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WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!
How ya'll doin.
Welcome back to... to...
WHAT'S THIS?! A HERO CHAPTER?!
WHY YES IT IS!
Geez, need to get my head in the game. -insert music here-
WELL HERE YOU GO!
"... Something feels off..." Kaminari said as he spoke with Sero while sitting on his desk.
"Definitely off. It's as if fall came early, but it's still august." Sero said with a sigh to his friend, nodding his head in agreement.
"You guys!" Ashido slammed her hand on the desk and they looked over at her as she pointed a finger across the room. "This isn't something to make light of! She got here early and has been staring out the window like a zombie ever since I came in!"
"I wonder what's wrong..." Yaoyorozu said with a frown as they all looked over at Izuku who was staring out the window with her head resting on her desk.
"... Is she still doing that...?" The class turned to look at Todoroki as he walked in and Ashido cried out in surprise.
"WHA! His pretty boy face is ruined!" She pointed a shaking finger at Todoroki as he stepped in and he looked at her with a blank look.
"I wanted to ask her how her internship was going, but she hasn't been responsive." Kaminari said as he pointed at Izuku who just continued to stare out the window. "None of us are sure what to do, Uraraka and Bakubro are on authorized absences, along with Asui and Kirishima."
"What a day for them to be gone." Sero said with a sigh as he looked over at the gloomy girl as well. The class paused for a second and held their breath as she lifted her head up and let out a sigh, before letting her forehead thunk onto the desktop again.
"Whaaa! Izuchan, come on! What's wrong?" Ashido asked as she started to walk around the desks.
"Hmm." The class looked over at Mineta as he walked up, and paled in horror as he poked her bottom.
"What are you doing?!" Yaoyorozu shouted as she stood up, but Izuku hadn't moved at all from the touch.
"This is awesome!" Mineta shouted with excitement, before he went for a full grope.
"You." Todoroki slid his foot across the ground and ice shot up in a wave, encasing the young boy. The whole class looked over at him worriedly as he stood up and walked over to the desk, melting the tice as he went before he tossed a shivering Mineta to the back of the room. "Izuku," He turned to look down at the girl who was clearly a little to deep in thought. He sighed out as he got nothing, before he touched his finger to the top of her desk and froze it.
"WHAAA!" Izuku cried out as she sat up and clapped her hands over her cold forehead. She turned to look up at Todoroki, and seemed to start to clue in that everyone was in the room. "... What time is it? When did everyone get here?" She asked curiously and the whole class paled.
"We've got ten minutes before class starts, are you alright?" Todoroki asked her as he touched her desk to melt the ice off of it. "You said you'd talk if you bothered by something..."
"I'm sorry, yeah I'm okay." She blushed a bit and waved a hand at him. "I guess I was spacing out, I didn't really sleep well last night."
"CLASS IS STARTING!" Iida slammed the door open and everyone looked over at him. "Where are Uraraka and Asui?! And Kirishima and Bakugo?!" He asked as he stepped inside.
"Authorized absences..." Izuku said with a half smile before she started to pull her things out of her desk. The class frowned at her depression, before they all went to take their seats. She looked up as Todoroki still stood there and smiled a bit. "You should sit down."
"... Izuku." He touched her shoulder and she watched a frown pull at his lips.
"I'm fine, Shouchan. No worries," She smiled up at him and watched him let out a sigh, before he went to his desk. She turned in her chair to look at the empty seat in front of her, and frowned as she opened up her notebooks while Aizawa came in to do home room. She couldn't pay attention in class as she thought about what Nighteye said to her about Mirio, and how All Might hadn't said anything to her at all. He came to school early to speak with him, but he wasn't there for the morning. She groaned as she looked at her books, halfheartedly taking notes as she thought back to the girl she couldn't help. She put a hand on her face as she thought about how scared she was, how that Chisaki guy was the one to take her away...
"... You going to eat anything...?" Ashido asked worriedly and Izuku looked up at the people she sat with in the cafeteria. She blinked in confusion, wondering when she had gotten there, before she looked down at her katsudon bowl.
"I... I'm not hungry..." she frowned at her favorite meal in front of her.
"What? But you always eat like two bowls of that stuff!" Sero said with a frown and Izuku slid her seat back and went to stand up.
"Izuku." She looked up as she picked up her tray and saw Todoroki standing up, giving her a serious look from across the table. "What is on your mind? This isn't like you, I thought we had an understanding last night that you would talk if need be."
"It's nothing." She looked down at her untouched meal in front of her, before she set the tray back down and sighed. "Some one else can eat this..." She stood up and walked away from the table, frowning as she went.
"... Seriously, those guys need to come back right away. This is messed up." Kaminari said with a sigh as he slid the katsudon towards himself.
"Don't eat her food," Yaoyorozu said with a frown as he took a bite.
"What, she's clearly not going to eat it." Kaminari said with a shrug, before the group at the table let out a sigh.
"We're going to do water rescue today.." Aizawa told the class as they stood in USJ, wearing their hero costumes. "The object of the lesson is to rescue the dummies, and bring them back here. Use your quirks how you see fit," He pointed out at the dummies floating in the water and Izuku looked over at them, before she saw one that was the size of a small girl. She felt her chest tighten as she looked at it, before Aizawa blew a whistle. "GO!"
Izuku took off with the others, seeing ice flash, Iida running across the water's surface with his speed, dark shadow shooting out to grab one. She sighed out as she dove into the water and started to swim. She looked up at the dummy she was nearing. She couldn't save that little girl... Nighteye thought she was a poor successor... All Might hadn't said anything to her about there being other people...
Her feet felt heavy in the water, and she started to wonder why, before she remembered she was wearing her hero costume. She had heavy iron boots on, and she was trying to swim. She looked up, realizing she was slowly being pulled down in the water, as opposed to going straight through it like she was supposed to be doing. She groaned as she tried to kick up, using her quirk to power her legs as she reached out to the floating dummy in front of her. She needed to focus, she was in class, she was trying to become a hero... She ground her teeth together as she reached out to the dummy.
You can't even smile in the face of adversity.
She tried her best to grin, but her lungs were starting to burn.
The more I look at you, the more unconvinced I am that it should have been you.
Izuku felt her eyes growing heavy and her head hurting from the lack of oxygen. She had definitely messed up, wearing her boots in the water like that... He was right.
You cannot possibly save everyone with will alone, it's not that easy.
She felt her finger tips brush against the dummy as she went to grab it. She let out the air in her lungs, and bubbles swam through her vision. Nighteye was right. What could she do? She had it in her head that All Might only thought of her as a successor, she didn't even think over that maybe some one else might have been in line.. Mirio smiled the whole time they were in contact with Chisaki. He helped her cover up her blunder by showing fear of the man. He got them both out of there unscathed... She only ever got hurt. She only messed up and got herself into trouble, who was she to try and save some one?
Izuku felt herself sink into the water, and clenched her fist as her lungs continued to burn. She needed air, and she tried to kick her legs to break the surface, before something came crashing into the water. She felt it wrap around her whole body, pinning her arms to her side before she was yanked out of the water and up into the air.
"MIDORIIYA." She heard the anger in her sensei's voice, and the worried callings of her classmates as she was dropped onto the cement beside the water. She coughed out the water in her lungs and tried to catch her breath as water dripped off her costume. "If you can't keep up, I will pull you from your internship, got it?!"
"Sorry," Izuku gasped out as she ran her arm over her mouth, before sitting back on her legs. "I forgot to take off my boots. I'll do it again."
"Alright, try not to drown this time." Aizawa snapped at her and she nodded her head as she sat back and pulled her boots off her legs. "Alright everyone, stop staring. Thirteen can you show them the next exercise?"
"Izuchan..." Izuku sighed out as she changed in the girls locker room back at the school after drying her hair off with a towel. She looked over at the others and saw them frowning at her. "Are you okay? You almost drowned..." Ashido said worriedly and Izuku stood up straight as she looked at them.
"We're worried about you, was your work that hard?" Yaoyorozu asked in concern. Izuku frowned at them as she saw Jirou frowning as well, and she was sure f she could see Hagakure's face, she'd also have an upset look.
"No, it wasn't hard or anything, I'm sorry." Izuku gave them a half smile. "It won't happen again..." She closed her locker, and turned to leave the locker room. She stepped out into the hallway, and turned to head back to the class room to grab her bag, before a wall of ice shot up in front of her, and she walked right into it. "Ouch!" She stumbled back a bit and rubbed her nose, before she turned around and came face to face with Todoroki who was inches away. "Sh-shouchan...!"
"That's it. Drowning was the last straw." He said with a firm tone as he stood there with his arms crossed, looking down at her. "Out with it, right now."
"I-I told you, it's about work..." Izuku said with a frown up at him and he narrowed his eyes at her.
"This is more than just work. If it was work you could've talked things out with Mirio-senpai." Todoroki said with a huff and Izuku looked away from him. "Are you having relationship problems?"
"No," Izuku said with a sigh and shook her head. "I mean, I don't know what agency he's with... But I'm not having problems with Katsuki." She waved a hand at her friend.
"Then what has you so deep in thought that you almost drowned saving a dummy during class?" Todoroki asked her and she looked back up at him. "You're smarter than that, Izuku. Even if you forgot to take off your boots, you would've kicked your way out of the water."
"... I was just..." She looked down at her hands and clenched them into tight fists. "... Thinking about some things some one said to me... About someone else, and some stuff I can't talk about..." she mumbled out and Todoroki let out a sigh.
"Look, I get girls have secrets." He held up a hand as she looked up at him. "But if it's bothering you that much, why don't you go talk to the person?" She felt her eyes widen as she looked up at him. "Clearly the issue is bothering you to the point where you can't even function properly. I think the best decision is to talk to who ever it is you're thinking about. You can't keep going on like this."
"... You're right..." Izuku clenched her fists tightly as she stood up straight. She took a deep breath and let out a huff. "Shouchan!" She watched him raise an eyebrow at her in question. "Thank you, I will go do that right now!" she said with another huff, before she walked around him and stormed down the hallway.
"Excuse me, is All Might here?!" Izuku threw the door open to the teachers lounge and froze a bit as she saw Midnight sitting in a chair, posing with a smile on her face.
"He's out jogging." The older woman said with that sparkling smile of hers, and Izuku let her shoulders relax.
"Jogging..?" Izuku asked curiously as she wondered why he would go do that.
"you didn't know?" Midnight asked curiously as she stood up. "Ever since the home visits ended, he started training himself for some reason." She shrugged her shoulders as Izuku looked up at her curiously. "Being retired and all he should just relax if you ask me."
"... Thank you!" Izuku cried out as she turned around and took off out the door. She knew exactly where All Might would jog near by. She felt her whole body crackle with energy and power as she ran out of the school building and took off towards the nearby park at top speed.
"ALL MIGHT!" Izuku shouted out as she blew past some people going for a normal job, and she saw the hero wearing a jogging outfit that looked like his hero costume. He turned his head back to look at her with a look of shock an fear on his face as she ran at him.
"Young Midoriya has arrived!" He laughed as he turned his head away from her and continued to jog. Izuku slowed down behind him, and looked up at the back of his head while they continued together silently. "Why am I here you ask?" All Might asked with another laugh to break the silence, but Izuku lowered her gaze to look at the cobble stone in front of them.
"... did you..." she took a deep shaky breath. "Know everything all along...?" She looked back up at her hero's back as she continued to job behind him. "The... The fact that Nighteye knew about One for All doesn't shock me... But... Mirio-senpai being a candidate for your succession... You knew... Didn't you...?" She swallowed her nerves as All Might said nothing, and she continued to run after him.
"... It seems..." All Might sighed out as he kept running. "There was a need to tell you after all.."
"Of course there was!" Izuku cried out behind him as they ran, and felt tears burn in her eyes. "All of a sudden I'm having all these truths thrown at me, and then I'm being denied with out knowing anything!" She ran her hand over her eyes. "But above all, I have no idea what your intentions are, All Might...!" She bit back her sobs as she continued to run after him, and let out a sad laugh at the irony of it. She was always chasing after her hero, her dream... "I have no idea... What you... And now... My heads all murky, I can't think... I can't pay attention, I almost drowned in a routine class... Why wouldn't you tell me something this important...?" She looked up at his back again, her tears falling. "I'm not saying this as your fan... I'm saying it as your successor! I want to know everything!"
"I figured telling you the story wouldn't benefit you at all..." She watched All Might look back at her, and she choked back her tears as she continued to follow him on his jog. "But... Do you really want to hear it?"
"It'll benefit me a lot more than keeping it a secret!" Izuku cried out to him, and clenched her fists tightly.
"You better not regret it then." She watched All Might face forwards and she silently jogged behind him as he took a second to think. "... you and Nighteye are a lot alike. He was also a huge fan of mine, but I had a rule that I'd never take in any sidekicks." He let out a sigh as they continued to run down the long path. "Like you, he was incredibly persistent and I finally broke down. We were a team for about five years. His physical abilities weren't all that impressive, but he supported me as the brains of the team."
"I'm aware..." Izuku huffed out as she finally got a hold of her emotions. "He took on a supporting role as you fought, and you two got along very well from what I could see."
"We did, but..." All Might let out a sigh. "Six years ago we dissolved our partnership due to my injuries." He patted his left side gently and Izuku looked at it, before looking back up at his head. "But also due to the difference in our values... He wanted me to retire when I got hurt. No one had any idea where I was, they were all waiting for my return."
"... Yeah I..." Izuku frowned as she watched her Hero run in front of her. "I was scared back then... There was a big fight and you suddenly disappeared..."
"Exactly." she watched All Might turn his head back to look at her, and grinned. "Nighteye didn't want me to push myself. He wanted me step down as a hero, and take it easy while I searched for a successor. He wanted my legend to live on instead of me pushing myself." All Might turned his head forwards and Izuku frowned as she watched him run. "He wanted a bright, strong and friendly person to be the new successor, and he wanted me to find that person while I lay in a soft bed. But... Then who would be the symbol until I found them, huh?" Izuku looked down at the ground in front of her, "Back then I was sure All for One was no more, but regardless there are still people with quirks and evil thoughts. I couldn't just stay in bed quietly."
"That's when I found out he was looking." Izuku lifted her head up and frowned. She knew what that meant, and she clenched her fists. "He said he wouldn't support me as a hero anymore if I continued on this way. I told him never to look at my future, that there was no need. He seemed desperate, I can't blame him... He didn't care if there was going to be stormy times ahead, but I did." Izuku started to slow down as he continued at his usual jogging pace. "How many people would live in fear during that time?" She watched All Might continue to jog ahead of her as she slowly came to a stop. "He confronted me about my future, about how I will meet a gruesome death at the hands of a villain. His foresight is never wrong you know." He laughed and Izuku felt her whole body go numb. "We went our separate ways after our fight, and Principal Nedzu recommended Young Mirio to me, but I ended up meeting you first." Izuku felt eyes widen again as All Might slowed to a stop in front of her. "I really didn't want to say all this, considering you were my fan and all... I'm sorry, Izuku."
"All Might..." She choked out his name, finding it hard to believe. She felt her hands shaking as they relaxed, and she tried to breathe. "You're... Going to die." The words didn't sound real as they left her throat, and she took a deep breath. "You're going to..." She looked up at the sky as he sun started to set, and she let out the breath she held in her lungs. She knew eventually everyone died... It was an end that no one could avoid... but this hurt... This hurt worse than any of her bruises, cuts, burns or broke bones combined. "... Die..."
"... When I met you and made up my mind to give you One for All, I let Nighteye know." Izuku looked to the ground as he spoke, and felt like reality was crashing around her. "He was opposed to it, and it only drove us further apart." She clenched her fists as All Might said that, and could only imagine the harsh conversation that happened between the two of them. "He insisted I was making a fool of myself, giving my power to you." She looked up as All Might started to jog again and Izuku followed after him slowly. "I guess he took it upon himself to cultivate Young Mirio who believe was more appropriate."
"Wait..." Izuku started to pick up her pace as he did, and she stretched her hand out to her hero. "All Might, wait!" she called out and saw him slow down. She stopped again and frowned at him. "When Nighteye used his foresight... When did he say it would happen?!" She cried out, and started to think. "Can't the foresight be changed any more?!"
"... He said it would happen in six to seven years. There's a margin of error in his estimation of far off events." All Might sighed out, and Izuku frowned as he kept his back turned to her. "But there's no changing what he sees in his foresight."
"Six to... seven then..." Izuku felt realization hit her like a cold splash of water. "That means either this year or the next, doesn't it..?! You're kidding me right?!" Izuku felt a nervous smile cross her face as she started to panic, "How could...?! Why...?! YOU CAN'T!" She cried out, tears filling her eyes. "You have to live! Don't you remember the promise we made before the sports festival?! I haven't been able to fulfill that promise yet! YOU HAVE TO LIVE UNTIL I CAN!" She clenched her fists and felt her tears fall off her cheeks as she walked towards her hero. "You have to live to see that moment, when I can tell the world I'm here!" She held back her sobs as she took shaky steps towards the man who once rivaled a mountain in size... Her hero... The man who cared about her enough to cry.
"Izuku, my girl..." She felt a sob try to push out as he spoke. "you see... When I heard the foresight, I accepted it pretty easily." She heard a soft sigh from him. "Because the goal was in sight, I ran at full speed towards it."
"A-All Might..." Izuku felt her sobs continue to come out of her as she approached him. "No.. You..."
"That time when I fought All for One at Kamino." All Might continued, as he put his hands on his hips. She stopped, and looked up at the back of his head nervously. "That was when I thought, Here is the goal... But." She watched him turn around and looked at her. "There you were." He turned around fully to face her and she felt her hands stop shaking. "You, a timid little girl who suppressed her own quirk... Day after day you rose to meet my expectations, and then exceed them. So day after day, I whispered to myself... To keep on living." He held a hand out, and a smile crossed his face. "And then your mom even told me... Live on and protect her. Nurture her. So now even I am clawing on!" he clenched his fist tightly and bulked up into his hero form. "You changed me, Izuku! I am alive!" He grinned at her as best as he could and Izuku felt her tears burn hot in her eyes before they poured down her cheeks. "With this hand of mine, I will twist fate into what ever shape I like!"
"All Might...!" She sniffled out and watched him deflate in a poof of vapor. She ran towards him as he flexed his fingers, and looked up just in time as she crashed into him, wrapping her arms around his skinny frame.
"Izuku..." he let out a soft laugh and she felt his arms hug her gently and pat her head. "...Turn after turn... In the end, everything is turning out exactly as he said... to be honest, I'm ashamed to look Nighteye in the face..." Izuku looked up at him as her tears poured down her cheeks, and she sniffled again. "I don't want to hold you back," He patted her hair gently as she cried. "You are doing everything you can to become stronger, at this point it's possible that it might be too late to twist my fate."
"... You don't know that..." Izuku let go of her hero and rubbed at her eyes, trying to get rid of the emotional tears she was crying. "You... don't know if it changed or not..." She clenched her fist and looked up at him, determination shining in her eyes. "That's right! All Might!" She seemed to startle him a bit as he stepped back. "I promise you," She held up her own fist, and took a deep breath. "No matter what happens to you, I will twist that future with you!"
"Heh..." She watched him smile and let out a small laugh. "I'll try my best not to cause you trouble." He brought up his own fist, and bumped it against hers.
"Ah..." Izuku felt herself pale a bit in realization and watched a panicked expression cross All Might's face for a second. "Can't you just get Nighteye to use his foresight again?!" She asked in a panic, and he stepped back from her. "Go and make peace with him so you can see if it's changed or not!"
"... That's too convenient for me." All Might laughed out as he started jogging again and Izuku followed behind him.
"This is a matter of life and death, I'll talk to him for you!" Izuku said with a huff as she ran beside him now.
"Wait a second right there, young lady." All Might sighed out as they jogged down the path. "You need to think about his feelings for a moment..."
"... I guess you're right..." Izuku sighed out as they continued along the path at a steady pace, before turning a corner to head back towards the school. "... All Might am..." she took a deep breath and looked up in front of them. "Do you... Regret choosing me at all...?"
"WHA?!" She looked over at him in a panic and saw blood spurt out of his mouth before he almost tripped and fell.
"A-Are you okay...?!" Izuku cried out as she slid to a stop and went to help him.
"What on earth gave you that idea?!" He cried out at her and she smiled at him nervously. "After all that, you ask me something stupid like that? Young lady are you okay in the head?" He bonked his fist on top of her head gently and she looked up at him with a frown.
"I uhm..." She looked down at their feet with a frown. "... Some stuff happened and..." She looked up at All Might and he frowned a her.
"Is Bakugo treating you properly?!" He asked and grabbed her shoulders. Izuku was a bit stunned by that as he looked her in the eyes. "It's okay to say no and break up with him, Izuku! Your body, your rules!"
"Th-that's not it!" She cried out, blushing a bright red. "Why does everyone assume I'm upset about Kacchan? No no... I..." she sighed out as All Might let go of her shoulders. "... I feel like I messed up... Like all I can do is mess up..." she looked up at All Might with a frown. "I don't know how I got that amazing score on my license exam at all, I..." She clenched her fists and felt her tears burn in her eyes. "How can I save anyone...? I almost drowned in class today too..."
"Izuku," She heard her hero sigh out and she looked back up at him with a frown. "I seem to recall a letter you got from a young boy. You even proudly showed it to your mom and myself." He smiled at her warmly and Izuku lowered her fists. "Aizawa told me he came to say thank you in a... A different way." All Might laughed and Izuku stood up straight. "You also came to Bakugo's rescue back when we first met, at Kamino, and got out of both situations with out a scratch. Those folks at the HUC don't treat would-be-heroes lightly, they failed Todoroki, remember?" He patted her head again and Izuku looked down at her hands as she unclenched them. "You didn't get to this point for no reason. If Aizawa saw a failure in you, he would've expelled you on the spot."
"but I..." Izuku looked back up at All Might and saw him still smiling down at her. "I messed up on my first day at my internship...! I couldn't help some one... I...!"
"Izuku, you're just starting out as a Hero." He told her with a sigh and put his hands back on her shoulders. "You're going to make a couple of mistakes here and there, I know I did. Did that person die...?" He asked her and she shook her head, frowning. "Then there's still a chance you can help them. I know you take everything to heart, Izuku. That's what makes you special, and that's what makes your smile shine so bright. Because you truly care about each and every person you meet, and would stop at nothing to help them." He tapped a finger to the top of her chest and grinned. "You have the heart of a hero, and I know you'll do great." Izuku looked down, and All Might chuckled as he lifted his finger up and booped her chin and nose. "Gotcha."
"Wha...?!" Izuku clapped her hand over her face and looked up at All Might as he laughed and started jogging off. "That's a lame joke!" She cried out as she ran after him.
"I looked a bunch up!" All Might said with a laugh and she felt a smile cross her face. "They're called dad jokes I believe, but I found them pretty funny!"
"They're called dad jokes because they're lame." Izuku snorted out in laughter and saw All Might look back at her with a frown. "But... I'm happy." She grinned at him brightly.
"Hi Happy, I'm dad!" He said with a laugh and Izuku blushed a bright red. She watched his whole face turn red as well and they both stopped on the path and were awkwardly silent for a long moment. "I uhm... I'm gunna..." he pointed down the path.
"Me too... Gotta..." She pointed back the other way, and they both seemed to get redder in the face, before Izuku remembered what Recovery girl had said. It was okay to hold him in regards as a father figure... She hadn't had one in a long time... She felt a smile spread across her face, and she pointed her finger in the direction he had. "... Mind if I come along...?" she asked and watched All Might's face tone down in color.
"... Not... Not at all." A grin formed on his face and Izuku let out a soft laugh as they continued their jog back to the school in a comfortable silence.
"Izuchan," Yaoyorozu called out as Izuku opened up the door. She looked over at the class who were sitting in the common room, all in comfortable clothes as they worked on their homework. "Where did you go...?"
"For a jog," Izuku said with a bright smile to them all. She could hear the collective sigh from them all and laughed a bit as she headed for the elevator. "Let me get changed,"
"You forgot your bag..." She looked up as Todoroki stood up and walked over with her All Might back pack, and she smiled at him as he handed it to her. "... You look a lot better, did you clear some things up?"
"Yeah," Izuku smiled up at her friend and hugged her back pack to her chest. "Thanks, I needed the push."
"Any time," Todoroki put a hand on her shoulder and she grinned at him. "When Bakugo is out on business, I'll happily fill in as a temporary boyfriend."
"What...?" Izuku blushed a bright red, and shook her head. "Sh-shouchan what...?! That's...!"
"WAHAHA!" She turned her head around to look at Sero as he and Kaminari howled with laughter. She saw everyone laughing in the common room and she looked back at Todoroki who was letting out his own chuckles as he held his fist to his mouth. "That was a good one!"
"That's not funny!" Izuku cried out as her face progressively reddened. "Sh-shouchan! That's not a funny joke!" she cried out to him as he doubled over, trying to hold back his laughter.
"She's back to normal, thank god." Ashido sighed out with a bright smile and Izuku looked over at the others again. "We were all worried about you, you know!"
"I'm sorry everyone." Izuku sighed out as she felt her face start to cool a bit while the others laughed. "I've got everything sorted out now though," She looked back at Todoroki as he stood up and let out a sigh, but his half smile was still on his face. "... But that's not a funny joke."
"Who says I was kidding?" He asked and Izuku looked up at him as he continued to smile at her.
"... I told you it's not funny, stop that." She told him, before she turned and went into the elevator to go up.
"Ouch, that's uh..." Kaminari said with a frown in Todoroki's direction. He turned his head to look at the others and shrugged.
"It's fine," He walked back into the room to continue the group study session. Izuku came down to study with everyone after getting changed, and fretted a bit over how much she didn't pay attention to in class as Yaoyorozu went over the notes with her. Todoroki helped Shouji make dinner in the kitchen, before everyone sat down to eat.
"Man, I wonder what those guys are doing, you know." Ashido said with a thought as they ate cold soba for dinner. "They even stayed the night at their agencies, I'm surprised you didn't." She pointed a finger at Izuku who shrugged her shoulders and smiled.
"My agency is only an hour away on the train," She finished up her soba happily, her stomach satisfied after having skipped lunch. "Besides, Mirio-senpai came home too, so it's not a big deal."
"Man, what's he like as a hero?" Jirou asked curiously and Izuku thought about that as she stood up with her bowl.
"he's always smiling," She walked over to the sink and started washing up. "And he thinks before he acts."
"As we all should," Yaoyorozu said with a nod and Izuku let out a soft laugh as she did the dishes. "What agency is Bakugo with, anyways? Uraraka and Asui are with Ryukyu if I remember correctly."
"he didn't say..." Izuku said with a frown as Kaminari came to help with the dishes.
"Kirishima didn't say either, I wonder why." He huffed out, "I feel left behind with those two running off to get internships."
"You should focus on your studies, or you'll fall behind." Jirou commented and Izuku looked up at Kaminari as he pouted.
"I know, but it makes a guy feel lonely, ya know?" He said with a sigh and Izuku patted him on the shoulder.
Izuku shuffled towards the elevator as she pulled her phone out of her pocket. She was tired from not getting any sleep last night, and she was ready to crash after a good meal. She opened up her phone and checked her messages.
You still going to be home tonight? She watched her phone as she went up stairs in the elevator, before shuffling to her bedroom and opening up the door. She frowned a bit as she saw no immediate response and she closed her door behind herself, before she sat down on her bed. She let out a sigh as she lowered her phone and looked up at the ceiling.
"Must be busy..." She mumbled out before she plugged it in and lay down on top of her blankets. She looked up at the smiling posters on her walls and smiled back at them this time.
"DAMNIT!" Katsuki cursed loudly as he chased after two men with Kirishima. One of them had panicked and shot a gun in a crowded street. He'd seen a bullet bounce off Kirishima, but Amajiki had gone down after being hit. "GET BACK HERE!"
"Haha, you're more into this than I thought!" Kirishima said with a grin from behind his hero mask. Katsuki shot a glare at him, as they chased the villains through the crowd. "I didn't know you cared about Amajiki-senpai so much!"
"Tch, anyone would give a shit if someone was a gun!" Katsuki snapped loudly at the red head as they followed the villains around a corner. "Besides that fucking thing hit you, are you alright?!"
"I'm fine! I was hard at the time!" Kirishima laughed loudly, then blushed a bit. "Guess I shouldn't say it like that!"
"Moron!" Katsuki snapped loudly back at him before they looked up and saw the two men come to a dead end in front of them. "END OF THE ROAD!" He shouted at the villains and dove forwards with Kirishima.
"Time to man up and pay for your crimes!" Kirishima shouted as one villain brought up his arm in a panic, blades popping out of it as he went to try and slice Kirishima with them. Katsuki dove towards the other, and glared at the man as he threw a fist. His arm extended like a piece of gum, and Katsuki moved his head out of the way of the punch, before grabbing his arm with both hands. He spun like Izuku always did, and pulled the man over his shoulder to slam him on the ground, while Kirishima punched the other guy in the face with his hardened fist. "Hah..." he grinned down at the man he subdued. "We held back a little!"
"Stop resisting and surrender." Katsuki growled out at the one man he had pinned. He looked back over at Kirishima as he went to pick up the man he punched. "The fuck... Is he sobbing...?!" He growled out in anger.
"Dude.." Kirishima frowned at the man as he stepped forwards cautiously.
"It's not fair...!" The man sobbed out. "All I've got are these blades that don't come out more than 10cm! They're just like box cutters... It's not fair...!"
"You guys wouldn't understand...!" The man under Katsuki cried out too and he looked down at the sobbing mess of a man. "We just wanted to save our brothers! I can't even stick my arms out more than a couple of meters! We're scared!"
"You should compliment us for having the courage to shoot in the first place...!" The other man cried out.
"The fuck did you say...?" Katsuki growled in anger and Kirishima frowned as he grabbed the man by his shoulder and pulled him to his feet while the crowd looked on in concern. "only cowards shoot guns at other people!"
"And hey, if you're going to break into tears afterwards," Kirishima sighed out. "You really shouldn't be getting mixed up in this stuff!"
"We wanted to become strong..." the man under Katsuki sobbed and he glared back down at him as he pulled the villain up to his feet as he stood.
"Yeah... If we're hanging around strong people... We'll be strong too." The man with the blades sobbed out.
"Look, I get how you feel..." Kirishima said with a frown as he went to cuff the guy.
"... If we stick with our brothers..." Katsuki glared at the man he was trying to detain. "We'll be granted power..."
"we don't need people like you, who became heroes..." the other man sobbed out, "Talking like you know what that's like..."
"Hey..." Kirishima frowned as Katsuki glared at the other man darkly. "That's... WHA!" Katsuki turned around as both men started yelling in pain, and he saw the guy he had drop some kinda needle from his hand.
"What the hell was that?!" Katsuki shouted, and grabbed him by the front of his jacket. "Tch, what did you do?!"
"Are they okay?!" Kirishima asked in a panic, before both men stopped yelling suddenly. "Hey.. HEY!"
"SHIT-!" Katsuki's eyes widened as the man with the stretchy arms all of a sudden lurched forwards and his arms shot out impossibly long, before they wrapped around Katsuki and jerked him off the ground. "FUCK! RED IDIOT!" He jerked his head to look over at Kirishima as he was bombarded by hundreds of long sharp blades.
"IT'S RED RIOT!" Kirishima called out and Katsuki grumbled in anger as the man went to slam him into the ground. He growled in anger as he used his quirk, and his palms blasted the enormous hand off of him, before he turned in the air and landed with a boom on the ground. He looked up at the man with the blades, before looking back at the man who had almost slammed his head into concrete.
"Everybody get down and take cover!" Katsuki shouted back at the civilians that were still in the alley, before he ran forwards to the guy with stretchy limbs. "RED RIOT, YOU OKAY?!" He shouted and glanced at his friend as he blasted off the ground.
"ALL GOO-" He was hit full force by the blades and knocked back. Katsuki growled in anger as he shot around the stretchy guys hands to avoid his grip.
"Don't get too cocky, you brat!" The guy yelled at Katsuki, and he growled in anger as he hit the ground, before kicking off of it and blasting at the man again, holding up a crackling palm while Kirishima dealt with the guys who had blades. "Acting so self important! You're just playing make-believe! All the heroes will crumble soon with All Might gone!"
"THE FUCK THEY WILL!" Katsuki shouted as he weaved through the mans limbs, before he brought his crackling palm up once again. He blasted him back into a wall, and his noodle like limbs struggled to push himself back up. He looked over at Kirishima who was bleeding a bit, as he busted apart some blades. "RED RIOT!" He shouted at his friend who looked a bit panicked. "TAKE HIM DOWN, BECOME UNBREAKABLE!"
"Hah... HAAAAAAH!" Kirishima yelled out as the blades shot towards him, while Katsuki rounded on his opponent once again. He grinned as the man stumbled back onto his feet some how, before launching another attack while Kirishima dealt with his opponent.
"STUN GRENADE!" He shouted as he set off multiple little explosions, and slammed them into the man. He glared at his insane drug raged eyes, before the man teetered forwards, then fell back on the ground. Katsuki let out a huff as he looked down at him, before glancing over at Kirishima as he was bombarded with a full blast of the blades. He grinned as he saw him power through it, and slam a hardened fist into the guys stomach, knocking him out.
"YEAAAH!" Kirishima let out a battle cry as he dropped his hardened form. Kirishima picked up the guy he had knocked out, and used some capture rope they were given. "WE DID IT!" Kirishima grinned brightly over at Katsuki and he let out a grunt.
"Yeah we did," He said as he stood up, lifting up the guy he captured.
"Such fury... they're both so young..." Katsuki looked over at the civilians as they helped each other up while he dragged his villain over to Kirishima.
"uwaaaah! Stay away!" He jerked his head back to look at the man who was still conscious, and crying again.
"... He's bawling again..." Kirishima said with a nervous grin and looked at Katsuki who glared at the man.
"We just wanted to get stronger! Let us go!" the man sobbed out as he looked up at both heroes. "We're sorry souls who wanted a little power!"
"We're not gunna let that happen," Katsuki growled out as he looked down at the man. "You used a gun in a crowd,"
"And you shot our senpai," Kirshima said as he looked down at the man. "I get how you feel, a while back-"
"LIKE I CARE ABOUT YOUR STORY, DUMBASS!" The man shouted, and Katsuki glared at him darkly, before he heard the sound of metal on concrete.
"Hey!" Katsuki snapped, but it was too late. The guy launched off the ground with the use of his blades, and went right between him and Kirishima.
"Shit! I'm such an idiot!" Kirishima groaned as he slammed a hardened fist into the blades and broke them.
"GET BACK HERE!" Katsuki dropped his villain and blasted after the man, a glare on his face. "You're going to jail, one way or the other!"
"NO WAY MAN!" The guy laughed as he soared through the air, and angry Katsuki catching up to him quickly. "I'M NOT GOING TO NO JAIL!"
"Fatgum!" Kirishima shouted in surprise, as the large hero in an orange hoodie shot out in front of the villains way. Katsuki used his hands to stop and dropped onto the ground as Fatgum caught the man in his belly.
"Sorry for the wait!" Fatgum grinned as he subdued the villain. "When confronting an enemy, a villains victory conditions as Kill, Escape, Beat Up, etc! As for us, it's capture with out victims! Remember that before you leave, Red Riot! Explosion King!"
"Tch..." Katsuki looked back at his villain as Kirishima hauled him up and ran over to them. "I got one of them.."
"That's good," Fatgum grinned as he looked down at the villain he caught. "To surpass villains, you gotta take away their will to fight as fast as possible!"
"Thanks for the save," Kirishima laughed with a bright grin and Katsuki looked over at him.
"Hey you kids!" They turned to look at the civilians who were caught up in the mess. "Thanks a bunch! You were both really amazing! You were movin' carefully to keep them from attacking us! Most people would have been spooked but you kids did great! You really saved us!"
"It was a magnificent debut!" Fatgum said with a smile and the two students looked up at him. Katsuki raised an eyebrow at Fatgum, before resting his hands on his hips, huffing. "Way different from my own!"
"Yeah, you saved all of us!" A woman said with a smile. "You'll both be incredible Heroes!"
"Thanks!" Kirishima said with a bright grin to the crowd, and Katsuki turned his head away. He felt pretty good, he'd taken down a villain and saved people... He wondered what Izuku would think of that. He grinned to himself at the thought of a happy expression on her face as she read his hero name in the news. Yeah, she'd definitely be excited, that was sure. "Hah, look at that grin." Kirishima laughed and Katsuki looked at him. "I bet I know what you're thinking!"
"Shut up." Kasuki growled out, before turning his head away.
"A quirk power up, huh..." Amajiki said with a sigh as they brought the villains to the police.
"Yeah, its the kinda drug that's banned in Japan." Fatgum said with a sigh, "It's an inferior type fro Asia, but if it was from Africa, it would have lasted for one to two hours."
"You sure know your stuff!" Kirishima said with a bright grin, while Katsuki tapped his foot, starting to get impaitent.
"A while back I worked with cops on stuff like that." Fatgum grinned down at the three of them, before a police officer brought evidence over.
"There was a discharge, even though it was a handgun!" The man said as he held up a back with some of the bullets that came from the gun. "It broke into pieces because of his quirk, but there was no bullet. It's not the usual heat guns pack, so we'll check them out and let you know what we find!"
"Thanks for the trouble!" Fatgum said with a grin, before he looked like he was in thought.
"Amajiki-senpai... You alright?" Kirishima asked the older boy and Katsuki glanced over at him, curious himself.
"... such a bitter pill..." Amajiki choked out as he tugged at his hood to cover his face. "For a hero's quirk not to work... But you both had to cover for me... Kirishima, you're just like Mirio, shining like the sun..."
"Hey," Katsuki growled out in anger as Amajiki went silent. "I took my guy down too!"
"Amajiki-senpai, if you're gunna say stuff like that, you shine just as much!" Kirishima said with a frown as he patted the boy on the shoulder. "You listened to my request and introduced Bakubro and I to Fatgum, that's a really great thing to do!"
"... You..." Amajiki sighed out. "Are unbelievable..."
"Let's get you examined at the hospital." Fatgum said as he patted Amajiki on the shoulder and Katsuki let out a grumble. "We'll head back to the agency for the night too,"
"Tch..." Katsuki followed beside Kirishima as he looked at Amajiki. His quirk wasn't working? What exactly was in that bullet then... He didn't have any bullet wounds...
"Hah, I can see her face now." Kirishima said with a laugh as he nudged Katsuki with his elbow. "She's gunna lose it when she see's your name on the hero news! That's why you were grinning, wasn't it?"
"I will blast your face off." Katsuki growled out at Kirishima who grinned at him brightly. "Besides, she's gunna see yours too. Knowing her, she'll lose her damn shit about it and ask a bunch of questions..." He looked away from Kirishima who let out a laugh.
"You know, I agree but." Kirishima let out a sigh. "I think she'll mostly be all over you for it."
"Hmph..." Katsuki ran a hand through his hair, before grinning. "Yeah you're right,"
"Confidence, much?!" Kirishima laughed out. Katsuki glared at him, before he pulled his phone out to check his messages. He saw one from Izuku and opened it up. "Why didn't you tell her what agency we were with?"
"... She looked a little preoccupied with getting an internship. If she knew I was going with Fatgum she'd be too happy," Katsuki grumbled out and read her message. "Shit I said we'd be back tonight..."
"Yeah man, I don't think so." Kirishima looked up at the night sky while Katsuki looked at the clock on his phone. It was a little past midnight and he saw she sent the message pretty early in the evening. "Ah that reminds me, Denki sent me a panicked message, saying she was out of it and acting weird."
"What." Katsuki snapped his hand to look at Kirishima who looked over at him and paled a bit as the explosive boy glared daggers at him. "Why the fuck didn't you say something?!"
"I-I got it yesterday! I didn't-!" Katsuki lifted up his fist, and Kirishima hurriedly hardened his head as a fist slammed down on it. "G-Geez man, we were busy! I forgot about it till now!"
"You'd forget if your head wasn't attached!" Katsuki snapped in anger, "Fuck," He stormed ahead of the others to head back to the hero office. He wondered what she was worried about, and if she was alright.