When Tenko returned to his visit to the doctor's domain, he and Izuku remained in the room. Silent as they digested the recent events.
The green-haired boy was stuck in the unenviable position of wanting to
9eventualy, due to old age, hopefully.) Depart from this world but being unable to. And even Green Vale didn't sound like an option.
Sure, the place was lovely, but there was this… uncanny valley effect going on.
It was too perfect, too plastic, and knowing that all of the residents were dead…
And that one day, he would also join them…
"I'm sorry." Tenko broke the silence after what must be hours… or maybe not.
"Why?" Izuku asked. Now… what the hell would Tenko feel guilty about?
"I…" The handsome man tried, his voice cracking as he tried to find the words. His eyes were full of sorrow.
"I don't know… I feel so bad about… about what you'll have to go through." he let out an angry sigh as he rubbed his face, throwing his back in the chair as he groaned. "Why… Why does this shit all have to be on you?! You don't deserve all this, you don't deserve… fuck!"
"So… you also don't want to be stuck with me for the rest of eternity," Izuku spoke bitter words.
Meaning that Green Vale really wasn't an option.
Tenko removed his hands from his face and owlishly stared at Izuku.
Then, his flabbergasted state was replaced by intense rumination… His ruby-red eyes never left the green-haired youth.
The taller, stronger young man licked his lips, then huffed as he mentally prepared for something.
Whatever it was, Izuku was ready for it. Since it was clear Tenko, despite how… touchy and friendly he was with Shigaraki's nemesis, had no interest in him like that.
'It was good to dream… but he had to be realistic about it…'
'Useless, quirkless Deku.'
"Izuku," Tenko spoke loudly, squeezing Izuku's now-freed hands hard enough to stop the greenette's dangerous spiral.
The God-like man raised a hand and wiped Izuku's tears from his cheeks. Causing unwanted heat to travel to his stomach… and lower, would he still be able to feel his lower extremities.
"Izuku…" Tenko tried again, trailing off as his pale cheeks turned a dusty pink. "I… I think…"
"You think?" Izuku prodded, his blood roaring in his ears.
He was not as dense as people liked to believe, but he had been burnt enough to doubt anyone who showed some attraction to him. Hell, when he mustered the courage to ask Ochako out on Valentine's day, she had accepted; but at that, told Izuku that she wasn't interested in more since she didn't fancy a man who racked hospital bills like Bakugo his collector cards.
Ouch.
There had been a few others… Shouto had been one, but…
The suicide pact and his intensity had made the greenette back out pretty quickly.
Izuku squeezed Tenko's fingers (man, those hands were huge… and warm, and… argh! Be realistic!) He dearly hoped Aizawa-sensei took Izuku's warning to heart otherwise…
"I think… the Sky outside will be clear."
…
"Oh." Izuku breathed out, trying not to let his tears show. "Yeah… the sky." he let out a sad laugh. "Kinda… miss seeing the stars, to be honest." He may not remember much from Green Vale, but one thing that marked him was how empty the night sky was.
"I know… soooo…. Do you… want to go out… with me… on a romantic date?" Tenko asked, hope shining in his ruby-red eyes as his cheeks turned lovely shades of pink.
…
Izuku could only stay seated with his mouth open, his vocal cords crackling as he tried to wrap his head around what the God-like, super tall, Handsome as they come, funny, caring, not caring about his renewed quirkless status….
And holding enough quirk to make a thriving town in yet another quirk. Oh, and his hands were deliciously callous, something Izuku had discovered he'd quite liked during his training day.
Better than Bakugou's freakishly smooth skin, it just didn't feel natural, like he was faking it. like he'd never struggled a day in his life and how everything just seemed to line up for him perfectly…
Unlike Izuku.
Tenko's hands felt… used and abused. Warm in a way that spoke of his overall demeanour.
Tenko was kind and warm, friendly to all unless they proved to be less than friendly.
And…
Tenko loved him, Tenko loved Deku…
And Deku… Izuku loved him back.
And he, This Amazing man, the one who had done the impossible and killed All For one over Izuku's well far, who had nurtured him back to health, and who still cared despite Izuku being more useless than usual… had asked him on a date.
Izuku lowered his eyes to his and Tenko's linked hands. The God-like man, Tomura's at-best very deadly hands were dwarfing his. They were rough, covered in scars and calluses.
And they were almost burning warm, just as Izuku's cheeks felt.
"I… Never went on a date before." Izuku mumbled. "But…I…"
"I would like that."
Suddenly the room was filled with this brilliant, divine light as if ten thousand suns had arisen at once.
Then he realized that, no, Tenko had not, in fact, used one of his amazing quirks to manifest a sun in the middle of the meeting room; he was just beaming hard enough to shame the real thing.
"Really? You want… to try?" Tenko asked.
"No… not try." Izuku shook his head. "Tenko… I… I really like you… I want to be with you… for a long time." He said. "I… Don't think I have another shot at this, Ten-chan. I mean, who would want a man who can't work, who can't walk, and who… who's quirkless."
"Izuku…"
"B-but it's not just like that!" Izuku stammered, not wanting to ruin it so early. "Your… You're awesome, Tenko. You're kind to everyone, b-but you don't let others boss you around and you're not a-afraid to do the needful. You… You've made me so happy, you know? Just to know that I don't have to worry anymore, that someone is here, that You… You love me despite… despite seeing my worst." The greenette said quietly.
Sometimes, he caught a glimpse of a faded memory of Greenvale, old flashes of emotions, of fear, anxiety, and so, so much Paranoia as Cathy, Nana and Tenko slowly but surely tamed the once Feral hero.
Tenko… had seen him at his worst.
And yet.
"You love me… like, you didn't need to tell me, just… you know, when you wake up beside me and smile at me first thing in the morning, or when you run into me before a meeting, you smile… and it's the most genuine smile anybody had seen, it's like… like I had… as if I was good news."
"You are Good news, Izuku, every time I see you," Tenko said as he gently squeezed Izuku's mended hands. "I swear, I could've passed the whole days smashing my head on Legal walls, dealing with nasty politicians or ass kissers and grievers, but one smile from you and boom! My day's perfect!"
A Happy laugh bubbled from a space izuku forgot ever existed.
It was pure Joy...
Tenko caused that, and it was clear the God Like Man knew what he'd just caused.
did it make izuku fall harder for him. " I love you, tenko... I want to share my life with you."
Tenko gasped as he covered his mouth, tears pouring from his eyes as he sobbed in joy. He could only nod, for Izuku had robbed him of all words.
The next thing the wheelchair-bound youth knew, he was engulfed in the taller man's embrace as he snivelled and sobbed.
And then came the kiss, on his lips. It was a quick thing and… rather clumsy. It held joy and relief.
It was Izuku's first kiss…
It was… nothing like he'd expected. And yet it was everything he'd seen.
He was once again in Tenko's powerful arms; Izuku's arms had found their natural resting place on the white-haired Hero's neck. And he knew, Izuku knew that would he still have One For All, that he would be floating along with his…
His…
'I have a boyfriend.' The groundbreaking revelation was such that it took Izuku's mind away from what had ultimately happened to Dabi and what would ultimately happen to him.
For now, anyway.
The wait for his first date had been interminable. Every minute stretched into hours as he waited for the sky to Darken.
It took everything in Izuku not to get cold feet about it, his disastrous first date in junior high leaving him anxious and fearful of once again being played with.
Still, with Spinner's help (he had taken the day off to hang out with his brand new bud, what a Chad.) Izuku had managed to cobble something half-descent for his… date.
And trying not to think too hard About the Dabi/Batist situation… at least, until Spinner brought it out.
"So… uh… Ghosts exist."
"Yep! Lived with seven of those in my head." Izuku hummed as he squeezed stressed balls to rebuild his arm strength and… crush the stress he felt.
… truly, those were only effective at toning his arms, but not the butterfly-flying mayhem in his stomach.
How was he supposed to act on a date? How much was he supposed to speak, was what he was wearing good enough? Was he cute enough? Was he supposed to look sexier? He knew he'd overheard some girls at school simping over how muscled he was, how they wanted to lick his abs and check if his buns were steel or fluff.
Honestly, the first time he'd heard that Izuku had thought those students had made fun of him. There was not much to look at there. All Might, Kacchan, hell, everyone was beautiful and musclebound, and Tenya's legs were a true work of art.
Shouto was pretty too, but whatever abs and well-defined muscles he had were marred with the knowledge of what he had gone through to get there… and what he was still willingly doing to get there.
Hell, even All Might had intimated to Izuku that he was… a bit too fluffy and lacked muscle tone.
The moment he'd stopped eating as much, drastically cutting out his food intake, his mother had put her foot down.
Apparently, Midoriya Inko became a powerlifter to deal with the stress that came with keeping her beloved Son. True, she was not the best of mothers (She said in her natural humility.) but had kept her mouth shut when she realized who was training her son, trusting him to know all the safety measures for teaching Izuku how to build his muscle mass.
Tragically, He'd trusted All Might was more into building fluff than actual working muscles, meaning that it took Izuku longer than it should have if he had gone to his mother… a mother who was too intimidated by All Might to protect her son truly.
"Hey… Midoriya?" Spinner called as he waved his scaly hands in front of Izuku, breaking him out of his spiralling thoughts.
"S-sorry, I was."
"You know you're perfect the way you are, right?"
"P-pardon?" izuku asked, bewildered.
Spinner gave a careless shrug as he rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment. "Well, you know. The way you were talking… just know that… sure, you can always improve your body through workouts and shit but… just know that the first step of a healthier body is to love and accept it as it is, flaws and all. And also accept your own limits. It's ok to be plump, it's perfectly fine not to look like a supermodel or a bodybuilder. asa long as you are legit healthy and mentally sane, then you're all good."
"That's easy for you to say." Izuku grumbled as he gave Spinner the stink eye.
The Reptilian man was tall, and his biceps were the size of watermelons, what to say of his thighs and abs.
If Izuku didn't have anything against Furry… or had Tenko on an active date request, then perhaps…
Spinner shrugged. "Eh, Lifting a way for me to cope. Had a real shitty childhood. Mom and pops send me to this… facility run by the Creature Rejection Camp and… Yeah, I'd rather not go there. Don't wanna sour the rest of your day with my sob story." he trailed off. "All Might rescued me… Well, not me in particular; but he's the one who busted open the security and all that."
"That's why you consider him a true hero!" Izuku said as realization shone in his eyes.
Spinner rubbed the back of his head. "Yeah! I mean, sure. From what I've heard and what… oh, what's her name… she had a bomb quirk."
"Miss Curious?"
"Yeah, her. Apparently, All Might was… a bit of a dick off-camera. Kinda too much in his little bubble of his where everything is fine and dandy but he's crumbling under all that pressure but doesn't trust other heroes because he has those stupidly high standards no one can reach." Spinner spoke as he took out his pocket game console. "And the HPSC's trying to churn out more All Mights. Hell, Hawk was supposed to be the next one on the line."
"... you… I thought you were a fan of his." Izuku asked, his eyes wide.
"I am but… There's the Hero, then there's the man behind the hero."
"Yeah." Izuku nodded. "He… He told me to be realistic. Me, a Quirkless preteen who'd just survived a villain attack just because he was at the right place, at the right time… I mean, I did grab his legs as he was jumping away… he almost threw me off… it would have killed me but… no big loss there."
Things would've gone so much better would he be gone. Sir Nighteye would still be alive, Mirio would be All Might's…
No…
No, there was no turning back, and who knows? Perhaps things would've gone even worse than they had now.
Besides, this timeline had Tenko and All For One was well and truly dead.
A scaly hand rested on Izuku's scared and not-so-twisted one.
No words were shared, but Spinner's intelligent eyes filled with understanding is all Izuku needed.
At this moment, Spinner became Izuku's Hero.
"C'mon, we still have like five hours before Tenko's taking you out."
"Wait. five hours?"
The Lizard-like man gave a closed-eyed smile.
"I ain't snitching man, but yeah. Five hours. So, what game do you wanna play, The Last Cycle? Rayman revival? The Rabbids Kingdom War?"
"Um… no war, please. Do you have something more, I dunno… I just want to escape all this talk of death and murder, you know.
Spinner wisely nodded. "Get ya, bro. So, Prof Layton's some pretty good games, kinda heavy on the drama though, not the worst. Hmm… What do you feel about Animal Crossing? Or how about some farming simulator like Simple Life or Rune Factory?"
"Animal Crossing, please."
Izuku played with Spinner on making their horror theme island as they waited for the sun to Set. then they took a small break, giving enough time to wonder what would be the date in question He hoped he knew what it would be.
It would be amazing if it was what izuku hoped it was.
And then, the sun was gone. One would expect Izuku to hope to watch the Sunset with his… oh Goodness, his tentative boyfriend, but no.
Izuku preferred sunrise, and even then, to see the sunset and sunrise was not special, even if you lived in the city.
Eventually, Izuku could not focus on the game anymore, it was this ancient game called Kirby Air Ride; the game only used the joystick and the (A) button to play, well, not the version they had; this one got more buttons to press, and a whole lot more tracks.
And less vehicles. Only the best were playable… oh, and there were so many characters!
Izuku loved playing with Kirby; since he, like him, was quirkless until he ate someone.
Oh, and Zero two, of course. The Ophanim had its own… barcode wheel as a cart while the spinner alternated between Meta Knight, Dark Meta Knight and Dark Matter blade.
"He looked like you… sorta… with his hair, I mean." Spinner had teased the paraplegic, who had then shoved the massive young man with all the strength he had.
Not that it did much, but the Gecko-man dramatically threw himself off the couch, cursing Izuku's name and vowing to haunt him every waking hour, to which Izuku replied with a cheeky "Oh good! Another tenant!"
The two then burst into laughter, forgetting about their games and Izuku's nerves, right until Tenko came walking in.
He was filthy, covered in dust, grime and blood, his face was marred with deep lines showing how tired he was, his beautiful white hair had turned red and gray from the dirt and other debris and his armoured undershirt was exposed.
He was gorgeous, but…
"Tenko! What Happened!?" Izuku asked as he tried his best to wheel toward his date for the night, forgetting all about said date now that he could really get a good look at his gentle giant.
The God among men just waved off Izuku's concern, his pigeon-blood eyes never leaving Izuku. "Bah… just some more villains I dusted away. From Tartarus…" he said as he peeled whatever was left of his white shirt off. "I'd heard from a high-security prison from a few trusted friends. I know the Americanised world hates the thought of killing even the worst of criminals, and Japan also has this nasty habit of putting all their nasty eggs in the same basket." Tenko explained as he paled away his shirt, not at all shameful. "Personally, and in the opinion of Nana, aunty Cath, Banjo, and practically all the heroes in my quirk: better kill those assholes, even if their quirks are good."
…
"Bet All For One's the one who financed Tartarus." Izuku fumed. "Why waste all of those good quirks with death, am I right?"
"Yeah. I still rescued a few inmates, like those whose crimes were to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. I also confiscated a few quirks too, since Tartarus does not discriminate on the mental health aspect." Tenko sighs. "Thank God I figured out how to separate the ghost from the quirk. Now if only I could flush quirks I don't need." Tenko sighed. "I don't need anymore; I'm already OP." He grumbled.
At first, Izuku thought that Tenko's desire to eliminate unwanted quirks was ridiculous until he realized that not all quirks were workable. Nor wanted.
Izuku had read, during his bouts of insomnia, about a man whose… lower bodily secretions were so acidic he could kill anyone who was in contact with it.
He'd committed suicide.
Or so the legend goes.
"Maybe I can help you figure something out?" Izuku proposed. "During our date, maybe?" He not too subtly reminded Tenko about their plan for the night.
Tenko, who had slumped on the couch, looked up. "You… Do you want to do it during our date? Quirks theories?"
Izuku blushed bright red, backpedaling as fast as he could.
"No, it's fine!" Tenko quickly said. "Our date location's not close so I'm sure you could figure out something on the way. Maybe even during the main event, I don't mind."
"You don't?" Izuku asked in equal parts, surprise and suspicion.
"Hey, it makes you happy. I won't force you to change for my sake," Tenko said as he got up, clapping his hands. " Alright, I'm gonna hit the shower, then go out. I shouldn't be long." He said before disappearing in the bathroom, bending over to pick up his shirt… and giving Izuku one hell of a view.
'Oh, that tease.'
The evening was old, the sun was already well below the horizon, and the chilly winter air grew gradually colder and crisp.
And Izuku loved every minute of it.
"Oh, Kami. I missed being outside." the teen said from his enviable place on Tenko's back.
Apparently, Tenko didn't trust any modes of transportation but himself. And thus, with the help of whatever was left of Feel Good Inc. R&D department and Doctor Daruma's insight, had made for the two a sling Tenko would wear that would safely hold Izuku on his back without using his freaky extra limbs.
Spinner's words, Izuku really loved the idea that Tenko had extra hands…
Hey, he was a Japanese teenager who crawled through the worst of districts as he tried to arrest, and sometimes kill as many escaped villains before his body gave up, or he himself was killed…
(well, that went dark fast.)
Nevertheless, Tenko was currently running through the darkening air as night slowly covered them, aiming for the coast.
"Oh, goodness, Tenko. We're going to stargaze, aren't we?" Izukku asked as he felt thrillful anticipation flood him.
"Aw crap, I wanted to keep this a secret." The older young man grumbled as they passed over another coastal village, one that seemed to have been spared by the ongoing war and villains; Izuku could still see some of Tenko's men down there, giving people their protection and whatever resources they could share.
"Ha, take that, Stain. Those are the true heroes, not me." "It's fine, Ten-chan. I love stargazing; it's what kept me going when I was hunting villains." Izuku revealed. "I never realized how… full the night sky was. I remember when all the lights went out the first time. The sky was covered with clouds, and everything went so dark, like… it felt like the end of the world."
"Yeah… I can understand that."
"And then.. The cloud parted, and the sky just… oh Tenko, it was a sea of stars, and the moon was,... I think one-quarter gibbous? Whatever it was, there were just so many stars, Tenko. Like… It was terrifying to look up; there were just so many, and the Milky Way… Goodness, words fail to describe it."
"Hmm-mm?" Tenko hummed as he listened to his boyfriend on their way to their first date.
Izuku kept speaking and mumbling about his passion for the stars and the infinite confines of space and how unfair it was that all space programs got cancelled when the Normal V.S Meta War started.
Seriously, talk about unfairness.
"Ok, we're here, Suki." The unofficial best Hero of Japan declared as he landed on a dark beach, the light of the stars and moon reflecting on the high tide and the waves hitting the damp sand.
Oooom…. Oooom…. Oooom…
Izuku closed his eyes as he took in the sound of the ocean, the smell of the salty spray and washed off lavers… and some dead fishes too.
He can smell the sweet-smelling sea grass and hear them rustle in the ocean breeze.
Over the light-free horizon, another sea has opened up: the legendary sea of stars, infinitely wide and about as unknown as the ocean.
There was a reason NASA had gotten defunded and dragged in the mud, and why no space program could get off the ground.
He felt Tenko take a deep breath, his silky white hair glowing in the starlight. "We missed the sunset, but… I think-"
"Tenko, I don't care… we're going to stargaze, aren't we? The sunrise is more like a lifting curtain for the main event." Izuku said as his heart filled with joy at the prospect of watching the celestial vault with the one person who was truly starting to become his world.
"Yeah, I got some warm blankets, some snacks. I managed to find a stash of cocoa, so we also have that." he huffed. "I hope nothing will interrupt us. Took me days to secure this location and pacify all those coastal villages."
"All those villages?" Izuku asked his… Boyfriend (SQUEE!) walked down the beach; only the stars were there to provide some light.
"'Well… yeah. I mean. It didn't feel fair that only the one village close would be villain-free and with access to food, water, communication and all that, you know. So I did the whole coast." Tenko said as he set up a beach blanket on the soft sand… or was it gravel? And Izuku could feel the blush burning on his boyfriend's face and neck.
"The whole coast… like… the whole west coast of Japan.
"A chunk of it." The white-haired young man answered quickly, retracting the previous statement."
"So… I wasn't the only one anxious about the date, then."
"No…" The God among men admitted before he burst into easy laughter.
Some would stress bake; others would stress eat and stress draw.
Tenko did stress hero-ing.
The rest of the night happened with big smiles on their faces, in jokes, and kisses. and laying down in the sand (on his longe therm boyfriend.) as the young man stood in awe at the night sky, cathing glympses of falling stars and a few starlinks.
and then more kisses.
Many, many kisses.
Eventually, Izuku spoke something he had kept in his heart ever since he had come face to face with his own mortality and how vast the universe was.
"Ten-chan?"
"Yes, Suki?"
Izuku blushed at the nickname.
Suki… if memory served, it meant happy in Bengali
He had no friends, insomnia, and unlimited internet, of course, he learned Bengali.
And he was also scraping some Sanskrit knowledge because what else could he do? He was practically legless but without Ectoplasm's fancy legs. But perhaps whatever was left of FeelGood Inc. could make him a pair of exo-pants.
Now that would be cool.
Nevertheless.
"Do you think… someone made all this?" izuku asked as he grandly gestured as the great infinite spread above them.
The final frontier, the one humans had never breached.
The one that still held onto their imagination… and held the greatest amount of existential dread.
Tenko hummed. "I heard from this one monk in orange… he used to live in Green Vale; he's the only one who managed to escape, but… I overheard him when he gave his lectures in the grand hall once a month. He said that there's this… Supreme Personality of Godhead who controls everything, and yet does nothing."
Izuku grunted. "... God, huh?"
Tenko hummed, sending pleasurable vibrations to his boyfriend, it was almost a purr.
"... I never believed in Him… whatever he could be but… the moment I started to look at the night sky…"
"You started to believe?"
Izuku grunted, his eyes never leaving the celestial spectacles revealing themselves to them.
He'd never expected to experience such a romantic evening without the sappy stuff.
He knew Tenko loved him just by how he acted.
"... you know, many of my subordinates are calling me God, the second coming of Christ." he revealed. "I hate this… and I know they're just sucking up to me. How can I be God when I don't even know what the pole star is… but if the concept exists."
"Then it means… what does it mean then?"
"Izuku, do you think you could research how old the concept of God is?"
"Yeah, sure. 'Snot like I have anything better to do."
"How about kissing me, would that be better?"
…
After a beat, Izuku burst into uncontrollable laughter, hiding his face in his hands as he felt all of his blood rush to his face.
"What? I want my kiss, Alright? Especially if you're going to go all existential on me, C'mon Sukhi, it's not funny!" Tenko shamelessly whined, causing Izuku to laugh harder, making the world's greatest music to tenko's ears.
It wasn't the first time Tenko had heard it, since Izuku had lived with his family for what seemed to be years before his deteriorating health had forced Tenko to take action.
But… to hear it again?
Yes, there must be a God somewhere. And this God… was good today.
On his boat, scouring the coast for any sign of skirmish and villain activities, Selkie looked at one, his lips a grim line on his face.
He had been warned, along with all other Heroes, about Deku's betrayal and All For One's gaining his quirk…
And wasn't that a whole box of worms?
The only thing the seal-like Hero wanted to do was to call his wife and kids again and whisk them all as far away from Japan as possible and hoped Nike would be able to take care of that problem.
But he was a Hero, and Heroes remained on the battlefield to fight until their last breath was given.
But sometimes, Selkie wondered if the cause he was fighting for was a good one…
Then he shook his head. No, he had to fight for the future… whatever it may hold.
Suddenly, in the early hours of dawn, a blackish blob was seen in one of the beaches near to one potential villain cell. They had just recently (as in just a few hours ago.) reestablished communication with some of the coastal towns and villages, all of them praising the Efforts of one 'Heavenly King.' A Vigilante that had more Hero in him then most.
Interesting, including that he had an army backing him up, mainly focusing on keeping the peace and distributing blankets and warm food. And keeping whatever villains looking for an easy target at bay.
Even if most of them used to be villains themselves, the report said.
It was clear something had happened; what exactly? Selkie had no clues.
Still, something told him what he was seeing.
Then, he noticed the suspicious beach lump started stirring, easing some dread in the gray-seal mutant.
Whomever they were, they were alive.
…
Green hair...
Midoriya, it was Midoriya Izuku.
The… UA traitor, no…
No, it was worse than that.
He watched as the green-haired… Should-be-a hero-but-switched-side-at-the-worst-possible-time, Wake up and rubbed his eyes… before leaning in and…
Oh.
There was another pair of arms wrapping around Izuku, giving him a good snog as both participants rolled on the ground, kissing each other good morning.
No, the seal-like man would not look away, he did once, and a corpse had been found a week later, along with another one.
Perhaps he'd gained a nasty reputation as a pervert, but he still managed to save and find two missing persons.
And arrest a water-quirked serial killer that would lure his victims wiht a night of fun before he'd drowned them.
Nevertheless, seeing a pair of teenagers rolling in the sand didn't do much for him since he'd never thought the unmutated body to be worth his time.
Eventually, both lovers got this out of their system; in the meantime though, Midoriya had removed Shigaraki's cowl, revealing the red-eyed menace in all his morning glories.
Oh, Hell no...
It was weird to see the look of utter softness in his lips and eyes, even more so with the way he moved and spoke.
Shigaraki… didn't move like All For One, nor did he move like Tomura either. His facial features… It was like watching an actor wearing a mask of someone you knew. But wore it better.
It was weird, alright?
The two spoke, Greeting each other properly.
Now, perhaps it was a fault on his part, but Selkie never managed to learn how to read lips; perhaps it was due to his boat never staying still.
Suddenly, Shigaraki (?) Looked up, right at him. His beaming smile lit up the entire coast, practically.
He turned to Izuku, pointing at the boat. the newly established Criminal (Christ, He was barely seventeen, and already had a cell with his name on it in whatever remained of Tartarus.) followed his gaze. Then his mouth turned into a blush.
And Shigaraki listened with vested interest, his red eyes growing wide and his mouth dropping open.
The next thing Selkie knew, the scourge of Japan (and soon, the world.) grinned as his gruesome gaze swept across and found the seal man's own.
The Shigaraki got up, and Selkie remembered a detail about Deku his intern Froppy had revealed.
Deku was a Hero and Quirk geek, a creep who knew too much about any Hero and that they were fucking lucky he never lost his desire to be a Hero,like All Might.
Right now, Deku isn't a Hero.
Deku, and his terrifying mind had snagged Shigaraki, and it didn't matter if Shigaraki was really All For One right now since, at the moment, All For One not only had the power of One For All, but the old User's knowledge of all the Heroes in japan at minimum.
Needless to say, Selki was quick to abscond with his crew. He had intel to give… and enough fear to last him a lifetime.
—-
Back on the shore, the two lovers could not hide their disappointment.
"Oh… here goes my first meet-up with another hero… bummer." Tenko sighed as Izuku patted his biceps.
"Hey, it's alright… I guess. Now they know I'm with you, and thus… my life is over." Izuku deadpanned as whatever was left of all his hopes and dreams shattered further.
He'd just wanted to be a Hero…
Maybe he should've stuck with a more approachable goal, like being a quirkless escort.
They lived well enough… and none of them triggered an apocalyptic war.
Tenko hugged his smaller boyfriend. "Hey, your life is not over, understand." The tenth holder said soothingly. "It's just another part of your life, and I will protect you. And if it's not me, then somebody else will."
"Ten-chan… I love you." Izuku admitted, feeling the trill at the bottom of his stomach, the warm fuzzies warring with the cold dread filling his bloodstream. "But… no one's infallible."
"..."
Clearly, this upset Tenko, but Izuku thought it was a good point to make to his God-like Boyfriend.
…
God-like…
God-Like…
"Izu… you're mumbling a storm." Tenko said as he got up, and manifested another pair of arms to help him pat away the sand and snow that covered him. "Mind sharing with me?"
"Ten-chan… You're described as God-like." Izuku said. "If you are God-Like… then it implies that someone met God and… that you look like him."
Tenko blinked. "... Hmm... I don;t know. first thing you have to do is to prove God's existence beyond a mere act of faith."
"But... what if it's all we have!" Izuku argued back. " The Big bag can;t be proven and yetall maners of scientific bodies accepted it without concrete proof, and how about how the planets where made, there'se some clues, but whatever we know is just speculation at this point, what to say about what;s one other planets?"
"Allright, you've made your points." Tenko conceded. "But I doubt God looks anything like me." The God like man Argued back. "He must look like you!"
"What! No, they don't."
and thus the two lovers returned to tenko's base of operation, bickering and joking about Goid and wether or not he had freckles or white hair.