Chapter 7- Spoonful of Sugar
Monday morning dawned bright and early, Inko getting ready for work and Izuku slumped half asleep in a chair by the door. The mother glanced at her son fondly as she finished fixing her hair in place. Walking up to him she reached down and picked up the All Might plushie that had fallen from his grasp, gently placing it back under his arm before reaching up to tuck a few stands of hair behind his head. He really was just so adorable. Katsuki-kun was going to meet them at the cafeteria after they had had breakfast so they needed to get a move on.
Indulging in her ability to actually hold her child again, Inko scooped him into her arms and let him rest his head on her shoulder as she maneuvered them out of the door and locked it behind her. "Come on, darling, lets go get some breakfast." He hummed against her shoulder as they walked down the hall.
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Katsuki picked up Zu-chan from the cafeteria and found himself carrying the kid after the third near run in with another student who wasn't watching where he was going.
"Tch, shit head extras need to watch where they're going!" Katsuki accepted the mild slap to the back of the head that Zu-chan gave him, a vein throbbing in his forehead.
"Bad Kacchan, Auntie Missy told me to bop you when you said no no words!" The little boy held out his hand expectantly. Katsuki glared before digging in his pocket and pressing a coin into the small hand.
"Stupid old hag, going to make me go broke with those fucking-shit!" The teen bit his tongue as another tap to the head was administered, and he grumbled under his breath digging out two more coins. His mother had been ecstatic this morning as she handed him a bag filled with coins and told him he better make it last. Izuku beamed as he held the coins to his chest so he wouldn't drop them, the school had given him a small knapsack to keep a few pencils and things in, as soon as they reached the room he would put the coins away.
They stopped in front of the classroom door, the explosive teen setting the boy down beside him. "You ready to deal with all of the extras, Zu-chan?" The little green head nodded excitedly, tiny hands gripping the strap of his bag nervously. Katsuki shrugged and slid the door open.
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Ochaka Uraraka was pacing the classroom, her eyes darting to the door ever few seconds while her friend and classmate Tenya Iida sat not so patiently in his desk beside her.
"Uraraka you should sit down, pacing is not going to make them show up any faster." Iida made a small chop with his hand to emphasize his point. The brown-haired girl turned on him with a look of utter devistartion.
"Iida-kun you don't understand! He was so upset! I called a little kid a deku and he had no idea who I was or why I was calling him that! " She slumped into the open desk behind her as she wallowed, waves of despair drifting off of her. The other girls were quick to try and reassure her just as the door to the classroom opened.
The gravity girl was off with a flash almost bowling over the others to reach the door. She came to a stop abruptly before the small green haired boy and bowed at the waist.
"Midoriya-chan, I am so sorry if I upset you the other day, I swear we're friends and the name was something that we had agreed on between us. You're one of the smartest people I know, please accept these cookies as my apology!" Uraraka bowed again and thrust out her arms displaying the small wrapped box in her hands. Big green eyes lit up as they stared at the box, glancing briefly at the teen at his side who only shrugged. With a smile Izuku reached forward and accepted the box.
Inside the childs mind he was dancing with joy. 'Cookies! He loved cookies, and she said she was one of his friends!' It blew his mind a bit, the thought of having more friends than just Kacchan.
Shyly he hugged the box to his chest and smiled up at the girl. "Thank you! Umm…" He trailed off, not knowing her name.
"Oh, how rude of me. I'm Ochaka Uraraka, its nice to meet you… again!" She smiled brightly, the pink of her cheeks glowing just a big brighter. "You can ask me for help or if you have any questions, I'll be happy to help!" Uraraka missed how Bakugou slapped a hand to his face mumbling something about 'Here we go…'
The most blinding smile was directed her way by the little boy and he seemed to be vibrating in place.
"What's your hero name? How did we meet? What's your quirk? How long have you wanted to be a hero? Are your cheeks always pink? How do you feel about kittens? What's your favorite food? What's your favorite color?"
Slowly Uraraka took a step back, her eyes turning to meet Bakugou's who was glaring at her expectantly. Well, she had offered, she glanced back down at the expectant little boy. Trying to sort out the questions in her head closed her eyes briefly while taking a deep breath. Alright, plan – win back little Deku's friendship was in motion! Determined she focused back on the little boy in front of her.
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The class had finally settled down after trying to calmly introduce themselves to the excited 4 year old who was bursting with excitement. The boy was practically racing between the seat isles to introduce himself to everyone and to ask them about their quirks. One student had a bird head and a shadow quirk! One had six arms! One girl had horns! One teen was the same size as him! Sadly he didn't get very far before the students got another big shock in the arrival of their still mildly injured sensei.
His stern glare had everyone in their seats and an awkward child standing next to Bakugou not sure where to go. With a sigh and a pinch to the bridge of his nose Aizawa gestured to a smaller desk that had been set up to the side facing away from the students in the front to hopefully prevent distractions. A box of crayons and simple worksheets to practice his characters were left there to hopefully keep him mildly entertained.
It was as Aizawa was getting ready to switch with another teacher for the next class period that he noticed the small green head bobbing as it tried to stay up. He glanced at the clock, he supposed that most young children had a nap time in their daycares, though with how early it still was this was probably more to do with the earlier start time and the lack of activity of an older classroom. It wasn't even lunch yet. He caught Bakugou darting glances at the small boy with a frown on his face, though honestly that could just be his default expression.
Aizawa cleared his throat as he finished gathering his paperwork and turned towards the small boy. "Midoriya" At the sound of his name the small boy got out of his chair and turned to face the teacher, a small hand coming up to rub at one of his eyes. Aizawa felt his eye twitch and he cleared his throat again.
"If you are tired you can come with me and nap in the Teacher's lounge while the students have their second period, there is still two class periods before they will break for lunch and we can be back by then." Midoriya looked unsure, glancing around him to look at Bakugou, who gave him a nod. Apparently, that nod acknowledged him acceptable to the child who happily held out a hand to him after grabbing his small knapsack.
Aizawa glanced at the hand for a moment before slowly taking it carefully with his own bandaged one. With one last glance at the class Aizawa led the boy from the room, passing Present Mic as he made his way in. The scruffy bandaged teacher shot the other a look warning him against saying anything as the duo walked by.
Reaching the teachers lounge Aizawa directed the boy to the sofa. "Go ahead and lay down here-"
"But where you gonna sleep? You look like you needs a nap too, and you have boo-boos! The doctor lady said that when you have boo-boo's you're spos' to rest lots n' you don't look like you rested lots at all!" With that statement Aizawa found himself very gently man-handled onto the sofa by the stubborn boy.
It wouldn't be too much later that the teachers would all be giggling over a shared photo of Aizawa stretched out on a couch in the teachers lounge, a small Izuku tucked against him and both of them covered by a small All Might blanket. What made it even cuter was what looked like an All Might plushie propped up against the sofa facing the room as if to guard them.
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It was as the still somewhat groggy duo made their way back to the room that Midoriya happened to glance out the window. He froze in horror before bursting into tears. Aizawa was completely unprepared for this and quickly glanced over the boy- trying to find any injury that might have popped up due to the quirk he was under.
"What's wrong Mid-" His question was rudely cut off by the child dashing to the classroom door ahead of them and throwing it open.
"Kacchan!" The explosive teen was out of his seat in an instant and by the crying boy's side, glaring at Aizawa like this was somehow his fault. Aizawa only shrugged as Izuku grabbed at his friends hands yanking on them as hard as he could while trying to drag the teen out of the room.
"Kacchan! Kacchan! It's raining! We have to go help them! It's raining, Kacchan!" Izuku was frantic as he kept trying to pull Katsuki who hadn't budged despite all the tugging.
Katsuki blinked in surprise, glancing at the windows. Sure enough a steady rain had started while he had been focused on his work.
"Ah shit!" With that statement most of 1-A's class found themselves following the angry blond as he picked up little Midoriya and stomped from the room.
And that was how they all found themselves recruited into bringing a box of 6 kittens in from the rain and setting up a home for them inside of their classroom instead of participating in their third period class. Yaoyorozu Momo offered up use of her quirk to create a large kennel and blanket for them. She also created towels for them to be dried off on because unfortunately the poor dears had gotten quite soaked. Little Izuku's tears hadn't stopped until ever kitten was mostly dry and semi-happily snuggling together for warmth on their new blanket.
Aizawa pinched the bridge of his nose again while Present Mic elbowed him repeatedly while wiggling his eyebrows. Midnight who had come to teach third period was too busy trying to snap photos to comment on her class time being taken.
"Alright, that's enough. Bakugou- explain the kittens." The fierce eyes of their homeroom teacher drilled into the teenager who stubbornly looked to the side.
"Psh, some fuckface dropped the box off at the gate on Friday morning, probably thought that with students coming and going the little shits would find homes. We found them first and Zu-chan was worried about them being left alone since school was canceled that day." Aizawa rolled his eyes up and asked for patience before glancing down at the child that was practically in the kennel with the kittens. He was pressed up against the open door, the blanket pushed up against that same side with all the kittens borrowing some of his body heat from being huddled so close.
"Pease let them stay here for now! We was gonna ask around at lunch time to see if anybody wanted one so that they could have homes!" Izuku turned his enormous green eyes, still red rimmed from crying, to the nap-time sensei. He reached down and picked up the black and orange calico that had been snuggled closest to him in the kitten pile. The little missus whined quietly but didn't fight his hold.
"This un's mine! Mama said I could have her to be my at home friend, her names Whisper cuz' she meows so quiet!" He proudly held her out for the others to see and the girls cooed accordingly.
"Super manly little man, I'm glad ya'll got your mom to agree! What about you Baku-bro, what did you name yours?" exclaimed Kirishima as he plopped himself down next to the boy and helped him guide the kitten against his chest so she was held more securely. Kids holding animals made him kind of nervous but little dude did alright. The redhead got a million watt smile as his reward.
Suddenly all eyes were on Bakugou as the class tried to process that statement. The loud explosive teen had adopted a kitten. A living, breathing, bundle of one of the most adorable animals to be found? They just couldn't put the pieces together.
"Yea, Kacchan got one too! Auntie Missy said that she been trying to get him a pery animal for-evers! Izuku put special emphasis on forever to prove his point.
"Pery animal?" Kaminari repeated, looking around to see if he was the only one confused. He saw equally confused faces and turned back to the kid.
"You know, a pery animal, they spos' to help people who are angry or sad n' stuff." Izuku looked at them like they were silly for not knowing what he was talking about.
Aizawa watched in amusement as Bakugou stewed behind the gossiping teens, steadily turning redder as the other teens tried to piece together what Midoriya meant or as they tried still to wrap their mind around Bakugou being responsible for a helpless kitten.
"Oh, a therapy animal!" Momo finally exclaimed only to slap her hand over her mouth as she felt the angry vibes being sent her way by Bakugou. The others missed this fine detail as they continued on with the revelation.
"Oh, that makes so much sense!"
"Do you really think it could help?"
"His mom must be desperate, but that poor kitten!"
"Hey now guys, that's not very manly, Baku-bro is great with the one he chose!"
"Shut the fuck up you fucking extras, DIE!" Bakugou launched himself at the group over Kirishima and Midoriya's heads.
Aizawa quickly engaged his trapping equipment though he had to rely on Present Mic to secure it tight enough with his arms still bandaged. Midnight was quick to release a little bit of her quirk to knock out the angry blonde.
While all the drama was going on Izuku kept glancing between the kittens and one of the teens that was not engaging with everyone else, just sitting calmly at his desk reading. The teen had fascinating hair, it was half red and half white, right down the middle! He also had a big mark on his face that was catching most of Izuku's attention as he looked back and forth between the teen and the kittens. Finally he reached into the kennel, putting Whisper back and picking up the other calico. This one was mostly white with just a few splotches of the black and orange.
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Todoroki was trying his best to ignore the drama at the front of the room, he had not followed them out into the rain and had only given them the smallest bit of attention as they ambled back in carrying a sodden cardboard box. But he found his attention drawn as he caught a small shadow out of the corner of his eye.
Turning he came face to….muzzle with a small kitten that looked just as confused as he was. Looking around the kitten he raised an eyebrow at the child Midoriya.
"You should keep this one, cuz its face is mostly white sept for this splotch of blackish orangy over one of its eyes. Just like you! N' you look sad so maybe you need a pery animal too?"
Todoroki blinked slowly at the child before he had to cross his eyes to see the kitten that was shoved closer to his face for his inspection. The kitten indeed did have a mostly white face with a patch of color over one of its eyes, though why he should take an animal just because of that he had no idea.
Young Midoriya having taken his silence as agreement, shoved the kitten into the teen's arms. He smiled as the teen scrambled not to drop it. Nodding once the child turned and marched away. Now they only had to find a home for four kittens!
Todoroki was left speechless staring after the boy until movement in his arms distracted him. He had brought the animal to his chest on instinct not to drop it and now it was curling up in his left hand, purring at the warmth being generated there. Mismatched eyes blinked slowly and Todoroki found himself holding the kitten just a little bit closer.
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Todoroki has a kitten! And I'm so sorry as I was reading back in chapter 6 I realized that I gave descriptions for 8 kittens rather than the 7 I said were there. So instead of there being two grey and white ones there will be just the one.
So that brings the kitten break down to
Black and Orange calico- Midoriya's- named Whisper
Black/Orange/White calico- Todoroki's
Cream colored- Katsuki's – Name TBA
Orange Tabby 1 and 2
Black and Grey tabby
Grey with a few white splotches
Please feel free to make suggestions if you think anymore semi-main characters should get a kitten. I honestly didn't mean to make them a big part of the story but…well KITTENS!
Please pardon any mistakes, my beta and I are having technical difficulties with google docs, she makes the corrections but I can't see them. So this chapter is currently not edited and I am half asleep :P