the new number one over the coals in court or did you have something different you were hoping for."
Dabi shrugged. "I had this whole elaborate scheme to fuck with him but a part of me can't help but see the appeal of his perfect creation calling out as a piece of shit on the record. I guess I could still do my dramatic reveal and all by crashing the trial. If I burned down the courthouse, would that get the trial thrown out?"
Inko laughed. "No, we would just be forced to temporarily suspend the trial until a new venue was found. It would hardly be the first time it happened. You would be surprised how common it is actually..."
It would be later, years down the road when they all realized what had happened in that room that day. That moment was the moment that cemented them not only as a collection of fiends but as a real family.
Notes:
All for One is not actually lying merely avoiding the truth that the fact that Izuku's Quirk only truly activated when he gave it the missing pieces. Basically Izuku happened to be born with a damaged Quirk factor and the copy of All for One was what was needed to stitch the wound closed. Izuku has had All for One all along, unable to use it but suffering the effects. The Hunger has always been with him and what drove him start doing Quirk Analysis in the first place in a despite attempt to curb a craving he didn't understand. All for One is basically an empty container that needs to be filled and over time it continues to grow until the artificial ones that are more rigged in size.
Tomura was born with a similarity damaged Quirk factor though his was not bad enough that it didn't eventually evolve itself around the issue. Still it left him allergic to himself so that is less then fun.
Chapter 11: Divided we Fall
Summary:
Shoto finally runs away
Notes:
Originally posted July 21, 2022
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
It was chaos in the gym as Shoto found his classmates attacking him. Even Bakugou, who up until, moments ago had still been secretly siding with Midoriya, was clearly viewing him and Shoto as the enemy. Ironically Shoto's own ice had made it impossible for Aizawa-sensei to use his Quirk on the class as a whole. It took a lot more of his ice and fire before he managed to get to the safety of behind All Might who had just frozen in his shock.
Aizawa-sensei shoved All Might back towards the door. "Get Todoroki out of here and figure out where Midoriya ran off to. The sooner we find him the sooner we figure out what is going on and get Hagakure her Quirk back. Ask Nedzu for help."
Shoto tugged the stick of a former Pro hero behind him out of the room before darting into the locker room without him. Midoriya's locker was open but it seemed all of his belongings were still inside. Quickly, he opened his own locker and began the process of shoving the content of the two lockers into their appropriate backpacks before hurtling out to see the now unfroze All Might worriedly chatting on the phone. "You are sure he is gone? He didn't run back to my rooms?"
Shoto held up Midoriya's yellow bag. "He went into the locker room for something from his bag but left everything else."
All Might nodded grimly. "Alright, Young Todoroki follow me to the Principal's office so we can look through his belongings to deduce what he might have deemed important enough to take with him."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
The answer to that question was evidently his cell phone that was now off the network suggesting he had pulled his battery and SIM card. Nedzu had sent a patrolling hero in the direction of where the cell towers had last ping the phone's location but they were not hopeful. Shoto swung his feet as he sat on the couch in the office awkwardly as All Might carefully pulled his son's belongings from his bag and laid them out for Nedzu to help him review while Nedzu typed away on his computer to request that Midoriya's phone records be pulled.
Suddenly All Might froze as he pulled out what seemed to be a piece of scrap note paper. "Nedzu please tell me I am not actually seeing what I think I am seeing?"
Nedzu snapped up the scrap in his paw before frowning. "Oh dear, that is a problem."
Shoto stood up to see what the matter was. "What is it?"
Nedzu turned the note for him to see. (555) 477-1111. (555) ALL - four 1s. Shit that looked really bad for Midoriya. "Ah." That was all he could say as he began to sweat internally. He needed to get out of here and warn Midoriya.
His eyes unconsciously fell to the one notebook not hidden among his possessions. He needed to take care of that. In an act he worried he might regret later, he activated his left side and slammed his hand down on the notebook before making a swipe at the scrap of paper. Both Nedzu and All Might recoiled in monetary shock, giving him enough time to make a break for it to Midoriya's new temporary bedroom. He hoped that Midoriya would forgive him for destroying his limited edition All Might merchandise.
Alarms began to blare over the campus as he smashed and jumped out of a window throwing his ice at his feet to build himself a quick path in the air to the window outside Midoriya's room. Confirming that he had found the right place he smashed his second window and began to set everything in the room alight. When he heard nearby shouts outside he realized the fire would not burn fast enough to destroy Midoriya's laptop. He changed tactics and speared it through with his ice before removing the ice shard and cooking the machine from the inside out.
Before he could run again his flames suddenly cut off from his hand as Aizawa-sensei stepped through the door. "Todoroki, what the hell do you think you are doing?"
Shoto blinked before a smile crossed his lips. "I believe that I finally understand what my brother meant by 'ride or die.' I am sorry Aizawa-sensei but my loyalty is to Midoriya. Now if you will excuse me."
He jumped out the window. That had probably been a bad idea since he rolled his ankle on the landing but years of "training" with his father taught him how to push through the pain.
There were more teachers and some Third years that had come out onto the fields after him now but he didn't care. The longer he caused chaos here, the farther Midoriya would be able to get from UA and the harder he would be to track down.
To his surprise he actually was able to make it to the wall surrounding the campus. Suddenly he felt his Quirk click back into place as Aizawa-sensei blinked. A quick wave of his left hand behind himself and a massive wall of fire shot up behind him as he slammed down his right food to catapult himself up and over. His landing on the other side went better than the first had.
He was quick to dive into the alleys and back streets looking for ways to hide himself. He stopped briefly to steal a hat and pare of old pants from a drying line over a second story apartment's balcony and quickly changed before ripping his pant's to shreds to wrap his face over his scared eye and jaw and burned his jacket to use the soot to stain his hair black where it peeked out from the wrappings and the hat. A quick check in a window's reflection and he deemed himself disguised well enough to make it to his hidden caches.
He would be lying if he said that he had never considered running away and disappearing before. Honestly, had it not been for the USJ and Midoriya catching his attention, he probably would have run before the Sports Festival even happened. He had stayed for Midoriya and now that he was gone, why not?
He needed to find him.
But first, his stuff. It took a few hours of maneuvering between camera blind spots and digging underneath various people's hedges before he was able to duck into an old public park bathroom that he knew had no working camera on it. He locked the door to one of the stalls and got to work. Five minutes later he walked out with a head of black hair wildly spiked up using a form of black tinted gel with a pair of matching blue eyes behind a set of wire rims and not a scar in sight. Oddly when his reflection caught his eye in the mirror he had a brief moment of dysphoria as it seemed for just a moment that a scarless Dabi had been staring back at him. His grungy stolen clothes were stuffed in a plastic bag in his new backpack over his sharp looking Gakuran of a local Junior High (one that ironically he had realized was the one Midoriya had formerly attended) that would have just let out not long before. He exited the bathroom and blended into the crowd as students passed through the park on their way home. A couple of girls pointed at him, muttering to each other if they knew him or not and how cute he was. Finally one broke away from her friends after some shoving to catch up with him. "Hi! You're a 3rd year too, right? I'm sorry I was wondering if you might have been new at our school this year? It is just that I know pretty much all the guys at our school in our year and I don't think we have met?"
Shoto nodded. "I am actually homeschooled technically. I just visit your school for formal testing."
She brightened. "Oh that makes more sense! I knew my school did that sort of thing but I had never really seen anyone who was visiting for that. They make you wear a uniform for testing then?"
Shoto nodded again with a smile as he jokingly tugged at the collar of the uniform. "Yeah I wish we could wear normal clothes for the testing. This thing is so uncomfortably warm. I would much rather be walking home in just my t-shirt and shorts."
She giggled. "It's like 12 degrees out! That is not warm at all!"
He laughed. "It is for me and my brother. I swear he could stand outside in a blizzard and over heat." He shrugged and let a small puff of flame escape his mouth in a trick he had practiced for months after taking inspiration from one of his father's Sidekicks. "It is like the biggest downside of a fire Quirk."
She giggled again. "That is so cool! My Quirk is super boring in comparison! I am just really good at remembering people. Say I didn't catch your name?"
"Hiarashi Shotou. And you?"
"Kakutami Sachi! You know a flashy quirk like that could easily get you a spot at a hero school next year I bet!"
Shoto nodded. "That is the plan. I was going to try for UA of course since it is right here but honestly with all the stuff that has been going on with that school I am starting to think Ketsubutsu Academy or Shiketsu would be better. Less villain attacks before we graduate at least."
They rounded the final corner leading up to the apartment block that he knew the Midoriya's lived in. He knew that Midoriya's mother had been moved to a safe house but maybe he would be able to find a way to get Midoriya a message here. With that in mind he pointed up to it. "This is me. Maybe I'll see you around?"
She gave another giggle. "I'll keep a lookout on my walks to and from school! It was nice to meet you!"
They exchanged waves as he started up the stairs. "You too!" He waited for her to vanish out of sight when he immediately turned and walked back down the stairs and over to the back of Midoriya's building. Taking a guess at which apartment his was based on the numbers he had seen on the first floor, he took a running leap and slowly began to free climb the building where he hopefully wouldn't be seen in the now fading light. He had just peeked his head up over the window sill of one of the windows he believed to be correct to meet the startled gaze of Kurogiri who had been clearly gathering the belongings in the apartment. Making sure not to slip, he knocked on the window.
The man seemed to consider him for a moment before he vanished from sight. A moment later he reappeared with Midoriya who's eyes widened as he spotted him. He darted over to the window and pulled it open as Kurogiri vanished again. "What are you doing here? Scratch that- What are you wearing?"
Shoto didn't fight as the physically stronger boy pulled him in through his bedroom window by the scruff of his uniform like a kitten. "You like it? I walked past three heroes like this and none of them recognized me. I mean one did a double take but I think they might have mistaken me for Dabi."
Midoriya shook his head. "Why aren't you still at UA?"
"Oh, after All Might and Nedzu found All for One's number in your belongings I sort of had to burn down part of the school to destroy any potential evidence. Now if they catch you they will have no evidence connecting you back to the League."
Midoriya snorted. "Bit late for that. The total number of members of the League I am related to is at 4 right now. 3 unknowingly by blood and my adoptive cousin Atsuhiro being a well meaning dramatic idiot."
Shoto shrugged. "Ah well at least I tried."
Midoriya frowned. "So you burned everything back at UA?"
"All your stuff, yes. I didn't keep anything important at UA or at my Father's place so they can have my stuff to search through for evidence."
He sighed. "I am suddenly glad I decided to leave my poster that Sir left me here in storage until I could frame it. While I wish I could have salvaged my notebooks, burning them was probably the safer option. The last thing I need is for Nedzu to realize just how bad my Quirk Hunger was and that this isn't just something Dad did to me with one of his Quirks."
"Dad? I thought All Might was your Dad?"
Midoriya rolled his eyes before going back to packing the room. "Wrong Hero. The reason I never outright denied being a 'Secret Love Child' is because I am technically one. Mom had a one night stand with one of your father's Sidekicks who is while not nearly as bad as your father is still bad enough that his non bastard son joined the League. Salamander. Dad is All for One since he is dating Mom and I inherited his Quirk from somewhere on my father's side of the family."
Shoto nodded along. "That is an interesting coincidence. Part of my disguise is using my Quirk to mimic his." He gave another small puff of flame.
Midoriya flashed him a grin. "I can do you one better." He turned his head to avoid hitting anything and breathed a significantly sized ball of fire. Shoto's eyes widened. "You stole his Quirk."
Midoriya shook his head. "Dad stole it technically. He just let me eat it to help me get rid of my Quirk Hunger."
Shoto frowned. "Your Quirk Hunger? What is that? This is the second time you've mentioned it."
"Uh…You know how I can get sort of, um, intense when it comes to Quirks?"
Shoto couldn't help but immediately think of their fight during the Sports Festival. "Yes."
"Basically my Quirk, even when not fully active, makes me crave other Quirks. Unlike Dad who can let go of Quirks after holding them for a while, my Quirk eats other Quirk and permanently incorporates them into itself."
"So even if you got caught and wanted to give Hagakure back her Quirk, you physically can't."
Midoriya nodded.
"That's rough buddy."
Midoriya laughed at the reference to the old American cartoon that Kaminari had made the class binge through over the last weekends of summer after he had made a joke that Shoto was the class's own Prince Zuko that had flown over most of their heads.
"So how many Quirks do you currently have?"
Midoriya paused. "Oh, um, technically 14 but I haven't touched three of them yet in enough detail to really identify what they are. I sort of still need to ask about that but Tomura and the rest of his friends sort of distracted me." He shrugged.
"Tomura? Not Shigaraki?"
"Well I mean even discounting the fact that we both are sort of All for One's sons, he is biologically my first cousin possibly twice actually. Besides, Dad is a Shigaraki too so it feels wrong I guess to call him that when there is a good chance I will end up taking the name myself."
Shoto considered that before nodding. "I supposed that is fair. So what Quirks do you have that you can use? Besides Fire Breath and Invisibility of course."
Midoriya began to count them off on his fingers. "Okay the 9 that are left are One for All, which was All Might's Quirk for a good while but originally traces back to Dad's younger brother. It is a transferable stockpiler and the one that I was using that kept breaking my limbs. Next is Super Anxiety which we think belonged to Dad's one biological kid that we know about and most likely is my own paternal great-grandfather. It is one of the Quirks that One for All picked up along the way alongside the three I haven't identified yet. Then there is Blackwhip which you have also seen that was also picked up by One for All along with my maternal grandmother's Quirk Float. The rest are artificially copy of Quirks Dad has that were probably originally in Nomus. Shock Absorption, Super Regeneration, Strength Enhancer, Forced Quirk Activation and Warping."
Shoto considered the list. "Your father had to give you 6 more quirks on top of Invisibility to satisfy your Hunger?"
Midoriya grimace. "Yeah that is how many Quirks I would have eaten from our class had I not run."
Shoto remembered Midoriya flinching back before he could touch him. "Thanks for not taking mine when you had the chance. While I wish I didn't have my father's fire, I didn't wish to permanently lose my mother's ice."
Midoriya seemed to consider that. "You know, my Dad knows how to combine Quirks. Maybe if you let him borrow yours he could change yours to something better suited for who you are."
Shoto brighten. "Oh? Can we go ask?"
Midoriya smiled. "Sure. Welcome to the League I guess."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
By the time Shouta arrived at the Midoriya's family apartment the sun had long gone. Had things gone his way, this would have been the first places to check since, while they knew Midoriya Inko was currently not living there but instead in a safehouse, Midoriya likely would have returned there at least for a change of clothes.
Unfortunately though, with Todoroki's dramatic exit, he had been wrapped up in the following police investigation while other Heroes not directly tied to UA searched. Namely Endeavor's agency which was more than fair of him taking point since this mess involved his son but it was clear the man was prioritizing finding his son over the teen who had started the mess.
The worst part about the whole situation is no one was sure what was going on with Midoriya in the first place. To be frank, Midoriya was either a hell of a lot better actor then they thought or more likely he was just another victim of All for One's schemes.
But with him having direct familial ties and Nedzu and All Might finding a working phone number that redirected their attempted to calls and tracking that clearly belonged to All for One in his belongings that both Nedzu and All Might had claimed seemed to be written in his own hand, Shouta was not sure what to think. Had the man cut the boy a deal of some sort?
At least it was obvious from both what Todoroki had said as well as the comments of the boy's older brother over the phone where he fit in all of this at least. "Ride or Die" indeed.
When no one opened the door to the apartment, unsurprisingly, Shouta retuned downstairs to ask the woman closing up the leasing office to help him get in after flashing his Hero license. To his surprise and disappointment the apartment was empty. Not just empty of people mind, but of all the contents he had seen just a few days earlier. The woman with the leasing office was completely caught off guard, mentioning that she had met a man she had assumed to be Midoriya's father at the door when she had come to pick up rent earlier that day. Apparently the man supposedly worked overseas from what Midoriya Inko had often claimed and had more or less said as much himself by mentioning he had just recently gotten back into town and had signed a check that had cashed correctly as Midoriya Hisashi.
A rather tall man in a suit with white curls, freckles, and bright red eyes. Suddenly Shouta found himself flashing back to the scene he had walked in on a few days earlier. A man claiming to be one of his student's idols appearing on his doorstep with little Eri in his arms who seemed to come in and sweep the boy's mother off her feet enough that she had offered to falsify the boy's paternity and list him as the boy's father basically overnight was suspiciously to good to be true.
There were a couple possibilities and none of them good.
One, Athos Hisashi had never existed and was merely an alias that All for One had taken to using to get uncontrolled access to any Quirk he wanted. Through the character of Athos, he had not only learned of a Quirk that could reverse the substantial damage he had suffered, but earned the trust of Midoriya enough to insert himself into his life to pull his strings into joining him out of lack of choice.
Two, Athos Hisashi was in fact a real person that All for One had stolen the identity of and was either dead or completely in the dark of what was going on. The rest that followed was the same as in the first option.
Three, regardless of the truth of whether or not All for One and Athos Hisashi were one in the same, there was the possibility that Midoriya Inko had lied to her son of who his father really was and All for One was genuinely the boy's biological father. If that was the case then it would explain some of Midoriya Inko's bizarre actions with the man that they knew about, as well as not only the physical similarities that even himself had seen between them, but Problem Child's mess of a Quirk.
Regardless which it was, he was fairly certain that up until he ran, the boy clearly had no idea he could steal Quirks so he had likely picked up his other two without knowing it...
Shit, one of them was All Might's wasn't it? As the first one the boy had stolen, maybe he had not taken it all in one go? It would explain why All Might's time limit began to decline so rapidly at the start of the year while Midoriya only seemed to get stronger and gain better control at such an alarming rate.
Did he even know that he had been slowly feeding the boy power from his Quirk? He would have to ask. Regardless, All Might's Quirk alone had served to be enough for the boy to prevent him from taking another Quirk for another whole two months after he finished with it unless the boy had unknowingly still picked up and carried Quirks without registering it. Regardless, the next Quirk they knew of was the one that had appeared barely two weeks before he lost control and openly stole a Quirk for the first time. Either the boy was starting to need to steal Quirks more frequently the more he collected, he had collected significantly more than that without them knowing and just instinctively took Quirks every two weeks or so, or possibly the boy had been unconsciously holding back and his control had merely slipped from stress.
He really hoped it was the latter because if it wasn't there was no way he would be able to save the boy from the Commission.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Eri was not sure what was going on. Earlier when she had been playing in her room with Lemillion all sorts of alarms had started going off and the hero had been quick to pick her up and carry her back to his dorm where it had been quieter. She had heard lots of shouting and seen fire and smelled smoke. It had been okay at first, but as time wore on she couldn't help but worry for her Hero Deku so she asked to see him only for everyone she asked to tell her that she couldn't.
She was so scared now. She knew all about death because of Overhaul and had connected the dots when they had refused to let her see one of her other Heroes Sir Nighteye. She had been scared for him from the start when she had seen what Overhaul had done to him but they had refuse to let her see him. Refused to let her try and save him.
Now she was scared that it was happening again with Deku.
She couldn't lose him! She had promised herself to protect him while he protected her! He had told her that she was his Hero too.
But he was gone and she didn't know where.
Finally, despite for answers, she snuck over to Lemillion's phone and slowly punched in the symbols that she had once seen early in the day before that Deku had told him let him talk with Mr. Athos, when Deku had opened his "email" to show her how it worked when she had asked what it was. She wasn't great at writing but Deku had shown her how she could add pretty pictures to send and she did know how to write her name.
Satisfied with her drawing she hit the button that Deku had said sent the message and waited. A few minutes went by before a reply picture appeared for her. It was two pictures really, one of just her that Mr. Athos had taken the morning before they left to meet up with Deku and one of her and Lemillion together that she thought Deku might have taken.
Realizing what he was asking she quietly slipped out of the room and into the bathroom before sending the picture of just her back. The screen flashed black before a video of Mr. Athos started to show with a finger to his lips before he pointed down at the box over the picture. Curious, she tapped it and the man lit up in a smile. When he spoke it was in a nice low rumble. "Hello Eri you wanted to see Izuku right?"
She nodded, unsure if he could somehow see her. It seemed to work because he moved the camera to show Deku asleep tangled up in a pile with a number of other people she didn't know in what looked like a pillow fort. Eri slumped in relief. Deku was okay. Then the image was back to Mr. Athos. "Did you want to come join him and the others?"
Eri didn't even hesitate to nod. "Okay, I can bring you here but I have to warn you that it will not be fun to get here. I have a Quirk that lets me bring people directly to if they are close enough that I can pick you up halfway with and then my friend Kurogiri here will bring us the rest of the way with his nicer Warp Quirk. I know it will be scary and taste gross but I am going to need you to stay calm and hold onto that phone nice and tight."
Eri frowned. "Shouldn't I give it back to Lemillion?"
He shook his head, his background suddenly changing and the picture going pretty dark. "If I can see you with the camera it will be easier to bring you here and if you let go there is a chance it could break. Don't worry, I will take it back in the morning."
Suddenly she couldn't breathe. Eri clawed at her throat as a horrible black slime poured from her mouth feeling cold and oily on her skin-
She burst out in a series of sputtering coughs and a hand came down gently to rub her back. "Easy baby, you're okay. I'm sorry about that."
She found herself leaning into the man's arms as he scooped her up. It wasn't until he tugged the phone from her hands, that she realized that she had held onto it. He turned it off and handed it to who she guessed was Kurogiri. "Can you see to that? And open the Warp Gate back up please."
"Right away Sensei. Any preferences for the phone?"
Mr. Athos hummed a low rumbly noise that Eri felt in his chest. "Well I did promise Eri that I would get it back to him in the morning. Just delete the emails and the video call record. And make sure they are really deleted and not sitting in the trash somewhere."
"Understood." The misty man raised a hand and a weird door made of him appeared next to them. Mr. Athos took a few steps forward and then Eri was blinking at the sight of plaster walls around them and a crowd of people in the nest on the floor.
Mr. Athos held a finger to his lips with a smile as he gently lowered her to the floor. Not wanting to wake anyone up, she carefully picked her sock cover feet between limbs to reach her Hero. Once she was close enough she hugged him in relief. After a few seconds, she found herself being pulled in closer in his sleep. Slowly it became harder and harder to stay awake as the sound of his breathing began to lull her to sleep.
Notes:
3rd chapter in basically one sitting and 4th within 48 hours. No I am not okay. Insomnia sucks and I accidently pulled an all nighter since it is after 6am here now. Shoto's alias Hiarashi Shotou (火嵐 祥答) is literally translated into Fire Storm Auspicious Answer and is an intentional play on his real name (轟 焦凍) which if you didn't already know is translated into English literally as the Noise of a Roaring Fire Burning Freezing. The girl's name Kakutami Sachi (覚民 幸) is just Memorize People Good Fortune. If you didn't already know, Sachi (幸Good Fortune) is just a fairly common girls name. Don't worry I plan on circling back to the start of the sleep over party next chapter.
Chapter 12: Hindsight
Summary:
Marai's thoughts on the current situation
Notes:
Originally post July 24, 2022
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Mirai was not having a good time. For starters, he had to watch as All for One stole all the Quirks of Midoriya's classmates and shuffled them round, something he realized when he returned Hardening to Fat Gum's intern was actually him putting them back after he had done so at least one time already. Then he was forced to sit through a bizarre conversation between All for One and Midoriya that revealed that One for All held the ghost of the first holder much like All for One held him now as well as the ghosts of other previously stolen Quirks after the man had forced another Quirk onto the boy. And then to round out the night, All for One left the room after an uncomfortable display of paternal affection for Mirai directed towards the boy to begin defacing not only Toshinori's wall but his own face as well.
And now All for One had returned home and curled up with Midoriya's mother in bed as if they had been doing it for years. The two of them settled together so naturally that it made Mirai think back to their earlier union and die slightly internally in embarrassment from getting a front row seat to the experience not once but twice thanks to his own Quirk in the man's hands.
And now he found himself floating anchorless in a vast darkness surrounded by screams of hatred and despair of the other Quirk ghosts trapped in here with him. Then there was the now familiar feeling of All for One grabbing him and a feeling of disorientation as he felt himself yanked backward from the screams through a barrier of sorts to someplace quieter.
He stumbled slightly as ground appeared beneath his feet, a firm hand catching him before he could faceplant. "Oh dear with how naturally you took to trying to steal my body away from me, it is surprising how easily staggered you are about changes like this in my mindscape."
Mirai glared up at the man in a vain attempt to regain some sense of control. "What did you do to Midoriya?"
The man huffed with a look of amusement. "I gave him the artificial copy of my own Quirk."
Mirai frowned. "Midoriya would never steal a Quirk from someone else."
"True. I am not expecting him to want to anyways. I just thought it was a better use of the Quirk than endlessly holding it myself." He shrugged.
Mirai had to give him a look of confusion at that. "If you never expect him to use it then why even do it?"
"Oh. It was to repair his damaged Quirk Factor. Given his hair color and the fact he had two Quirked parents, he really should have been born with one naturally so the fact that he wasn't led me to realize he likely suffers from the same genetic abnormality that Tomura suffers from as his cousin. Tomura's Quirk was able to evolve past the issue preventing him from manifesting on its own from stress but given Izuku's never did before he received One for All likely means that without my direct intervention he never would have manifested his original Quirk, whatever it might be. The copy of my own Quirk was fairly pliable by its very nature so his body could transform it into whatever pieces he needs to complete the gene that One for All lacks."
"So, what, you don't actually expect him to have All for One himself despite that being the Quirk you gave him?"
All for One nodded. "One for All naturally sees my own Quirk as a threat to itself. When I gave it to him it immediately attacked it and absorbed what it deemed important into itself to make itself stronger. It was similar to as if his immune system had attacked an outside virus. Once the threat is neutralized the body cannibalizes the proteins that make up the threat and uses them for itself elsewhere."
"So Midoriya is going to wake up tomorrow either breathing fire or with a form of telekinesis?"
He nodded. "Most likely. We won't know until it actually manifests since I could not check it myself."
Mirai considered the man. "So why are you telling me all of this?"
He shrugged. "I would vastly prefer to keep the original version of your Quirk if I can but that will only be possible if you continue to behave. With that in mind, since I have to keep you passively active if your Quirk is to build up a charge for use, that means that you are going to have to be a permanent headmate. That in mind I would prefer if we could at the very least tolerate each other in the long term."
Mirai shivered. "Why though? Why keep the original if it means having to deal with me? You didn't keep the original of Search from what you implied earlier."
The man blushed slightly. "You are probably not going to enjoy this phrasing but honestly it is because you taste better than the artificial copy."
"I taste better?"
He nodded and scratched the back of his head. "All for One comes with a type of synesthesia linked to how I experience the Quirks of others. I can literally see the Quirk of someone when I touch them with my palms and taste them when I handle them. I am assuming that you don't experience that as well despite sharing my brain or surely you would have picked up on that by now."
Mirai shook his head. "No, I have only been hearing the screams when you use the Quirks of others."
"Ah."
Mirai found himself a bit overwhelmed by a sudden curiosity. "So what do I taste like?"
"Just a fairly mild acid, like a citrus flavored sparkling water. More like someone is thinking really hard about the idea of a lemon than an actual one." Mirai found himself snorting at the description the man gave over flavored sparkling waters earning him a grin. "Your copy is like taking a bite straight out of one though, probably because the doctor wanted to try and improve the Quirk while copying it to reduce the recharge time."
"Huh. What about One for All? I know you haven't actually held it but have you been able to taste it before?"
All for One shrugged. "Sort of. It is like trying to lick a battery though. You know that you are tasting something but the shock you get over writes the signals." He shook his head. "Anyways, I have been meaning to ask you a couple questions about your family. Did you ever meet your grandfather Shinomori Hikage…?"
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
When All for One ended his second call with Midoriya that following day, Mirai found himself cursing along with the man. "I thought you said he wouldn't keep All for One as it was."
All for One paced back and forth in the alley he had instructed the boy to find his way too. "He shouldn't have. The only way that could have happened is if it was what his Quirk originally should have been in the first place."
Mirai crossed their arms in both of their distracted states. "How is that possible? Despite what you are pretending he is not your actual son."
"He must be related somehow. I'll admit when I was younger I was not the most careful about my sexual partners. It is entirely possible that he is my descendant somehow."
Mirai felt slightly sick as a realization hit him. "Wait you don't think-?"
"Inko is not one of mine. I do actually know the Shimura family tree fairly well thanks to my looking into Tomura's family history to try and figure out the source of his medical issues. It's how I knew you were the grandson of Shinomori. I recognized the your family name of Sasaki as the same as Tomura's maternal grandparents."
Mirai's heart seized at that. "He's Tenko? I thought-?"
"All Might didn't tell you? I informed him of Tomura's birth name before he sent me to Tartarus."
"No…No he didn't. I suppose it's karma for failing to inform him that my sister married his mentor's son." He took in a shaky breath. "I thought he was dead but all this time…"
He trailed off as the two of them fell into thought, one largely of what had likely happened to his family and the other as he fretted about how his newly adopted son having his own cursed Quirk would change things.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
All for One was his maternal great grandfather. If asked, Mirai would not have been sure if he would have been able to tell you who found that revelation most distressing between the two of them.
All for One was digging his nails into his skin on his skull in a distressed realization that he likely could have killed his own son without knowing it had Shinomori not hidden himself from him so well. Additionally he had the sudden realization that if Shinomori had more than the daughter he knew about then it was possible that was who both Midoriya and Spinner were likely descended from. There was also the fact that if Midoriya was All for One's biological descendant from his father's side it meant that he now held the Quirks of two of his own grandchildren given he had stolen Salamander's Quirk the previous night.
Mirai felt his stomach twist as the man decided that he would not be keeping that Fire Breathing Quirk after all.
Notes:
Short half chapter because that is where the chapter break happened with this sort of flashback chapter. It was too jarring jumping from his perspective to what would have been the next half of the chapter with Izuku without the solid chapter break. A bit more of a look into the messy family tree here. I wonder how many of you even remembered that I mentioned that Mirai was Fourth's grandson back in the first chapter?
Chapter 13: Sleepover
Notes:
Originally posted July 24, 2022
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
GreenSmallMight
That awkward moment when you find out that you are the secret descendant of the Scourge of Kamino's secret love child alongside at least two members of the League of Villains when you accidently eat the Quirk of your classmate and find out that is your actual Quirk all along.
…Sorry Invisible Girl. I tried to give it back but my Quirk only works one way like my Mom's.
#UA #UA Hero Course #Class 1-A #Deku #Bone Breaking Kid #Invisible Girl #I'm sorry but your Quirk tasted really good #Quirk Hunger #Scourge of Kamino #All for One #AFO #League of Villains #LOV
"What are you doing?"
Izuku looked up from the borrowed laptop to see Tomura leaning over to read over his shoulder. "Oh, I was just finishing making a Rollr post."
Tomura read it for a moment before reaching over to type a few more hashtags.
#Shigaraki Tomura #At least he's happy #Dad for One #Grandfather for More #This family tree is a complete trainwreck
"There. Fixed it for you."
Izuku snorted. "Do you have a Rollr to? You seem to know how to properly tag things on the site."
"Yeah I'm GameOverForHeroes. I only use it for game shit though. I am not stupid enough to brag online about my Villain plans unlike some idiots."
Izuku nodded as he watched for reblogs from some of his mutuals to his post.
AwayFromOffice GreenSmallMight
Dad for Three now
#Scourge of Kamino #All for One #AFO #Might adopt a few more of my grandkids
Izuku gave that post a slow blink. "How the hell did I miss that? AwayFromOffice. AFO."
Tomura scratched his neck in thought. "I'm more surprised no one has picked up on the whole Athos thing. It is literally the name of one of the fucking Three Musketeers."
DetroitSmashed GreenSmallMight
You ate her Quirk!?!?! That is a thing you can do?!?!
#Is it bad my first thought was wondering if it tasted good? #Deku's Villain Arc
IceIceDoctorBaby GreenSmallMight
Is Shoto with you? The cops who came and talked with me and Yumi after the fact said he quoted me saying you were "Ride or Die Friends" before he torched the school
#Not going to rat you guys out to the cops or anything #just thought you should know if not
Izuku read through the reposts as they began to pour in as his post blew up. "Wow I was not expecting this to be how I became Rollr famous."
"What's going on?"
Izuku and Tomura looked up from the chaos on the screen to see Shoto walk into the private lounge toweling his hair dry having gone to take a shower the moment he could once Izuku had brought him back with him to this mansion that the League apparently controlled. "The two of your exits from UA are starting to trend online."
"Your brother Natsuo was wondering if we found each other yet so he is blowing up online too now along with me and Dad."
Shoto seemed to consider that. "We could all take a picture together and post that right? I don't want Natsuo or Fuyumi worrying about me."
Tomura snickered at the idea. "Just the three of us or should we rope in the rest of the League?"
Shoto shrugged but Izuku found himself grinning at the idea. "Let's do a quick one of the three of us and post it to my account and see if Dad would be willing to take and post more since I am pretty sure he wants to hide what he actually looks like from the public still."
GreenSmallMight
An image of both Tomura and Shoto leaning in on either side of Izuku on a couch as Izuku took a selfy. Tomura was sticking his tongue out and giving Izuku bunny ears and Shoto was holding up a peace sign like Izuku was doing with his free hand.
You're looking at the League of Villains' two newest members. Tomura wants me to tell you guys that he thinks it is funny that you guys think I was ever the UA traitor. Below is a short QA of questions I am seeing a lot of.
Are you with the League now?
Physically yes obviously
What is the Quirk Hunger in the tags?
All for One's Quirk as well as my own comes with the fun side effect of craving new quirks. We need to obtain new Quirks periodically intentionally or we will just yoink the first Quirk we come across which is what happened between me and my classmate earlier.
Do Quirks taste good?
Depends on the Quirk but I would say generally yes. All for One gave me a couple of his to keep me from accidentally eating the Quirks of other people since my Hunger was still pretty bad when he found me and some of them were definitely better then others. Invisibility sort of tastes like a nice cup of flora tea but my great grandfather's (All for One's secret son) Super Anxiety is pretty acidic, like licking a lemon.
All for One has a secret love child?
So secret in fact that he didn't even know until after he died. Tracking his full list of descendants is something All for One is currently working on since out of the three of us in this current generation that he knows about two of us have had the misfortune of genetically linked health issues due to both of us having technically "Quirkless" bodies. Given his son died from a genetic illness he was born with it is sort of a concern.
You stole the bone breaking Quirk then?
Obviously even if I didn't realize it at the time.
What other Quirks have you stolen?
Not counting the ones All for One has fed me? Eight evidently counting the ones already mentioned. The Nomu at the USJ attack had multiple copies of some of the same Quirks so I apparently yoinked a couple without anyone noticing until All for One pointed them out to me. Really wish I could have known to turn them one sooner. Would have helped with the Bone Breaking thing to have that level of shock absorption and regeneration. As for my other Quirks, I am not saying. I need some tricks up my sleeve for dealing with the Heroes later after all.
Did Endeavor's son really burn down UA to help you?
Yep
Are you dating?
Nope
Why not?
Because I'm straight? And even if I wasn't we aren't each other's type?
Do any other members of the League have Rollr's?
Yeah but the only one you are getting from me is All for One's since I am pretty sure he don't care if you guys know it's him. He's AwayFromOffice on here.
#UA #UA Hero Course #Class 1-A #Deku #Bone Breaking Kid #Shoto #Todoroki family #Shigaraki Tomura #Quirk Hunger #Scourge of Kamino #All for One #AFO #League of Villains #LOV
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
They ended up building a pillow fort with the other members of the League in the end. Or well most of them. Giran had taken one look at the nest of pillows and cushions on the floor, declared that his back wouldn't put up with that and went back to go see in his own bed. Izuku's parents were much the same though his new father mentioned that there were other reasons for wanting to take his mother off to sleep in his own bed.
Izuku was getting a little brother or sister wasn't he?
Still they managed to rope in everyone else though. Dabi had been the hardest sell since it was pretty clear he had no idea what to make of Shoto and was clearly just avoiding him as much as he could. Luckily for him, Shoto seemed to have yet to notice or at least if he had he had yet to comment on it.
Currently Izuku had Himiko half sprawled on top of him like an affectionate cat as they began to settle in. "Oh! I know what we can do! We can play "Never have I ever" to get to know Izu-kun and Sho-kun since they have never played it with us before!"
Kurogiri sighed from his spot cross legend on the floor near the fort entrance. "I am still not giving alcohol to minors."
She pouted. "I know that! I figured we could do something different like how I did shots of blood the last time."
Izuku scratched his chin in thought. "I mean we could still do shots of blood for you but the two of us still need something different."
Atsuhiro snapped his fingers and set a colorful candy box labeled in English Bean Boozled in front of him and Shoto. "How about this for an alternative? Every flavor jelly beans. It makes it a 50/50 chance of each jelly bean being either a punishment or reward."
Izuku picked it up to look at it. "Sounds fun but why were you carrying this around?"
He shrugged. "Why not?"
"So who gets to start us off this time?" Spinner asked as he gingerly took his shot glass from Kurogiri so as not to spill it onto their bedding.
Dabi pointed at Izuku and Shoto. "Why don't the newbies start us off?"
Shoto looked around slightly puzzled. "I am not sure how the game is played…"
Twice reached over to pat him on the back. "It's easy! Nice fast way to get blackout drunk. We just go around in a circle saying things like 'Never have I ever' whatever and if someone says something that you've done you take a shot!"
Shoto slowly nodded. "So I would say something like never have I ever played this game before and that would work."
Twice cheerily downed his shot. "Exactly. Wow, that was a crappy first question. "
Tomura shrugged and downed his shot. "I guess that is one way to start." The rest of the League followed his and Twice's example but it was Izuku pulling out a Jelly Bean that caught their attention. Minty. "Wait when the hell did you ever play this before?"
Izuku shrugged. "A couple of guys in the dorm thought it would be fun to play one weekend about a month ago. We used condiments instead of alcohol though." He stuttered. "If I never have to see a bottle of relish again it would be too soon."
That got a couple chuckles from the group. Izuku flashed them a grin. "I'll start you guys with an easy one. Never have I ever kissed a girl."
Izuku grinned as most of the group looked slightly embarrassed but didn't drink except Twice who downed another shot with a bit of glee until they all seemed to turn as stare at Kurogiri in bewilderment as he set his glass back down. Before they could ask he elaborated. "I don't remember much before I came to be with Sensei and Shigaraki Tomura but I am fairly certain I had a girlfriend at one point."
Himiko looked around at the others. "I mean I get that but what I don't get is how none of the guys here beside the two of you have never kissed a girl?"
Atsuhiro shrugged. "Well I am pretty gay so I am not sure what you were expecting."
Dabi scratched his head. "Same."
Spinner frowned down at his glass as if contemplating downing it anyways. "Not a lot of girls are into dating guys with such a lame mutation Quirk."
Tomura snorted. "Fuck that noise." He shook his head. "Who the fuck even cares about kissing any ways. It is fucking gross."
Izuku considered his cousin/older brother. "Tomura, are you ace?"
"No duh." A look of understanding seemed to dawn on most of the League's faces. "Wait, don't tell me you idiots completely missed that. I've not exactly been subtle about that fact."
Himiko leaned forward into the circle. "Forget that for a second, it's my turn! Never have I ever wanted to be a Hero!"
More drinks this time and two Jelly Beans. Grass? Some of those drinking were more surprising than others. Tomura and Kurogiri for example. Izuku had been expecting Dabi at least given the house he grew up in. The idea probably had been more appealing before his father ruined it for him like he had nearly done to Shoto.
The group looked at Tomura and Kurogiri for an explanation. Tomura winced. "Shimura Nana was a Pro Hero. It made the idea seem more possible to me as a little kid. Then I killed my family when my Quirk came in and the rest is history."
Himiko sniffled and threw her arms around him in a hug. "It's okay Shiggy! You're our hero!" That pulled a small smile from him.
Kurogiri just fidgeted with the bottle of vodka he was pouring the shots from. "I was a UA hero student in my former life. Like I said, I don't remember much of it but I know now from a conversation in Tartarus that I used to attend with both Eraserhead and Present Mic. They seemed rather upset with me for choosing my new life over one I have no memory of."
Realization dawned on Izuku. "You were Oboro ."
He jumped slightly at that. "Yes? Can I ask how you came upon that name?"
Izuku nodded. "Oh um, I was staying in the Teacher's Dorms for the past couple days. Midnight said her cat's name Sushi was partially your fault."
Kurogiri seemed to brighten at that. "Sushi is still doing well?"
Izuku nodded. Atsuhiro snickered slightly. "I see you have your priorities straight. More worried about the cat than the ex girlfriend."
That got an unexpected flustered reaction from the normally fairly stoic Nomu. "I uh, believe it is my turn."
Tomura raised his glass. "Hit us with it, Kurogiri."
"Never have I ever gotten black out drunk."
Groans from around the circle as all the other adult men downed their shots. Tomura shook his head with a grimace. "Never have I ever attended an actual school." More groans joined by the three youngest this time. Ew Rotten Egg. "Before you ask, obviously Sensei homeschooled me."
Dabi gave him a deadpan look. "You don't say. Never have I ever cried over someone accidently saving over my game."
Tomura downed a shot and glared at Dabi. "That was targeted."
Izuku chuckled and made a show of eating another Jelly Bean. Peach. "You're not the only one Tomura. Though to be fair I cry about everything."
Tomura grumbled and dropped it. Atsuhiro tapped the side of his face for a moment. "Never have I ever actually killed someone as far as I am aware."
Everyone again except Izuku and Shoto. Izuku gave his half brother a look of surprise. "Wait, when did that happen?"
Spinner winced. "Might have killed some guys when we got into our fight with the MLA. Most of us upped our body counts in that fight. Honestly the fact that Compress here didn't is only because he and Dabi were able to stick together in that mess."
Atsuhiro nodded. "Yes that sounds about right."
Spinner shook his head. "Anyways, never have I ever plotted my father's murder."
Dabi and Tomura were to be expected as was Himiko to a degree. No one seemed to be expecting Izuku or Shoto. Dabi reached across the circle to jab Shoto in the shoulder. "Explain."
Shoto shrugged. "It was something to day dream about while he was beating me up and calling it training."
Dabi turned to Izuku. "And you."
Izuku hummed and tilted his head slightly. "Which one did you want?"
Tomura's eyes widened. "Wait, you are not seriously telling me you were plotting to try and kill Dad?"
"I found out that my online friend that I trusted my Mom's safety with and who offered to adopt me was seducing my mother. Honestly, even if I wasn't really considering it seriously it should probably still count. That aside, if we count the time before he was even considering being my Dad, I came up with a few plans. I was the successor to his greatest enemy after all." He turned to Spinner. "I might have also planned revenge on your Dad since he used my mom like he did."
Spinner nodded. "Yeah that is valid. While I don't think we have anymore half siblings, your mom wasn't exactly the only woman he cheated on my mom with."
Twice shoved his way forward as he leaned into the center of the fort. "Ooh my turn! I have a good one! No I don't. It sucks! Never have I ever done a kickflip on a skateboard!"
There were a few snickers as Spinner downed a shot.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
The rest of the evening blurred a bit as exhaustion fell over him as the group got drunker and drunker. At some point he registered the fact that he had ended up half tangled in the sleeping limbs of Tomura who hand hooked his arm over his neck and Dabi who was largely cuddling Tomura in his sleep but had managed to control himself in his sleep to hook one of his legs over one of Izuku's. But all of that faded away pretty quickly to reveal a slightly familiar now setting with a number of familiar figures.
The previous holders of One for All stared at him, suddenly seeming a bit nervous of his presence. Behind them Izuku spotted the invisible form of Hagakure in her UA gym uniform and a man he had only ever seen on patrols with other sidekicks of Endeavor, Salamander.
Finally Nana seemed to huff and shake her head at the lot of them before going over to hug Izuku. "Honestly, he is still the same kid he was when Toshi chose him as his successor, it is just now we know he is actually related to a few of us."
As she wrapped her arms around him Izuku was forced to quickly shove her off as his hunger spiked as the taste of her Quirk flooded his senses. "Don't touch me!" He tugged at his hair. "I don't want to hurt you but I am not sure what will happen if I lose myself in here."
Nana was quick to raise her hands in a calming gesture and take a couple steps back. The First behind her grimaced. "Ninth you should know that this is all my brother's fault. He gave you something last night while you slept.'
Izuku considered that for only a couple seconds before he shook his head. "My Hunger predates even obtaining One for All. Even if he did give me that copy of All for One he mentioned all that means is he finally gave me a way to properly deal with it." Izuku crossed his arms with a frown. "Unless he tampered with my Quirk well over a decade ago, this Quirk is definitely my own." He shook his head. "Honestly it was probably a good thing. Who knows how much longer I could have coped with my Hunger before stress forced it out anyways. At least with it happening this way I was able to get myself back into check over going into a feeding frenzy on the Quirks of all of my classmates."
Hagakure forced her way in front of a couple of the other holders. "So that's it then? Eating my Quirk was the best outcome in your book?"
Izuku sighed. "No but there were far worse ones. I am sorry though. I wouldn't wish Quirklessness on anyone and yet here we are."
Salamander stepped forward now to seemingly study him further. "This lot insists that I am your actual father but I don't see it." He shook his head. "I don't suppose it really matters any more at this point. I am never getting back to my body and my career is screwed but at least this place is better than the other one." Suddenly he seemed to brighten as a thought struck him. "Huh, I never have to deal with Enji again here. No more 'how did you screw up so badly as to drive your son to villainy?' as if he hadn't already done so before. Ha! I wish I could see his stuck up rich and famous face when he finds out that two of his sons did the same!"
Izuku considered his birth father. "You know I was expecting you to be a bit more of a jerk from what Spinner and my Mom told me about you."
He shrugged. "Eh, not going to lie and say that I am perfect. I will admit I am pretty bad at monogamy but I don't think I am that bad of a guy. After all, I doubt any woman would sleep with me if I was, Sidekick to the current number one or no. I also don't think I did that bad of a job helping raise Shuichi but I mean I guess compared to my own Dad and brother that isn't a high bar that I need to meet."
Both Izuku and a couple of the holder's were focused on him now. Before he could question the man further one of them spoke. "Endeavor is your brother then?"
He nodded. "Yeah, perfect bloody Enji. Who even cares about the poor bastard son?" He winced and offered Izuku an apologetic look. "Just to be clear, if you really are mine then know that if I had known about you I most certainly would have owned up to it. Hell, I probably could have used you as an excuse to get away from Shuichi's mother. I would have at least formally recognized you as my son too. Not that it matters now though, what with the big bad having called dibs on you in my absence."
The vestige considered the man and sighed. "For the record Houryu, I am your biological grandfather making that big bad your great grandfather."
The man snapped his head to look at the white haired man. "Wait seriously?"
Izuku was staring at him too. "You are the Fourth then. Shinomori Hikage."
Fourth nodded. Conversation started to become easier after that. It was nice actually getting to talk back with the Vestiges for a change instead of merely listening to them. By the time he started to feel himself waking back up the group on the whole had relaxed about his presence and most were laughing and joking with him as if he wasn't basically their worst nightmare. After all, there was no way around it, in a way All for One had won the war that they had been fighting for well over a century.
But Izuku supposed, they hadn't exactly lost either had they? After all, One for All was now permanently out of All for One's reach given that the man seemed perfectly content to leave it in the hands of his newly adopted son.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Izuku woke to find himself cuddling someone to his chest in his sleep. That in itself was not too surprising given how he had fallen asleep and the fact that he clearly was still nestled under Tomura's arm as his older adopted brother snored lightly behind him. What was surprising was the size of the person. He opened his eyes carefully shifted to look down at the body in his arms.
Eri yawned and sleepily blinked up at him with a smile. "Hi Deku."
"Uhhh, good morning Eri. Can I ask how you got here?"
She nodded. "Mr. Athos and his misty friend came and got me when I emailed him asking about you." She looked around at the other people. "Who are your friends?"
A grumble from behind him. "To fucking hung over for this…" Izuku snickered as Tomura propped himself up with one arm to look to see what was going on. His eyes narrowed as he looked at her. "Wait, don't tell me we slept so long that Dad and your Mom managed to produce that already."
Izuku snickered. "No Dad kidnapped her from UA while we were asleep though after she emailed him. She's the one that fixed his face."
Tomura's brows shot up. "No shit? I thought he was going to do this the legal way?"
Eri puffed out her checks. "You swear a lot. Mr. Mic says that you should only use that kind of language if you are being hurt or scared."
Tomura snorted. "I'm a Villain kiddo, those rules don't apply to me."
Eri tensed forcing Izuku to turn and glare at him. "Eri, Tomura isn't going to hurt anyone here. I wouldn't have had a sleepover with him if he was. And I highly doubt Dad would have brought you here if he was too."
Eri bit her lip. "Dad is Mr. Athos right?"
Izuku nodded. "Yeah he is my Dad now like he is Tomura's."
"He is also technically their great great grandfather too." Eri twisted to look behind her to meet the heterochromatic eyes of Shoto blearily looking up at her from his spot in the nest with Himiko still sprawled passed out on top of him. "He is secretly really old."
Eri looked back at Izuku and Tomura for confirmation. "Really? He didn't feel that old when I used my Quirk on him."
"Speaking of using your Quirk, do you think you could do that again? Me and a couple others here got really hurt and were hoping you could help fix the damage."
Izuku nodded. "Yeah my cousin asleep somewhere over there has only one arm now because of a run in with Overhaul before we even met."
Eri gave a small gasp and tried to struggle to sit up to look around at the group. "They fought him before?"
Tomura nodded and pulled himself the rest of the way up with a yawn. "Yeah. We got our revenge too after the two of you beat him. Took his arms in payback and so he could never hurt anyone again like he did you kid."
Her eyes shone up at him with a look of wonder. "You really did that?"
Internally Izuku snickered. It seemed that his new older brother had a new biggest fan in their new baby sister.
Notes:
If anyone wants to suggest usernames for canon characters to use on the Tumblr equivalent feel free to let me know. I am not one hundred percent happy with Natsuo's but that was the best I came up with for him. Readers of Mischief probably recognize the other "new" username. Incase anyone is wondering, yes it is the same character in both fics, and no I am not say who it is yet (mostly because they are more of an Easter egg then anything). The name is the name of a popular All Might themed mixed drink in my collative universe (basically a Tequila Sunrise with extra layers that are All Might colors). Izuku is a bit better about think of Tomura as his older brother then Spinner because only one of them is actually making the effort to act like they are brothers right now. Of course Tomura has had more experience then Spinner has, even if he had previously been the little brother and not the eldest (which he still is even compared to Spinner by a few months).
Chapter 14: Fallout
Summary:
Checking back in at UA
Notes:
Originally posted July 29, 2022.
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
The first time he heard about it he thought his classmate had been joking. Sure he was pretty suspicious that Midoriya was the UA traitor because of course he was, but this- Hitoshi's stomach flipped- this was completely unbelievable.
Midoriya had stolen a Quirk from a classmate and ran. Midoriya had not just been letting someone into the school to fuck with their Quirks but had to power to do it himself the whole time. And he had somehow twisted the current number one's son into such loyalty that the other boy had risked everything to destroy all evidence that he had left behind for him.
Unlike some of the students who were in such disbelief about the seemingly sweet Midoriya hiding this twisted side, at least Hitoshi was not fully caught off guard by the act. Because as he knew well from the rage he had seen in the boy's eyes and felt through his Quirk when they had fought on another, not just in the Sports Festival but during his own evaluation, that guy that was all sunshine and rainbows was not real.
And Hitoshi had made the mistake of drawing attention to that fact, making the boy throw away his mask in dramatic fashion when staying had seemed to no longer be a viable option.
When they crossed paths next, Hitoshi was totally screwed wasn't he?
So yeah there was a reason he was not sleeping tonight and it had nothing to do with his insomnia for a change. So to cope he was scrolling through his favorite hell site, Rollr, searching for memes and cute cat pictures. He was not expecting one of his mutuals to reblog something clearly from Midoriya.
As he stared at the picture of the green haired traitor being buddy buddy with the guy who had attacked his class he realized he had to share this.
Class 1-A Official Shinso
Shinso: uh… have any of you guys seen this yet?
greensmallmight.
awayfromoffice.
Pinky: That bastard lied to me!
He does have a Rollr!
Cellophane: That is your main takeaway from this?
He stole Hagakure's Quirk, remember?
Pinky: Shhh
Let me have this
Bakugou: !!!!!
What the Fuck is he doing with Shigaraki!
Shinso: well according to the most recent post from all for one, building a pillow fort apparently
Invisible Girl: Is it weird that hearing him say my Quirk tasted too good to give it back makes me feel a bit better?
Like it still sucks and all but weirdly flattering?
Chargebolt: It's pretty blursed information honestly
Creati: What's blursed?
Earphone Jack: Something that is both blessed and cursed
Eraserhead (Admin): Thank you for bring this to my attention Shinso
Now I will have to inform Endeavor that Todoroki followed Midoriya to wherever the League are hiding
It also appears we will have to map out Midoriya's full family tree to verify the truth of the matter as to what happened.
Please refrain from harassing Midoriya online
It is possible we might still be able to get him to come back and return the Quirk once things have calmed down
From the sound of things my suspicion that this really was a Quirk accident seemed to be correct which raises the question of if All for One did something to trigger it with his visit
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Katsuki felt betrayed. Here he had been trying to help stupid Deku with their stupid class and it turns out the idiot was actually planning on betraying them the whole time. It was the only way he could explain what had happened.
Deku had that fucker All for One's Quirk all along and had played him and All Might like a fiddle. The excuse that he had potentially five more hidden unknown Quirks would have been the perfect cover if he had slipped up and revealed another Quirk he had stolen.
But he couldn't cover his slip up in taking Invisbitch's Quirk so he ran back to Daddy.
Suddenly his Auntie's strangeness when it came to Deku's father made so much more sense. The man was a Supervillain and they were trying to hide it. Working overseas was just a cover to hide money laundering or some shit.
It meant that the man who was ultimately behind his kidnapping and killed the Symbol of Peace was Deku's father. The man who helped the ones who attacked their class twice and created the thing that nearly killed their homeroom teacher.
But that bastard wasn't the only member of the League he was related to either from the sound of things. From the tags on his first post about things online one of them was the hand fucker who he was now openly being buddy buddy with. It begged the question of who else in the League he had been hiding the fact he was related to them.
Two-face? Vampbitch? Bacon face?
He refreshed the page. The fucker was awake again.
GreenSmallMight
Update on the family tree. I am actually apparently a Todoroki. My bio-dad is Endeavor's bastard half brother. This means the following fun facts:
Shoto and I are cousins so all of you shipping us together feels an extra level of weird now
Endeavor is the great grandson of All for One
I am officially the bastard son of a bastard son of a bastard son of All for One's secret love child
We were pretty sure that he was biologically my great great grandfather on my father's side but it was good to have the confirmation.
#I'm 3 bastards deep #Deku #Bone Breaking Kid #Quirk Hunger #Scourge of Kamino #All for One #AFO #League of Villains #LOV #Dad for One #Grandfather for More #This family tree is a complete trainwreck #Deku's Villain Arc #Shoto #Todoroki family #Endeavor #Salamander #In case you were wondering who my bio-dad was
Katsuki cursed and sent the Hobo a message. He needed to see this.
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Shouta sighed as he buried his face in his arms on the meeting table. His Problem Child had really jumped ship and seemed intent on taking them all down with him. Waking up to the nasty surprise of Eri having been stolen away in the dark of the night without anyone even setting foot on campus had finalized the decision that they need to get the kids to safe houses immediately. Shouta's stomach twisted in knots over the little girl that he would never admit as being attached to. Was she safe with Problem Child or had All for One grabbed her for more sinister reasons? Because she was definitely with All for One based on the scents that Togata's cell phone turned up with after having been factory reset.
While those around the table argued with the Commission agent about just how UA was going to continue like this for the rest of the year, Shouta found himself needing to speak up about his theory from the previous evening. "Is now a bad time for me to mention I am pretty sure the top Quirk analyst in the country is All for One?"
Silence.
The Commission agent grimaced. "You can't seriously be accusing Athos, surely? The man was still very much in contact with us during the whole of All for One's incarceration."
A tilt of the head from Nedzu. "Oh? And how might I ask did you come to that conclusion?"
Shouta sighed. "It is possible that All for One is merely impersonating the man without him knowing, regardless some of the man's actions over the past few days have raised some red flags for me. Namely what was going on with Midoriya's home life. Yesterday when I went to check his family apartment to see if he had visited it, I learned from the woman working the rental office for the building had met the man I met as Athos Hisashi in the apartment that morning and collected a rent check from him under the name Midoriya Hisashi that cashed when checked. She had assumed from what Midoriya Inko had told her over the years about Izuku's father to cover up his actual identity that the man had to be her absentee husband returned from overseas and had not thought much of the encounter until I had her open the apartment for me. In the span of those seven hours, the entire apartment had been completely emptied but there was no sign of anyone coming or going from the apartment in that time implying that Kurogiri was likely involved in the clearing out. That includes Athos leaving the apartment after paying the rent for the next month."
There were several pale faces around the room. Yagi looked like death warmed over. "What did he look like? I can only presume that you crossed paths with him after he restored his face or you would have caught on sooner."
Shouta closed his eyes and leaned back. "Taller than me. Expressive face under a head of snow white curls. Ruby red eyes. Square jaw and lightly freckled cheeks. Wearing a suit sans the tie."
"That was him then."
When Shouta opened his eyes back up, the agent was cursing. "How the hell did we miss that? Yeah that is Athos too. I've never met him personally but I was given a description of him by one of the girls working in records back when I started when I was told to leave him be if was in the building since it generally meant he was working a more complicated Quirk case for us. He must have had someone helping him cover for his absence, not that it would have been terribly hard given he was supposed to be working on his own case. That must have made it all the simpler for him."
Yagi shook his head. "He was emailing back and forth with Young Midoriya even when he was still in prison. He probably just has a Quirk he could use to do so remotely. I recognized the style as the same as in the few emails I have exchanged with him over the years." He gained a thoughtful look. "In hindsight, his seeming obsession with trying to get me to talk about my Quirk with him makes even more sense then it did before."
Nedzu nodded. "Yes I have to agree. I was in email contact with him regularly enough over the years that I can confirm the response I got from him a few days before the break out asking for his thoughts on our Quirk swap was actually from him." He took a sip of his tea. "Still, this raises a few questions about Midoriya Inko and her complicity in all of this. While I do believe she was honest about who Midoriya's biological father was, that does not rule out her working with All for One prior to him appearing to develop a greater interest in her and her family. Given her foster family's history of less than legal dealings, we are left to consider the fact that perhaps she has closer ties to the criminal elements than her son was aware of."
Detective Tsukauchi, who had been listening to all of that in silence thus far, finally spoke up. "You don't believe Midoriya Izuku is knowingly complicit in all of this prior to his Quirk finally showing its true colors."
Nedzu shook his head. "No, it seems unlikely. If he had known the truth of his Quirk at the very least, I doubt we would have ever known since I am fairly confident the boy was clever enough to hide it better then he had been if he had known. I suspect he likely wouldn't have stolen the most obvious Quirk in his class otherwise. No, I believe he is being honest in his posts online in his explanation of what is going on to the best of his knowledge."
Shouta sighed. "You think that even if we find him, Hagakure is still never getting her Quirk back."
"Not unless All for One can steal it from him and returns it, no. Unfortunately my alternative solution is likely no longer viable either. I had hoped that when little Eri had a bit more control that perhaps she would be able to reverse both Hagakure, Togata, and even Ragdoll to before their Quirks were stolen from them."
The agent sat up fully straight at that. "You think Midoriya might have stolen Lemillion's Quirk?"
Nedzu sighed. "I cannot fully rule out the possibility, no. It is possible that the Quirk erasing bullet used on him was still temporary, just merely longer lasting and Midoriya could have taken it accidentally without realizing it. Given he claims to have stolen copies of Quirks that the Nomu from the USJ held without realizing it we really can't rule it out."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Yuga was freaking the fuck out.
He had always assumed that as All for One's spy he would be shielded from any harm that befell the rest of the class but then a week ago he woke up with a completely different Quirk and it all went downhill from there.
At first everyone jumping on the idea that Midoriya had been the traitor had seemed a god send so he had been careful to help push that narrative along until all of Midoriya's closest allies found themselves agreeing with the exception of Todoroki. He wasn't expecting for the idea to actually be correct. Sure it seemed the boy might not have been a spy with him from the start but it was pretty clear now which side he stood on.
And Yuga had helped push things to the point the other boy could no longer hide the connection.
He needed to call All for One before he made another mistake of that magnitude but was terrified of what would happen when he did. So he had locked himself inside his closet with his phone and cocooned himself in his bedding. In the wake of everything that had happened the previous day, they were preparing to move the class into safe houses around the country that day. Jiro had been one of the first ones moved out with both of her parents having appeared almost immediately at the gates after the announcement had gone out. So, as long as Shoji wasn't actively trying to eavesdrop, he could speak freely for the next few minutes.
It was far too hard to dial the number.
"Ah, I was wondering when I would hear from you. How are things going back on campus?"
Yuga felt a shiver go down his spine at the man's casual tone. "Everyone in the hero course is being relocated to safehouses and classes are being suspended in wake of everything going on."
"How unfortunate. I suppose Eri's little disappearing act last night has them extra frazzled."
That caught Yuga off guard. "Eri?"
He immediately winced as he realized what he had just done. Thankfully All for One seemed amused by the question from his chuckle on the other end. "It seemed she was rather distressed when they wouldn't let her see Izuku so she took matters into her own hands and managed to contact me with her limited knowledge of how email works from Izuku and, well, I could hardly ignore a cry for help from my littlest Hero now could I? She's currently with Izuku and the League eating breakfast."
Yuga was not sure how he felt about that. On one hand, an innocent little girl was currently in the Den of Evil but on the other he highly doubted that Midoriya would let anything bad happen to her after what had happened with Overhaul. "And Midoriya's Quirk actually being like yours? That is actually true and not something you did to mess with the heroes?"
"I will admit that surprised me slightly. Obviously, I knew we shared some kind of relation since I couldn't touch his Quirk any more than I could my own brother's which implied some sort of genetic connection but never in my wildest dreams did I think he would inherit my own Quirk. Especially given the fact that it took so many generations for it to reappear. Now is that all? I need to resume digging into my descendants. The last thing we need is another surprise manifestation of my Quirk in someone else."
Yuga's mouth went dry. "That was all. I apologize for my nosiness."
"Oh that's fine. It was nothing I was planning on hiding from the heroes anyways. Call me if anything pressing comes up or if your cover gets blown and I need to collect you."
Ice down his spine. No, Yuga would very much not be calling if that happened. "I will Sensei."
He hung up and cried.
Notes:
A bit of a shorter chapter but I figured you guys would prefer that over waiting a whole nother week for me to post the whole thing. The next section has the full family tree in it so until I finish drawing that out the next chapter is getting delayed a bit. I want it to be easily readable so it is taking a bit of time since unlike writing, I actually have to be at a computer to work on it.
Chapter 15: Family Tree
Summary:
The family tree is reveal
Notes:
Originally posted August 11, 2022
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
Chapter Text
Mirai wasn't sure which of them smiled as they watched little Eri snuggling in with Midoriya in the mess of blankets and cushions. As much as the fact that the two of them being here in the midst of the League made his stomach twist, seeing the two of them together so relaxed after the hell that they had gone through to save the girl did make him feel a bit better.
All for One flicked out the light to the room before slipping down the hallway to his and Midoriya Inko's new room that her bedroom furniture had been moved into after it clicked for her that in the wake of realizing that with Midoriya on the run from the Heroes, they would not be able to return back to their normal lives. With a yawn, All for One sunk down into the bedding and wrapped his arms around the already sleeping woman.
In moments, the blackness fell as Mirai was temporarily released from the man's hold as he fell asleep. The screams of anguish and pain from the other Quirk ghosts were suddenly all around him, reminding him once more what kind of monster he was still trapped inside. Then the man's grip returned and he was pulled through the barrier the man held between his mind and the damned souls. He did not stumble as badly that time.
"Well I suppose we know why you seemed to be such a natural when it came to trying to possess me but still are struggling to adapt to changes in the mindscape." The man stood studying him with a slightly puzzled look on his face.
Mirai frowned at him. "I hardly see why it matters. I'm dead and it is not like you are going to let me go even knowing that ."
All for One sighed. "That is true. I'm sorry, it is just that I wish I had known beforehand. Believe it or not, despite your connection with the blonde idiot, I did actually have nothing against you as a Hero. You were a fun challenge to work around and actually have a sense of humor which is more than I can say about most Heroes. Discovering you had died while I was still dealing with an information blackout before I broke out of Tartarus for the first time was genuinely upsetting. I was relieved that the Doctor had the foresight to steal your body so I could recover your Quirk later. Pun not intended."
Mirai gave the man a disbelieving look. "Really? What, would you have tried to save me while I was still in the hospital if you had known I was dying? Regardless of me being your great grandson or not."
He nodded and shrugged. "When you have lived as long as I have, you find that people that are different enough and new to be a novelty worth holding on to. People on the same level of intelligence as myself are rare." He snorted slightly. "It figures that all the more recent ones would happen to be my descendants sans the Rat."
Mirai stared at him at a bit of a loss. "You would have risked a run in with the Heroes to save me because I just happened to be interesting enough for you?"
He chuckled. "Oddly enough I might have been able to do it without getting caught too since Eri was in the same hospital. If I had swung by and gotten my face restored and then worked around avoiding letting All Might see or hear me, I could have restored you without anyone even realizing I was there. I wonder what All Might would have thought if I had just slipped you a copy of Super Regeneration and just never acknowledged it if confronted."
Mirai had to consider that. "Perhaps we would have discovered our relation if you had. I doubt Nedzu would have left the mystery alone. Nor would I, even if I did not see you do it to me. That being said, wouldn't sliping me Super Regeneration have been dangerous? I seem to remember there being records of people going insane after you gave them a second Quirk."
"Ah, no, I suspect it probably would have been fine. The issue there was the soul fragments of the gifted Quirks would attack their new host bodies. Since copies don't have souls attached to them, they are perfectly safe for me to give away."
"So why not give a copy to Tenko?"
He sighed. "Does Tomura strike you as someone that would not abuse the fact he can't be killed easily and actually endanger himself more because of it? The only way the League would have survived my absence if I had was if I had dumped copies on all of them as well. Functional immortality is not something you give to a teenager or young adult with mental illness and expect good things to come of it. Honestly, if it wasn't for the blow back that Izuku gets for using his full strength from One for All that I can't stop him from using regardless, I never would have considered offering that one to him so soon. Izuku has the self preservation instincts of a moth near an open flame. At least this way he will live to see 20."
Mirai winced and found himself nodding. "That was one of the main issues I had with him being chosen for the position of successor. At the rate he was destroying his body he was going to get himself killed with the Quirk before he even could graduate. He was somehow an even worse version of All Might in that."
"And yet you eventually agreed with All Might."
Mirai sighed. "His ability to problem solve on the fly impressed me. As did his ability to prioritize minimizing collateral damage to his surroundings which is admittedly something All Might has always struggled with."
All for One smirked. "Good to know your infatuation with the man did not blind you to that."
Mirai blushed and found himself stuttering out a response. "I-I don't一 I didn't一"
All for One laughed. "You lived and worked in a literal shrine to the man!"
Mirai felt mortified being called out by him of all people about his stupid crush. "Shut up…"
All for One shook his head in amusement. "You could have done so much better. Did you ever actually tell him or were you just hopelessly pining for him? I do know you never actually dated."
Mirai sighed. "Before I could ever even consider it, he admitted that he was Aroace so that dream died before it could have even happened."
All for One winced. "Ah. I had wondered about that. I knew he never dated anyone but I was not sure if that was the case or if he just was avoiding forming any such connections because of the fact I went after Shimura's family to try and force her to surrender One for All to me."
The corner of Mirai's mouth ticked up at that. "Something that you accidently ruined any chance of getting for yourself."
All for One sighed and shrugged. "It isn't a complete loss. I wanted the Quirk for the sake of reclaiming my brother but Izuku holding it works too with the revelation that the piece of my brother can possess Izuku's body. I am sure that Izuku would not hold wanting to chat with Yoichi again directly against me. I will have to chat with him about doing that once I finish figuring out who all are my descendants or if anyone else in the League are related to one another…"
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Izuku had just finished updating his Rollr on the family drama about being a Todoroki before he led the collection of those awake and mobile into the dining room that they had eaten dinner in the night before. While trying to leave the fort Tomura had realized that Dabi had him in a death grip in his sleep preventing his escape so had resigned himself to going back to sleep to try and sleep off his hangover. Izuku had given him his phone on the off chance he couldn't fall back to sleep.
Shoto had woken both Himiko and Twice in his escape so the two (surprisingly in Twice's case) un-hungover League members had joined the three of them on their quest for food. They were greeted to the sight of a traditional style breakfast laid out on the table alongside his mother and his father with a Laptop in front of him as he seemed to be working on something while he ate.
"Morning!"
"Good morn-" She cut herself off as she spotted Eri before turning and giving Dad an exasperated look. "…Hisashi, did you break into UA again last night?"
"What?" He looked up from the computer in a bit of confusion before following her gaze to Eri. "Oh. No, I used a Quirk to bring her to me from a rooftop a few blocks outside the campus before I had Kurogiri warp us the rest of the way back. Before you ask, she contacted me through her babysitter's phone to come and get her so she could be with Izuku."
His mother shook her head. "I will have to make another serving for her." She turned her attention back to them. "Did you all sleep well then?"
Eri gave her a grin. "Deku kept all the bad dreams away!"
Both the League members made cooing noises at how cute she was as Izuku helped get her seated at the table next to himself with his father on the other side. Shoto gave the man a questioning look before taking the seat directly opposite Izuku. "So what are you doing?"
"Research into everyone's family history. I don't want any more surprises like Izuku's Quirk if we can help it."
Izuku turned to consider him. "Speaking of, have you done the Todoroki's yet? Because according to both the Fourth and Salamander, they are definitely related to us. He is the bastard half brother to Endeavor."
He blinked and shook his head. "I want to say I am surprised by that but honestly that is just par for the course now."
Shoto blinked at him owlishly from the other side of the table. "We're cousins?"
Izuku nodded. "Yeah, so are Tomura, and Spinner for you and Dabi for me, what with him being your brother."
The boy made a puzzled face before realization seemed to dawn on him. "Oh. Dabi was Touya. That explains why we look so much alike and why he was so focused on me during the game last night."
It was Izuku's turn to be puzzled. "Did you not know? I assumed you had figured it out on your own when you turned up looking like his spitting image."
Shoto shrugged. "Black was my only hair color option to mask my split color and matching my gray eye with my blue was easier than doing the reverse. I spiked my hair to hide my hair cut."
Himiko giggled. "Ooh we should give the two of you makeovers to match to mess with the Heroes. Imagine them chasing you expecting fire and bam! A Wall of Ice!"
His Dad laughed. "That would most certainly be entertaining." Before he could elaborate more though his phone in his pocket started to ring. "Ah, it seems my spy at UA has an update for me. Excuse me."
He pushed away his chair and walked out to the room. Izuku stared after him. "So who do you think it is? The real traitor."
Shoto seemed to consider that. "I am not sure. I know a few who are definitely not it but saying with any certainty who is is another matter."
Twice, who had been eating with his mask shoved up over his nose, made a gesture with his chopsticks. "Oh, it is the sparkly kid from your class. The one that nearly took Compress' fact off during the raid on the camp. Still not sure why he did that. It was pretty rude."
His Mom frowned at that. "Are you sure he is on your side?"
Himiko nodded. "Yeah, Shiggy said that Sensei gave him his Quirk in the first place so spying inside UA is how he is paying for it. If he tries to go traitor he will just take it back and take his parent's Quirks as collateral."
She sighed and nodded before looking back at Eri who had been listing with a puzzled look on her face, probably with no idea what they were talking about. "Eri, honey, did you bring any clothes with you or are those pajamas your only outfit?"
Eri frowned. "No. I didn't know I needed to grab some."
She sighed. "Don't worry honey we can get you sorted out. When you are done eating, we can sneak out to pick up some things for you from my parent's place. I think they still have all my old stuff from when I was your age in storage."
Eri smiled at her. "We could go now! I am pretty full already! I wasn't really hungry yet anyways."
His Mom gave her a soft smile and stood up to walk over and take her hand then. "In that case, let's go on a little adventure, shall we?"
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
Hisashi pocketed his phone and strolled back into the meeting room where he had been working on his genealogy research project and a handful of the League were still eating. Izuku had shifted the laptop he had been working on over and was clicking through something while he ate. "Find anything interesting while I was gone?"
Izuku hummed and swallowed his mouthful of food. "I can officially say that both Himiko and Twice are not related to you at least though they are to each other."
Himiko nearly dropped her chopsticks and Twice actually did. Himiko looked over at the man seated beside her with a bit of delight. "Wait really?"
Izuku nodded and spun the laptop round to face them after making a few clicks. "Records from a fertility clinic the Toga's visited. It's all officially listed here. Congratulations, you're father and daughter."
Twice blinked as she slammed into him with a hug. "Oh yeah I forgot I did that. Easiest money I ever made. I never really thought about the fact that it would mean I actually might have kids running around that I don't know about. I needed the money for my parent's funerals so I was a bit desperate. Place was sketchy as hell. Who takes sperm samples from a kid around your age anyways? Wait, does that mean I might have other kids besides her?"
Hisashi took the laptop back and he sat back down next to Izuku. A few clicks around in the hacked records and he pulled up the file for one Bubaigawara Jin. "It looks like there is only one other- oh! That's interesting. Izuku, Shoto, it seems that your classmate Monoma Neito from 1-B is Himiko's half brother."
Shoto seemed to consider that. "You should probably check his maternal line. His Quirk has several similarities with All for One."
Hisashi thought back to the Copy Quirk he had temporarily held. "The similarities are superficial but I believe it is likely that the copying capabilities of the Quirk likely just came from Twice's Double. Mimicry and transference are not the same thing. All the same I will probably check all of the students at UA currently as well as the staff after I finish checking everyone in the League. Maybe do the rest of the top 50 heroes while I'm at it."
"Actually, before you get too carried away, I mentioned to Shoto yesterday that you can modify Quirks. He was wondering if you could maybe take away the fire half of his Quirk."
Hisashi paused in his typing and thought about it. "I will have to look at the Quirk in more detail if that is okay. I only held it for a few minutes total and I was too busy shuffling Quirks to pay much attention to how it worked."
Shoto stood up and walked over so that Hisashi could take his hand. A gentle pull as the Quirk came away from the boy reverting his hair and eyes back to black. Shoto wobbled slightly before Hisashi pulled out the chair to his other side and helped the boy into it. "Well that feels weird."
"It can be painful when someone resists the transfer which is why I did it on you previously while you slept. Give me a little bit to look you Quirk over."
Hisashi turned inward slightly and pulled Half-Cold Half-Hot to the forefront with Foresight. Foresight was buzzing slightly as he did so. "You are really going to break the kid's Quirk?"
'I would call it more rewiring than breaking.' The clashing tastes of mint and cinnamon with a hint of something else faint drowned out the hint of citrus. Three flavor notes? "You have three Quirks acting as one." He couldn't help the awe that leaked out of his voice in surprise as he looked at it closer. "You're true Quirk is some sort of container for the other two and holds them to your respective sides. Hold on. I want to try something."
Hisashi gently pulled the cinnamon taste from the Quirk and reached deep into his own stores for another recently gained minty taste. After slotting Ice Manipulation into the empty slot he reached over and pushed the edited Quirk back.
Hisashi was excited to see the boy return to his previous bicolored looks however now his red hair was ice blue in its place. Shoto blinked in confusion as he held up his hands. "What did you do?"
"I replaced your Half-Hot with Ice Manipulation. Now theoretically, you can create ice with one side and control it with the other after the fact. Do you mind what I do with Half-Hot? I was thinking that we could use it to help Dabi since it comes with heat resistance he sorely needs and would likely be compatible with his Blueflame enough to combine into one given your close familial relation."
Shoto shrugged as he created a small bit of ice in his right palm and then gestured with his left to try and change its shape. It wasn't pretty but it seemed to work and earned a grin from the boy. "Go for it. I doubt I would ever want it back. You aren't going to want Ice Manipulation back right?"
"No. As fun as it was to play with for me, I see it getting better use in your hands. Is Dabi still asleep then?"
Izuku nodded. "Yeah. He and Tomura are still in the fort. He has Tomura in a death grip in his sleep so Tomura went back to sleep when he realized he couldn't get up all the way."
Himiko giggled. "Dabi never struck me as a cuddler."
Shoto gave her a sly grin. "If he really is Touya then I am not surprised. While I don't remember him much I do know both my other siblings are."
Izuku gestured with his chopsticks at him. "I mean you are too when you sleep properly. You remember how I had to take you with me when you fell asleep during that one movie night and refused to let go of me. I had to wiggle out of my shirt to escape after I carried you back to your room."
Hisashi gave them a smile as they began to lightly bicker in a familiar familial way that Hisashi himself missed dearly. He closed the laptop and picked it up. "I am going to find a quiet place to buckle down and work on this. Any requests before I go?"
Izuku nodded. "Yeah, could you make me an outline of our family tree once you have it figured out? I want to throw it up online to prove I am not bullshiting to the Heroes."
Hisashi ruffled his hair. "Sure thing."
--TFS-TFS-TFS--
GreenSmallMight
Family Tree
Hopefully this is the final update on the matter but given All for One is still looking into everyone else at UA to check for more surprise relatives, this might change. It all should probably be pretty self explanatory. Grayed out means dead, white alive, and purple is other/it's complicated. Finding out my adoptive cousin is my actual blood cousin was a surprise and finally explains why we look so much alike. Himiko and Twice are not on here because they are definitely not related to us. They are however related to each other and are a bit thrilled at the discovery. Also related to them is Phantom Thief from 1-B. The Quirk mimicry gene is from that side of the family it seems (and the blonde hair too).
Sorry to IceIceDoctorBaby, your sister, and your mother. Shoto (and reluctantly Dabi) wanted to tell you guys directly about the whole Touya = Dabi thing directly but we couldn't risk your father tracing us back to the LOV hideout.
#There was a second secret Love Child in this mess #Deku #Bone Breaking Kid #Quirk Hunger #Scourge of Kamino #All for One #AFO #League of Villains #LOV #Dad for One #Grandfather for More #This family tree is a complete trainwreck #Deku's Villain Arc #Shoto #Todoroki family #Endeavor #Salamander #Phantom Thief #UA #UA Hero Course #Class 1-B
Shouta stared at the diagram that Problem Child had taken the time to draw up for them. "Dabi is a Nomu like Kurogiri. Not one of the mindless ones but one that clearly has autonomy like Kurogiri given he has controlled the actions of other Nomu for the League independently."
Nedzu gave a solemn nod. "So it seems. Perhaps we should look on the bright side. If Dabi was able to regain his memories and sense of self as a Todoroki, who is to say that Kurogiri won't eventually regain his of being Shirakumo. If that was to happen I very much doubt his loyalty would remain with the man who did this to him. Your friend was a Hero student after all."
Shouta frowned. "Yeah and so were Midoriya and Todoroki before they ran. There is more to this then just familial loyalty for Midoriya and fear of his Quirk. He is being too casual about this whole thing. Like this isn't a massive shock to his own identity."
Nedzu hummed in consideration. "You think All for One tampered with his mind in some way."
Shouta nodded. "And possibly his mother too. Has there been any leads on her?"
"No but the rest of the Sako family have disappeared as of this morning. Likely the League closing ranks to protect them before their identity became public knowledge. There was a sighting by one of their neighbors of little Eri with Midoriya Inko in their yard a short while before they vanished though."
Shouta sagged in relief. "She seemed safe then?"
Nedzu nodded. "The neighbors heard her laughing which is why they looked outside in the first place. Whatever All for One wants from her, it is not stealing her Quirk. She still very clearly had it given she still had her normal coloration as well as her horn."
"But what is it?"
Nedzu picked at the small tea cake specially made for him before him. "I have a theory that I am unsure that you will like to hear. About all of this."
Shouta narrowed his eyes. "That has never stopped you from sharing before."
Nedzu sighed. "This is different. My understanding of human emotions is academic at best so I don't trust my judgment on the matter at the best of times." He took a sip of his tea. "I think we are thinking about this all wrong. The erratic behavior and complete 180 in how he is behaving… I think All for One might actually be throwing away his career as a Villain and threw out his civilian identity because he is in love. Not in the romantic sense either though that is possibly also a factor with Midoriya's mother. No, I think he genuinely wants Midoriya as his son, as strange as that is."
Shouta felt his gut churn at the thought. "He saw a kid that shared his interest in other people's Quirks and decided to keep him."
"Exactly."
"And how does Eri fit into this?"
Nedzu set down his tea cup. "I suspect that is either an interest earned by her restoring him to his prior health or perhaps the girl's bond with Midoriya was enough. The girl definitely left of her own free will to join Midoriya even if we are unclear how."
Shouta sighed. "She was scared that something had happened to him so she found a way around us to find him."
Nedzu nodded. "It is not terribly surprising given how she reacted to the news of Sir Nighteye's death. There is undoubtedly trauma for her with people simply vanishing from her life that Chisaki likely did nothing to help with given his Quirk."
Shouta sighed. "So who is breaking the news that not only is All Might's favorite student blood related to his arch nemesis but said nemesis called dibs on becoming his new father to Yagi."
Notes:
Sorry this took so long after I finished the diagram. I had a busy week and had to prioritize writing for the scheduled fics first. Dabi only agreed to be shown on the diagram as "it's complicated" because he wanted to create maximum drama since his plans for a grand revel got chucked out the window after realizing that Shoto really is not as big of a problem for him as he thought. He will still not be winning any brother of the year awards any time soon but at least he is a bit more relaxed about things. On another note, my gran plan for why I needed Geten's Quirk to get yoinked has been reveled though so yay!
Now for the name explanations from the tree:
Harima Shuju (張間 酬需) - Repay Demand
Harima Kanai(張間 敢愛) - Tragic Love
Sako Funyu (迫 紛遊) - Distract Play
Sako Setsushu (迫 窃手) - Stealth Hand
Sako Kansa (迫 敢詐) - Daring Lie
Sako Hari (迫 玻璃) - Glass
Todoroki Onka (轟 穏火) - Calm Fire
Todoroki Danshin (轟 暖心) - Warmth Heart
Todoroki Netsusei (轟 熱制) - Heat Control
Iguchi Jashi (伊口 蛇歯) - Snake Tooth
Iguchi Nenha (伊口 粘把) - Sticky Grasp
Shirakumo Fuko (白雲 浮拠) - Floating Foothold
Shirakumo Utsu (白雲 鬱) - Gloom
Shimura Jimo (志村 磁持) - Magnet Hold
Shirakumo Arashi (白雲 嵐) - Storm
Shirakumo Don (白雲 曇) - Cloudy Weather
Shirakumo Uname (白雲 運雨) - Carry Rain
Chapter 16: Author's Note: Not A Real Update
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There has been a change in plans as a result of the long Hiatus. Long story short, I am rewriting this fic before continuing on with it to fix issues with pacing, editing and possibly setting up future plot points I have since come up with sooner. Unlike my other fis, this one didn't exactly have the most fleshed out plan going into it. Sure, I had a couple plot points figured out in advance but there are a few points were it is obvious that I was just coming up with shit on the fly and course correcting to the new goal.
Because of this, starting Wednesday I am going to start posting regular double updates of this story (and if I have time maybe more then two) for the next couple weeks until we get back to this point in a new version of this fic so I can keep this version archived for my own records. The new fic will be linked as a fic inspired by this on eat the end of this update as soon as the new versions of chapters 1 and 2 go live. Sorry for the inconvenace but trust me when I say that the story will be the better for it since now I actually have a plan for Izuku as a Villain which admittedly I didn't really at the start beyond knowing that I wanted it to happen.
Thank you for your patience,
InsomNyaC
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