Chapter 26: A Bad Influence.

You leave your apartment with your dad and Toshinori. After you lock the door you turn to your dad; who is talking with Toshinori; then jump onto his back. Shanks doesn't even stumble from the added weight to his back he does, however, turn his head to look at you over his shoulder with an eyebrow raised. "What? I have trouble with depth perception now, the least you can do is give your daughter a piggyback ride down the stairs."

Shanks laughs, "Fair enough." You motion for Toshinori to come closer to you and he does. You lean over and kiss him on the lips. "Hey, now! No making out with your boyfriend while you're on daddy's back! Geez, there's a sentence no father should EVER have to say." You burst out laughing as Shanks begins to walk along the walkway with Toshinori right beside him. "So how did you two meet?"

You grin, "We met through Izuku. Toshi was helping him train at Dagobah Municipal Beach when I went there to surprise Izuku."

As you all reach the staircase leading down to the ground floor, Shanks looks over at Toshinori and asks, "Why were you helping Izuku to train? No offense, but you don't exactly look like the personal trainer type."

You say in amusement, "Didn't you always tell me not to judge a book by its cover, daddy?"

"Touché, princess."

You lay the side of your face on top of his head. "See, I did listen to you when I was a kid...I just pretended to ignore you."

The three of you all laugh as you walk down the stairs. "Were you a personal trainer before you started working at Might Tower, Toshinori?"

"No...I mean...not really. I just help young Midoriya when All Might can't." You subtly nudge Toshinori's side with the foot that's closest to him. When he looks over at you, you shake your head slightly in a nonverbal warning to him not to lie too much or your father will catch him. Shanks may appear to be a carefree goofball most of the time, but he is incredibly observant and intelligent. Toshinori just gives you a confused look.

"What exactly do you do at Might Tower? I assume whatever it is has you working closely with All Might?"

"Uh," Toshinori clears his throat, "yes. I'm All Might's personal secretary."

The three of you reach the bottom of the stairs and you slide off of your father's back. You start to walk to the closest karaoke bar, Canary's, which is about 4 blocks away from your apartment. As you walk, in between Shanks and Toshinori, you tell your father about your first-day teaching and the villain attack on the USJ in detail. By the time you finish, you've reached Canary's.

Toshinori holds the door open for both you and your father. You walk inside and your ears are immediately assaulted by loud music and someone singing off-key. The inside is large with a good size island that serves as a counter right in the middle of the room and dividing the room into 3 sections. On the left side of the room, there are booths consisting of fluffy red couches arranged along three sides of low sitting, black-stained wooden tables. On the right are small black-stained square wooden tables with two matching chairs on one side of the tables while couches run along the wall on the opposite side. Blue and pink lighting give the bar a surprisingly pleasant ambiance. A stage is set up at the back of the room with a couple of large tv monitors; one set up for the singer and another larger one for the audience to follow along with the lyrics. In front of the stage, about six small two-person round tables are set up with matching chairs opposite each other. The lighting over the stage is brighter than in the rest of the bar due to the use of regular lightbulbs.

The bar is fairly packed with people, but the three of you manage to find an empty booth close to the back of the bar. After ordering and receiving your drinks; saké for your dad, a Zombie for yourself, and a glass of water for Toshinori; you all sit down at the booth. You're sitting in between your dad and Toshinori. The three of you start to exchange stories: your dad tells you about all of the adventures he has gotten into since you last saw him, including getting into a fight with an Lóng Wáng; a huge dragon that can transform into a man and is said to rule over the seas. (A/N: I know, I know, but that's what they're called ) You tell your dad and Toshinori; mainly Toshinori since your dad has heard most of your stories already; about some of the fights with villains that you have been in. Even Toshinori shares a couple of stories about his time as a student in UA and his time in America after he had graduated.

Between stories, you or Shanks will get up to get another drink. By the time that you're on your fifth drink; 3 Zombies and 2 Long Island Ice Teas; and your father is on his second bottle of saké, you've both got a pretty good buzz going on. You announce to the two men that you're going to go and sign up to sing a song. Toshinori gets up to let you out of the booth you then begin to make your way to the back of the bar leaving the two men alone. Toshinori then sits back down across from Shanks. Now's his chance to ask Shanks the question that has been going through his mind for the past few days. Toshinori nervously clears his throat before saying, "Shanks...there's something that I w-would like to a-ask you..."

The red head's curiosity is peaked, "Oh? (Y/N) mentioned that you wanted to ask me if I would help to train Izuku, but I'm assuming that's just an excuse that you gave her since I already agreed to help when I called a few days ago. (A/N: Yes, only about 4 days have passed in the story since the chapter Happy Birthday, Daddy!) So, what did you REALLY want to ask me, lad?"

Toshinori swallows nervously, "I...I wanted to ask you for...your permission to m-marry your daughter."

Shanks' eyes widen in surprise at Toshinori's words. "You want to marry my baby girl?"

Toshinori looks Shanks straight in the eyes, "Yes. I love her and the incident at the USJ made me realize just how much she means to me. I can't imagine my life without her anymore."

Shanks smiles, "Dahahaha!!! This is wonderful news! I'm going to have a son-in-law! I see that you're a man of tradition, but you're asking the wrong person. It's her choice, not mine. Although, I will tell you that I have no objections...even if you did lie to me." Toshinori's eyes widen in surprise and he opens his mouth to say something, but Shanks holds up his hand. "I don't care about why you lied to me about your affiliation with All Might, but (Y/N) seems to know the truth AND you make her happy, so I'm not going to press you about it. I understand that there are certain things that some people need to keep from the public."

Toshinori swallows, "Did (Y/N)...?"

Shanks shakes his head, "No. I just have my suspicions that you and All Might are related in some way. There are similarities between the two of you that suggest that you are." Shanks turns his head and sees you bounding back towards them. He quickly throws back the rest of his drink before lifting it in the air in your direction. Understanding that he would like another drink, you turn back and make your way to the counter. "I bought us a few more minutes to talk. There's a couple of things I want to tell you. First of all, I want you to remember that I loved her first and a place in my heart will ALWAYS be her's, so, if you ever do anything to hurt my daughter, physically or emotionally, I will beat the shit out of you, even if I have to go through All Might to do so. Second, (Y/N) and I have never really talked about her getting married before so I have no idea if she's open to the idea or not. Lastly, she won't wear anything too expensive...I learned that the hard way. I've bought her some very nice jewelry over the years and she'll wear it once or twice then it ends up collecting dust in her jewelry box for years. I advise taking her to a store to pick out a ring herself. That way you can be sure that she'll love it and will actually wear it."

Toshinori nods, "Thank you, I'll keep those things in mind."

"When are you going to ask her?"

Toshinori smiles, "I was thinking about asking her sometime during the Sports Festival."

You place your dad's drink down on the table in front of him before sitting down beside Toshinori. You then notice Shanks' wide happy smile, "What's got you all excited?"

"We're celebrating remember, princess? Of course, I'm gonna be excited. Now, I want to see if you can still down a Long Island Iced Tea in one go. C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon! Chug! Chug! Chug!" You shrug your shoulders before picking up your drink and start to gulp it down. "Dahahaha!" Toshinori raises an eyebrow in amusement at how easily your dad persuaded you intochugging down your alcohol.

"Hey, (Y/N)! Toshinori!" A loud voice calls out causing you to choke slightly on the rest of your drink. "See! I told ya guys that I saw (Y/N)!" Hizashi, Aizawa, and a red-haired woman that you've never met before are making their way towards your booth from the other side of the bar. Hizashi is dressed in a pair of black leather pants, a purple sleeveless punk-style shirt, and is wearing his long hair down instead of in his usual cockatiel style. Aizawa is dressed in all black, but he is covered in bandages. The woman is wearing a purple button-up blouse and a pair of nice stretch pants with black combat boots. She's on the chubby side with a couple of moles on her face and square red glasses.

"Hi, guys! Come and join us!" You shout waving at the approaching trio, there's a nice pink blush across your cheeks now due to being buzzed. When they reach the booth you introduce them to your dad, "Daddy these are some of my co-workers: Hizashi Yamada, Shota Aizawa, and...uh, I'm sorry but we've never met before..."

The woman blushes and shyly says, in a thick southern American accent, "My name is Amanda. I'm Hizashi's cousin from America. I'm only visiting my cousin for a week."

You smile at her, "It's nice to meet you, Amanda. Amanda, Hizashi, Shota this is my father Shanks Akagami."

You see your dad's grin grow when his eyes meet Amanda's grey orbs. "It's nice to meet you all." He takes Amanda's hand in his, "And now that we've met, Miss Amanda, I know that I've truly seen an angel in person because only an angel can look as beautiful as you." He then kisses the knuckles of her hand.

There's a heavy blush on Amanda's cheeks and you can tell that she isn't used to men flirting with her. Toshinori looks over at you, "So that's where you get your smooth-talking from."

You giggle, "Yep! I learned from the best." Amanda bashfully sits down beside your father while you and Toshinori scoot over to make room for Hizashi and Aizawa. When the two men get situated, you turn to Aizawa and ask, "How are you doing Aizawa-san?"

He sighs, "I'm doing a lot better than yesterday. However, I would be doing even better if someone," he glares at Hizashi, "would have just let me sleep instead of dragging me here."

"Aw, come on Shota! This is our last chance to have some fun before school starts up again!" Hizashi says. He then turns to you, "It's great to see you up and moving around (Y/N)! You had us all worried especially when you stopped breathing and All Might had to give you CPR!"

"Wait...what?" Your dad's brows furrow.

"Yeah, you didn't know? After (Y/N)'s fight with the Nomu, she stopped breathing. And during the ambulance ride to the hospital, her heart stopped."

"No, I didn't know," your dad glares at you before leaning across the table and smacking you on the back of the head. "You know better than to use Will of the Dragon when you're so exhausted." Shanks then takes a large gulp of his rum before turning to Toshinori and saying, "You know, Toshinori, (Y/N) has always been quite the troublemaker even when she was a little girl. Hell, for the longest time I thought that she would end up becoming a villain! I remember when she was 7 years old..."

"Daddy!" You interrupt him,"No telling embarrassing stories about me!"

He sticks his tongue out at you, "It's my right as your father to tell embarrassing stories about you, princess. Anyway, she was 7 years old and it was a couple of weeks before Christmas when I noticed a brand new padlock on her closet door. Naturally, I asked her why there was a padlock on her closet and she looked me straight in the eyes and told me, "That's where I'm gonna keep Santa when I capture him. Then it will be Christmas every day." Everybody at the table begins to chuckle, except for Aizawa. "I thought it was cute and funny until I fell into the first snare trap. I have no idea where (Y/N) learned how to make a snare trap, but it worked. Christmas Eve night I found myself hanging upside down in our living room and cursing up a storm. (Y/N) came running into the living room in excitement, but got upset when she saw that it was me and said, "Daddy! You ruined everything!" Everyone at the table is now laughing, even Aizawa. Your cheeks are even redder than before from embarrassment, but you laugh as well. You had forgotten all about that.

"Oh, that's nothing," your dad says. "Her very first day of kindergarten the principal calls me and tells me that she made all the other kids in her class cry. You see, they were all asked to bring in something for show and tell, and (Y/N) decided to bring in her rabbit's foot that I won for her at Chuck E. Cheese. I didn't think anything of it at the time, I mean it was a little fake rabbit's foot, how could she possibly cause trouble with it? But she did...she got up in front of her class, held up the foot, and when the teacher asked her if it was a lucky rabbit's foot she replied, "Only thing left in the trap. Pretty lucky, huh?"

Everyone bursts out laughing again except for Aizawa who facepalms. "I am so glad that I'll never have you as a student."

You grin mischievously at the grumpy man, "You may not have had me as a student, but there's still a chance that you'll have my kids in your class one day."

"And that will be the day I officially retire as a teacher."

"Dahahaha!" You laugh loudly, but abruptly stop when you hear Toshinori coughing. "Are you okay, Toshi?"

He nods his head and wipes the blood from his bottom lip. "Yes, I'm fine." He looks at you, his glowing cerulean eyes meeting your own (e/c) eyes. "Kids? So you do want kids?"

"Sure, as long as you're the father. I can see a little boy that looks like you and a little girl that looks like me both running around in little All Might onesies." A blush appears on Toshinori's cheeks in pleasure at the thought. You begin to chuckle, "And grandpa Shanks will take them Trick or Treating at Christmas like he used to with me when I was little."

Hizashi asks, "He took you Trick or Treating at Christmas?"

You and Shanks both laugh, "Oh, it was hilarious. I'd knock on the door and when the door opened (Y/N) would shout "Trick or Treat!" The person would look at us in confusion and say, "Uh, it's Christmas." Then I would say, "Hey! If you didn't want to participate then you should've turned off your porch light." More laughter issues from almost everyone at the table.

"So the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!" Hizashi says.

"She must have been a handful at Halloween," Toshinori comments.

"Oh, she was an absolute hellion at Halloween. She used to scare all of the other children, take their candy, then sell it back to them later. She was even escorted home by a cop once. She had put a coonskin cap on a skateboard, pushed it out into traffic, then shouted "Look out for my dog!" I think that was the only time I scolded her for one of her pranks."

You nod, "It was. You remember the K-mart incident?" You ask your father.

"Dahahaha! One of my finest pranks!"

"We were at K-mart one day, I was probably around 12 years old, and my dad walked up to this random stranger who was looking at guns. Completely serious he said, "Give me the gun, Herbert. The doctors said that you're not supposed to be near firearms after you got out of the hospital. Now, GIVE...ME...THE GUN." This poor guy just looked at him confused and replied, "My name's not Herbert and I don't even know who you are." Daddy looked at the salesclerk and said, "Uh-oh!" before turning and jogging away. The clerk is freaking out at this point and shouting, "Give me the gun Herbert! Give me the gun!"

Hizashi is absolutely cracking up; bent over the table and slamming his fist down on the table repeatedly, tears in his eyes from laughing so hard. Toshinori is laughing hard as well and even Aizawa is chuckling in amusement. Once everyone calms down, Aizawa looks past you at Toshinori. "Your children are going to be demon spawn, you know that right?"

Over the next hour, you all share childhood stories while taking turns in getting drinks. You end up singing a couple of songs: one with your dad and one with Hizashi. By the time that you all decide to call it a night, you, Shanks, and Hizashi are pretty drunk. You all leave the bar together: Hizashi being supported by Aizawa and Toshinori while he's singing loudly, Shanks is flirting with Amanda who is blushing madly and seems to have temporarily lost the ability to speak, and you, in your drunken state, decide that this would be an excellent time to ambush your dad. You rush towards him from behind, but he just wraps his arm around Amanda's waist and steps aside without even turning his head. You lose your balance and stumble sideways into an empty alleyway. You run into the wall of a building, stumble backward, and start to fall on your butt. Only your butt never makes contact with the hard concrete of the ground...instead, you find your ass firmly planted inside an empty white 2-gallon bucket...At least you hope it's empty.

"Is she okay?" Toshinori asks and Shanks glances over at him.

Toshinori notices that Shanks' irises are now a very light shade of grey, almost white, instead of his normal chocolate brown. When Shanks fixes his gaze upon Toshinori his eyebrows rise toward his hairline in surprise. "Well, I'll be damned..." Shanks says under his breath. Then he tells Toshinori, "I'm sure that she's fi...Dahahaha!" Shanks bursts out in a fit of laughter when he sees you waddle out of the alley almost bent in half with a bucket on your butt.

You pout at them, "I'm stuck!" Toshinori, Aizawa, and Amanda stare at you in disbelief while Shanks and Hizashi laugh hysterically at you. "Tooossshhi," you whine, "help me."

Toshinori, being the true hero that he is, cannot ignore your cry for help so he lets go of Hizashi and hurries over to you. "How in the world did you manage this?" Toshinori asks while moving behind you and grabbing the sides of the bucket. He tugs at the bucket, but it doesn't budge so he tugs harder. "Wow, this bucket is really stuck."

Your father finally stops laughing and comes over to help. "I'll pull her while you pull the bucket," your father wraps his arm around your waist. "On the count of three...One, two, three!" They both pull; your dad pulling you one way and Toshinori pulling the bucket the other way, but it doesn't budge. "Huh...well, desperate times call for drastic measures. Step aside, Toshinori."

You begin to panic slightly, "DON'T YOU DARE USE ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF DEATH ON ME OLD MAN!"

Shanks chuckles, "I kick you in the ass a couple of times during training and you act like you're traumatized."

"I AM traumatized! That move hurts like hell! And you didn't just use it on me during training nor was it just a couple of times!" You shout angrily, your teeth all pointed.

"Well, I had to make sure your head didn't get too big, didn't I? It's good to keep one's ego in check." Shanks places his hand on the bucket before activating his quirk. It all happens in a fraction of a second; red energy surrounds your father's hand and forearm, a beautiful gold armor covers his skin, and with only the slightest amount of pressure the thick plastic shatters into tiny pieces. His arm then returns to normal leaving everybody but you wondering what just happened.

You shout in joy, "Freedom! Thanks, daddy!"

Aizawa sighs, "Well, at least you didn't hurt yourself getting the bucket off. If it had been your nephew, I'm positive he would have broken at least one of his bones." He pulls out his cell phone, "I'm going to call a cab and take this idiot home." He looks over at Amanda, "Are you riding with us?"

A light blush appears on her face, "N-no. My hotel isn't far from here and it's such a lovely night tonight, I think I'm just gonna walk back."

Shanks walks over to her, "Allow me to accompany you, Amanda. I would love to get to know you better." Her blush deepens, but she nods her head. His ever-present grin widens and he tells you, "I'll see you tomorrow, princess. Aizawa-san, Yamada-san it was nice to meet you. Later, Toshinori!" He then puts his arm around Amanda's shoulder and begins to walk with her down the street.

"DON'T BE SILLY, WRAP YOUR WILLY!" You shout after them and you can hear your father laughing and Amanda say, "Oh my God!"

Aizawa facepalms and Hizashi looks at you with an expression of horror. "That's my cousin!"

"Yes, and she's also a grown-ass woman who can sleep with whoever she wants."

Aizawa, sounding like someone is holding a gun to his head and forcing him to, asks "Do you two want to share a cab with us? Who knows how many buckets there are between here and where you need to go."

You laugh cheerfully, "I should be alright now. Besides, I don't live too far from here and I plan on making Toshi stay the night with me."

A drop of sweat appears on Toshinori's forehead, "Do I get a say in this?"

You raise an eyebrow and sassily reply, "Are you really going to turn down a chance for sex?"

Blood suddenly sprays from Toshinori's mouth at your comment. A cab comes to a stop near Aizawa and Hizashi and Aizawa coaxes the drunken voice hero into the cab before getting in after him. You and Toshinori wave goodbye to them before walking down the street in the opposite direction of where your dad and Amanda went.

Outside of your apartment, you come to a stop and so does Toshinori. "You do know that you don't have to stay the night right? I would never force you to do anything that you don't want to do."

Toshinori smiles at you, "I know. I think I better go though...I don't want to take advantage of you in your drunken state."

You chuckle, "I'm mostly sober now thanks to the walk home. I mean I did make it up the stairs without needing you to carry me." You turn your back to him to unlock the door. After you open the door, you look over your shoulder at him. "But it's all up to you, handsome." You walk inside of your apartment and, after hesitating for a moment, Toshinori follows you inside, shutting the door behind him.

A/N: Yes, I am alive! Even though I don't feel like it. Still going through some health issues, but still alive. You may have noticed that I always address Aizawa by his last name instead of his first...I do this mainly to avoid confusion because Aizawa's first name is Shota and Todoroki's is Shouto. It confuses me sometimes so I'm going to be sticking with their last names. I may even start referring to Present Mic as Yamada since his first name is Hizashi and Izuku's father's name is Hisashi.