Their Hero Academia –The Sports Festival: Bonus Round!

If ever there was going to be a day for Villains to get up to something, Izuku thought, this would have been it. Some of the highest ranked Heroes in the country were in the VIP box at the Sports Festival stadium, and he knew many more Heroes were also in the audience in the stands. In the box with him were Ochaco, Kacchan and Eijiro, Shoto and Momo, Tenya and Mei, Pony, and Tetsutetsu. Tetsutetsu could have been in the teacher's box with Itsuka, but with Minoru working, he had volunteered to accompany Pony.

Izuku was glad that Mirio had agreed to take watch in the Agency today, so that he could attend. Mirio's own son, David, was competing, of course, but as he was in the Support Course, his desire to make it further was not particularly great. Mom was here too, in the teacher's box with Dad. Some of his other friends were in the stands too, like Hitoshi and Camie and Mashiro and Toru. Others were working or watching on TV at home.

Down in front of them, his youngest daughter, Mako, sat on the floor with Kacchan's youngest, Tai. The two were only a few months apart in age and had been good friends pretty much their entire lives. His middle daughter, Hana, stood in the back of the room, barely looking up from her cellphone. He should probably have said something, but that was an uphill battle and he wasn't really interested in fighting it today.

"Big Sister's going to win!" Tai said.

"Nuh-uh!" Mako countered, crossing her arms. "You're wrong, Tai! Toshi's going to win!"

"Nuh-uh!"

"Uh-huh!"

"Nuh-uh!"

"Uh-huh!"

"Hey." Before Izuku could speak up, Kacchan was, bending down next to the two five year olds. He put a hand on each of their shoulders. "What did I tell you, Tai?"

The little blond looked up at his dad, thinking for a moment. "That… it doesn't matter who wins, so long as everybody does their best?"

"Right," Kacchan said, giving both children a smile. "So it's okay to want Katsumi or Toshi to win. But you shouldn't fight about it, okay?"

"Okay," Tai said.

"Okay," Mako added.

"Good," Kacchan said, before returning to his seat.

Ochaco turned her head to look at Kacchan. "That was some pretty Plus Ultra parenting, Katsuki," she said. They were pretty lucky overall. Mako was about as well-behaved as you could expect from a five year old girl and Toshi had been an incredibly stress free child to raise (except for the part when his Quirk had come in and they'd had to tie him to his bed to keep him from floating off in his sleep). Hana was their biggest problem and even that was more teenage moodiness than anything.

"Of course it was," Kacchan said. "I'm good at everything. Why wouldn't I be good at parenting?"

"Very manly parenting, Bakubabe," Eijiro said, sitting on Kacchan's left, next to Izuku.

Izuku laughed at that. Some things never changed.

"You just keep on believing that," Shoto said, sitting on the other side of Kacchan.

"What's that supposed to mean, IcyHot?"

"I think you know what it means."

"Oh, it is good to see you both!" A new voice interrupted them and from behind, huge arms wrapped themselves around Shoto and Kacchan.

"You?" Kacchan growled, trying to slip out of the big man's grasp. "What're you doing here? You kid doesn't even go to this school!"

Inasa Yoarashi just laughed. "Are you kidding?" he asked. "I love U.A.!"

"Oh. Yoarashi. How… good… to see you." Shoto was trying to look pleased, but failing miserably at it. Inasa didn't notice though. He never did. No matter how much Kacchan or Shoto tried to express their displeasure with him, he just assumed they were friends.

Not surprising that he'd gotten an invitation, though. He was the Number Five Hero currently, even if he wasn't a U.A. graduate.

"Besides," Inasa added, "my son really wanted to see his girlfriend compete! How could I say no?"

"Someone's dating that psychotic cyclone you call a kid?" Kacchan asked.

"Yes!" Inasa bellow. "I haven't met her yet, but he talks about her constantly! I believe her name is Mika!"

Pony perked up at that. "Oh! Then you must be Shinji's dad! Come sit by me! We should talk… especially since Minny doesn't know about him yet."

"If you are all done," Tenya said, standing, arms chopping through the air, "the Festival is about to start! May I suggest you all pay our children and their classmates the attention they deserve?"

Izuku settled in, taking Ochaco's hand in his. Something told him this was going to be an amazing show.

"So anyway," Eijiro said, "I decided to do one of those DNA ancestry things, 'cause, you know, I only really know about one of my moms for bio family. Turns out somebody with the same bio-dad as me did too! I've got a half-brother out there somewhere!"

"Bro!" Tetsutetsu piped up, from the other end of the row. "That's so weird! I did the same thing, and it turns out I've got a half-brother too! What a coincidence! That's just freaky!"

Izuku watched as Kacchan looked between his husband and Tetsutetsu. He'd known his friend long enough to see the war going on behind his eyes. Kacchan was considering whether or not to say anything and what he'd have to deal with if he did. There was a quiet, tense moment in the room.

"Yeah," Kacchan added eventually, "really flipping weird."

Pony gave her former classmate a funny look. "Maybe… you two are brothers?" she tried.

Tetsutetsu laughed hard at that, slapping a hand against his knee. "Oh, that's a good one, Pony! Can you imagine that, Eijiro?"

Eijiro laughed just as loud. "Real good one," he agreed. "We're a lot alike, Pony, but brothers? Nah. That's just silly."

"But…" Pony began.

Kacchan locked eyes with her. "Just let it go."

"Guys," Izuku interrupted, "look!"

Below, on the obstacle course, one of his son's classmates, Isamu Haimawari, was racing across the finish line, with several of the others not far behind. It wans't long before they crossed. As each of their kids crossed the finish line, cheers went up from the parents.

"So that's the kid Izumi was talking about," Shoto said. "Pretty impressive speed."

"Better than that unmanly teleporter," Eijiro said.

"Strange," Tenya said. "His Quirk reminds me of something my brother once told me, but I cannot place where…"

"Fast guy, that's for sure," Mei agreed. "Bet he could use some better gear though…"

"Not everything requires additional gear, Mei, useful though it may be."

"You take that back right now, Tenya, or you're sleeping on the couch."

"I…" Tenya sputtered. "…Yes, dear."

"Quite the display of teamwork," Momo noted.

"I noticed that too," Izuku agreed. "They combined mobility-based Quirks with offensive power, letting them watch each other's backs while still moving forward. Not a one hundred percent one to one match, but I think they mostly compensated pretty well… Might have been a little better to align both Twins with someone with Quirk with more of a projectile Quirk to clear the way, but…"

Ochaco gave his hand a squeeze. "Deku," she said. "You're muttering."

He felt a little bit of a blush spread to his cheeks. "Oops. Sorry."

"Once a dweeb, always a dweeb," Kacchan said. He shook his head. "The team-up thing had to be Toshi's idea. Your kid's always thinking about other people."

Izuku felt a stirring of pride. That did sound like Toshi. Ever since he was little, he'd always been looking out for his friends and sisters. "Yeah, you're probably right. Good strategy… but I think they're in for an earful from Aizawa over it."

Hana actually looked up from her phone for a minute. "Dork actually came up with a pretty good plan. Surprising."

As Quirkball got underway, Shoto leaned over so he could look around Kacchan. "You know," he said, "I heard a rumor about this year's Hero Class."

Izuku turned his attention away from the field for a moment. He hadn't heard any rumors, but he also admitted that sometimes, he was a little disconnected from things. An unfortunate happenstance created by some of the distance that came with being the Number One Hero. "Oh?" he asked. "What's that?"

He could have sworn he was something in Shoto's eyes, but decided it was just his imagination. "I have heard that one of the kids in this year's crop of Hero students is secretly Deku's child."

Instantly, he felt Ochaco's grip on his hand grow tighter. "What?" she asked. Despite having no reason to, Izuku suddenly felt in great fear for his life.

"Oh, yes," Shoto said, his voice even and unchanging. "Just a rumor of course, but it seems quite plausible."

He paused for a moment, then went on. "My money is on the girl with the purple hair and horns."

There was a silent moment, before it was broken by Pony's braying laughter and then Inasa's booming laugh. Ochaco's grip on his hand relaxed slightly and he could feel circulation return to his fingers.

"Shoto," Ochaco growled, "that was terrible!"

"I've been trying to work on my jokes," he replied.

Next to Shoto, Momo was burying her head in her hands. She finally looked up. "I must apologize for him…"

Izuku waved it off, a smile tugging on his lips as he thought back to his first Sports Festival and the accusations Shoto had hurled at him then. He might not have been All Might's love child, but Toshinori had become his father in every way that counted a few years later. Something that hadn't gone uncommented on by Shoto at the time either.

"Leave the comedy to somebody with a sense of humor, IcyHot," Kacchan growled. "'cause you sure ain't funny."

"Be nice, Bakubabe," Eijiro said, giving Kacchan a playful punch in the arm.

"It was only a joke, Bakugo," Shoto said. "No reason to… explode."

"Was that a fucking pun?!"

"Bakugo!" Tenya shouted. "Control your language! There are children present!"

Izuku was impressed with what he had seen so far. As a parent, of course, he was most focused on Toshi, but all the students who had made it through the first two rounds had done amazingly. Lots of General Studies students had made it through the first round too, which was always good, even if only one of them had made it to the Tournament round. Kocho was definitely skilled; he wondered how she wasn't in the Hero Course to begin with. Maybe he'd talk to Dad about it later. What he'd seen so far was pretty impressive. It was ultimately the faculty's decision, but the word from a seasoned Pro Hero like him would go pretty far when it came time to consider transfers.

It was when Izumi and Katsumi came up to fight that things got tense.

"Okay," he said. "We knew this was going to happen. Everybody relax. Remember, the kids are all friends and this is just a friendly competition."

Nevertheless, he could see Shoto and Kacchan were shooting each other glares already and not a single blow had been thrown.

Eijiro leaned forward in his seat. "Is she… giving up?"

"Why would she not want to fight Izumi?" Shoto asked, rubbing his chin.

"…I'm sure she has her reasons," Momo said, and Izuku was glad for it. Shoto was… not good at interpreting relationships. It was enough of a dodge that none of them had to explain it to him.

"How unsportsmanlike!" Tenya yelled. "She is doing Izumi a great dishonor!"

Kacchan leaned forward too. "C'mon, kid. Remember what I taught you…"

Fortunately for all involved, it looked like Katsumi was going to fight after all.

"All right!" Eijiro yelled, jumping up from his seat. "Kick her ass, Honey!"

That got him a horrified look from Momo. "Eijiro! How could you say something like that?!"

Eijiro plopped back down in his seat, looking embarrassed. "Sorry," he said. "I got carried away."

"I can't look!" Inasa lamented, hand over his eyes. "The children of two of my best friends! How can I decide who to root for?!"

"Root for my daughter!" Kacchan growled. "You all better be rooting for her! It's her first fight!"

"It's Izumi's too," Shoto corrected him.

"Shut up, IcyHot! She's gonna kick your kid's ass!"

"I doubt that."

"You wanna bet?!"

"Shoto… Kacchan…" Izuku began, getting up just in case he had to separate them. This was going to be tense.

"Oh, that's going be awkward," Izuku said, as they watched Toshi and Sora Iida take the field to fight each other.

"Look at our baby!" Mei yelled, wrapping her arms around Tenya. "I'm so proud of her! She's gonna kick his ass!"

Tenya frowned. "Mei, while the spirit of competition should be embraced, you can at least be civil about it…"

The pink-haired inventor shrugged. "I said what I said."

"We haven't really talked about the fact that the kids are dating, have we?" Ochaco asked. "How're you holding up with both of yours dating, Tenya?"

Izuku was certain he saw a slight twitch to Tenya's left eye. Tenya lived what was, to all outside appearances, a very stressful life, with his mad scientist wife and equally excitable children, but he seemed very content and always spoke glowingly of them all. Perhaps the chaos was welcome in his otherwise structured and ordered life.

"It has been… challenging," Tenya said after a moment, "to realize just how much they are growing. I trust Toshi to be a perfect gentleman, of course, and I am trying to think kindly of Takuma."

"Better not let Mina hear you say that," Izuku replied. "But I appreciate the vote of confidence. Assuming they don't break up over this, I know Toshi will treat Sora right."

He admitted, he'd been surprised when Toshi had told them about it. Their son had always gotten along fine with all of the other kids, male or female, but had always seemed a bit nervous around female attention. Granted, a lot of that had come from Mika Mineta, who would make just about anybody nervous…

"Well, at least Sora's first Sports Festival will not go like mine did," Tenya said. Finding out his brother had been brutally assaulted… Yeah, that probably colored his memories some.

"Well, it was when I first started thinking about you, Tenny," Mei told him. "So it ain't all bad."

Tenya blushed at that. "There is also that," he agreed.

"We should get together some time, though," Izuku said. "See if Mina and Hanta want to come. Get together with the kids."

"Oh, that's a great idea, Deku!" Ochaco said. "It'll be like a quintuple date! Mina will love it!"

There was that twitch of Tenya's again…

"Toshi's doing better than I did too," Izuku said. "No broken bones! And he's really picked up some of Gran's style…"

"Oh, you should have seen her, honey!" Pony said into her phone. "She was amazing! Yes, love you too. We'll watch it together tonight!"

There were a lot of words to describe Mika Mineta's first fight in the Tournament, but Izuku wasn't exactly sure that "amazing" was one of them. She'd certainly outwitted her opponent, but it was hard to exactly call it a "clean" win. All was fair game, he supposed, but some of the things that had come out of her mouth…

Inasa grinned broadly. "I see what my son sees in her! Such a lively young lady!"

Pony hung up the phone. "Minny has a big blind spot where Mika is concerned," she said. "But I'm not sure it's big enough for this. That is going to be a very awkward conversation."

Next to her, Tetsutetsu just laughed. "She really does take after him, doesn't she? You really turned that guy around, Pony."

The horned-woman shrugged at that. "Minny just needed somebody who wasn't going to immediately reject him. Maybe he kind of tricked me the first time, but he proved he was a sweetheart underneath it. …And also really good with his hands and tongue and other things."

Kacchan looked like he was going to explode. "I could have gone my whole life without hearing that."

Pony frowned and carried on like she hadn't heard him, "But Mika spends a lot of her time thinking about boys. And girls. And everything and everyone in-between. I worry it might get her into trouble someday."

"She's not nearly as bad as he was," Momo said, from the other end of the row of chairs. If anyone was certified to speak up on it, it would be her. Momo had been the target of Minoru's unwanted attentions and worse more than anyone. "Mika's got her problems, but at least she's not a lawsuit waiting to happen."

Ochaco nodded along. "No offense, Pony, but before he met you, he was, well, I don't think any of us liked him very much."

"I know," she said. "He told me all of this, when we started to get serious."

"Pretty manly of him, owning up to everything," Eijiro admitted.

"You're still planning on giving her an offer, right, Tenya?" Pony asked, big eyes hopeful and wide.

"I am," Tenya agreed. "If she accepts, I will do my best to give her some more rigorous discipline, but I can make no promises."

Pony nodded at that. "I hate to do anything to dampen her spirit, but she's going to need to buckle down eventually. Even Minny figured that one out."

"Your kid's a freak," Kacchan said, drawing an angry squawk from Pony and stares of disapproval from everyone else. "But she's fighting with everything she's got. That's something to be proud of."

Leave it to Kacchan to get straight to the point…

"Who the hell is this kid?" Kacchan growled, as they watched Isamu Haimawari dodge more of Izumi's attacks. He waved a hand in the vague direction of the arena. "Skills like that don't just come out of nowhere! Who's been teaching him?!"

Izuku put a hand on his chin, watching as the young man zipped around the ring. "I'm sure I've read about something with that kind of Quirk before," he said. "Not a Pro-Hero though, but then where? Maybe a Vigilante? I didn't really follow those, but sometimes they were pretty hard to ignore…"

Where had he seen a Quirk like that before? High mobility, yes, but also some kind of adhesion? And some kind of repulsive force? Very versatile, that was for sure. And it was easy to see why Toshi spoke so highly of Haimawari. Without wanting to brag too much… their kids all had quite the advantage and leg up over a lot of the other students. That he was competing on their level was a testament to his dedication.

But it definitely meant he'd had someone training him, someone who knew what they were doing.

Either way, the kid looked like he was going to go far. Izuku was impressed, to be sure. And it was looking like the bookies were going to be mad at him again…

"I could swear, I remember my brother mentioning the name Haimawari once or twice too," Tenya said.

Izuku looked over at Shoto and Momo. Both of them were leaning forward slightly, holding hands, tension radiating off of both of them. He didn't blame them. Izumi's childhood illness after her exposure to… No, not the time or the place to be reflecting on it. But he couldn't begrudge them their concern. She'd nearly died as a child and still suffered lingering effects. She'd done amazing well so far, making it to the Top Eight finalists. And even after collapsing after fighting Katsumi, she'd managed to get back in the fight.

That girl had real courage, that was for sure.

"C'mon on, Izumi," Momo said quietly, "you can do this…"

Which was when Haimawari barreled into Izzy, sending them both tumbling until she came to rest with her head just outside the ring.

Shoto was on his feet in an instant. "That rat bastard! I'll kill him! How dare he lay a hand on her!"

Momo was on her feet too, equally agitated, but her face lined with worry. "Is she…?"

There was a breathless moment as they all waited to see what had happened to Izumi, broken only when Haimawari helped her to her feet.

"What a fight!" Insana yelled, so loudly and suddenly that it nearly jolted Pony out of her seat.

"Such a manly display!" Eijiro and Tetsutetsu both shouted, both jumping out of their seats, their body language nearly identical.

"She didn't pass out!" Momo yelled, relief blooding into her voice. "She's all right! She's all right!" Tears filled her eyes as she pulled Shoto into a tight hug.

"She did good," Shoto agreed, quietly. He wasn't nearly as emotional as his wife, but for someone who had known him as long as Izuku had, he was just as relieved and nearly on the verge of tears himself.

"I thought…" Momo went on, "I thought, when she wanted to keep fighting, that we were making the wrong choice letting her. I guess I missed just how strong she is."

"We both did," Shoto agreed. "I talked you into it… but I wasn't nearly as sure as I sounded. Guess we've raised a pretty remarkable young Hero."

They sure had, Izuku thought. They sure had.

The results were in. Toshi sharing Third Place with Koharu Kocho, Mika Mineta in Second, and Isamu Haimawari in First.

"She did it!" Pony yelled, jumping up and down excitedly, possibly unaware she'd slipped back into using English. "Second place! Did you see, Tetsu? Did you see?"

"We saw, Pony," Tetsutetsu said. "We saw! Don't worry!"

Inasa let out a laugh. "Amazing! What a fantastic upset this year! Where else but U.A.?!"

"Yay, Toshi!" Mako said, dancing happily. Next to her, Tai was cheering too. Izuku looked over and he was pretty sure he even saw Hana crack a smile.

"I don't flippin' believe it," Kacchan growled. "This is one for the record books."

"Believe it, Kacchan," Izuku said. "You know as well I do anything can happen at the Sports Festival."

Up to and including maybe him breaking his rule about scouting highly placed finishers…