Author's Note: Hey everybody and I'm back for another chapter! As promised, this chapter is a tad bit long so yes, it's now or never then! The investigation continues from both sides: Izuku and the two pro-heroes who will soon make statements regarding their own issues. How will they react? Another is the detective's offer to Izuku instead of bringing him back to the detention facility. Will he accept the deal?. What could it be? Let's find out!

Another Note: I'm promoting a story written by a fellow author and don't worry, it is MHA-related. It is titled "Father and Daughter", a sequel to "Father and Son" written by BoredAndSleepy200. I would recommend you to read the first part of the story before reading the sequel.

Final Note: I only added one OC character. Remember the psychologist from the last chapter? Yep, she's still here. Leaving short info here:

Psychologist Soraka

Quirk: Memory – enable to see a person's past (both good and bad) by touching their hands.

Enjoy reading!

Second Chances

"Even if you got hurt from the same reason, don't be afraid to try again. Stand tall, rise up, wave your flag and embrace your flaws."

Date: September 16

Time: 8:00 PM

Place: 10th floor, Izuku's private ward at Musutafu Medical Center/Soraka's consultation office at the Psychology department

Detective Naomasa and Psychologist Soraka POV

6:00 PM evening, after hours of emotional and heartbreaking therapy of Izuku with the psychologist, the green haired was put to sleep by a hypnosis treatment to ease the pain and calm his mind. The doctor advised the parents that the hours of psychological treatments worked well with their son and they do not even require to take antidepressants or other psychotic drugs since she assessed the patient that his sanity will soon go back to normal state, despite being revived and shifted into something different version of him. In short, Izuku only needs emotional support from the people who are closest to him.

The energetic and selfless top detective officer of the police force Naomasa came back to the hospital after he sent the request from Izuku to the police force and hero council regarding the disclosing information of the top 2 pro-heroes. He visited the room to observe the teen's condition. He let out a mutter while looking at the sleeping green-haired, at first, he expected him to be fully awake and talk about the deal, but then it didn't happen.

"He looks tired from all the treatments the doctors gave him. I hope he wouldn't react too much if I tell him that the pro-heroes are not ready to face the public with their personal issues. 12 hours of negotiation with both parties were not enough. Nevertheless, I wish you well soon, kid. For I have a surprise offer to you once you wake up from your slumber….and you might not gonna like it."

He sighed as he rubbed his temples and observed the teen for a few minutes before leaving the room to consult the psychologist who treated Izuku earlier.

Alone, he used the lift going to the 15th floor and a few seconds of finding the room, he finally knocked twice on the door and heard a soft female voice coming from the inside.

"Door is unlocked. Whoever it is, kindly enter."

Naomasa slowly opened the door as he made his greeting with a bow to the doctor. "Good Evening, doctor. You wanted to see me regarding his condition?"

Psychologist Soraka, a light blond haired and fair skinned lady wearing a white coat, a violet working dress, and her glasses faced the officer holding a brown folder containing the results from the therapy with his patient earlier.

"Oh, there you are. Welcome to my office. Please, have a sit~" She later offered the officer a glass of water which Naomasa gladly accepted it and took a few sips.

He sat on the chair facing the doctor's table before taking a glance at the folder the doctor is currently holding. "Are those the results from his therapy earlier, doc?"

She nodded. "Feel free to borrow the results to improve your investigation regarding the incident." She adjusted her glasses and sat on her chair. "Now, here are my final thoughts about him and my various therapies that really hit him hard. I'll try to make this short and simple."

He thanked her as he finally opened the folder and studied the papers one-by-one. "I'm all ears and listening."

She took a sip of her warm chamomile tea from the cup and sighed. "My patient Izuku Midoriya or also known as 'The Deathsinger' by his alias. He….he really had a colorful past, but mostly the emotional and dark ones. Aside from bullying and discrimination from society during his youth for being 'quirkless', it is really true that someone revived him with a quirk. I still can't believe his internal organs are still intact, fresh, and functioning after being buried under the ground for days. That particular person which I couldn't see with my vision properly brainwashed his poor innocent mind and later used him as a tool of destruction to participate in planning to end the symbol of peace in this community. Hacking systems such as stealing confidential information from government, hero agencies, and the hero council. His boss made him do it to fulfill their goals, making him partly responsible for that."

"As expected from the leader of the league of villains." He mumbled while scanning the papers.

"On second thought, upon seeing his remaining and disturbing past, I saw images when he left the group, trying to make his own journey of atonement and solitude to pay for his crimes he decided to be a vigilante to secretly do good."

Naomasa interrupted her for a moment and tilted his head. "Wait a sec— you've mentioned about his solitude, what about the incident a long time ago when the Deathsinger terrorized villages and provinces outside Tokyo? Did you have a chance to see those?"

The doctor stared at the officer with a serious look. "I tried to go beyond my limits using my memory quirk. I couldn't find any signs of him doing horrible stuff there. Maybe it was all made up from his former organization to ruin his image and blame everything to him, despite his graceful exit with them. Fake news? Possibly." She giggled with a tease.

He jotted down some important notes from the doctor and said. "I see. Please continue, doc."

"Back to the topic, the most recent was the forest training incident where he saved the young boy and other pro-heroes from the villain. It is true that he killed the villain, but that was his own way of justice to avenge the young boy's parents."

"He mentioned me about the incident and thanks for bringing that up. I've recently interviewed the said persons and wanted to be defendants to prove his innocence." He finally closed the folder as he started jotting down some notes on his notebook.

"That's good for him and to the witnesses who have finally come out. That will likely lessen his crimes and sentence, in case if you guys have decided to put him in jail or detention."

"Doing his time in jail is unlikely as we have something to offer for him. Whether he likes it or not, we need him to continue his education at U.A. while the investigation is ongoing. Also, the principal is interested with the teen's dual quirk: Marksman and Demonic quirk, the teachers may help him control and improve his power." He smiled.

He blinked twice and gasped before covering his lips using her hand. "Oh my, that's great to hear! While doing my walkthrough inside his memory, I saw a little sign that he is open and willing to change his deeds and has a little hope inside him. If I were you, consult him tomorrow when he wakes up and talk about it before it's too late." She chuckled lightly as she stood up from her chair and let out her final say. "That is all I could give for now, officer and I hope those results you're holding would help you to speed up the investigation. Thank you for your time~"

He stood up as well and grabbed the folder before bowing as thanks. "I'll take note on that, doc. And thank you for borrowing this folder."

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Date: September 17

Time: 10:30 AM

Place: 10th floor, Izuku's private ward at Musutafu Medical Center

Hisashi, Izuku, Detective Naomasa, and Principal Nezu POV

The green-haired teen Izuku had been woken up from his slumber with radiant look started to show up. Possibly, the after-effects of his therapy with the psychologist, in which worked like a charm. At 9:00 AM, Hisashi helped his son by feeding him breakfast. Though he told him that he can eat by himself without any help, the jet black haired adult insisted, wanting to show his efforts as a parent and so he let out a sigh and let his father feed him like a little kid. Forty minutes after taking a meal, he drank his medicines to ease the little pain in his head and parts of his body.

Izuku asked if his mother was here in the hospital, but the father told him she was at the apartment packing up things to move to a bigger home.

Hisashi sat on the chair beside him as he placed his hand on other's shoulder. "If you didn't know, I bought a 3-bedroom condo for us to have bigger space and also want to make it up to my family. I want you guys to have a comfortable life like your mom who've always wanted. Also, after taking a month leave, I finally got transferred to the Tokyo branch where I'm currently working and hopefully I could do work at home basis to look after you and your mom if I'd get lucky." He chuckled.

Izuku slowly nodded and let out a slight smile to him. "Even if you almost abandoned us, I did not expect this, dad. This is too much and I'm satisfied you decided to stay with us."

The father looked happier upon seeing his son's pocketful of sunshine smile he would always dream of. He couldn't resist, but to ruffle the other's soft green hair and let out a tear on his face.

"I guess the doctor was right after all~! You've becoming normal than before, my son. You don't have an idea how long I've been praying for this just to see your smile, Izuku and I wish that your soft sides will return once you get fully recovered!"

Izuku decided not to respond as he let his cheerful father to express his fatherly love towards him. Never in his life had seen his father doing those kinds of emotions before as he barely meet him when he was a defenseless wee kid.

"Please, stop it, dad. You're embarrassing yourself—" He let out a light blush before looking away.

"Sorry, little broccoli. I just can't conceal my feelings after I've seen your smile~!" Hisashi rubbed his temples.

"Wait…did you just call me 'little broccoli'?" He looked again at his dad and blinked in confusion on his face.

"Well uhh…you see….when you were a baby until you grew up as a toddler, I usually called you 'little broccoli' because of your hair resembles as a vegetable." He let out a chuckle.

"Dad, I'm not a kid anymore." He huffed. "But if you still want to call me by that name then that's fine."

He moved his hands up to the other's head, patting it softly as the father giggled and later let out a grin. "Anyways. I must tell you something and I hope you wouldn't get mad or anything."

The teen tilted his head as he looked directly to his father's eyes. "What is it, dad?"

"Your childhood friend, Katsuki Bakugo visited you two days ago…" He later pointed the rose flower placed in a glass vase located at the bedside. "Aside from food, he gave you that flower and wished you for faster recovery."

"Oh…." His smile slowly faded as he glanced at the flower the ash blonde gave to him. While staring at it, he remembered the time at the coast when Katsuki suddenly confessed and declared his love towards him in the middle of the fight with All Might. That love weakened his demonic quirk before his eyes started to black out and later his quirk started to unleash uncontrollably.

Hisashi observed his son for a moment and let out a sigh. "I understand you're not ready yet, but we had a 'man to man' talk before we visited your room. I explained everything to him about our quirks and the time you were very ill as a kid after finding out that your power had awakened. In the middle of explaining those complicated things, he abruptly bowed in front of me and apologized for what he did to you in the past."

Izuku looked at his bandaged hands with a frown while listening to his father. At the same time, he heard Kacchan's voice inside his head, words of the declaration.

"I know there is a little portion of old you who is still wanting to pursue his dreams, Deku! Because every single day, I've been thinking about you and I still care whether you lived, died, and revived over and over again!"

"I LOVE YOU, IZUKU!"

He shook his head a few times, trying to ward off the thoughts inside his head with a light blush as he looked back to his father. "You have to respect my choice for now….I'm not ready to face him, yet."

"B-But Izuku. He told me that he'll do everything just to forgive you and make it up to you once again. He wanted you to have a restart with your friendship. Hell, he even told me that he loves you for being an inspiration for him to become the greatest hero."

"He can wait, father. For I need to sink everything before I make a reflection if this is so-called 'love' I've felt before…" He took deep breaths and closed his eyes before asking him again. "Wait…did you just accept him for who he is?"

"Yeah…When I was in Europe, I kinda adapted the western modern cultures. It's a long story. I really don't mind if he's gay to you, son." He chuckled with a tease.

"Dad, you're not funny—"

"Come on~! I was just teasing you, little broccoli!" He laughed and poked his son's cheek.

Izuku rolled his eyes as he let his father poked him with annoyance. "Oh my God, stop it, dad—"

"This is the only way I can have my bonding moment with my son so please let me do this before I go back again to my work after a month~!"

"Well, aside from teasing me, what else can you do father?"

He stopped poking his son's cheeks as he came closer to him with a smile. "After you get discharged in this hospital, how about I help you with your quirk? Physical sparring and mental training just you and me? Hmm..?" He winked. "You'll see the power of the infamous 'Arson', eh? This is my other way of having bonding time with my son. How about that?"

His eyes widened with a little excitement on his face. "We can really do that, dad?"

He nodded. "I will soon show you my full transformation quirk and guide you how you can transform it as well, without having any problem. I'm a senior hero support analyst for nothing! I'll analyze everything and give you a diagnosis, what are your quirks' weaknesses and how you can improve it~! Though I'm really not permitted to be a pro-hero since I'm an ex-convict, but I've been helping other people in Europe on transforming their lives with improved quirks."

"Coming from you, a former villain and now helping others, huh?" He let out a soft chuckle. "That's cool, dad and I'll look forward to it. That's a promise, right?"

Hisashi let out a warm smile. "Of course it's a promise and I don't want to break it. You know what, Izuku? I think today is the right time to rekindle our father-son relationship since we haven't got in touch for so long and we, together with your mom could have our family time."

He let his father talk about his future plans with his family, probably taking them for a vacation, father-son physical and quirk training and other things that can build stronger relationships which lasted for a few minutes. He just nodded and agreed to everything his father told to him until the two got interrupted when a detective and a height of a short man but with an animal appearance visited the teen's room.

The father's left eye twitched in annoyance, thinking that they ruined their quality time. "Oh, it's you again….with a friend? Are you two going to kick me out of the room, huh?"

Izuku looked at the two guests with a confused face. "Uhh…good morning?"

The detective let out a soft chuckle towards the father. "O-Of course not~! You can stay with your son if you want as we came to check on Izuku." With a smile, Naomasa bowed as a greeting. "Good Morning to you too, Izuku, Hisashi. Before we talk about the investigation, let me introduce to you to a friend of mine."

The father and a son looked at the short man who appears to be a possible combination of several different animals, including a dog, a mouse, and a bear. He has the head of a mouse with circular black eyes, a large scar over the right one, and relatively square-shaped ears with pale pink insides slanting outwards from the top of his head, and an elongated muzzle with a small round nose. His fur is white and has large, dog-like paws with pink pads and a thin tail like that of a cat. He wore a white dress shirt, a dark red tie around his neck, a black double-breasted waistcoat and matching dress pants. He wore an orange lace-up sneakers with incredibly thick soles which seem to be quite large on him.

"Ah~! Greetings to you two, especially young Midoriya! Let me formally introduce myself. I am Nezu, the current principal of the U.A. high and on behalf of the students, faculty, and the administration of U.A. that we wish you for a speedy recovery and also giving you a big thanks for saving the pro-hero group 'Wild, Wild Pussycats and their nephew at the forest training incident. We've really appreciated it~!"

"What is he doing here…and why they are thanking me all of a sudden? Why are they concern of me?" Izuku thought to himself as Hisashi just watched them with few glances on both parties.

"How did he know, officer?" He looked up to the detective.

"I've had my research, kid. I'm the detective after all. " He chuckled. "Please listen for he has another thing to say."

"E-Eh? Uhh.. okay.." He slowly nodded.

The animal hybrid walked towards the teen. "Despite the League of Villains invasion in our campus which includes you of course and your attempted revolt against the hero community with your ideals, we do not hold any grudge towards you, to be honest. In fact, we've recently watched the news that the government together with the hero council are planning to make a protection law and have anti-discrimination law for the quirkless society. The hearing and debates will soon occur and all we have to do is to wait and trust the process. Sounds good, isn't it?"

"They've finally listened to your appeals, Izuku. There is still hope in our community and this is one of our first steps to clean the image before we face the upcoming threat or invasion from the villains." Naomasa smiled, hoping for a positive reaction from the teen.

Izuku couldn't react, expect with an awe expression on his face. He didn't know if he would get happy for they have finally listened to him, shocked for the unexpected news coming from them, or other kinds of emotions who are all mixed up inside his head. Later on, he let out a slight smile before looking down. "You just needed a revolution coming from me for you guys to take action, huh?"

"It will benefit not just for the quirkless, but applies to everyone. But wait, I'm not finished yet, young Midoriya! I have another thought to tell you."

"I don't want to disagree with you. As long as I won't ever see a single quirkless person who gets hurt then I'll support with the law they're making." He looked up again at the Principal and raised an eyebrow. "Huh? What is it?"

From the detective's briefcase, he brought the old U.A. application form of Izuku, almost 4 years ago before giving it to him.

With confusion after taking the paper, he knew where this is going as he let out blush on his cheeks, hands started secrete cold sweat, and later tears appeared on his eyes before they started falling on his face while looking at it. The father looked at his son with a worried look, but at the same time, he remembered the time when Bakugo told him that they wanted Izuku to continue his education at the school he'd always dreamed of. The thoughts of his head made him smile even more.

"Izuku Midoriya… I got interested in your dual quirks when I watched the live television and we can improve and help you gain back your momentum. Please, accept our invitation to you….I would like you to continue your education, build connections and relationships with us because we still believe in you….

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We'd totally welcome you to study at U.A. High!"

Inside the private ward, all they could hear was a loud bawling and burst tears coming from the green-haired, resulting in his father to grab his son for a tight hug.

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Author's Note: I'm leaving a short preview of this and the rest will be posted in the next chapter.

Date: September 17

Time: 7:00 PM

Place: Todoroki household/Mental facility

Todoroki family POV

The family all gathered up and sat on their dining chairs, facing each other on the table for supper. The oldest sister, Fuyumi made soba noodles, soup, stir fried vegetables, and grilled meat as her two brothers, Natsuo and Shoto looked amazed and thanked their sister for the food. The leader of the household and father, Enji finally appeared on the dining area as he sat before looking at the food his daughter made with a satisfied look. All sat up and the father let his children eat their dinner before it gets cold.

"Geez, big sis! This meal is so delicious than our cafeteria food in college!" The silver-haired jock started munching.

"Anything for you, little brother. He-Hehehe~ Be careful not to choke though" ^^" Fuyumi chuckled a bit as she started eating.

Shoto bowed at the food before touching his meal in a calm and quiet manner, decided not to talk especially he on his position directly faced at his father.

Enji, later with a frown look on his face observed his children enjoying their dinner while he barely touches his food. For they do not know, he received a letter and a call from the hero council about investigating his personal issues about the abuse of his wife and children. They even invited him to meet at the council for further talks.

After slurping her soba noodles, Fuyumi glanced at her father and blinked. "Is there anything wrong with the food I made, father? You look like you lost an appetite to eat."

The brothers, slurping their noodles glanced at him with a curious look as Enji took deep breathes and closed his eyes before letting out his words….more of a confession.

"I uhh…I-I have decided to quit for being a pro-hero and condemn myself for the sins I made to this family…."

Author's Note: Okay, that was a long teaser right there! Hahahaha And yes, I made Izuku cry again AF at the hospital. I'm done for this chapter and let me know your thoughts by leaving a review and thank you so much for supporting this story! So yes, I'll see you in the next chapter. Adios!