IZUKU SKIRT A WILD WIND
CHAPTER 21
AN: HERE YOU GO THE FAMILY REUNION THAT YOU ALL HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR! I APOLOGIZE FOR YOUR LOSS OF SANITY AFTER READING THIS CHAPTER.
UA SPORTS FESTIVAL
THIRD PERSON POV
Inko question had thrown All Might and the others for a loop as none of them thought it was that easily noticeable yet for people. 'How did she notice it?' He thought as he racked his brain trying to piece it together before responding to her. Unfortunately for him she was getting irritable by him making her wait, that is if her cough was anything to go by. "Very well, but before I tell you why we have the same quirk, I must tell you first the story of this quirks birth and the purpose behind it." He said as Recovery Girl and Grand Torino gasped while Midnight kept her usual calm simply raising an eyebrow. All Might also took care to note that he did not tell Izuku this backstory yet and was waiting for the right time to bring it up to him before the villian strikes again.
AN: I WILL SKIP OVER THE DETAILS OF THE CREATION OF ONE FOR ALL AS ANY ACTUAL FAN READING THIS SHOULD KNOW IT BY NOW.
Inko after hearing this rubbing her temples trying to wrap her head around what she was just told before realizing Nemmy was not fazed in the slightest. "Why is it that you are not taken aback by this?" Inko asked her little sister noticing how the other three here were even more confused.
"Oh that… well Nezu told me already after All Might told him the truth so I kind of have mixed feelings now that All For One might be alive." Midnight said it so casually as if they were discussing something as simple as two four year olds fighting on the playground. Noticing the looks they were giving her she smirked and simply shrugged her shoulders knowing there is not much she could say to relieve them right now as she just dropped what was supposed to be a bombshell. "I am more amazed that you are not shouting your lungs out right now about your husband seeing that on tv." She said holding back her laugh as the lack of Inko wedding ring indicated to something unpleasant.
With a heavy sigh she shook her head a few times to clear it for the rather awkward explanation she is about to give, something not even her own son knows. "My husband divorced me when he found out Izuku was quirkless. Only to die to a quirkless villian in a bank robbery a couple years later when he tried to escape being a hostage." Inko said laughing half heartedly at the irony of her late husband death. Looking to the others she saw how they had a mix of shock and anger most likely cause of his view of the quirkless as well as his final moments with one. With of course a little pity at the fact that the man she married not only turned out to be scum but also died with Izuku only knowing his parents got divorced.
Recovery Girl felt even more horrible than she did before when she heard what Inko had gone through without her there. "Inko I am so sorry if I had-" she said before being cut off.
"IF YOU HAD BEEN THERE! WELL NEWS FLASH YOU WERE NOT THERE AND INSTEAD YOU GAVE UP ON YOUR FAMILY!" Inko yelled at her grandmother unable to hold back her resentment any longer.
Recovery Girl who had equally amount of regret to Inko resentment also had her dam of emotions break on her as well. "I KNOW I TURNED MY BACK ON YOU, NEMURI, AND TORINO! I WISH I COULD CHANGE WHAT I DID BUT I CANNOT!" She said with tears on the brink of coming out. After a few moments of composing herself and wiping the tears from her eyes thanks to the handkerchief her ex husband gave she continued. "I know I failed you after your parents died and you needed me most, but please give this old women a second chance for Izuku sake." Recovery Girl pleaded seeing Inko sigh with her face going back to a more neutral one. The reason Inko was not mad at Grand Torino was because he had already divorced Recovery Girl by then so as to focus on taking down All For One. As such after All Might explanation Inko now fully understood why he drove his family away from if this villian was still just as dangerous as they use to be. "Though I find myself curious about two things? First is why you are not mad at Toshi as well? The second is why you Nemuri have never told me about this till today?" She asked as the younger sister gestured for her older sister to go first.
"Well first off I do not mind pretending he is my husband so long he continues to treat Izuku properly." Inko said seeing a tinge of pink on All Might or rather Toshinori Yagi bony cheeks causing hers to also feel like they became slightly rosy. "Second is from what I understand he thought this villian was dead and Izuku would never half to fight them so I do not blame him for putting Izuku into this dangerous situation." She said pointing out how he thought Izuku was only going to be in the same amount of danger as a normal hero.
Seeing as her big sister was now looking to her and causing everyone else to stare Midnight decided to begin her tale. "Very well, but no one, and I mean no one will make any sort of stalker comment when they hear it." Midnight said as she began.
MIDNIGHT FLASHBACK
MIDNIGHT POV
It had started as any normal day with our parents leaving for works, and since it was a Saturday they left with me with my big sister instead taking me to daycare. The day was fun, until it started getting dark outside and they had yet to return home like they usually do at this time by now. My big sister started calling them from the house but got no response, none from my grandmother either, eventually I fell asleep after we ate dinner. The next day however came and that was when the peace I had always known was taken away from us, I just didn't know it right away.
One moment I was playing after dinner with the girl who I was always told was my big sister, then the next thing I knew I had woken up to a random women I had never seen call for me. The moment I started walking out to see who she was I saw my big sister arguing with her before being yelled at and dragged away by another stranger this one a man. I had yelled for him to leave her alone before the lady picked me up and smiled saying how the two of us were going to different homes now. Even as she secured me in the car seat I began screaming and kicking for my big sister but I never saw her as I had eventually passed out from exhaustion.
When I woke up again it was the afternoon and I was in a room I had never seen before with other kids in it. I got up, then began walking around till I bumped into the leg of another new lady. This one however gave a genuine smile instead of a strained smile I saw the other lady give me when she was putting me into the car seat. "Hello Nemuri, I figured you would wake up before the other kids due to your early nap." She said lifting me up. I was confused and struggled a bit but was still too tired from earlier and could only wiggle around a little. "There, there everything is all right now, I am going to take care you for now till we find you a new family." They said pulling me into a hug and whispering these things to me. I calmed down but not cause I wanted to be here, but more so because I was confused as to what was going on.
After a while I had found out that my parents had died and me and my sister were taken to different orphanages. Also I learned that an orphanage was where children without parents went to live till they found new parents. The lady in charge and the one who picked me up was a women named Misaki. At first I would cry and yell for my big sister but whenever I did not calm down right away Misaki would grab me and put me in a small closet by myself locking it. This was when I saw her true colours and to say I was shocked was an understatement. Eventually I stopped asking for my sister a little after a year there and had grown to accept that this was it for me now. Multiple people said they wanted to adopt me but every time they told me to forget my old family or that they were my new family now.
I did not like this and was always taken back cause I refused to be a part of there 'family' as they called it. But to me none of these were the family I wanted, the family I wanted needed to have my grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, and big sister. One day I saw on the news a picture of what I knew was my grandmother, she looked a lot different helping people than she did playing with me. They were berating her and said how she was a useless hero who could not even fight properly. Also how she could not even help her own children when they were fighting villains blaming her for their deaths. But they were wrong I knew my grandmother was a great hero who saved people who were injured by using her quirk to heal them. However more and more the news kept on praising heroes for fighting and less so for rescuing people from disasters of aftermaths of the fights. So much so that quite a few news broadcasts had a hero being interviewed for their fight while another one was giving first aid to a person in the background.
Then one day my quirk activated I started releasing some pink gas putting the other kids around me to sleep. This was apparently the last straw for Misaki as she had forced them to place me with a family. A couple who was previously abusive to past kids simply cause she felt she needed to get me away from the other children. The reason they sent me there specifically though was because one had a quirk that only made him immune to almost all types of anesthesia. His wife had a quirk that produced a lot of adrenaline for her as a side effect so she was able to resist my new quirk with ease. However despite what I heard the grown ups say before, they were surprisingly ok.
"Look lets, get one thing straight, we are your parents only on paper since we get government checks for it got it? Beyond that we have three simple rules here, but you can ignore the third rule for a little while and practice your quirk so you can control since we are immune to it but don't go around bragging about your quirk to us ok?" Mr. Kayama said while holding a beer bottle pointing it at me in the process. "The first rule is you cannot make noise after 9 pm unless there is a hockey game on cause this idiot will be screaming his lungs out till it is over any ways." Mrs. Kayama said pointing a thumb at her husband. "The second rule is no going through our stuff without our permission got it?" She asked me to make sure I understood as I nodded. She gave a small smile and patted my head before going to make herself a sandwich and asking us if we wanted one. Overall it was a nice if not odd home, it seems that other than hating quirks and the children who had superior ones to them they were all right. On top of that they were not telling me to forget my old family and be a part of theirs… I think I am going to like these two.
A few weeks had passed and I had noticed four or five times a week Mrs. Kayama would be leaving for work late at night. I decided to ask her what her job was and she said she was a stripper? I did not know what that meant but she just shrugged her shoulders and told me while give a weird smile that I would soon learn was called sultry. That her job was to take her clothes off and dance as people throw money at her, at first I thought it sounded fun but then she told me it was not a job she does cause she enjoys it. It confused me back then but then she asked me what I wanted to be, and she encouraged me to be hero when I said that is what I wanted to be. I still told her that I thought all the clothes in her dresser was pretty which made her happy if I had to say. The next day she had off so she let me try on her clothes and it was really fun for us, this was when things started to get good between us. Over the years they eventually were ok with me calling them mom and dad. As well as me being ok with it now that I was over the childish phase of defending my parents memories by refusing to accept a new family. Though I stilled called them Mrs or Mr Kayama every now and again when I joked with them.
Years went by an I applied to UA as I had planned to try and get closer to my grandmother. However things were not easy for me as I went with a traditional jumpsuit at first like everyone else in my class. This meant that my quirk was held back and I could not leak enough gas to properly incapacitate my opponents always losing my fights. When I told this to my adoptive mother she told me that I should ignore the normal and do what I need to do to be myself. As well as the fact that it is my body and no one can shame me so long as I do not let them shame me, so she helped me pick out a new hero costume design. I went with a butterfly like sunglasses for my eyes to prevent enemies from blinding me in case I faced a criminal with a light based quirk. I wore a black choker that could withstand a grip strength of roughly five hundred kilograms to prevent most people from choking me. For my main weapon I chose a whip which she taught me how to use. I mainly learned by her having me come watch her at work which was how I got a part time job there backstage helping the girls prep themselves. When the owner needed someone to do it he had decided since I would be coming over every Friday and Saturday to watch her as she worked he may as well help me earn some extra spending money. Just in case I had two pockets strapped in front of my nipples held by a strap going under my armpits and around my back under my shoulders. These contained pain killers I would give to victims to help make them a little more comfortable till the paramedics could arrive. I also had a utility belt on my waist with more pockets filled with gaze to help stop bleeding and some extra pain killers. Under the utility belt was a thong so small that the utility belt ended up hiding it entirely making it look like I was wearing no underwear. For my arms as well as my legs I wore leather treated to be fireproof. With the boots starting from just above my knee and the gloves being fingerless, starting just past my elbow.
When I brought this to the principal as all major redesigns had to go through him back then he stared for a moment more confused than shocked. After making sure I knew full well of the attention I would get from this he approved of it and thus my Midnight: Birthday Style Suit was born. When Recovery Girl first saw my requests for medical supplies she was happy to the point she pulled me into a long hug while shedding a few tears when I said I wanted to be a rescue hero. After that she taught me all she knew about how to use these supplies in the field. As well as how to judge when it is ok to use them to make sure I did not cause any deaths due to improper medical treatment. However after when she first saw my whole costume after the first battle trial with it she got upset and smacked me over the head questioning my sanity. Though she said it will get me in trouble I pointed out how this met the very few and blurry standards we had for hero costume regulations at the time.
However after my internship with the hero Purple Revolution alongside an old friend of mine the most hilarious thing in my hero career happened. The government gave me a year to change my costume after saying that a year from then an official act will take effect called the "HERO COSTUME SKIN EXPOSURE LIMITATION ACT" as they needed to give any other pro heroes time to adjust their looks. However when I put fourth the notion that there was no material at the time that breathable enough for hero costumes to make my quirk work properly I thought I had them. Despite their initial lack of response and what I found out later was mild panic they got government labs to work on such a material. So not only did my adoptive parents and me laugh over the fact that me and my adoptive mother caused the government to make a new law. We also laughed how I forced the government to make a new cheap to produce material that could easily tear while still being breathable. Henceforth why I now use a leotard to wear underneath it, my medical supplies that were lost were not due to me but another hero. Other heroes saw my on person medical supplies and tried to copy me thinking to help people. The difference between me and them however was I studied and even got a medical professional like Recovery Girl to teach me how to properly use them in what situations. As a result a quire a few civilians died when giving pain killers to people when they should not have resulting in another act. This act prevented heroes from carrying around medical supplies like I did unless they were heroes who almost exclusively did rescue work and had proper medical training.
After I graduated I was offered a teaching position at UA due to my past action and how I had affected hero society all be it by accident. When I first started Recovery Girl was on my case everyday teaching me the ropes of how to be a teacher. Despite the fact I got smacked over the head by her at least a dozen times a day by her, she kept teaching me. Every time I tried to bring it up to her how she was my grandmother something would interfere and eventually I gave up. I was contempt with simply being near her as I already was, eventually the HPSC tried to get me to quit teaching and work for them. However Recovery Girl stopped them before I could even think about their offer telling me what happened to her and how they could not be trusted. She told me how one day they kidnapped her and forced her to try to use her quirk to heal different kinds of injuries including bringing back the dead. Her ex husband who I knew as my grandfather apparently located her and stormed in like a bat out of hell as she described him. However when they tried to bring them to justice for their crimes the government not wanting to make an enemy of the man who in terms of combat ability was the number one hero. So as such he was not punished in anyway nor her, but neither was the at the time current board members of the HPSC other then, forcing them to step down and retire. So I made sure to avoid them for my whole career as much as possible which fortunately was easy when she convinced grandfather to come and threaten them when they kept on harassing me.
UA SPORTS FESTIVAL
THIRD PERSON POV
Everyone there was shocked into silence till Recovery Girl… well recovered from it and reached out to Midnight. "Nemuri I… why didn't you tell me-" she did not get to finish before she started crying.
Midnight rubbed her back as she interrupted her with a hug as she bent down to hug her. "I told you I was satisfied with just spending time with you so don't cry." She said chuckling to herself as it is extremely rare to see her cry little lone show genuine distress.
Inko whistled as it had just sunk in for her out of everyone there how messed up her childhood ended up being. "And here I thought it might have been a messed up idea to drug my son in his sleep to check his injuries he tried to hide from me." She said as the hug broke up and everyone stared at her. She simply pointed to the currently unconscious Izuku in which they all just nodded deciding they had very few arguments for her based off of how reckless they knew he could be. That and it was no where near as bad as most other things she could have done given her… how about we call it strained mental state. "I was wrong for talking to you like I did grandmother… can I still call you that?" She asked Recovery Girl before Nemuri pulled Inko into a hug with the two of them as a yes answer.
Realizing something All Might spoke up saying something intelligent for once that no one else had yet to realize. "Now that I think about it you were not surprised as the rest of us when we found out about his healing quirk that he inherited from Recovery Girl?" He said as they all realized he was right and turned to her.
Inko knew they were not gonna like what they were about to hear and tried to be quiet for as long as she could before they urged her to explain. "When he was little and kissed me on a cheek a cut on my finger healed. So as to try and prevent him from becoming a hero like grandma and potentially leaving me… I may or may not have paid off his doctor to tell us he was quirkless?" Inko said in a question like tone hoping no one would get too upset with her.
Inko however was wrong as this was one the "worst things" that they thought she did not do to him. After a minute or two of restarting their brains like computers Grand Torino spoke up first. "IS EVERYONE IN OUR GOD DAMN FAMILY IN NEED OF A THERAPIST!" He shouted with all of them eventually agreeing after some more arguing three things. First thing is all of them would move into a house together to make sure Inko does not do anything like she did in the past ever again. This was something Inko complained about before being told that as a doctor Recovery Girl should be reporting her right now but is keeping their lips zipped shut cause they are family. Second thing is that parental rights would be transferred to Recovery Girl till Inko was given the all clear by Hound Dog. This was changed by Inko and Grand Torino who made them agree that she as well also needed to go to therapy as well. Resulting in Midnight given official custody of Izuku temporarily instead of Recovery Girl as she was somehow the least mentally damaged out of everyone here. Which was quite the awkward pill for them to swallow but swallow it they did as they had no arguments for this fact. Finally the third thing is that Izuku would never be told what Inko did until All For One was defeated. This was because they could be attacked by him at any time and Izuku needed to be one hundred percent mentally there for the fight. While this all happened in the infirmary the tournament concluded with Monoma being brought in just a few minutes after their conversation was done.