The Human Inhabitants

"Midoriya! I'm so glad you're here!"

Uraraka's best friend for longer than she could even remember gave her his familiar sunshine smile. "Uraraka! Hey!" Before he could speak up, Uraraka grabbed him and forced him into a hug. He yelped, face turning red as she squeezed him into a hug. "I-It's good to see you! It's been a while."

"Well yeah! A trip to Washington would do that." She finally released him, keeping the smile on her face. "Phone calls and video chats for weeks-do you know how much I missed you!" Izuku rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. His trip to Washington was supposed to last only two weeks, but it ended up going for a month. Couldn't conferences at the Pentagon be a little shorter? When she released him, she noticed two more people standing behind him. "Tsyuu! Todoroki!" Uraraka beamed. "I'm sorry, I didn't see you there!"

Tsyuu smiled back at her. "That's fine. It's good to see you." Todoroki nodded in agreement. Todoroki was a detective, and had high ties with the government, so he'd gone with Midoriya for the conference. Tsyuu on the other hand was an elementary school teacher, but when Midoriya had been gone for so long she'd driven up to meet him. Uraraka would be lying if she said she wasn't a bit envious of their relationship. She wished someone would drive that far away to come visit her sometimes. But life as a firefighter with another job on top of it just didn't leave her time to meet anyone.

Then again, she was quite satisfied with the great friends that she had. "Come on in! I ah- I don't really have much food right now…"

"We brought some lunch."

"You're a life-saver Tsyuu!" Ochaco tried not to squeal with delight when her friends pulled out containers with what looked like pizza and veggies. It had become an unspoken agreement among their group of friends that they would always eat at Ochaco's place, but whoever came had to bring the food. While she was very grateful for this, her heart sank at the reminder that she couldn't afford to host all her friends herself. When she'd paid all the bills, she was going to fix the house and invite all her friends over to a huge pizza party!

The sound of clattering dishes and scraping of chairs caught her friend's attention. "Oh! Do you have someone over Uraraka?" She'd forgotten all about that!

"Yeah, I do! His place was destroyed…ah, it's a long story. Come on, I'll introduce you to him and tell you the story." No curious, her friends followed her out of the hall and towards this mysterious stranger. None of them noticed Todoroki tensing as they turned the corner into the kitchen. They were all too busy staring.

Bakugou, for some reason Uraraka couldn't name, had climbed on top of the table and was trying to…pull the lights out of the chandelier? All four humans stared at him, three mouths dropped open in surprise. Todoroki's eyes were as wide as his friends, but instead of the slack-jawed shock his friends felt, Todoroki immediately tensed up. His tattoos…

After he'd taken one of the lightbulbs out, Bakugou glanced down and saw the four humans. Had his human multiplied? No…When he actually cared to pay attention, he noticed that they all looked different. Two males and a female had come. And they were all staring at him. "What the H#$l do you want?" Midoriya blinked, even more stunned than the time he'd come to visit and Ochaco had been babysitting Tsyuu's snake before he'd met her.

"He's not very polite," the short thin female with long green hair commented. Say what? What did she know? He didn't care if he was rude, he wasn't going to waste his time trying to waste some weak organisms from a planet he was going to take over in a probably a month.

Snarling, Bakugou jumped down from the table. Three of the humans' jumped back in surprise, making Bakugou sneer. Weaklings. Extras in what was going to be his story. The corner of his eye did catch that the one human, one with half white half red hair, did not react the same way his fellow humans did. He watched Bakugou with a cool calculation. A superior human? Unlikely. They all seemed the same. The heterochromia in his eyes did catch Bakugou's attention. Did humans come like that? It looked like someone mixed two humans together and forgot to make it look good. The thought made Bakugou snicker. As if he knew what he was thinking, the human's expression hardened in turn. Bakugou raised an eyebrow, silently daring the human to comment.

"Ah, guys!" Uraraka quickly snapped back to reality and jumped to Bakugou's side, cutting off his sight of the annoying human. "This is Bakugou Katsuki. He's going to be staying me for a little while. He's from the apartment building near downtown that kind of…blew up this morning." That was enough to get even Shouto's attention.

"The entire apartment building? How? Was it an explosion?" Midoriya started mumbling to himself. Uraraka could always tell when the wheels were starting to turn in his head. Since he was part of international security, he was probably thinking worst case scenario.

Thankfully Tsyuu was able to keep him grounded. "Was it a gas leak? Or something caught on fire?" Leave it to Tsyuu to keep the situation grounded.

"They're still looking into it," Ochaco admitted. "When I left with Shinso, he was saying they hadn't figured out the source yet."

"They couldn't figure out why an entire building exploded?" Todoroki looked skeptical, and if Uraraka wasn't busy being preoccupied thinking about other stuff, she would be too. She'd been working with the department for over a year as a fire-fighter and longer in training. In every fire, they at least had some sort of clue by the first glance. When Uraraka didn't answer, Todoroki tried to catch Midoriya's gaze, but he was too caught up in his own thoughts. Instead he returned his gaze to Bakugou. He narrowed his eyes as if he knew exactly what had happened and who was to blame. This unnerved Bakugou. There was no way this pitiful human really knew what happened.

"A-Anyway, my names Izuku Midoriya. It's nice to meet you." The second male, just a bit shorter with green hair and sun dots on his face, held out his hand with a smile. Bakugou raised an eyebrow at him as if to ask what he was doing. When he didn't take his hand Izuku immediately pulled away, blushing sheepishly. "This is Tsyuu. She's my partner." Bakugou tilted his head, looking confused. "Er…My lover?" Unfortunately, this seemed to confuse Bakugou just as much.

Lover? What was that? Why on earth would anyone need ah…ah. Bakugou was able to understand when the human-Izuku- put a protective arm around the other human. Bakugou had been taught enough about biology in his upbringing to understand that type of protective stance. A mate. That Bakugou could understand. Another person in order to create a collaborative relationship. Did humans have those connections in order to combine forces and gain power as well? Perhaps it was for repopulation, in order to continue their lineage onto the world. Either way, it didn't matter to Bakugou. He had no desire to continue his lineage, and he was strong enough so that alliances were nothing but a potential risk.

"I'm Todoroki Shouto," The third human held out his hand, a firm determination in his gaze. "You can call me Todoroki."

Todoroki… Bakugou couldn't remember why, but the name sent a flicker of rage through him. Instead of taking his offer, Bakugou pushed his hand away from him. "You don't call me anything, half-and-half." Todoroki raised an eyebrow, though Uraraka huffed beside him.

"His name is Todoroki, not half-half."

Bakugou scowled again. "I don't care."

"Nice person you have living with you," Tsyuu commented. Uraraka couldn't help but agree.

"What did you say?" Bakugou snarled, making the others jump back. For a moment it almost seemed like his hands were glowing. The satisfaction of startling all of them seemed to calm him down. Bakugou shoved his hands into his pockets and turned his back to them. "This is stupid. I'm not going to waste my time getting to know you. I'm going to work."

They all stared as Bakugou pushed past them and headed to the door. Uraraka was so stunned it took her a moment to register what he said. "Ah, wait! Where are you going?"

"Outside!" Bakugou snapped back.

Well that was vague. "For what?"

"To work!" She opened her mouth to continue her questioning, but the door slammed behind him so hard the entire building shook. Her friends all looked at each other while Uraraka inwardly groaned. It was going to be a long few weeks.

…

After a lovely dinner without Bakugou, Todoroki needed to head out first. He said it was because he had planned to meet with Momo and discuss a few things, but Uraraka noticed him sending a glare the way Bakugou had left. She hoped he hadn't offended him too much. Eventually it started to get dark and Tsyuu and Midoriya agreed they had to head out to. Mostly Tsyuu, since she had a meeting with the other teachers the next day. While they were engaged, they still lived in separate apartments, but Midoriya was the only one with a car.

"Ah, before I forget." Midoriya turned back to Uraraka from the doorframe. "Tomorrow's a PA day at the schools. Do you think you could take care of Eri for a bit? I can pick her up after work."

Eri was the girl Midoriya often looked after. She belonged to his friend Mirio and Tamaki, who adopted her a few years ago. Since both had jobs with somewhat unpredictable hours, Midoriya often took care of her. He was busy working with government a lot, but his hours were straightforward and he could take care of her after school. Besides, Tsyuu already worked at the school Eri went to, so she was with her anyway. With Tsyuu's conference and Midoriya's job, they wouldn't be able to tomorrow.

Uraraka mentally checked over her schedule. "Yeah, that should be fine! As long as you can pick her up before my next shift. I start at 6."

Izuku beamed. "Great! Well Uraraka, it's good to see you again." Tsyuu, who had already started heading over to the car, didn't hear Midoriya as he leaned over to whisper. "Good luck with your…house guest."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"GAHHHH!" Midoriya practically jumped five feet in the air. Bakugou had mysteriously appeared behind Midoriya the second he started talking about him. Uraraka was almost positive he hadn't been there seconds before.

Despite that, she had to cover her mouth to keep from laughing. "C-come on Midoriya, he doesn't bite," she giggled.

"YES HE DO! YES HE DO!" Midoryia insisted, turning a few shades lighter. Oh please. How was a member of their national security division such a scardey cat sometimes? Bakugou glowered at the human as he rushed off after saying goodbye to Uraraka again. He began to rethink that the human term for 'lover' meant connection for power. This 'Izuku' was certainly not powerful. Uraraka continued to wave until both of them disappeared.

When it was silence again, Uraraka turned on Bakugou with a huff. "Bakugou, seriously! You're my guest here, be nicer to my friends!" Bakugou stared at the human in disbelief. Was she really insisting he give a crap about…humans? No chance.

"No F ##$%g way. The weakling was annoying and useless." Bakugou turned back to the house, planning to go search for the food he had smelled. He was shocked when Uraraka rushed around him and forced him to face her.

"NO, he is my best friend and he's extremely smart, strong and especially kind." His human really needed to learn just who was in charge. Kind? Who cared about something like that?

No one taught him how to be good or showed him any kindness or mercy. If he were to learn a different way of life, he could be different.

Dang it. Why was he thinking about Aizawa now?

If Uraraka had the chance, she would have persisted. Fortunately she was very tired after the long day. With a sigh, she decided that the battle could wait for another day. "Just…don't insult them like that. Todoroki is only Todoroki, and Midoriya is a great person." Shaking her head, she walked past Bakugou, leaving him stunned. He was ready for a battle. Where did it go? "What were you working on anyways?" Uraraka called behind her as she went to the back windows. Immediately her mouth dropped open.

There was a large, wooden ground, flat and in the shape of a circle, in her backyard. She was positive it had not been there that morning, yet the craftsmanship said it shook have taken days to make. "Where…how did you do that?" Bakugou raised an eyebrow at her as if she was losing her mind.

"I made it. Obviously." Maybe she really was losing her mind. That thing was huge! Fine polished too! Her dad had built their house so she knew how long something like that would take to make. If it weren't for the few trees that were only stumps now, she'd deny Bakugou's claim completely. Well he may not have been the nicest guy in the world, but he certainly was a hard worker.

Too much…too tired. Long day. Ochaco shook her head, deciding that it was tomorrow's problem. "Okay. You know…I've got to get some sleep. Hey, how about tomorrow we go shopping to get you some stuff, okay? Eri loves shopping." She would have to apologize to Mirio for letting his daughter get close to Bakugou later. Hopefully she didn't pick up on his language. "I've got the day off at the fire department, but I'm working the bar at night. So we'll have to go shopping in the morning, okay?"

Bakugou understood only a few things that the human said. One, that she was tired. Two that they wanted to do something tomorrow. Three, she wasn't starting a fire at a department? And four, she was working somewhere. That cleared up nothing except for the fact that he was doing something the next day. He didn't want to bother. It was a waste of time.

"There's no way I'm going to waste my time,"

"If you don't come I'm going to be picking out all your clothes, hygiene tools and necessities for the next few weeks." Uraraka tilted her head to the side, examining him. "Pink would be a great colour on you."

"PINK?"

…What was pink again?

Uraraka giggled as Bakugou fumed silently. Perhaps the next few weeks weren't going to be that bad.