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The following day started off as normal as it could, only with the added guest of Mei staying with us till she could find a new place. Mom was okay with it as long as I didn't try any funny business; to be honest I wasn't entirely sure what she had meant.
My mom began preparing breakfast for the three of us, while Mei was busy working on whatever baby she was currently tinkering with. And myself? Currently rising from my new, temporary sleeping arrangement, the couch. To this day I can't recall what dream I was having, but I was told that I screamed, "I AM HERE!" before rolling off the sofa and hitting my head on the coffee table. Needless to say my day was not heading off to a good start.
"Izuku, are you alright?" Mei said, hurrying to my rescue.
"Plus Ultra," was the only thing I could muster into a coherent sentence.
"Yea, he's okay," Mei called out to my mother before prompting me back up onto the couch, while my mom retrieved a bag of frozen gyoza to place on my forehead.
"Thanks," I said getting up from the sofa and walking towards the dining table, only to stub my toe on the dreaded coffee table. Pain throbbed on both ends of my body, but I just grimaced through it, not wanting to let out any grunts of pain and alarm my mother.
"Oh man, today just isn't your day Izuku," Mei had stated out loud to me while turning around and getting back to work on one of her babies.
"What else could go wrong?" I asked, now hopping over to the dinner table.
A sudden gust of wind blasted everything off the table, dousing me in miso soup and sticky rice. I looked over at the source, annoyed to see Mei holding up the bottom of a boot aimed at me.
"S-sorry!"
"It's alright, Hatsume. I wasn't that hungry anyways." I grabbed a handful of paper towels and began cleaning the food off of me, but was quickly interrupted by a hard knock at the door.
"What is it now?" I thought, wondering if it was possible for anything else to go disastrously wrong today.
Mom, being as polite as always, went to answer the door, thinking it might have been someone of importance and she wasn't disappointed. She opened the door to reveal Aizawa standing there with his piercing eyes meeting my mother's timid ones.
"G-g-good morning, how can I help you sir?" she greeted him, still trying to sound courteous, even with Aizawa's intimidating demeanor. Aizawa pulled down his scarf showing off the rest of his face.
"Good morning ma'am, my name is Shota Aizawa. I was wondering if you could tell me if your son, Izuku Midoriya, was available?" Aizawa asked in a perfect gentlemanly tone, a complete change in character from earlier, and even finished with a bow.
"Oh, of course he is! Please, come on in," and with that my mom had let the U.A. teacher enter, Aizawa even thanked my mother in a respectful manner.
"Izuku, somebody's here to see you."
Mei and I looked up to see who our surprise guest was and Mei instantly dropped what she was doing, too petrified to move. She hadn't gotten over what Aizawa had done to me in our altercation the night of the break in.
"Midoriya-san, do you mind coming with me for a bit, we don't have much time," Aizawa said, still keeping up his civil personality. I simply nodded and made my way over to him just before being stopped by Mei, who had ran to grab my wrist.
She pulled me close to whisper in my ear, "What are you doing? Don't you remember that this is the man who broke your arm and gave you a black eye? Not to mention he's probably leading you to a trap to arrest us!" Mei tried explaining to me, hoping for me to see reason.
I turned back to her and gave her a simple smile. "S-sorry Hatsume, I probably should have told you this yesterday but… he actually found me yesterday as I was coming home and... he's offered to train me."
"What?! Why didn't you bother to tell me sooner, Izuku? … I thought we were a team?"
"I'm sorry Hatsume, I meant to tell you earlier, but I didn't know how you'd react."
" I don't trust this guy, plus I was planning on testing the suit out today," Mei told me, still holding her grumpy face, hoping I would change my mind.
"S-Sorry Hatsume, how about we do it later today? I promise." With that I ran over to Aizawa who was still standing there, waiting for me to leave with him.
"Are you two done, because I would like to get this done with before school starts, now let's go," he addressed me with his usual tone as I ran to change into something more fitting for what Aizawa had planned. Mom went up to Aizawa trying to inquire his interest in me.
"Excuse me Aizawa-san, but do you mind telling me what exactly you need my son for?"
"Oh of course. Your son has graciously offered to be my assistant, as I try to juggle my work as a teacher."
"B-but he's so young, are you sure Izuku can help?"
I returned to the room dressed in casual attire to have Aizawa bore his menacing eyes at me. "I'm positive, in fact it was Midoriya-san who insisted that he'd help me with my hero work. He told me that he was willing to do whatever he could to help me and that failure wasn't a possibility with him." Aizawa's gaze was locked onto me the entire time, as he lied to my mom.
My mother has always been a gullible person, and after hearing those words from a teacher and pro hero, she accepted it as solid truth. With no more distractions, we left mom and a peeved Mei at home as I followed the U.A. teacher outside.
As we exited the complex, I took in our surroundings. The sky was clear and the sun was warming me, a soft wind was gently ruffling my hair, and cherry blossoms fell gracefully to the ground around us. This was it, I was finally going to start my training!
"So Aizawa-sensei, what exactly did you need me-"
"SHUT UP WORM, YOUR ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW WORLD OF HURT!"
Fear had rushed up behind me and gripped my throat, Aizawa had thrown what looked like normal bracelets at me.
"NOW PUT THEM ON AND DON'T FORGET YOUR LEGS!"
Afraid of what the consequences may be if didn't comply with the quirk eraser's demands, I hastily put on the bands. The moment one of them was placed around my wrist the band made me drop to the ground, I was lucky my arm didn't rip off due to gravity!
I managed to put all of the weight bracelets despite the extreme difficulty. "Now here's the deal Midoriya, every day for 5 weeks straight your going to put on these weights and finish the training regiment I've laid out for you, or else I'll increase the workload on you."
"W-wait seriously these things are heavy enough already," I made a point by demonstrating how difficult it was for me to even raise my arms to my chest.
"Well you don't have to do this, you can give up and take them off whenever you want. But if you do…. I'm arresting both you and that girlfriend of yours." I knew Aizawa would make good on his promise.
"W-wait that isn't fair you can't arrest Hatsume too, because of my failures. It was all my idea and I was the one that caused all that damage," I tried pleading with him for some sort of leeway.
"No, this is where you show me if you are truly serious Midoriya. Because when you put yourself on the line as a hero, you're not just putting you own life on the line, but your loved ones as well." Aizawa watched the cherry blossom petals as they fell from a nearby tree.
"Most of new students that attend U.A. claim that they want to become heros so they can help people but… in reality it's mostly two reasons, fame and fortune. They think it's all glamour and thrills, they forget what truly matters, and when that reality hits them they shrivel under the pressures of what they sign up for. and it worries me students show up claiming they want to help people and the ones they love… only to abandon them at the last minute. A lot of them don't understand what it is to truly become a hero" Aizawa turned back to look at me, trying my best to handle the weight of these cursed bracelets. "So if your done wanting to give up, let's move on."
Aizawa started to break down the training regiment he had made for me. On paper it seemed like a basic workout program, only cranked up to 11. One of the work outs was 20 basic push ups, but because of the added weight, simply doing one was like trying to do one on Jupiter.
Aizawa kept pushing me to break my limit, and after a while my arms felt so numb that a simple breeze could knock them off. By the time I finished the push ups I was feeling like my body could breakdown at any second, but this was only the beginning. Aizawa told me the next step would be a 10k run, this man is truly insane.
Halfway through the run I asked Aizawa if we could take a small break, but he adamantly shot that down. My stomach started to gurgle and groan, and I remembered that I didn't even get an opportunity to eat breakfast this morning, due to Mei's shenanigans. My legs felt like they were on fire as I frantically tried to keep up the pace.
Aizawa on the other hand had no problems matching my speed. It felt like he was almost mocking me with the way he was running, looking half asleep and as if he was forcing himself to stay awake, and that it was my struggles that were boring him to sleep in the first place.
Not long after my cardio catastrophe was over, I fell to the ground gasping for air, but Aizawa wasn't in a merciful mood and proceeded to drop a medicine ball right on my stomach.
"Sit-ups, lets go!" he ordered as I reluctantly followed his orders, internally begging that this torture would end soon. Every rep felt more painful than the last, I was being pushed to my limit, it felt like my will was being eroded to dust.
But…
Despite that, I couldn't give up, not with so much on the line. I had to stop thinking of this as pain, I needed to start thinking of every push as being one more obstacle out of my way, every step an inch closer to the top, and every rep a notch to get better. Filled with new found determination, I gave everything I could. After I finished I walked up to Aizawa and dropped the ball in front of him, staring him down with conviction.
"Alright we're done for today, now let's go. There's one more place I need to take you to."
What more did this man what from me? At this point, prison almost sounded better than whatever he had planned. We walked down the street, thankfully it was at a nice relaxing pace, enough to catch my breath.
The sunlight on my face felt so relaxing, I was enjoying the nice warm glow as it enveloped me. Until..
"Izuku!"
We both looked over to see who called for me, to our surprise it was Mei running towards us, dragging some sort of briefcase with her. "I've been looking for you for hours, where have you been? I thought you'd be done by now, don't you remember we've got babies to test!" She hounded me while passing me the briefcase, well, more like she threw it to me.
"S-s-sorry Hatsume but we're almost done, I promise, and when we finish I promise I'll come and we'll test out every baby you've got lined up." Maybe it was extreme exhaustion that caused me to open my big fat mouth, because I instantly regretted saying that.
"Oh you bet your going to test everything out." It had almost sounded like she threatened me while pinching my cheeks in a taunting manner. Somebody save me.
She let go of me and took a step back and the silence between the three of us became unbearable, you could cut the tension with knife.
Mei was still distrusting of Aizawa and was giving him an evil stare. Aizawa on the other hand treated her animosity like most things in life… not caring.
"So what's the deal Mr. Pro Hero? What's with the sudden of change of heart, afraid that we'll tell people that two teenagers manage to get the drop on a famous pro hero like you?" Mei asked, pretty snobbily, and while I didn't agree with her tone, I still found it odd that someone like Aizawa was willing to turn his back on the situation and go as far as to make me his personal student.
"You know, you're pretty ungrateful for someone who'd just gotten a second chance of freedom," Aizawa turned to face Mei. All the fear that Mei had once felt due to Aizawa had been replaced with animosity, as they both exchanged icy stares.
"I don't have to explain myself to someone who was expelled for nearly blowing up half the school due to their ignorance," Aizawa coldly told her..
"You jerk!" Mei brought out the shock glove and turned it on to the max setting. Aizawa's hair stood up along with his scarf, showing that he wasn't going to hesitate to take down Mei. I quickly stepped in between the two of them to try and defuse the stand off before things could end badly.
"Co-come on guys, let's just all calm down before someone does something they'll regret." I put my hands in between them hoping that they wouldn't be willing to cut me down to get to the other. Aizawa's hair fell back into place along with his scarf and he simply just walked away without a glance back.
I didn't think it would actually work, I faced Mei who still had a bitter look on her face, unwilling to let Aizawa's words go. I've never seen her so angry before, her fist clenched inside the glove. Mei unleashed her anger on a random street light in one swift punch, causing the pole to warp at the impact.
The street lightbulb inside had also popped, most likely due to the electricity emitting from the glove and overloading the street light. 'Holy crap', I thought.
Mei looked over to me, finally calming down a bit.
"Sorry Izuku, guess I kinda got carried away a bit, huh?" Mei tried to brush off her heat of the moment outburst.
I looked over at the damage Mei had caused. 'Carried away, huh?' I tried to wave it off to her as a non issue, hoping to avoid any further complication.
"Let's go already, before I change my mind," Aizawa looked back to yell at us. We went to go catch up with him, much to Mei's dismay.
"S-so Aizawa-sensei, are we getting close?" I questioned after a bit of walking, hoping that the tension between the two of them would finally end soon. I looked around at our surroundings, it seemed like all the people were gone, in fact there was nobody else around.
Aizawa never did answer my question, so we continued walking onward until, at last, Aizawa came to a stop. Our mysterious destination turned out to be just a regular looking storage building. At least, that's what it looked like until you entered the building, the inside was a completely different story.
The whole place was a complete wreck, it looked like a basic loft but the whole place was a trash fire.
"W-what exactly are we doing here Sensei?" I asked, trying to piece together the puzzle.
"Since I've agreed to help you out I figured we needed a place to for you to hone your skills, and since I can't take you to U.A., I figured this would be the perfect place for you."
"Yea but… this place, it looks like it's falling apart."
Mei drifted away from our conversation and went to fiddle with some kind of circuit breaker.
"I don't care, that's your job. To fix this place up," Aizawa said, smirking at me.
The circuit board Mei was tinkering with gave out a small spark with a little puff of smoke. We all look up to see the lights turning on, showing the rest of the layout and just how much of a mess it actually was.
"You got it, Aizawa-sensei," I reluctantly agreed to his unfair task. I glanced over to see Mei fiddling with whatever she could get her hands on.
"But Aizawa-sensei, could I ask for a favor? Would it be possible for Hatsume to set up shop here, to help me out as my support?"
"Do what you want, just don't let her burn the place to ashes," Aizawa answered in his usual uncaring manner as he exited the building. Ready to give the news to Mei, I picked my way through the debris to where she had situated herself.
"Hatsume, I've got some good news for you!" Mei turned to face me, goggles down and somehow already covered in grease.
"Huh?" she answered.
I couldn't help but smile, we had just arrived at our new hangout and already Mei had already found a way to make herself feel at home.
"Aizawa said we would use this place to train and practice my skills. I asked if you could also use this space to make your 'babies', and if you want you can even crash here so you don't have to sleep over at my place anymore!" Mei's expression did not turn out the way I expected it to.
"Yo-your kicking me out?" She seemed like she was getting ready to cry.
"Wa-wait n-no th-that's not what I meant!" I began to talk quicker to keep Mei from shedding any tears. "I-I just thought that m-maybe you'd want somewhere bigger to work at ya know?"
"Fine, but I'm still coming over cause your mom is a mean cook." I couldn't help but laugh at her response, my stomach growled thinking about my mother's cooking.
"Haha alright fine, come on let's head back home then."
"Oh no you don't!" Mei tossed the briefcase back to me with full force "You promised to help me test out these babies and that's what your going to do!" I groaned knowing there was more work to be done.
"Bu-but Hatsu-"
"BUTTS ARE FOR SITTING NOT FOR EXCUSE MAKING!" I slumped my head knowing that my there would be no rest coming for me anytime in the near future.
After doing some quick clean up Mei hastily crafted a makeshift workbench, incase any last minute adjustments needed to be made.
"ALRIGHT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, CHILDREN OF ALL AGES PREPARE TO BE AMAZED BY THE INCREDIBLE HANDCRAFTED BABIES MADE BY YOURS TRULY!"
"Who are you talking too?"
"Shushhh your messing up my future presentation. AND NOW DEMONSTRATING MY ASTOUNDING BABIES IS MY ADORABLE ASSISTANT, IZUKU MIDORIYA!" Mei jumped to the other side of the room pretending to be some sort of crowd, clapping and cheering. She was having way too much fun with this. I looked down at my feet to see what contraption she had put me in. It looked like the boots she was fiddling with earlier this morning.
"Now Izuku, what you currently have on your feet are my modified glide boots. Instead of allowing you to hover, I've designed them to allow you to take giant leaps into the air as much as 15ft! Now all you have to do is tap your toes inside the boots and a large gust of air will propel you up in the air."
"A-are you sure about this?"
"Definitely and don't worry about landing, the boots are padded to absorb any impact…. At least it should or else your knees are going to turn to dust."
That wasn't quite reassuring, but I guess I didn't really have a choice in the matter. After swallowing my fear and biting my tongue I pressed the small buttons on the boots to launch me into the air. Which did happen, but instead of propelling me upward, they rocketed me backwards and I hit the wall behind me at full force.
"I….I don't think this was supposed to happen…. Was it?" I mumbled in pain, Mei ran over to me and hunched down to my level.
"Izuku, are you okay?"
"Y-Yea, I think I'll live."
"Good, cause we are far from done." Now that she knew I hadn't sustained any serious injuried she ripped the boots off of me and went straight to fixing the issue, leaving me to wallow in my pain.
"...ow."
"What are you doing still lying on the ground for? Come on, we got more babies to look at." Mei yanked me off the ground to take me to the next instrument of my demise.
Next up was the infamous shock gloves, felt pretty cool being on the opposite end of these things.
"Now Izuku, you maybe be familiar with these bad boys. Well I've added some new features to these suckers to give them an extra oomph." I inspected the gloves, trying to guess what the changes could be. "If you could just flick your wrist Izuku, you'll see our first surprise."
Doing so made a small little ball pop out, it was probably no bigger than a billiard ball. It was also attached to a strong piece of fiber that I could use to swing this thing around.
"This little sucker is called the Thunderball and will make for a great weapon against the everyday scum you see." She ran over to set up a few dummy targets around us, they were poorly drawn, but vaguely resemble Aizawa.
"GIve them a good woollip Izuku!"
"GOT IT!" The glove started to emit small sparks of lightning around itself, making it ready to electrocute anything that gets in its way. I threw the Thunderball as hard as I could, smashing through one of the Aizawa targets.
"Woah that was awesome, did you see that Mei?!" I was too distracted at my achievement that I failed to notice the Thunderball returning to me. It smack right into my face, knocking me to the floor and for an added bonus, shocking me as well, because why not.
"Oh dang, maybe I should make the return a little bit better."
"Ya think?" I said ripping the glove off my arm. I got off the floor to dust myself off and spat a little blood out. "...Okay….. What's next?" I regretfully asked, but Mei just beamed at me, knowing I was willing to go all out.
We spent the rest of the day going over every invention Mei had developed for the Deku suit, some of them multiple times. We hoped that each tinkering would be what finally make its all worth it. Sadly it all ended in failures, Mei was starting to lose hope and was ready to give up all together. Mei dropped to the floor in defeat looking at the boots wondering where she could have gone wrong.
"Izuku… It's hopeless… I think you came to the wrong inventor, maybe they were right at U.A. to expel me. Nothing I do seems to work…." It hurt to see her like this.
"What are you talking about Hatsume, you're an amazing inventor! Look at all these cool things that you've made. I could have never have thought of anything like this, not even in my wildest imagination."
"Heh, you're just saying that."
"No, I'm serious, I mean just look at this thing. Sure these boots aren't functioning properly yet, but I'm positive if we look at it together we can get it." Mei finally was willing to give it another shot, I reached out my hand to her and pulled her up to get ready for round two.
During the middle of our second trial run, we heard knocking coming from the loft door. Nobody knew where we were, only the two of us and Aizawa. Opening the door I discovered it was my mom, with her always present worried face and holding two bags in her arms.
"Oh Izuku, I'm so glad I finally found you! I was beginning to worry about you, I haven't seen you since this morning. Why didn't you call to let me know you were still helping out Aizawa-san?"
"Mom, how did you find us?"
"I had to to find out where you were! Speaking of which, where is he and why aren't you with him at the school?"
I was at a loss of words on how to respond to her. I was never really a big fan of lying to my mother about anything, and I had been doing that too often lately. Thankfully I didn't have to add another lie to the list, as Mei called out, inquiring as to who was at the door. That was just enough to distract my mom from further questioning me. Mom peaked around me to see Mei standing there still inspecting the boot and hurried past me to get to Mei.
"Hatsume, I hope your hungry because I made you two some dinner." Mom laid everything out so neatly for us to enjoy, oh man I was so hungry that I was willing to eat the chopsticks at this point.
"This looks amazing mom, I can't wait. I haven't eaten anything at all today since Hatsume blew my breakfast away with one her inventions." I was ready to devour everything in my sight.
Fate truly is a cruel mistress, Mei grabbed my arm with such a force I think she left a bruise. I looked over at her to see a spark in her eyes, like she had just discovered the meaning of the universe itself.
"Wh-what's the matter, Hatsume?" I whimpered just wanting to enjoy my first meal of the day.
"Izuku, I think I figured out what's wrong with the boots."
Mei yanked me back over to the workstation, ditching my mom and my heavenly food. Mei pulled out a flathead screwdriver to pry open the boots, revealing that both of them smelled like miso soup inside. They must have somehow leaked into the boots sometime this morning.
"THANK YOU, IZUKU!" Mei gave me a huge hug, my heart was racing a million miles an hour, my hands were trembling, not knowing what to do.
"I had forgotten about that incident this morning, and thanks to you reminding me, I think I figured out what's causing the boots to function incorrectly. Luckily this should be a super easy fix!" Mei went right to work replacing the parts that got coated in the miso soup.
True to her word Mei had replaced all the damaged parts in record time, proving that she is an amazing inventor. Without any hesitation I put the boots on gave Mei a smile, knowing that this time it WILL work.
I pressed the buttons in the boot that allowed me to lift off, Mei closed her eyes in suspense and I braced for impact.
And it worked.
The boots propelled me high in the air that I could touch the ceiling lights. I looked down to see my mom amazed to see one of Mei's babies in action.
But what really made me happy was seeing Mei smiling, knowing that what she had made with her own two hands finally worked… I didn't really care that they worked to be honest…. I was just happy to see Mei smile again.
Today was a pretty good day.
"Hello everybody and welcome to our companies, first ever presentation of our new start up company "Midori Shiryoku" where we've got our eyes on you. I'm the Co-CEO and head of Development Mei Hatsume" Mei pulls a piece of rope showing the Company name on a banner and popping some confetti balls.
"Hatsume what is all this." Izuku said coming from upstairs, Mei quickly pulled him towards her.
"And this broccoli haired, cinnamon bun is my partner in crime Izuku Midoriya, Co-CEO and he is also this companies mascot."
"Wh-what?" Izuku looks over at the banner displaying 'his' new companies name. "Midiori Shiryoku?"
"Yea I know it doesn't sound very cool but I thought it was fitting, I wanted to call it Synergistics but sadly that name was already taken. But enough about that Izuku you main job is to help me test out our new babies, like this one." Mei takes out a box to reveal its contains.
"A Belt? Wait that same belt I have for the Deku suit, It looks the same."
"Ah Poor misguided Izuku I Added a new pouch to it, go ahead and see what's inside." Out of curiosity Izuku reached in and open the new container and found a pretty hefty brown looking ball.
"It smells like Chocolate."
"Close this is my first ever edible baby, ahem Baby number 8088431 The NutroSphere; this little baby was carefully researched by our top culinary experts on what is tasty and nutritious."
"My mom?"
"Sush and with a little tweaking from me I have created this baby guaranteed to keep you and fellow heroes from feeling those late shift munchies and its chalk full of all of your daily nutrients and vitamins needed to kick bad guy butt, now go ahead Izuku and take a huge bite."
"W-well at least since its food it won't explode in my mouth." Izuku took a pretty huge bite of the NutioShpere
"Oh wow Hatusme this isn't half ba-" Izuku ran to the nearest trash can and started to throw up violently.
"Huh must have added too much vitamin C."
"HATSUME WHAT'S IN THIS THING!?" Izuku said still barfing up his insides.
"Oh what every hero needs in their diet; eggs, fish, assorted greens, oranges, nato beans, I think there's some pork in there too? All it's all covered in glorious chocolate for added sweetness." Mei finished explaining as Izuku crawled over to her in agony. "So what do you think?"
"I think I rather eat dirt" where Izuku's last words as he fainted.
"Maybe it needs more chocolate, welp that's all the time we have join us next time for a different baby to show off." Mei lifted Izuku off the ground to wave at the camera
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