"Mom, can we talk?" Izuku asked looking down at the floor.

Inko placed her papers to the side.

"Did something happen at work?"

"No..."

"Is it something with your boyfriend?"

"Yea."

He sat down in front of the coffee table as she finished stacking her papers neatly.

"Did you guys fight?"

"Not really but... there's a big secret and I have to tell you. You might be mad about it and that's ok..."

Inko frowned.

"Are you into drinking or drugs?" she asked looking slightly angry.

"No! Nothing like that!"

Well, I almost got killed once and I don't know if that would be as bad as drugs or worse.

"His dad doesn't like me."

"I find that hard to believe."

"It's true and they had a big fight. That's not what I wanted to tell you. Well, it has something to do with it."

She stared at him.

"You're not making a lot of sense."

"I know, I know."

Izuku hummed for a second.

"He doesn't like our kind."

Inko arched an eyebrow.

"Our kind? Is Shouto from another country?"

"No."

The older woman looked like she was getting impatient and her worry was starting to grow some.

"Alright, Izuku. I don't want to play twenty questions."

"Shouto... his family... he's um... "

Izuku wiped at his forehead. He was nervous and he was sweaty now like he ran a mile on a hot day.

"Mom, he's a... a vampire."

The woman stared at her son. Almost in a way she wasn't able to process the sentence he just spoke.

"Mom? Mom are you ok?!"

Inko placed her hands onto the coffee table before taking a deep breath.

"Are you sure this isn't a trick?" she said.

"N-no Mom!"

She got up and paced the room.

Did she actually believe me?

"Izuku, are you sure? Are you sure you aren't doing drugs?"

He stood up looking rather angry.

"You taught me better than that!"

"This is a lot to take in-

"That's why I need your help Mom!"

Izuku rubbed his temples trying to think of the best way to say what he wanted.

"That's a big deal."

She stared at her son.

"If they're real, then you're going to ask me something... something big, aren't you?" Inko asked running her hand through her dark green hair.

"Can you come meet my friend?" he asked.

"O-ok."

The two of them headed out to the streets. Izuku pulled out his phone and dialed Katsuki's number. It only took five minutes for the blonde vampire to come to meet them. He nodded to Izuku then held out his hand to his mother. Inko nodded and shook his hand gently. She could feel that Katsuki wasn't human at all.

"Are you?" she asked softly.

"I am. I take it he mentioned his boyfriend problem then."

"Is... is it true?"

"I am one of them," the blonde vampire said looking at his nails, "I don't know how he managed to keep it secret."

"Can... can we go to a coffee shop or someplace?" Inko asked, "I need something to drink."

Katsuki arched an eyebrow and Izuku gave his mother a worried look.

Once the trio found a late night coffee place that was also a study spot for college students, they settled down and waited for Inko to speak. Izuku's stomach was in knots because he hadn't asked his mother yet the real question he had. Katsuki had no idea he was going to ask it in front of him and honestly- Katsuki was the only vampire he could trust at the moment. If someone else came after him, who could he trust?

It took twenty something minutes before she spoke.

"So, this is true?"

The two boys nodded.

"My grandpa used to talk about them all the time and my grandmother said he crazy. I heard him mumble about all of the stuff he would see on the streets and about how they were always hiding. I never thought it was true. He always said we were like pretty flowers for predators."

She took another drink.

"I don't remember grandpa talking about them?" Izuku said with a weird thoughtful look on his face.

"We didn't really hide until a few hundred years ago. He could've ran into one in his youth. Maybe even loved or befriended one."

Inko stared at Katsuki but he avoided her eyes. He didn't like the fear that clouded them.

"So, you want to tell me why you wanted to scar your mother so late at night?" he asked, trying to sound like a hard ass.

Katsuki was a loner with no family and he wasn't the type to want attention and be exposed to those who couldn't handle the truth. Shouto and his whole family was the first real contact he had with anyone in a while until now. Just the way he watched Izuku and Shouto interact made him somewhat jealous that Shouto found him first. The human teenager was too understanding.

"Mom, I want to be changed. Do I have your permission?"

Her green eyes widened in shock. Katsuki looked rather shocked himself. He glanced at Inko before looking at his ex boyfriend's new fling.

"What?"

"I had some time to think about it and I don't see... I don't see anyone else for me."

"Honey- you're so young! You don't know-

"He knows."

Inko stared at the vampire.

"What?"

"Shouto already fed off of him. He would've fled after all that if he didn't feel it. There's something different for vampires and humans when that action happens. No one can say why but it just is. Shouto's parents were just like that."

She stared down into her drink wondering what she should even say but she couldn't come up with anything. She was just so shocked.

"If you want, I can walk you two home. You still have some vampire smell."

"I do?"

"Yea."

"My own grandpa would talk about them."

Izuku put his drink down.

"What do you mean?"

"I remember him talking about it for hours but my grandmother would tell him to hush about it."

Katsuki looked amused.

"Vampires like friendship- companionship is nice once in a while."

"I remember a woman with black hair and fierce green eyes that would come over constantly," Inko said, "She was beautiful in every way. She would always tell me that she would see me next time. Every single summer I would go over and she was there until one summer she wasn't. My grandparents looked sad. Only said she moved away."

Izuku watched his mother become lost in her thoughts and memories.

"Sometimes they move away because someone becomes suspicious of them."

Inko looked at Katsuki.

"Is that what happened to you?" she asked.

He nodded.

"It happens to Shouto's family too unless his brother tries to be with the wrong woman then they move more."

Inko stared at her son.

"I couldn't watch you move away."

"Then go with us."

Inko stared at him.

"I need some time to think about this... Is that ok?"

Izuku nodded.

The walk back home was quiet. Izuku walked in front, his mother in the middle and Katsuki leading the back. Izuku's own head was spinning with things that were said... mostly because his great grandparents were friends with a vampire. He wondered how many people throughout the world had befriended one and never knew or they simply enjoyed their company. He wondered who the vampire woman was...

"You want to come in?" Inko asked, turning to Katsuki.

"Naw. I got some things to do. I promised a friend I would meet up with him later."

"Alright."

They watched as the blonde disappeared from view before they went inside to the elevator. Once in the apartment, Inko locked the door. She stood there staring at the door without turning to her son because she didn't know how to face him.

I hurt her feelings.

"Mom?"

"You sure this really is what you want?" she whispered.

He almost didn't hear her.

"Y-yes."

She turned slightly and he could see the tears in her eyes.

"I don't want to lose you Izuku. You're everything to me."

"Then Mom," he said holding out his hand, "Go with us wherever we go! I wouldn't want to be without you Mom!"

Izuku walked over to his mom and hugged her.

"Give me some time to think. I need a few days."

"Alright Mom."

X

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Shouto had been banned from leaving the house. No one was allowed to speak to him but his mother would go in there anyways and try to comfort him. He was feeling weak already and she was trying to offer him a blood pouch she had made him. He sipped on it slowly but he wasn't really into it. She was sad to see him this way. He never got like that with anyone before.

"You want to talk about it?"

"No."

Rei rubbed his back.

"I can't allow you to become human. Who would change you?" she said trying to talk some sense into her son.

"Dabi could."

"Well, your brother is quite the romantic. He is saving that for someone special."

Shouto groaned loudly.

"Growing up isn't easy."

"Why did you allow me to keep talking to him? Why did you encourage me to do it if this is how it was going to be?" he asked looking annoyed and hurt.

"Because... you deserve to be happy honey. I think you two are made for each other."

"Why do you say that?" he asked sitting up, "Wouldn't most parents say we haven't known each other long enough?"

"That would be true..." she trailed off with a thoughtful smile on her face.

"Would be?"

"Yes but you didn't see what I saw."

Rei brushed his two toned hair from his eyes.

"The way you looked in those bushes in his arms... Vampires have instincts to survive as their bodies kick into overdrive but you allowed yourself to cave in and trusted him. He looked like he would've protected you anyways no matter the danger. He could have lost his life that night if the wrong person came along. That right there is true love."

Shouto rolled his eyes.

"It is you brat."

He didn't say anything.

"Self sacrifice."

He continued to say quiet.

"Baby boy... It's not the end of the world. Once I come up with a way to help you out, I'll make sure you're happy."

"Thank Mom."

"You want to sit on the roof and look at the moon?"

"No."

"Alright."

Rei walked out of his room and shut the door behind her. She walked into the kitchen where her step son Dabi was sitting. He looked bored looking through his phone. She sat down across from him with a tired look on her face.

"I take it he's still emo?" Dabi asked without looking up.

"Yes."

She rubbed her temples.

"I know we really don't need to sleep but when was the last time you actually slept?" he asked.

"I can't remember."

"You probably need to past out for the next two days. You've been watching him like a hawk."

"Maybe so. So... what news do you have of Izuku?"

Dabi arched an eyebrow.

"What makes you think I've been watching him?"

"Dabi, I know how you are. You read romance books and Shojo manga for fun."

He made a face and put his phone down.

"He's good. Goes to work. Does school."

"That's it?"

Dabi scratched the back of his head.

"He had been doing something really weird though. I've noticed it over the last few days."

Rei looked a little more awake now.

"Oh? Like?"

"He's been hanging out with that blonde brat."

"With Katsuki? That's weird... very weird."

"He took his mother to meet the guy I suppose."

Rei's eyes widened.

"What?"

She jumped out of her seat and paced.

"He stills smells like Shouto a little but so I don't think we would have to worry about it at all."

"What do you think he's doing?" Rei whispered.

"I don't know Mom, but his mother looked pretty rattled. I think she knows about us now."

The woman smiled and sat down.

"That's good."

"Why is that good?"

"No matter what happens, we can have Izuku! If he was willing to ask his mother for permission or tell her the truth then that means he's free to be with Shouto. We have to convince someone to change him..."

Dabi arched an eyebrow at her.

"I don't know. His momma didn't look too happy."

Rei tapped her finger against her lips thinking.

"Mom, this may be a bad idea. I mean... what if she wants to go with us?"

"Then she goes with us. I wouldn't mind another woman around! It's been so long since I've had a friend!"

Dabi stared at her.

"I feel like you're gaining more than Shouto is."

She laughed and stood up.

"I hope this all works..." Dabi said, "Dad is gonna be so pissed if things mess up."

She rolled her eyes, as she headed for her room. Dabi sighed.

X

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A couple days had passed and Katsuki visited Izuku's apartment everyday to talk with his mother. Izuku had lost all of his vampire scent that he gotten from Shouto. It seemed so weird to have the ex boyfriend that had attacked them trying to convince his own mother to let him change into a creature of the night. Izuku felt nervous about the whole ordeal.

What if Shouto is upset if I have someone other than someone from his family change me? I haven't even thought of what I wanted yet...

His green eyes met up with Katsuki's red ones.

I... I know what I want.