"Hey, are you ok?" Ochaco asked.

School had ended a while ago and the two had decided to hang out at a ramen shop. However the whole time Sukui seemed down.

"I fucked up." Sukui sighed.

"Was it about what you did to Bakugo during class?" Ochaco asked, having a strong feeling that was the case. "Cause you kinda went a little too far. Well, actually you went way too far."

"I know!" Sukui groaned. "Dad said he was disappointed in me!"

Ochaco cringed. There were very few times she ever disappointed her parents but when she did she felt like the worst person in the world. "Yeah, that sucks."

Sukui sighed. "I still hate him. But looking back I should have stopped after blowing him up."

I think you should have stopped before that but whatever. Ochaco thought.

"Why do you hate him so much?" Ochaco asked. "I mean, I know he's kind of a jerk but I don't think it's because of that."

"It's because he's an asshole!" Sukui shouted. "He's been picking on my dad for years! He's the reason dad made me! Because that fucker has been making sure people won't go anywhere near him!"

"Wait he's been bullying him?" Ochaco asked.

"Since he was fucking five!" Sukui shouted. "But dad doesn't care! He still defends him and says he can be a great hero, despite the fact that he's been beating him up with his quirk for years!"

There was a short pause before Ochaco spoke. "Why didn't you tell the teachers?"

"Dad doesn't want me to," Sukui said. "He said it would hurt his career as a hero."

"So instead you thought that he would rather you humiliate him in front of the entire class?" Ochaco pointed out.

"I know it was dumb!" Sukui admitted. "But he just pissed me off! And I was tired of him just getting away scot-free. I had to do something!"

She felt a hand on her back and looked at Ochaco.

"It's ok," Ochaco said. "Honestly if I was in your position I would probably just have told the teachers. You ignored him when he asked you not to tell anyone about you being a robot."

"Android." Sukui corrected. "And the reason I didn't is because of how dad works. He always cares more about others way more than himself. If I do something that just affects us then he won't be that mad, especially because it's something that probably would end well for us. But with Bakugo, it negatively affects someone else, meaning that dad would probably hate me if I went through with it! Trust me I wanted to, but I ran the idea through my processors and decided it was a bad idea."

"Why didn't you run humiliating Bakugo though your processors?" Ochaco asked.

"I did." Sukui sighed. "Once, at first I just wanted to blow him up, I ran that through my processors and figured that dad would only be a little upset. But then I kept thinking of new ways to humiliate him and I didn't think to run those through my processors. I have a program in my head that tells me what my actions will do and yet I somehow still suck a decision making!"

Sukui slammed her head onto the table. "I am a fucking failure."

"No your not," Ochaco said. "You might be an android, but you're basically human. You walk like one, talk like one, and act like one. And humans make mistakes. We have all sorts of things to help us not make mistakes, but we still do. No one's perfect."

Sukui sighed. "Thanks, Ochaco."

"Your welcome," Ochaco said giving her a bright smile. "Now let's eat! Our food is getting cold."

"Don't worry about it. I'll heat em up." Sukui said, looking at Ochaco's bowl while her eyes glowed red.

"Please don't laser my noodles," Ochaco said.

Sukui pouted and her eyes went back to green. "Fine."

Meanwhile elsewhere

Nezu sat in his office doing what he always did. Plotting and drinking tea, when suddenly he heard a knock at his door.

"Come in," Nezu said.

Izuku slowly walked into his office before giving Nezu a nervous look.

"Ah, Izuku. Good, good." Nezu said. "I wanted to talk about Sukui's...well, calling it a fight would be horribly inaccurate. I wanted to talk about Sukui's humiliation of Bakugo and Iida."

"I am so, so sorry about that!" Izuku rapidly apologized. "I don't know what she was thinking when she did that, I swear I will make sure this never happens again I-"

"What did Bakugo do to you?" Nezu asked making Izuku freeze.

"W-what?" Izuku said quietly.

"Sukui has existed for less than a year. Meaning that unless Bakugo did something incredibly horrible to her within that time, then Sukui's hatred of him stems from you." Nezu explained. "Bakugo his also known to act extremely aggressively towards you and you tend to act even more meak and fearful whenever he is around. So my question to you is what did Bakugo do to you that would make Sukui act in such a vicious, and slightly amusing, manner?"

"Well um." Izuku was sweating nervously as he desperately tried to find a way to answer this question.

"Was he perhaps one of the people who bullied you?" Nezu asked.

"N-no." Izuku lied. "Kacchan would never do something like that."

There was a short pause before Nezu shook his head and spoke again. "Izuku. You and I are both aware of my abilities. So I don't know why you would think it was a good idea to lie to me."

Izuku stayed silent.

"How about this. You're going to tell me everything. And if you lie three times. Then Bakugo will be expelled." Nezu said.

"What!?" Izuku shouted in shock. "Th-that's not fair!"

"Yes, it would be incredibly unfair for you to get him expelled because you don't want to do something as simple as telling me the truth," Nezu said, his upbeat tone never changing. "Now I'll ask you again. Did he bully you?"

"W-well. He may have said some mean things and accidentally used his quirk on me a few times." Izuku lied.

"That's another lie." Nezu pointed out. "Two more of those and Bakugo is out."

Izuku panicked. "Okay, maybe it wasn't accidental! B-but I'm sure he just wanted to practice his quirk and needed something to use it on!"

"That's another lie," Nezu said.

"B-but I wasn't lying!" Izuku said. "R-really I'm sure that's why!"

"I said that if you lie three times then Bakugo is expelled," Nezu repeated. "I never said those lies have to be directed at me."

Izuku stopped talking as what Nezu said sunk in.

"We both know that he doesn't need to use a person to practice his quirk on, and even if he did that will still be both cruel and illegal," Nezu told him. "You have one last chance Izuku. Tell me the truth. Bakugo's future is in your hands."

Izuku hung his head in defeat. He had no choice. He had to tell him everything.

The next day.

"Thank you for coming Mrs. Bakugo," Nezu said greeting his guest as they entered his office.

"No problem. Now, what the fuck did my son do now?" Mitsuki asked.

"I didn't do shit!" Bakugo said.

"A-aunt Mistsuki!" Izuku said shocked at just how upfront she was.

"Oh hey, Izuku. Oh, Sukui's here too." Mitsuki said before turning her head to her son. "And I doubt we got called here for something either of them did so it must have been you."

"Um...actually it might have been me," Sukui said nervously. She knew where this was going and she would accept her punishment with dignity.

"Not really," Nezu said.

"Wait what?" Sukui said in slight shock. Never mind guess I don't know where this was going.

"We will talk about it when our last guest arrives," Nezu explained.

"Last guest?" Izuku asked. "Who-"

"Sorry, I'm late. The traffic was really bad I hope you can forgive me."

Izuku froze as he immediately recognized the voice of the person who just came into the room.

He turned around and his fears were confirmed.

"M-mom!" He shouted in shock before turning to Nezu. "Y-you called my mom! But I'm not a student!"

"True. But you are still a minor and therefore I am still obligated to tell her what you told me." Nezu explained. "So I invited her over and she said yes."

"Izuku...what is this about?" Inko asked as she took a seat next to her son.

"Allow me to explain," Nezu said. "Yesterday the students were having two on two matches against each other."

"Yeah and he fucking lost," Mitsuki said. "I'm guessing that was why he was crying yesterday."

"Hag!" Bakugo growled at his mother.

Sukui snickered but Izuku gave her look making her cut it out immediately.

"Yes, he did in fact lose," Nezu confirmed. "But there's more to it than that."

Nezu coughed to clear his throat before speaking again. "She hacked into the communications and used them to taunt Bakugo into a trap before using her heat vision to detonate all of the nitroglycerin on his body, blowing up half of the building they were in and doing horrible damage to Bakugo's body and destroying all of his clothes. Then she went up to him a taunted him some more while he attempted to punch her metal body, doing more damage to himself. She then proceeded to knock him down, sit on him and humiliate his partner all the while blaming him for their loss. The fight was being monitored so this all happened in front

Izuku and Sukui cringed as both Mitsuki and Inko had shocked looks on their faces.

Mitsuki recovered first before looking at Sukui and saying. "That was a little bit much."

"Yeah. I know." Sukui sighed.

"Normally this would call for a suspension at the very least, however, I decided to ask Izuku what Bakugo could have done to deserve such humiliation and the response I got was very...enlightening," Nezu said.

Bakugo raised an eyebrow in confusion. He had a bad feeling about this. "What are you talking about."

"You see after forcing the truth out of Izuku I found out that Bakugo had been bullying Izuku for the last ten years," Nezu said.

"I fucking knew it!" Mitsuki shouted. "I always knew you were being a fucking asshole to him this whole time! But whenever I asked Izuku he would always make excuses for you! But not this fucking time!"

"K-Katsuki," Inko said giving him a betrayed look.

"I just put the nerd in his goddamn place! It's not fucking bully old hag!" Bakugo shouted back.

"Your right. It's not bullying." Nezu said getting everyone's attention. "It's more along the lines of serious physical and mental abuse."

Mitsuki turned to Nezu, eyes wide with disbelief. "What."

"Apparently Bakugo has been physically beating Izuku using his quirk, which may I remind you is illegal, for long periods of time quite frequently all the while saying horrible things to him. In fact, his nickname, Deku, translates to useless meaning he literally addresses him as useless each time he sees him. This almost surely the cause for Izuku's extremely low self-esteem." Nezu said. "This repeated targeting combined with Izuku's quirklessness is almost certainly the reason Izuku was ostracized by all of his fellow students meaning that he is responsible for socially isolating him as well. This behavior continued into his teens to the point where he literally told him to jump off the school roof."

The room was silent for a moment as Nezu let his words sink in. Everyone but Izuku was shocked.

Inko had a look of horror etched on her face as tears slid down her cheeks.

Sukui, who had already known about the bullying but didn't know just how bad it was was glaring at Bakugo her eyes glowing red.

Izuku just had his head down, ashamed that he may have ruined Katsuki's chances at becoming a hero.

Bakugo was glaring at Nezu for saying all this "Unimportant shit" that was sure to piss off his mother.

And Mitsuki. No one could see her expression as she stood there frozen in place.

"Apparently the teachers and staff of those schools just lied in order to not harm Bakugo's chances of becoming a hero just because of a quirkless child," Nezu explained. "Please be reassured that will be investigating those schools for discrimination and child endangerment."

There was another long pause before Mitsuki finally unfroze.

Suddenly the room was filled with a dangerous aura emanating off of her. She turned around to face her child and Bakugo felt fear course through him.

"How fucking dare you." She said with barely contained fury. "You want to be a fucking hero. And you do shit like that."

Izuku butt in. "Aunt Mitsuki I-"

Mitsuki turned to him and Izuku instantly closed his mouth in fear. "I don't want to hear any more of your excuses. So sit down, and shut the fuck up."

Anything Izuku could have said was drowned out by mind-numbing terror.

"I'm not going to punish you here," Mitsuki said turning back to Bakugo. "But when we get home...I don't even fucking know what I'm going to do to you."

"Why?"

Everyone looked back at Inko who was now actively sobbing.

"Why? Why would you do such a thing?" Inko asked. "I-I thought you were friends why...I don't understand."

Mitsuki quickly moved to comfort her crying friend, wrapping her arms around her all the while glaring at her son. Telling him without words that this was his fault.

Bakugo actually felt a bit of guilt, but he quickly

"Mom," Izuku said quietly.

"You told me you fell," Inko said to her son. "Or that it was an accident. Or-or. Why did you lie to me Izuku?"

"I." Even more, shame-filled Izuku as he couldn't even find the will to look his mother in the eye.

"Now Mrs. Bakugo your son has committed several illegal acts that in any other scenario would not only result in his immediate expulsion but would also likely land him in a juvenile detention center," Nezu said.

Mitsuki was seething with rage, her eyes fixed on her son who was now beginning to realize how fucked he was.

"However," Nezu said. "After looking things over and after Izuku begged me for five hours non-stop. I have decided to leave the decision of Bakugo's expulsions in the hand of Mrs. Midoriya."

In truth, Nezu didn't really have much choice. Expelling Bakugo would cause Izuku to have a mental crisis bigger than the one he is currently having. That would mean Izuku might not even be able to work and if he did work it would likely be at dramatically slower speeds. This would displease the government who had a lot to ask of the young man and they would most likely force Nezu to take Bakugo back anyway.

However, neither him nor the government could stop Inko from suing the Bakugos witch given the fact that it would be a case involving two U.A. students would inevitably catch the media's attention and after that Nezu would have no choice but to expel Bakugo, and the government couldn't do anything about that without seriously harming U.A.'s reputation.

So, in the end, it was all in Inko's hands.

"Inko," Mitsuki said to her friend. "I won't blame you. No matter what you do. Your my friend and I let my son do something terrible to yours. Whatever you want to do I won't hate you for it."

Bakugo balled his fist. This whole part of his day sheds a different light on his actions. Seeing Inko and Mitsuki's reactions actually managed to make the boy feel a little bad. But still. They were talking about his future as a hero. If Inko wanted to she could put an end to all his hopes and dreams in one fell swoop.

Inko sniffed. "It's not your fault Mitsuki. Those teachers who let him get away with it and encouraged him are the ones responsible. I won't press charges."

Inko looked at Bakugo. "I don't know why you would...do something like that to Izuku. But I really hope that you can improve and become a better hero."

Well, that felt like getting blown-up all over again.

Fuck why does hurt? Bakugo wondered as he avoided eye contact with anyone in the room. And why the fuck does this feel familiar.

"Are you fucking kidding me!" Sukui shouted. "You mean he just gets away with this!"

She wanted to punch something. Bakugo in particular. But her programming wouldn't allow her. So all she could do is scream.

"Oh heavens no," Nezu said. "While we will be keeping Bakugo enrolled here there will be consequences for his actions. Firstly Bakugo will have to attend several therapy and anger management sessions, he will be excluded from all extracurricular events including the sports festival, and if he is caught breaking the rules he can be subject to immediate expulsion."

Bakugo's eyes widened. If he couldn't participate in the sports festival then how the hell was he supposed to get exposure!?

Bakugo was about to speak up when his mother saw him open his mouth and glared at him. Telling him without words to shut his mouth.

That didn't do much to calm Sukui who was still enraged.

Collecting herself Sukui spoke. "Can I leave for a little bit?"

"Yes. In fact, I would like to speak to Mrs. Midoriya and Mrs. Bakugo alone please." Nezu said.

Bakugo didn't say a word as he got up and left the room, slamming the door behind him.

Sukui grabbed her father by the wrist and dragged him out of the room.

There was a short pause before Nezu spoke again. "Now. Let's talk about Izuku. As I said earlier I had to force information out of him while he tried to defend Bakugo."

"Why the hell would he do that?!" Mitsuki asked. "He has to know that what Katsuki was doing to him was wrong."

"He did," Nezu said. "At least on some level. The fact that he hid his abuse for Bakugo's sake shows that deep down he knows that what Bakugo did was wrong and therefore could get him in trouble. However, he most likely did not want to confront that fact. He made up excuses in his head, trying to justify or explain away Bakugo's abuse. This is likely because he still desperately wishes to be friends with Bakugo like they were when they were young, so he just endures the abuse and hopes that it ends."

"Oh, Izuku," Inko said sadly.

"The only exception to this seems to be when Bakugo targeted other children. Then he would attempt to stop him." Nezu explained. "I think it goes without saying that Izuku will need to go to therapy a well. As his employer, I can't force him to but since your his mother you can."

"O-of course." Inko stuttered. "My poor Izuku."

"Good now one last thing," Nezu said. "This desire to be friends with Bakugo again was likely a result of his loneliness. The fact that you had to work most of the time not helping this, although that was not your fault. Now that you have much more free time I would like to suggest that you move on campus. This would allow you and Sukui to spend much more time with him, and would allow us to protect you."

"P-protect me?" Inko questioned.

"Yes. You see right now most people only know about a rumor, saying that a robot girl is a U.A. student. They don't know who she is what she looks like or who made her." Nezu explained. "But when they do I have no doubt people will want to get their hands on him. Whether it be to kill him to try and stop the new technological advancements or to try and use him for their own purposes. And there is a large chance that they would try to use you to get to him."

Inko's eyes went wide. She had never really considered such a thing but when Nezu said it, it sounded so obvious.

"I'll do it," Inko said shakily. "Even if I wasn't in danger, I want to help my son."

Nezu's smile grew a little bigger. "Well then let's get the paperwork sorted out."

Meanwhile.

Sukui dragged Izuku outside further and further away from Nezu's office.

"Sukui," Izuku said.

Sukui stopped, letting go of his wrist and turning to meet his eyes.

"Why!?" Sukui shouted. "Why do you keep defending that asshole! And don't give me that crap about him not giving up! He gave up on you pretty fucking fast!"

"I-" Izuku tried to say something but Sukui cut him off.

"He has caused you nothing but pain! And yet you still want to be friends with him!" Sukui shouted.

"B-" Sukui cut him off again.

"I look through my processors over and over again but even they can't find a reason for why you would do this to yourself!" Sukui shouted.

"Because it was better than being alone," Izuku said.

There was a short pause as what Izuku said sunk in.

"Because the explosions and insults always hurt less than whenever I was sitting there with no one to talk to," Izuku said tears starting to roll down his cheeks. "He was the closest thing to a friend I ever had. I really wanted to be friends with him again. I wanted to pretend like those things didn't happen."

There was another short pause before Izuku spoke again.

"I'm sorry Sukui," Izuku said to his creation. "I programmed you to care about me and then got upset when you did. I...I am not ok, I shouldn't act like I know better. I have failed you as a father."

Izuku was going to say more when he felt two arms wrap around him.

"Dad. I'm sorry for yelling." Sukui apologized. "You haven't failed me. You just made mistakes. And from what I'm told that's just part of being human."

"Sukui," Izuku said.

"I could have handled this...situation better too," Sukui admitted. "So now that we've apologized. Can we just put this behind us?"

Izuku looked at her for a moment before smiling. "That sounds...good. Thank you Sukui."

"Your welcome dad." Sukui smiled back.