Someone asked for less Bakugou. I know he's in a lot of chapters, but it feels odd to have Izuku but not Katsuki. They're relationship is just so important to the actual story. Also, Bakugou is one of the characters I can write relatively easily. Writing him is an outlet for my own negative emotions...
Chapter suggested by Chloe Tokoyami. I hope you enjoy!
"TokoyamicanyouwatchIzukuthanks!" Mina opened Tokoyami's door and set Izuku down inside, then left, leaving the two to stare at each other awkwardly.
Tokoyami sighed, then put out the candles he had lit (Dark Shadow helped as best as he could). He had learned his lesson last time not to leave fire around Izuku. Poor bean sprout had a burn on his finger for weeks.
Izuku wandered over to a cabinet with a lock. Tokoyami watched warily. He kept all of is occult-y stuff in there, and Izuku had yet to ask about the cabinet.
Today was not his lucky day. Izuku grabbed the lock and look up at Tokoyami with big puppy eyes. "Yami-san?" he asked. "What's in here?"
Tokoyami sat down and pulled out a key. "It's my box of secrets." He answered. "We can't play with most of the stuff in here, okay?"
Class 1-A had figured out that satisfying Izuku's curiosity required supervision and should be dealt with immediately, otherwise Izuku would find a way to answer his own question. In one memorable occasion, Izuku had scared Oijiro and had nearly been hit with his tail. Izuku had been wanting to see if the tuft of hair on his tail got bushy when he was scared. Izuku was happy to report that it did, and Oijiro was horrified with himself for almost hitting a toddler.
Tokoyami pulled out his deck of tarot cards. "Look, see these?"
"Pretty pictures." Izuku grabbed one of the cards. Tokoyami internally winced when Izuku accidently bent a corner.
"Yeah. I used them to read the future." Tokoyami made spooky fingers to emphasize. Dark Shadow, who had come out when Izuku arrived, did the same. Izuku giggled.
"You can read the future?" Izuku asked. "Show me, show me!"
"Alright." Tokoyami shuffled the cards, then held out a fan of cards, face-down. "Pick one."
Izuku pointed at one. Tokoyami placed it face down in front of him. "Another one."
Izuku picked another one, then one more. Tokoyami placed them down next to the first one.
Carefully, Tokoyami flipped over the card on the left. "This one represents your past." he explained. "The picture means…" he paused. The picture means your loved ones have suffered without you noticing. "...that your loved ones will do anything to protect you."
Tokoyami flipped over the middle card. "This one is about your present."
"Present?! I get a gift?!" Izuku gasped, eyes wide.
"No, Izuku, this kind of present means right now." Tokoyami explained patiently. "This one means…" Pain marks you in places you don't show. Tokoyami glanced at the bandages covering Izuku's arm, and the burn that scarred villain had given him. "...it means you are really brave and strong."
Izuku simultaneously puffed up in pride and looked embarrassed.
Tokoyami flipped over the last card. "This one represents your future."
He internally sighed. "This one means that you have both joy and fear in your future." He said quietly.
"...That makes sense!" Izuku said. "Cuz' I wanna be a hero!"
Tokoyami, dark-emo-bird Tokoyami, totally did not smile at all when Izuku said that.
"Can I tell the future?" Izuku asked.
"You can try, if you want." Tokoyami replied, shuffling the cards. He handed the stack to Izuku.
Izuku tried to copy his actions and shuffle the deck, resulting in cards going everywhere. Tokoyami tried to help Izuku gather them back together, but the little bean sprout insisted that he could do it by himself.
When Izuku finally reassembled the stack (Tokoyami cringed at the amount of upside down cards), he held out a few cards in a fan (because, after several attempts, Izuku decided he could not hold up the whole stack). Tokoyami tapped one, and Izuku set it down with some struggle. They did this two more times.
Izuku picked up the first card. "This is your past." he tried to copy Tokoyami's tone. He flipped the card over. "It means… um… you're friends with this goat man!"
It was wrong, but Tokoyami thought it was pretty cute.
"This one is your gift - I mean… it's your now card." Izuku flipped the card over. "Um… oh! The birdie must be Dark Shadow! And you're friends, too!"
Again, wrong, but Tokoyami wasn't going to say that.
"And this card is your future." Izuku flipped the card over. "Ooh, treasure chest! You're gonna be rich, Yami-san!"
That… wasn't too far off, actually. Tokoyami hoped it'd come true. It sounded like a pretty nice future.
Izuku looked immensely pleased with himself. "I'm gonna tell otou-san!" he said excitedly.
Dark Shadow picked up the boy so Tokoyami could clean up the cards, and proceeded to fly him around the room. Izuku giggled the whole way.
Not an awful chapter. Tokoyami is hard to write, and I kept forgetting about Dark Shadow… I feel bad about that…
Full disclosure, I haven't the faintest how tarot cards work. Let's just say Tokoyami made his own deck and ritual, or something.
Also, there's this recurring thing where Izuku keeps trying to burn himself that was unplanned. Oops.
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