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Shouta was sleeping soundly until a loud "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
The force of the yell actually made him roll off the bed and land with a loud thud.
Aizawa glared at the boy, expecting to find the boy reacting over something piddly like he tended to do.
What he wasn't expecting to see was the boy waving a crisp $5 bill.
"Is this the surprise the teethlady left! All for teeths?! This is so cools! Right, Sho!"
Shouta walked over, turning the dollar over in his hand, checking to see if it was some fake dollar bill. Much to his surprise, it was real.
"Hizashi, do you knows what this means?"
The boy looked at him not understanding what his friend meant.
"We get money for your teeth. Which means…"
"The more teeths I lose...THE MORE MONEYS WE GET! So ifs I lose all mys teeths we get rich!"
Shouta nodded his head, flashing his Totoro-like smile
Hizashi and Shouta quickly wrote out their game plan for their get rich quick scheme
"Operation: teeth lady money get."
Shouta looked at Hizashi, then the paper, then Hizashi.
"Is that reallys the name of this plan?"
Hizashi nodded as he rocked back and forth on his butt, so excited to get a move on.
"Okays, we know it was apples that did it. So yous eat a lot of apples and we get the teeth."
"Okays!"
Yagi wanted to question why Hizashi and Shouta's backpack had a ton of apples in them and why Hizashi was continuing to eat apples when he looked so miserable.
The boy sat semi-hunched over with an apple in each hand both at least 2/5ths of the way done. The boy slowly chewed as he looked at the ground with a look that screamed dead inside.
Every once and a while the boy would open his mouth to let Shouta look inside only for the other boy to shake his head.
I'll just let this one go for now. It's keeping them entertained at least.
"Hey, could someone run these papers to Snipe?" Thirteen said as she held up a stack of papers.
The typical chorus of "not me's" rang out, with Nemuri slamming her fist on her desk, cursing her slowness.
She looked up, exasperated before she had a brilliant idea.
"Hey, Hizashi? Shouta?"
The two stared at her as Hizashi picked up his 5th apple he's had since arriving to wait in the office.
"How would you boys like to not only get to leave this stuffy room but also do me a big favor?" She put her hands together, sugarcoating the hell out of the task.
"We're not supposed to wander," Hizashi said as he started to look sorta green.
"Nono! I need you to run this to Snipe," she sees the confusion on their faces,"Cowboy."
"Oh! We knows where he is." Hizashi said delighted to have a temporary reprieve from eating anymore apples
"Good, take this to him and then come right back, Kay?"
"Okays." Shouta took the folders and they headed towards their destination.
"Really, Midnight?"
"Hey! You passed it to me, Thirteen. Plus, if this works we have two office helpers."
No one could argue that'd fix several problems.
"I don't think its JUST the apple that made mys teeths comes out." Hizashi stared at the apple in his hand, like Hamlet does the skull.
"Yous may be right." Shouta scratched his chin as he thought what they could possibly be doing wrong.
"I don'ts know. I just can't eat another apple."
"But moneys?" Shouta looked at his partner in crime with surprise, not expecting the boy to give up.
"Right, moneys.I thinks we needs the nice lady that gave mes it, she must've had powers."
They finally arrived at Snipe's door, now thinking of how to possibly find the girl with the apple powers.
Shouta nodded before opening the door, and speak of the devil, there she was.
Front row, near the window the lady with the blue skin. Her black hair pulled up and out the way as her wide black eyes worked hard on some drawing.
Without a second thought Hizashi was approaching her, "prettys blue lady?"
"Hmm? Oh...um yes" she was not expecting to see the little boy again so soon, especially the next day. She'd have thought after that their parents would keep them home.
"Can yous use yours apple powers on this," he held the apple up to her, like an offering to a God.
Confused as hell she stared at him for several seconds, her eyes darting back between the Hizashi and the green apple he held.
"Uh...bippity boppity boo...apple magic for you?" She poked the apple, hoping it'd satisfy the strange child but she believed she had as Hizashi had the biggest grin on his face.
Chomp!
He walked over, opened his mouth to Shouta hoping they'd cracked the case.
He couldn't stop the loud whine when all he got from Shouta was him shaking his head, he was equally as frustrated.
With a huff they left a confused class (what's new, though) not before they heard the very concerning words from Hizashi
"Whys she not poison me agains!?"
The second year quickly sunk down in her seat, not liking the attention she now garnered.
Hizashi and Shouta sat in the center of their rooms, absolutely stumped on what to do, nothing had worked or even loosened Hizashi's teeth.
"My tummy hurts...too manys apples." Hizashi sat, face against the table, his arms lay out in front of him, his stomach rebelling from all the fruit.
Shouta pat his head before starting to pace back and forth, trying to find a solution. But he kept coming up blank. He hated having no idea to what's going on.
"Let's go to the Earphones lady, she told me about teeths lady. Sos…"
Shouta, seeing no other game plan to follow, headed downstairs to find her and Kaminari playing some sort of fighting game in the main living room.
"Gotcha!"
"You're so cheating! The dude has I framed or the hit box calibration is wonky!" Kaminari lay with his head on the floor controller abandoned in front of his prone body. He couldn't nor wanted to see his character get destroyed again.
"Ooooo, poor baby. Don't you wanna see your teeth get knocked out?" Jiro taunted, "Not enough cash for those checks your mouth wrote?"
Unbeknownst to them, they'd just said the magic words.
"Sho! Teeths knocked outs!" Hizashi excitedly whispered.
Two heads popped out from behind the couch just in time to catch what the two were talking about.
It was the latest fighting game: Plus Ultra Eternal. [A best seller since its release, with those that pre-ordered getting American All Might.]
The battleground seemed to be the UA Sports Festival field,although Hizashi and Shouta didn't know that.
And they watched as a digitalized Hawks wobbled back and forth, the health bar attributed with him was completely red.
While on the other side Present Mic still had over half his health bar and underneath that was a maxed out plus ultra bar.
The screen flashed the words, "Finish Him" with it said in the voice of All Might.
All four kids present watched as digital Present Mic wrenched back and released a huge screech that sent the other player's character into a supersonic spin like a spinning top. The action actually wiping out anything behind him as the character's velocity hit speeds that rivaled a tornado on crack.
While that was happening the camera panned back to Mic. He was looking at the screen and started posing for cameras that weren't there, even thanking an invisible audience, before an exclamation point appeared over his head.
The soundbite of a record scratch added to hint he'd forgotten something, like one could forget the human made tornado behind them. Especially when it was heading right for them.
The fatality finished with Mic pivoting in an exaggerated twirl decked Hawk's right in the face
Sending him careening through a wall in the background like a bullet.
It panned over to Hawks knocked out with several teeth missing. To add to the humiliation the finisher ended with Hizashi taking a selfie with his unconscious foe.
Across the bottom it spelled out (and said) "Present Mic Wins!" Showing his victory animation of the wacky dance he does on for Put Your Hands Up Radio.
"Was I a little too loud for you, Listener?"
The screen then asked if they'd like to go to character selection or have a rematch.
Kaminari stared at the screen, angry at Jiro and his English teacher's video game character.
"Gosh, just rub salt in the wounds! I hate fighting him, his character is OP!"
"You just can't break combos to save your life! The dude was nerfed in the latest update, making him a C tier!
"Whatever! You wont stand a chance against my true main, Red Riot!"
"Keep talking Bolt Boy!"
The two continued to playfully argue as they hit back to "Character Selection"
"Did'ja see that's?"
"Zashi...I thinks we founds the answer."
Thankfully they'd come up with the plan on a day they could go outside, knowing they'd need to replicate the scene as much as possible to get the teeth.
The two made sure to go over the game plan one last time, both excited yet anxious to begin.
"Okays, so I spins really really quick and yous punch me right here," Hizashi pointed to his cheek, going as far as to mark it with a marker he pocketed.
Thankfully, they were able to watch the finisher several times as Jiro handed Kaminari his gamer ass on a plate.
As a thank you they make sure they'd buy her a spaceship, like the one Hizashi wanted, once they get the Tooth Fairy's money.
"But...It has to be reallys hards so I go flying!" He jumped with his hands in the air miming flying.
"Okays, and I founds some rocks."
"Rocks? Whys?"
"If I hold it, I gets more punchy power."
"Ohhhh….this is sos smarts! We gonna gets so much money!" Hizashi jumped up and down before backing up and getting into position, "Readys? 1...2...3!"
He spun as fast as he could, faster than he'd ever done before. Fighting the dizziness he was feeling, knowing it'd be worth it in the end.
Shouta reared back and-
Midoriyah, and Shinsou broke apart putting distance between each other.
"Huff...that was good but I think I messed up on my high kick."
"Maybe…*huff*...do you think I was sloppy in my footwork? It's hard to judge without Sensei's help."
"Yeah...thanks for the help." Hitoshi smiled, glad he could call one of his classmates a genuine friend.
He'd initially thought he'd hate or be resentful of the Green haired boy for the Sports festival but he couldn't. He was to genuine and willing to help
"No prob…*hah* Okay, you ready to go again?" Hitoshi smiled as Midoriyah shot him a grin back.
Hitoshi can't express how grateful he was that Midoriya had agreed to help him or Hitoshi didn't know what he'd do. His teacher's current predicament left him without his usual after school training And he felt he was getting rusty.
He hoped they'd find the solution soon and have his teacher and mentor back and they'd no longer have to watch them.
He didn't particularly hate the task they'd been given, it was great practice and reminded them anything could happen even to the most experienced. But...still.
Sigh...at least we don't have to watch them like hawks anym-
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
He nearly jumped out his skin at the loud wailing erupting out of nowhere, making him deck Midoriya right in the nose.
"Shit! Are you okay!"
"Yeah! That had to be Hizashi!" Midoriya ignored the sharp pain in his nose, knowing his ward's health and well being was more important. His voice coming out a comically nasally tone
The cry they'd just heard wasn't exaggerated, Hizashi sounded to be really in pain.
They ran toward the source of the scream to find Shouta hunched over clutching his fist and fighting tears. His little body quivering with the restraint he was forcing himself to maintain. Next to him were some rocks
While Hizashi lay on his side clutching his cheek with a bloody nose. Tears streamed down his face while his positioning made the blood run down in an awkward path.
"SHOUTA! we do not hit others. Say sorry to Hizashi, now!" Midoriya was flabbergasted at the boy, never expecting this from the stoic child.
"I'm sorry we didn't get any teeths out...I'll try agains." Shouta said, wiping a loose tear, completely missing the point.
"Wait...what?"
"Mys teeths *sniff* get-t-t moneys. " tears continued to pour down Hizashi's face as he clutched his cheek.
The two teens just look at each other before sighing, having connected the dots as to what they were doing .
Why do we think this'll be easy!?
After a quick trip to Recovery Girl and an explanation that the tooth fairy only takes natural teeth they decided to stem the number of future incidents.
Shouta and Hizashi looked at the jar with All Might's face on it. Confused as to exactly the rules of the jar.
"So...if we ares goods we get points and...get?" Hizashi poked it.
"Rewards! But you have to avoid trouble to get points. And being on your best behavior. " Midoriya was actually proud of himself for this just knowing this would come in handy during this fiasco.
Hizashi and Shouta smiled before Hizashi cheered, it even got Aizawa to clap quietly.
It was a good day.
Author notes
Yes, I could totally see them having a Mortal Kombat game but pro hero based.
And I can see Jiro loving to play as Mic.
But that's my fatality for Present Mic I made up.
A short one but the other one should/will be much longer.
Next time on Our Teachers are Tykes: Hizashi gives up the bachelor lifestyle!?