another rushed chapter. sorry for the low quality chapters lately.

I might put another bonus story soon lol

Aside from his recent discovery, there has been no progress on his research on his cousin and her friends. To make matters worse, the other three rarely show up now due to college work and whatnot.

'you got me feelin' like a psycho! Psycho!'

And on top of all that, his cousin seems to hang out with 'college frat boys' recently. He doesn't know what means but it sure sounds bad. After all, she's coming home drunk ever since. Like right now, she's locked herself up in the bathroom and has been singing that one song over and over. He heard it once on her playlist and she said it was a good old classic song.

'-can understand Korean- '

Izuku continued to write in his little notebook as his cousin belts out the lyrics. His mom is currently out since work called earlier and asked her to take a graveyard shift for a co-worker.

'-hey now we'll be ok. It's all right.'

And now she's sobbing in the bathroom. Izuku winced at the loud wail before knocking on the door.

'Big sister Inorin? A-are you ok?'

There was sobbing and coughing before she answered back.

'I'm good bro! '

He sighed. This will be a long night.

It wasn't really a long night. He was passed out halfway through the third repeat of the song and when he woke up, he saw her cooking breakfast as if she wasn't drunk last night.

'Morning, Izu-bean.'

She greeted as she peered above her shades. Right. She's hungover from last night.

'g-good morning big sister Inorin!'

He greeted back, waddling towards the dining table where food was set up. No doubt made by his cousin.

'you better eat up. You've got class today right? Man, I could only imagine all the classes you have at the hero school.'

She said it as if it was the most tiring thing in the whole world. Is helping people tiring for her?

'Big sister Inorin… why did you reject the acceptance letters when you were my age?'

Izuku froze in his seat. He didn't mean to ask that.

'where did you hear that?'

He looked up and saw her expressionless face looking at him, eyes burning into his soul.

'I-I'm sorry!'

'no, no. I don't wanna hear you apologize. I wanna hear you tell me where you heard that. Is it from that Iida boy?'

That got him quacking in his chair. He didn't want his cousin to go to Iida's house and cause a scene!

'dude. I'm not mad. It just feels weird that you know that when I haven't told you that and besides, I don't think auntie will tell you that just for funsies.'

Inori shrugged carelessly as Izuku sighed. Crisis averted. Iida is now safe.

'Well, he got curious.'

'Ah.'

And that was it. No retorts, no explanations, no nothing.

'Oh? You're going out now?'

Izuku was in the middle of tying his ridiculously red boots when Inori asked as she leans on the wall, eyes still covered with her shades.

'Y-yeah!'

Inori hummed and sat beside him.

'I will tell you why I declined all the hero schools if you do something for me.'

There was a sly smile on her face, her eyes alight with mischievousness. Izuku knows this won't end well for him.

'w-what is it...?'

'let me walk you to school!'

There was a dumb look on Izuku's face before it all registered in his brain.

'Eh?!'

And so, Izuku found himself standing in front of UA, more nervous than before when he was taking the entrance exam and beside him is his cousin, all dolled up. He can feel the other student's gaze on them, but he doesn't care. He's too nervous to care for their gazes.

'have fun at school, baby boy'

Inorin smiled sweetly at him as she said those words with all the sweetness she could muster.

'I-I will!'

Before he could get out of her grip, she quickly placed three kisses on his face. Two on each of his eyelids and one on his forehead.

'I-uh. I-I have to go!'

He shrieked and dashed inside the gates, leaving his cousin to snort to herself as she turned around and headed back home.

'Damn, Izuku got game bro!'

1-A was buzzing with chatter as they saw their classmate get kissed lovingly by an older woman.

'she's too young to be her mom though.'

'maybe that was his girlfriend!'

Many ooh'ed and ah'ed at the idea. If that is indeed true, then Izuku really got game. Who would've thought?

'G-Good morning!'

Izuku greeted as he slid inside the room, eyes trained on him.

'w-what?'

He nervously shuffled to his seat as Mineta jumped out of his seat.

'how did you get such a hot girlfriend?!'

Izuku froze as Kaminari slammed his hands on his table.

'teach me your ways, Teacher!'

Mineta and Kaminari bowed in front of him as the whole class watched in amusement.

'E-Eh?! W-what is this all about?!'

'we saw you get kissed by a girl at the gates, Midoriya.'

Jirou stated, looking mildly amused at his misery.

'I-I wasn't!'

He vehemently denied, eyes watery.

'Stop fucking lying you damned nerd! We all saw!'

Now Bakugou is on his ass too!

'Yeah yeah! There are lipstick marks on your eyelids and on your forehead!'

Mina chimed in as the rest took a good look at him. He could hear 'oh? There is!' and 'damn bro.' from his classmates.

'T-That was my cousin! Believe me!'

The buzz in the room stopped.

'So, you're into that huh. Never thought you for that type of guy. I guess I misjudged you. Again.'

Asui piped up, eyes focused anywhere but him.

'I-It's not like that I swear!'

Before things could escalate, Iida walked in the room and was immediately updated by some of the boys to which he shook his head to.

'Midoriya, that is highly inappropriate! I thought you were better than this!'

'It was my Big sister Inorin! Believe me!'

'and you call her big sister? Wow, kinky.'

Mineta slyly commented as Izuku's eyes watered some more.

'It's not like that!'

Izuku glanced at Uraraka for help but she was busy laughing her ass off. Great set of friends he has.

It took one shout from their homeroom teacher for them to drop the subject while some girls offered makeup removers to help him erase the lipstick on his face in between classes. It was an eventful day to say the least.

'I'm home.'

He greeted as his mom once again buzzed around the kitchen.

'Ah! Welcome home Izuku!'

She greeted back as she stirred the boiling pot. Izuku grunted a reply before plopping down the couch. All the chatter earlier left him drained.

'Inorin left a little something for you in her room. She said it was for earlier?'

Inko said as she glanced at her son who looked like he faced a stampede head on.

'Huh? What is it?'

Izuku asked, jumping from the couch. His mom shrugged and continued cooking their dinner.

'How about you find out for yourself?'

And so he did. He entered his cousin's room and saw a pastel green paper on the bed with his name written in elegant cursive. He grabbed it and saw a list under one title.

'Why I don't want to be a Hero'

It was a short list with only three words. Lazy, unmotivated, and tired.

'wha?'

Izuku's eyebrows furrowed.

'all that trouble, for this?!'

A buzz from her phone caught his attention. It was a text message from his cousin. All it said was 'uwu'. He sighed. He never will get a straight answer from his cousin, will he?

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darkpaladin89: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ we're all gonna hafta hop in the mystery van for that one.