Trixuny - Probably XD Midoriya can amass a small army by phoning his uncles and aunties and asking for their help, ngl.

TheGreatBubbaJ - I don't think he can actually become his fan. A bit too complicated backstory. But... yeah, he'd totally explode if he was added.

The Archivist of Nyx - Please don't turn into Mieko Eto xD

Detrametal - Good to know that I'm not the only who thinks so xD

(***)

In the end, the most awkward part of the next day in school was the part where Uraraka had to address the issue of Izuku getting cold feet on the idea of making their relationship a public affair. Because, apparently, he was deathly afraid of someone targeting Uraraka further down the line over his… familial connections.

Uraraka, frankly, wasn't super comfortable with the concept of public displays of affection (she was yet to figure out how to deal with private displays of affection!). But Izuku Midoriya's tendency to try to keep things secrets was worrying. Especially as it was rather clear that he wanted to tell things to people.

This duality of secrecy and attempts to share the secrets with people he grew to trust was kinda worrying. Like a few more things in Midoriya's behaviour.

The point was, she agreed to not make it a common knowledge. So, nothing public. It makes sense, there was a reason for All Might (she still didn't figure out why he looked so skinny in the picture) hiding his family life. There is always a threat of someone targeting the relatives of powerful heroes.

Besides, if Izuku one day becomes a powerful hero (and she does so as well), then… Uraraka can understand wanting to keep something in his life private. She had the same desire. To, like, have some place where she can relax without being worried about the press finding out and bothering her.

So she understood. She wasn't exactly happy about it (mostly due to the hair full of secrets bit), but she understood it. Hence, no open announcements, not informing anyone on UA that wasn't in their class (and, perhaps, class 1-B or just generally understood friends of theirs on UA), but no lying if someone asks.

She also admitted that she mentioned the confession to a few people. Himiko wasn't a surprise, Mieko Eto and Momo Yaoyorozu were. In the end Izuku decided that he is alright with this (especially as she didn't mention the part about him having a fanclub), just… he hopes that they won't spread the news.

They aren't going to. Especially Uraraka. Izuku's look of pure gratitude and happiness fuels her engine, waters her crops and scratches her in a way she was never before scratched in. In short, her one-sided crush just bloomed into a young love, and it's already turning her brain into water.

Very, very happy water.

Uraraka Ochaco regrets nothing.

Even when Midnight winks at her and makes a comment about 'young love' grinding her gears.

Literally nothing out there can ruin her mood at that point. And they didn't even have their first date!

Maybe a week or two and she will figure out how to say the word date aloud without freaking out.

(***)

Yagi would have preferred to not have that talk. But Gran Torino urged him to do it, because frankly speaking, the Noumu felt like something out of All for One's laboratory. All Might was certain that his nemesis was dead, but not all of his former servants were. Overhaul was probably too young to be close to his court, but Eclipse certainly wasn't. She was his former lieutenant, and a close one.

There was an option that the PLF had more of such people in their ranks. And there was a rather shocking thing that Izuku wasn't aware of. Something that the PLF could - potentially - use to drive a wedge between him and the world of heroics.

Namely, the identity of his stepdad. And his relationship with his father.

Inko agreed that it's time for Izuku to know. Aiko, Yagi suspected, knew but didn't care. She knew a lot of unexpected things courtesy of her quirk. But she never really met Hisashi. For as far as Yagi understood her, she considered him to be her dad. Asa, once again, had only rather pale memories of his dad.

Izuku had the time to at least start bonding with him. Though, for everything that was good in this world, All Might just couldn't understand why. Maybe save for the quirk obsession, that was one thing they both had in common.

As a result, Inko and Yagi decided that it's time to have that talk. Explain the origins of both One for All and All for One AND the complicated family history.

And oh boy if this wasn't going to be a clustermess. Yagi decided to be the bearer of the bad news, and to do it in school. That way, if Izuku took the news badly, he would go home to Inko. Who would be the one to console him, and make him swallow the news a bit better. Because Yagi expected a lot of shouting.

Yes. It was going to work. Probably.

He even made sure to choose that one room that Nedzu made sure to keep off the constant monitoring. For the private talks.

He didn't count on Izuku coming to the meeting looking so… happy? Satisfied? Maybe more like… normal? It's as if some of the weight was taken off him, and he could finally walk normally. More than that, with a spring in his heels. Huh.

"Something good happened to you, Izuku?" Yagi wasn't in a hurry to start THAT talk, so he decided to inquire about the unexpected changes that occured to his son first. Because he never saw Izuku so lighthearted (and he hates the fact that he'll have to ruin his mood soon), and as his dad, he naturally got curious.

"A girl confessed to me." His son says, his cheeks reddening slightly and his eyes at anything that wasn't his father.

Oh dear, to quote the rodent principal. That explains a lot. Especially the boost of self-confidence. Inko is going to have a field day over that, regardless of what Izuku's answer was.

"Your first love confession, huh?" All Might tries not to be smug about it, but he fails. "Well, you started quite early. Get ready for more."

"Mmmmore?" Izuku is shocked and ends up slurring a bit.

"Izuku, when I was on the UA I was, and I quote someone, 'built like a Greek god'." All Might replies scarcely. He had to admit that Nana was right in that assessment, even if it made him super embarrassed. "I also had very good grades, I won three school festivals, I was the class president three years in a row, and I was doing my best to help everyone around me without asking for anything in return. How many girls do you think confessed to me during my time at school, hmm?"

And also some boys, there was a phase when his constant 'no' made people think he swings the other way. But he ends up not mentioning it.

He was way too focused on All for One, and felt that dragging anyone else into his life would just make them into targets for that man. Until he ran into Misaki/Inko, because then caution flew through the window. Together with rational thinking.

"A… lot?" Izuku asks, clearly marveling - and almost sobbing - at the image.

"To say the least, yes." Yagi chuckles and lightly slaps his son's back. They are sitting right next to each other on the couch, which is something that makes such movements easy. "And you are clearly growing into a second me! Just smaller and more flexible. You have your mother's grace while walking, at least unless you get really startled, and trust me when I'm saying that it's just additional points for you. You probably have at least a few admirers if not a secret fanclub!"

He knows that there is a secret fanclub. The school offered the students a secure communication network, even outside school. Chat slash school social media. They were secure from being hacked, but not from the faculty. Then again, the faculty only knew what sort of chats were open and who belonged to them, Nedzu wrote an AI that filtered through messages in search of things like potential admissions to being a spy or bullying, showing the faculty excerpts when needed.

This meant that Yagi was acutely aware that there was an Izuku Midoriya Support/Fanclub chatroom and that it was steadily growing in numbers. He was especially happy about the Support part. Izuku needs the support of other people.

Naturally, Izuku didn't take the news in a calm way. He didn't fully freak out, but his head turned into a strawberry.

"So, what was your answer to the confession?" Yagi decides to keep digging because he is a just slightly concerned parent who begins to realize that he'll probably have to make the bees and flowers talk and his decades of hero work didn't prepare him for that.

"I… say that I like her too." Izuku replies, his face now hidden behind his hands. "I think I have a ggg...ir...girlfriend now."

Shovel talk it is. Just, not now. There should be a limit to awkward talks during a single day, and it's not like there is a serious chance of Izuku progressing too far anytime soon.

"So who's the lucky girl?" All Might asks and, frankly speaking, he sees only three options. It's either Uraraka or Himiko, or (rather unlikely) both of them. Momo Yaoyorozu seems to be oddly fascinated with Izuku, but she is way too prim and proper to confess out of the blue. Kyoka Jirou probably overheard the part that Izuku is All Might's son and is thus more of a fangirl. And since Izuku said 'girlfriend' then Hitoshi is clearly out.

That doesn't leave many other options left. Maybe safe for Tsuyu Asui, but for a girl who tends to speak her mind, the 1-A resident frog girl was a surprisingly enigmatic figure. All Might wasn't going to pretend that he knows what's going on in her mind.

"U...Ura...Uraraka." Izuku manages to struggle the words out and All Might's belief in his investigative skills is strengthened. His deduction was spot on.

Yagi Toshinori is happy for his son. Uraraka Ochaco is a kind and enthusiastic girl devoted to the idea of becoming a rescue hero and helping others. Certainly not someone to hurt him, and certainly someone to help him when he needs it.

Not to mention, she is Mr. Compress fangirl (it was hard to make him STOP talking about that, really), and this means that she should be able to adapt to Izuku's peculiar family situation relatively easily. Which was very important. Izuku needs someone to trust and open to, not someone that he would have to keep secrets from.

Even if he didn't get to meet her in school afterwards, the very recording of her wanting to share her points with someone who most likely had more of them than she did (but saved her life and she wanted to repay it) would make All Might support his son's choice.

"That's great, Izuku!" He smiles at him, but he doesn't even get a glimpse of his face. He is very flexible as established and has curled up into a ball on the couch, his face somewhere between his legs (then further covered by his arms, because of course). He can barely see some hair here and there. "You're going to have to reintroduce her to your mom, you know." He hears some sort of mumbling 'aaah' from the human bundle next to him.

"But… that's for later. For now, there is something else that we need to talk about." All Might decides to finally take the bullet. He feels bad about ruining his son's big moment, but… "It's about the One for All."

After a few long seconds, the human bundle starts to unpack. Izuku calmed himself down, mostly. Still flushed, but in a controlled way. It is about a quirk. His quirk. That's certainly his most favourite subject, especially once they discovered that he will have a few more due to it.

"Wh… what is it, dad?" Izuku says, before taking a few deep breaths to calm himself down.

Start from something nice and easy. No need to freak him right from the start.

"It's a very old quirk." All Might says finally. "In fact, it's almost as old as quirks as a phenomenon. At the very beginning, during the age of chaos caused by the birth of the first superpowers, there were two brothers. The older one was born with possibly the most powerful quirk in the world, while the younger was quirkless. Their personalities were polar opposites as well, for the former was the world's worst villain while the latter was a true hero at heart. The older brother used his quirk to put the entire world under his thumb. This quirk's name was All for One, and it allowed its user to take quirks of other people for himself, give them to others or transfer them between people."

Yagi can see Izuku going tenser for something like a split second. Nothing changes on his face, but All Might is an observant man. This was an odd reaction, if anything, Yagi expected Izuku to geek over the All for One.

"At some point he gave a power stockpiling quirk to his younger brother, hoping to make him subservient to his will. Or perhaps out of misplaced kindness? We'll never know." All Might continues. "It didn't work as he intended, however. Because, you see, the younger brother wasn't quirkless as everyone thought. He had a quirk that was almost entirely useless on its own. A quirk that allowed him to transfer it to someone else, without actually granting any abilities. This changed when it merged with the power stockpiling quirk, creating One for All. Quirk that was then transferred down the line of true heroes, steadily growing stronger and stronger, in hopes that someone will finally be able to realize the dream of their predecessor and will manage to defeat All for One."

How do you move from this to the announcement that All for One was his stepfather? That it was All Might who killed him? That there is - an extremely, extremely small - chance that he somehow survived, given the noumu's ability to carry multiple quirks? How?

He has no time to get to a decision. Because Izuku moves faster.

"My fath… my stepfather." He says, while looking at Yagi with those cloudy yet sometimes incredibly intense and focused eyes that he shares with Inko. "He was the older brother, wasn't he? And it was you who killed him."

Yagi stares in silence. Somehow he is too taken aback to cough blood. He imagined this talk dozens of times, but not in a single of his visions Izuku figured it out so quickly.

"How did you know?" All Might asks quietly.

"Did mom tell you why he left us?" Izuku replies in a similar, quiet tone. None of them know why they are speaking so quietly, they just feel like it's the right thing to do.

"He wanted to make one of your siblings into his heir." That alone is weird to Yagi, because why would that man want an heir? An odd term for his second-in-command? Did an immortal supervillain need someone to inherit things from him?

"No." Izuku replies, looking down onto his fingers. "He wanted to make me into his heir." Yagi's eyes widened, this was… "He offered me a quirk before mom kicked him out. She… doesn't know. She thinks that he wanted Asa, not me. I didn't know about his past, but I had years to think it over after he died. He was very against the heroes in general, but he kept the critique subtle. When we analyzed villain quirks together he often pointed out how they were victims of the hero society and… tried to… make them relatable to me, I guess? So I figured out that he was trying to mold me into a villain. Then you mentioned that story, and… he died six years ago. You received your wounds six years ago. And I don't think that there are many villains who can wound the Symbol of Peace like that. Aside from All for One."

Yagi decides that his earlier deduction about Uraraka was a trifle thing. What Izuku just did was… breathtaking, really. He was a fifteen years old kid. Almost sixteen years old, yes, but… still.

All for One was a monster. That much can't and won't be changed. But Yagi respected him for that one thing. For honing Izuku's intelligence to a cutting point. It might have been done with nefarious purposes, but it was All for One (well, Hisashi Midoriya) who spent hours with Izuku, doing his best to stimulate his growth. From analyzing quirks together to playing logic games.

Izuku Midoriya was All for One's masterpiece. If this continued for a few more years… All Might shudders once more after realizing what his rejection of Izuku's dream might have brought in different circumstances.

It might have been an odd thing to be afraid of a child, but… Izuku wasn't just a simple child. He was a potential mastermind to equal Nedzu and Sir Nighteye, who wasn't even aware of just how charismatic he was. Not in the meaning of making a good public speech, but in the meaning of being able to influence people's hearts.

It was only two (and a half) months from the start of the year, but if there were another class president election today, Izuku Midoriya would have scored a two digit number of votes. All Might wouldn't be surprised if the second year elections in his class were going to be the first ever case of a Heroics Course class electing a class president by acclamation.

Even All Might at his school peak scored nine votes. Izuku Midoriya would be one terrifying villain. Even quirkless. Or, perhaps, especially while quirkless. That would give him one hell of a motivation for villainy.

"I see." Yagi finally says. "The answer is yes, then. We fought. I won, but at the cost of my stomach, lung, many friends and allies, and almost Gran Torino." He takes a deep breath. It's going to be a ride. "I know that he was a good father to you and your siblings. But to the world, he was a monster. To me, he was a monster. He killed thousands if not millions of people, including my parents, my predecessor and mentor, and Tenko Shimura's family. Because of that, I can't say that I'm sorry for what I did."

If he said anything other than that, then ghosts of Nana and the remaining former Holders would have come out to kick his ass. Or waited until he was pulled in (whether they were vestiges or actual former Holders was anyone's guess at this point, really) to kick his ass.

Most of all, however, All Might genuinely thinks so. Being a (relatively, if you exclude the slight side dish of subtle grooming into villainy) decent father doesn't clear hundreds of thousands of victims during the last two centuries.

"I… understand." Izuku said while nodding slightly. On his face was a look of slight nausea. "I know that he was a villain, and I know that he had to be stopped. I think I… I think I would like it if he was arrested instead, but…" His eyes drift sideways again. "It would make me becoming a hero way harder, wouldn't it?"

"More than that, Izuku." Yagi replies. "If the Commission knew that he was your stepdad… they would find a way to imprison or kill you, Inko and your siblings. The very idea of someone like him potentially raising again…" All Might sighs. "And we all know that you and Aiko can and most likely will become stronger than he was. And Asa will eventually be someone close to his level, at the very least. To them, you'd be a threat."

And then they'd disappear.

"Did you…." Izuku is clearly trying to say something, but struggles with wording it. "The adoption of them, did you…"

Oh.

"No, Izuku." Yagi says confidently. "I didn't adopt them to act as their watchdog. I adopted them because I love you and your mother and I want to be a part of your family. Which included Asa and Aiko. And by now I love them as if I was their parent by blood. I was never one to blame someone for the sins of their parents."

"Oh, I… I see." Izuku looked conflicted. Vulnerable. For a few seconds. Then he gathered up his metaphorical things and straightened up. "I…. understand.

Despite all the worries of Yagi Toshinori, Izuku didn't take the news badly. Finding out just how bad his other father was had to be a shock. But he already suspected that things with him were rather bad, and this has greatly eased the discovery of the truth.

He entertained the idea of telling him about the death prophecy. That they might not have a lot of time left together. That Izuku becoming a great hero is going to be a necessity for keeping his siblings safe from the HPSC. But he doesn't want to darken the day. He feels guilty enough for ruining Izuku's good mood with the news.

They still have many months left. If not a year or two. And that's if All Might won't manage to somehow avoid the result of Sir Nighteye's augury.

He also fails to realize something, however. Izuku Midoriya is extremely intelligent, crafty and with a knack for guesswork. But there are limits to what one can figure out at a spot. And sometimes, just sometimes, the answer is simpler.

All Might, like many other people in Izuku Midoriya's life, mistook hindsight for foresight.

(***)

Four days after Hosu a medical miracle occured. Pro hero Ingenium (recently returned home after his injury) woke up just to discover that he can once again use his legs. He was rushed to the hospital, which failed to find how it happened. Ingenium's case of spontaneous spinal cord regrowth was going to become a riddle for the ages for the medical community - they knew it was a quirk, but whose? That was a question.

Ingenium himself was clearly overjoyed. Tenya Iida gave him his hero name back and decided to go with Quicksilver. Tensei received a letter from the Hero Killer a few days later.

Stain clearly stated that he wasn't the one to attack Ingenium, that he actually deeply respects him for his anti-discrimination policies, and that due to that he decided to call on a favour he had from someone with an access to a particularly powerful recovery quirk. Resulting in Ingenium's wounds being healed. He also apologized for having to break into his house to do it.

Stain has also asked Ingenium to (if he can) kindly clear Stain's name, because he doesn't want to be connected with an attack on a true hero that directly contradicts his own stated ideological goals. While Ingenium might have had issues with doing that merely on the basis of the Hero Killer doing him a favour, something changed his approach.

Said something was a camera recording missed by the police, showing the attack on Ingenium. An attack that was clearly done with some lightning fast and guided projectiles. Something that wasn't that much of a clue to the identity of the perpetrator, but was clearly not Stain's modus operandi.

The attack on the Ingenium - staged to ruin Hero Killer's reputation and stop his ideological crusade for cleaner heroics - has ended up making Stain even more popular and resulted in him becoming a double S-rank villain. The fallout of the event has also made Tenya Iida join the Izuku Midoriya's fanclub (even if he wasn't super active on the chatroom).

Uraraka had no idea what happened, but frankly speaking Tenya's approach to Izuku after that (and the armor that he was wearing as his hero uniform) made him look like a knight to her.

A knight serving a particularly anxious king slash class president who really didn't know how to feel about it. Nor even seemed to fully realize what was going on. Izuku Midoriya's social skills were in need of serious training.

(***)

World Domination for Dummies

CreativeSpirit joins the chat!

ISeeYou joins the chat!

SublimeOverlord joins the chat!

SmallMight: Uhm, hello there?

CreativeSpirit: What's going on, class president?

SublimeOverlord: Why was I invited to a chat so thoroughly inhabited by you, the 1-A rabble?

ISeeYou: And why was I invited to the chat so thoroughly inhabited by the hero students?

SmallMight: … they didn't tell you yet, Ayako?

ISeeYou: They didn't tell me about what and who is they?

SmallMight: Omg I'm going to turn Nedzu into a carpet.

ISeeYou: ?

SmallMight: Ugh, he was probably waiting for the internships to end first, ugh.

SmallMight: Probably a matter of days now.

SmallMight: OKAY LET'S START FROM THE BASICS

SmallMight: And don't leave the chat, Neito, or I'm going to turn you into a carpet as well.

SublimeOverlord: Oh spooky

SmallMight: No, seriously

SmallMight: I was officially authorized by Principal Nedzu to invite you all to special classes on advanced planning, strategy, tactics, investigation and data/quirk analysis. With, well, Principal Nedzu.

CreativeSpirit: You are serious?!

SmallMight: Yes, your handling of the USJ incident seems to have impressed him greatly. Just as the Hero Crush event for Ayako and the Neito's long con about the number of copied quirks and preparing correct counters to the opponent's quirks.

SublimeOverlord: Someone FINALLY gives me the respect I deserve. Great!

SmallMight: Starting to feel like a protagonist, hmm?

SublimeOverlord: I'm still a side character. But an important side character.

ISeeYou: I get an option to become Nedzu's disciple and yet I'm still supposed to be a part of the Gen Ed?

SmallMight: Yeah, about that

SmallMight: I think they are still finalizing paperwork for that. And decided to wait until the end of the internships, but then a certain incident happened (it's a secret so I can't tell more about it) and the announcement got delayed.

ISeeYou: Announcement?

SmallMight: There is also the part when Nedzu decided recently to go Plus Ultra on an already Plus Ultra plan, so they probably had to make some last-minute changes to the plan.

ISeeYou: Tell me what the heck are you talking about or I'm going to send The Photo to people from your class.

SmallMight: I'M TELLING YOU JUST GIVE ME A SECOND

CreativeSpirit: The Photo?

ISeeYou: He fell asleep while working with me on the manifest.

ISeeYou: His sleeping face is extremely adorable.

CreativeSpirit: Oh dear.

SmallMight: Stop impersonating Nedzu, you're yet to meet him Yaomomo xD

SmallMight: ISeeYou Your achievements during the School Festival (and the manifest too, I guess) inspired the faculty greatly. So… you did it.

ISeeYou: It's great. Awesome, really.

ISeeYou: just

ISeeYou: Just me, though?

SmallMight: No, Ayako.

SmallMight: Half of the faculty pops up on my family's dinners and I'm Nedzu's student. So I know a lot of things for certain.

SmallMight: Within a week or two (probably week or less), the school will announce that classes 1-C and 1-D will be officially converted into a Hero Course entirely. Those with subpar grades will be treated as being on probation for the time being, though.

ISeeYou: Oh my god

ISeeYou: OH MY GOD

SmallMight: You did it, Ayako! :D

ISeeYou: WE did it!

ISeeYou: I'm all for the special lessons, I'm ready and free whenever, now I URGENTLY need to announce something on another chat.

ISeeYou: brb

SmallMight: Yaomomo? Monoma?

CreativeSpirit: Do you even need to ask?

SublimeOverlord: You need someone to prove the natural superiority of the 1-B class to you, you plebeians!

SublimeOverlord: Of course I'm in.

SmallMight: Awesome.

(***)

For someone so much of a protagonist, Izuku Midoriya seems to be holding an awful lot of secrets, eh?

Also Nedzu expanded the earlier plan and made both 1-C and 1-D into the Hero Course. Let me tell 'ya, Izuku Midoriya just got himself a fanatically loyal army xD