Izuku and Shoto were excited, Shoto showing it much more than Izuku. Rei had told them that Izuku room had been finished, the pair were upset they no longer be sharing a room, but Shoto says they could do their own sleepovers. After having breakfast, the boys followed Rei to where Izuku new room was located. It was a few doors down from Shoto's room. Rei told Izuku that Touya room was next to his, in case he ever needed to find him.
Opening the door, the boys could see that Izuku's room was almost completely different from Shoto's room. While Shoto's room had a traditional Japanese feel, Izuku's was more modern, the room has been painted that the far side wall and wall that held the door were painted a cream color and the two remain walls were painted the same shade of green as Izuku's dark green hair. Izuku's room seemed to have everything, shelves with a few pro hero figures already on display, a moderately sized closet, a computer desk, but Rei told them not to expect a computer anytime soon, mostly to protect the kids from the weirdos found online. But what got Izuku's attention the most was the bed located across from the computer desk. To the six-year-old it looked huge and so comfy, he then felt Shoto started to pull him to the bed, the pair climbed onto the bed, only to find they were trapped.
"It's so soft…" Shoto moaned, feeling so relaxed, true he preferred his futon, but beds defiantly had their advantages.
"It's almost like a cloud," Izuku chuckled, this easily outranked any bed he had before. He then noticed Shoto getting up and standing on the bed. The heterochromatic soon started jumping on the bed.
"Come on, Izuku, jump. It's really fun!" Shoto cheered as he continued to jump on Izuku's bed
"Alright," Izuku said, he soon joined in with Shoto and his jumping, the pair started to laugh together.
"Hold it!" Rei shouted, catching the boys off guard, making them stop their jumping. Shoto tilted his head in confusion at his mother's raised voice. Izuku, however, started to shake like a scared little kitten, scared he may have made Rei upset with his actions, he had experience with this when he made Inko upset on multiple occasions. Rei walked over to the boys and grabbed the pillows from Izuku's bed, placing them on the floor, close to the bed.
"Now, don't jump to high now, alright?" Shoto nodded his head at his mother's request. The mother was clearly only worried about the kids' safety. Izuku stood there, surprised at how much Rei cared for them, the concept of a caring mother, still foreign to the young boy.
"Your mom is so sweet Shoto," Izuku said after Rei left the room
"I know she's the best mom in the world!" Shoto proclaimed, pumping his fist into the air as if to prove a point.
After a few more minutes of jumping on the bed, the kids started exploring the room further. The biggest surprise was when they found a box labeled for Izuku. Looking inside the box, the boys found it was full of hero night lights, likely Rei had mentioned to Enji about Izuku's fear of the dark, and he went out to buy them. The kids continued to play in Izuku's room for another hour, Izuku, happy the entire time.
After playing in his new room for a while with Shoto, Izuku decided to go outside. He was surprised to find Natsuo alone in the garden. The white-haired boy was currently bouncing the ball off his foot while making sure not to let it hit the ground. Izuku had been told that this was called keepy-uppy. Izuku watched as Natsuo worked on his keepy-uppy skills, Natsuo stopped once he saw Izuku was watching him.
"Hey, Izuku, you want to play some football?" Natsuo asked
"No thanks, I prefer to watch" Izuku replied
"Oh come on, I can show you all my tricks, bet it'll impress girls," Natsuo chuckled, winking at Izuku at the last part, like he wasn't trying to raise any suspicion, only to make him look more suspicious.
"Why would I want to impress girls?" Izuku innocently asked
"Oh Izuku, you'll understand when your older" Natsuo laughed
"But aren't you only older than me by three years?" Izuku commented
Ignoring Izuku's wisecrack, Natsuo started showing Izuku how to play keepy-uppy. Making sure to emphasize to be careful with how much force he puts into his kicks, saying that's just asking for trouble. After giving his demonstration, Natsuo handed Izuku the ball. Once getting the ball, Izuku tried copying Natsuo's movements with the ball. He was able to get three continuous kicks until he missed on the forth, he was surprised when he saw Natsuo clapping at his attempt.
"Nice job Izuku" Natsuo cheered
"But…I only got three…. you were able to do ten" Izuku whimpered
"You did better than when Touya tried to teach Shoto, he just kicked the ball way too hard, he ended up hitting dad in the face with the ball!" Natsuo started to laugh hard, remember that little moment.
"That…does sound funny" Izuku giggled
The pair continued to play keepy-uppy with each other, Izuku was able to get his score up to seven, while Natsuo got up to twenty. After doing this for a bit, Natsuo wanted to show Izuku how high he could kick his ball, the white-haired Todoroki threw the ball into the air, and just as it was about to hit the ground, he kicked the ball. Unfortunately, when Natsuo kicked the ball, he ended up kicking at the wrong angle, send the ball over to the neighbor's house. The two kids heard a window smash, just after losing sight of the ball, Natsuo and Izuku visibly gulped at what had just happened.
"Ugh... ok Izuku...new lesson, what to do when you break a window with your football" Natsuo stuttered as he tried to regain his composure
"Tell rei and apologize?" Izuku asked
"No, act like you weren't playing football because you lost your ball."
After beating a hasty retreat and splitting off from Natsuo, Izuku hid himself for a short while until a factor of his personality that his adopted siblings would grow to loathe (though admittance of that fact would never leave their lips) his conscience ironically strengthened through his traumatic past made him seek out Rei to admit his wrongdoing, it wasn't a long search as he found her sitting on her lonesome reading through the contents of the book appeared to be odd as he saw her expression some sort of odd middle ground between fondness and sadness, his fear of punishment and verbal scolding pushed back a little to try and find the reason for her confusing look.
"Rei, are you ok?" Izuku asked, startling Rei having to been too focused on the book she had in her hand.
"Oh…Izuku, you…s-scared me for a second"
"Sorry Rei, I didn't mean to scare you."
"Oh, Izuku, It's alright. I just got distracted" Rei said motioning to Izuku the book in her hand
"What are you reading?" he asked
"Oh, …it's just the family photo album or to be more precise, one of them."
"How many do you have?" Izuku asked, his curiosity getting the better of him.
"A few, but I have a feeling that we'll be making more in the future." Rei chuckled back. It was here Izuku pulled himself up onto the couch to look at the photo album, Rei happy to show him. Izuku sat down next to Rei and started looking through the photo album.
"Rei, why are you in a UA uniform with Touya?" Izuku asked as he pointed to a picture that had what seemed to be Rei and Touya outside UA front gate, both wearing the school uniform. The second that sentence left Izuku's mouth, Rei burst out in laughter. She grabbed her stomach as she almost keeled over in a fit of laughter, leaving Izuku confused to no end.
"Hahahahahah…Oh..I-izu-uk..th-a-t's not…" Rei gasped, her laughter making it near impossible for her to speak. "Th-at's…Enji..n-not….touya..hahahahha"
"Really, whoa Endeavour and Touya almost look the same" Izuku awed at the similarities between the father and son, this earned another chuckle from Rei, who had been able to stop her fit of laughter.
"I wouldn't say that around Touya, not saying he hates his father. He just hates always being compared to him or reminded he's just like him. I think he once talked about dying his hair black just to stop the comparisons."
Rei continued to show Izuku more photos, from her time in UA in general ed course while Enji was in the hero course, to the couple just after getting married, the album ended with pictures of baby Touya and Fuyumi. Izuku laughing at a picture of Enji carrying the pair on his shoulders and how it seemed the pair had dropped their ice cream cones on Enji's head, Izuku could see Rei in the corner of the picture laughing her head off.
"Rei, are there any pictures of you and Endeavour before UA, like when you were babies?" Izuku asked, curious at what a baby Rei and Endeavour look like, sadly all his six-year-old mind could see is the two adults with the same face but having the bodies of babies.
But when Izuku looked to Rei, he saw her expression had changed from happy and cheerful as he would usually see her. To saddened and disheartened, for a moment, he swore he saw her have a faint tremble as if fear was gripping at her faintly. Izuku tried to reach out to her in a means to remind her she was ok or, at the very least, she wasn't alone. But when his hand toucher her arm, Rei spun around and glared at Izuku, her eyes filled with fear, sadness, and a hint of hatred. They looked almost identical to his mother's, the day he got his quirk and the day she started abusing him.
Fear gripped Izuku's heart, he recalled the lost football and felt a dread pit in his stomach, he wanted to tell her, but fear of her punishment caused him to hesitate, what would she do? Freeze him in place? Just his hair to make him feel how much of a burden he was? Throw him to the streets? That seemed the most likely in his mind, he wasn't her blood child, and his own mother had locked him out on numerous occasions, only keeping him because of blood connected obligation. Rei had none of those obligations. Following his first instinct, Izuku tried to protect himself. Using his arms, he covered his head, letting out a yelp as he did so.
Hearing Izuku's yelp, Rei's mind finally caught up with her, after memories of her past clouded her vision. She saw Izuku trembling in front of her as he was doing his best to protect himself.
"Oh god…Izuku, I'm so sorry," Rei wailed as tried to hug the scared little boy.
"…. It's…my…fault…" Izuku whimpered
"No. It isn't Izuku. It's mine and don't you dare try and correct me on this, I got caught up in sour memories and lost my temper" Rei fired back as she continued to hug Izuku. Gratefully it seemed to show Izuku, that Rei wasn't going to harm him, the pair sat in silence for a while until Izuku regained a bit of courage
"Rei…I did something bad."
"It's ok sweetie. I'm sure it's nothing too serious, so what happened?"
"Me and Natsuo…... we were playing with the football in the garden. Then Nat…I kicked the ball too hard…. It flew over the fence and into the neighbor's garden…... I think I broke their window." Izuku said, deciding he rather take the punishment than let Natsuo get in trouble. Rei just continued to brush her hand through Izuku's curly hair, something she found that calmed her.
"Ok, Izuku, thank you for telling me," Rei replied but let out a faint chuckle. "Can say you're defiantly a lot braver than Natsuo or Touya. Whenever they broke something, they just hide it or say they had nothing to do with it." Rei chuckled again as she kissed Izuku's forehead, Izuku seemed to like this as Rei could see him smiling again.
"Rei…did someone hurt you too?" Izuku asked, curious at what could have made the sweetest person he knew, so scary and afraid.
"Izuku…. I well…. Let's just say…. I know, a thing or two about pain…. Not just physically" Just as Rei finished her sentence, she was caught off guard when Izuku hugged her back. Rei smiled at Izuku, and the pair continued their little hug-fest.
After Izuku and Rei finished their hug, Rei gave what only be described as the sweetest scolding a mother could give. Telling Izuku to be more careful in the future whenever he plays with a football, afterward, she left to go handle the neighbor, now Izuku was by himself again.
"There you are, Izuku~."
Or so he thought.
Fuyumi came up Izuku, the preteen smiling like always.
"I heard your room is finally done, how's it feel not needing to bunk with Shoto anymore?"
"Fuyumi, what's that?" Izuku asked, pointing to Fuyumi's hand, ignoring her question. In Fuyumi's right hand was a round white sphere, it looked familiar to Izuku, but he couldn't put his finger on where he had seen it before.
"Oh, this is a snowball, I made it with my quirk," Fuyumi said, gesturing to snowball in her hand. "I just love making these things, heck I'm basically a walking snow day if I want to be."
"What's a snow day?"
"WHAT!? Izuku, you have to know what a snow day is!" Izuku just shook his head at Fuyumi, who just pouted at Izuku. "Come on, there days in winter, where the snow makes the school shut, and you get to spend all day in the snow and make great memories."
"I never got that, anytime it snowed. Nothing good happened."
'I swear if I ever meet the people who bullied this angel. There won't be anything left.' Fuyumi thought, a part of her wishing she could be left in a room with those monsters to teach them a lesson.
"Well, we can't have that then, you go get Shoto and come meet me in the back garden" Doing as Fuyumi said, Izuku went looking for Shoto. It didn't take long to find him, Izuku told Shoto that Fuyumi wanted both of them in the garden right now.
The pair made their way to the back garden, finding Fuyumi on the edge of the decking. Izuku asked why Fuyumi wanted them to come to the back garden, Fuyumi just giggled at him and raised her arms. Suddenly there was a blizzard coming out of her hands! "What you think Izuku, Touya isn't the only one with a variation of their parent's quirk!"
"That's so cool!" Izuku screamed with excitement, not only at finally seeing Fuyumi quirk but at what she was doing with it.
Soon the entire back garden was covered in a layer of snow, Fuyumi making sure it was just enough so she, Shoto, and Izuku can have some fun. She looked over to the pair of six-year-olds and saw the pair had stars in their eye with excitement. She knew Shoto loved her quirk and was happy to see Izuku seemed to love it as well. Shoto was off like a rocket and started to try and build a snowman, emphasis on try, Izuku, on the other hand, seemed reluctant to join in, sticking to her plan to give Izuku a good memory in the snow. Fuyumi decides instead of telling Izuku he was safe. She show him.
Fuyumi jumped off the decking and ran through the snow, cheering the whole time. Just as she passed Shoto, she grabbed her little brother to join in the fun until Fuyumi tripped and fell into the snow. This didn't stop her laughter nor Shoto's as the two made the best of the situation and started to make snow angels. "Come on, Izuku! You're missing out on all the fun!" Fuyumi cheered
Izuku watched as the pair continued to enjoy themselves in the snow, fear making him hold back from joining in. But he wanted to join in so badly, but anytime he tried to join in when his classmates had played in the snow, it usually resulted in him being pelted with snow and ice balls or getting buried. Fighting against his fear, Izuku slowly took a step off the decking and into the snow. He heard the snow being flattened under his shoe as he stepped into the garden, soon his other foot followed and finally he was in Fuyumi's winter wonderland. Izuku heard Fuyumi cheer at Izuku, deciding to join in and called him over to make snow angels, saying she reserved a spot just for him. Izuku felt there was no hidden meaning or Fuyumi was tricking him, he slowly walked over to see Shoto and Fuyumi completed snow angels. Fuyumi took it upon herself to show Izuku how to make a snow angel. She figured it is easy since, to her, he was already an angel. And loo and behold, Izuku made a perfect snow angel on his first attempt, Fuyumi and Shoto cheered at Izuku success and proceeded to hug the little greenete, something he enjoyed very much.
After the hug, the three started to build their snowmen, Fuyumi opting to help Izuku make one while Shoto continued with the one he started earlier.
The pair had just finished making the head when Izuku asked Fuyumi a question. "Fuyumi, how did you learn about your quirk?"
Fuyumi looked rather confused at the wording of his question. "You mean, how did I learn what my quirk was?" Fuyumi asked Izuku nodded. "Well that's actually rather funny, when I was four I caught a cold, I was in bed for a week until one day I sneezed and suddenly it looked like a blizzard had just gone through the house. Oh man, it was hilarious, my mom was jumping for joy that I had a quirk like her's and my dad ended up catching a cold thanks to me." Fuyumi laughed at the memory and how funny it was to see the number two hero stuck in bed with a cold.
Izuku let out a few giggles. "Your right, that is funny."
Fuyumi smiled, watching as Izuku continues to laugh as they finished the snowman, she was happy her plan was going well. Thump, she felt something cold hit the back of her head. Whipping her head around, she saw Shoto whistling 'innocently.' Smirking, she makes a couple of snowballs and throws them at her little brother, getting him a couple of times. The pair start to throw snowballs wildly, not caring if they hit or not, out of nowhere though the pair got a face full of snow. Looking to where it came from, they saw Izuku with a pile of snowballs as he let loose. The three spent the next hour throwing snowballs around, afterwards, Fuyumi made the three of them some nice hot chocolate as they relaxed in the living room.
"Fuyumi, thank you for today, I really loved playing in the snow with you, and your quirk is amazing," Izuku said into his mug as he took another sip of his hot chocolate. Fuyumi smiled and patted Izuku head.
After Enji had gotten home from his last patrol, he decided to watch TV after dinner, and Izuku had come up to ask if he could change the channel to watch something. Enji saw no harm in that.
Endeavour had learned in the last sixteen years of parenthood, that not every child was the same, granted still didn't prepare him when Izuku turned on the news, instead of most kids that preferred to watch cartoons, Izuku loved watching the new. Hearing about all the people saved by heroes and criminals caught by them, he especially loved when one of All Might's or Endeavour's stories came up. The pair sat mostly in silence with a few words being exchanged here and there.
"What's that noise?" Enji asked, looking around the room, thinking the heating was playing up again until his eyes locked on to Izuku, who seemed to be mumbling.
From what he was able to pick up from the mumbling storm, Enji could swear it sounded like Izuku was talking about a hero who had just been on the news and how he used his quirk. Enji let the boy be with his mumbling till, at one point, he swears he saw letters coming out of the boy's mouth.
Deciding he had heard enough, Enji spoke up. "Izuku, are you ok?"
Getting pulled out of his thought process, Izuku looked to Endeavour and realized what he did
"I was mumbling again, wasn't I?" Izuku asked meekly. Endeavour nodded back. "Oh…sorry if it was annoying."
"It's no problem, Izuku, but I want to ask, were you breaking down that hero's quirk and how they use it?" Izuku nodded his head in response
"I always loved quirks, I love to break them down and find weaknesses and how you can use them better," Izuku said, the excitement clear in his tone, Enji had to remember that.
"My that's new, why didn't you tell me when you were cooped up in the hospital," Enji asked
"Cause…people said it was weird, and some said it was creepy."
And yet another reason he was bullied, Endeavour wondered if that was the only thing his classmates done. "Oh, well, they were probably scared of you."
"Wait what?!" Izuku screeched in response
"No, no, not like what you're thinking. More in the way of, with the right training, you could break down their entire quirk, flaws and all, in a minute and come up with a strategy to defeat them. The media may make it look like the one with the strongest/flashiest quirk will become a top hero, but there's more to it than that," Endeavour explained, clearly gaining Izuku's full attention from how he looked at him.
"Really?"
"Yeah, like take this, for example, look at the hero Crimson Riot. His quirk only allows him to harden his hair, so he came with a few strategies and ideas, like having his hair styled at the front to look like a spear. He then came up with ways he can use what little his quirk can do to his advantage."
"Crimson Riot sounds so cool~" Izuku mumbled, looks like Endeavour had given Izuku another favorite hero.
"So how was your day then, do anything fun?" He asked
"Oh, today was great, me and Shoto played in my room, then Natsuo taught me how to play football. Then Rei showed me pictures of when you two were dating, heheheheheh you looked just like Touya" Endeavour smirked at Izuku's comparison, it still made him laugh remembering Touya plan to dye his hair black, only not to do it cause Shoto asked him not to. "Oh, and Fuyumi went whoosh, and then the back garden was covered in snow, and then we had hot chocolate."
"Lucky, you get the whole day to play around while I'm stuck dealing with idiots who think they can do what they want because they have a strong quirk" Endeavour complained at the continuous cycle of overly egotistical assholes.
"What was their quirk? Was it strong? Was it an emitter or mutation type?" Izuku asked out of nowhere, catching the number two hero off guard.
"Uhhhh, well, his quirk, I would say, was strong. It allowed him to control the garbage within a certain radius of himself. It especially is strong in a city."
"Did he have a garbage truck?" Izuku asked again.
"What?" Endeavor replied, being caught off guard once again by the sudden question.
"If he had a full garbage truck, I bet he would have been way stronger, or maybe if he went to a dump before attacking or even the beach near my old school, that's almost like a dump."
Endeavour chuckled, hearing Izuku's statement. "No, he didn't have a garbage truck, granted if he did, and hit me with it. I can assure you I wouldn't be here" Endeavour stated
Izuku gasped once hearing this. "You saying he was that strong?"
"What, no. I mean if he did that, I currently be outside, since Rei wouldn't let me into the house if I smelled like a garbage truck, she would probably be hosing me down" the pair chuckled at that idea and continued to talk more about the villains Endeavour has taken on lately, with Izuku either commenting on how well they used their quirk or how they misused it.
After a while, Izuku seemed to lose the energy he had before Endeavour could ask what was wrong, Izuku spoke. "Endeavour, can I show you something?" Endeavour nodded, and as he did that. Izuku bolted out of the room in a hurry, only to return a moment later with a notebook.
"What's this?" Endeavour asked
"It's…my quirk notebook," Izuku mumbled, taking the notebook from Izuku, Endeavour skimmed through the book. It was clear it was done by a six-year-old, poor penmanship and drawings, but Endeavour could see the heart and effort put into each page. How Izuku seemed to try and improve his analyzing and breakdowns, Enji smiled when he found a whole page dedicated to each member of his family, all of them drawn with big smiles, Rei's drawing was the funniest with the drawing of Rei having a pair of wings. Almost like he was trying to say Rei was angelic, something Enji could defiantly agree on.
"I have to say. This is impressive, Izuku. I'm surprised though you don't have more quirks written down in here," Enji said as he continued to look through the notebook
"Well….I had one before…..before you saved me….but my mom got rid of it. She said that's what a villain does, keeping a book on how to beat up heroes."
"Well, just makes her more of an idiot than I thought" Enji commented, "With this kind of info, you can help other heroes get better or help take down a villain who has a rare quirk or info on their quirk has been lost or forgotten." Looking back to Izuku, Enji could see the stars in Izuku's eyes at him praising his hobby. After that, Enji helped Izuku fill in a few more pages of his notebook with some of Endeavour's sidekicks and make a few adjustments to his notes on his, Shoto's, and Touya's quirks. But soon Enji could see Izuku starting to doze off, seemingly today had taken a lot out of the boy and as if on cue, Rei appeared in the living room doorframe.
"Guess it's time for someone's bedtime," Rei cooed as she walked up to Izuku.
"But…I'm not sleepy…" Izuku yawned as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes. Rei and Enji both chuckled at this.
"Sorry Izuku, but I think your body has other plans," Rei laughed as she lifted Izuku off the couch. "Besides, you get a big comfy and very bouncy bed to yourself, while I got to share it with Mr snores all night here" Izuku giggled at Rei dig at Enji, who was now scowling at his wife. Izuku said goodnight to Enji as Rei carried him off to his bed, leaving Enji alone with Izuku's quirk notebook as he wrote down a few bits of advice for Izuku when breaking down quirks. He knew he wasn't going to let Izuku's talent go to waste.
Izuku didn't know what was going on, one minute he was being tucked into bed by Rei, only to suddenly find himself in a black void, that seemed to stretch farther than the eye could see. Was he dreaming? Did a villain kidnap him? Izuku started running through the void, desperate to find a way out, he ran, he kept running until it felt like his lungs were about to explode. Stopping to catch his breath, Izuku started to feel his fear grip his heart like it was in a vice. The void truly seemed endless now, Izuku felt like he had ran for miles, but everything was the same, a truly empty dark void.
"ENDEAVOUR! SHOTO! REI! ANYONE!" Izuku screamed into the dark void, only hearing his pleas echo until they faded into nothingness.
"What the hell you doing, Deku?" A familiar voice called out from behind Izuku.
Turning around, Izuku found himself face to face with one of his tormentors, Bakugo Katsuki. Izuku's tormentor was smiling, but not one of genuine joy, but like when a predator had finally cornered its prey.
"No one's going to help villain like you, so why bother calling for help" Bakugo started setting tiny explosions in his hands, just like he always did just before beat Izuku to a pulp. Not wanting to give the bully a chance, Izuku ran in the opposite direction of Bakugo, but just as he got a few meters away from him, suddenly Izuku was covered in a green aura and started to levitate off the ground. Before he could figure what was going on, he flew back in the direction of Bakugo and was met with one of Bakugo's explosions, right to the face.
The blast sent Izuku flying back, crashing into the ground several times before sliding to a halt. Izuku tried to pull himself up, but his body felt too broken at that moment to even move, he tried to call out for help, but all that came out pleas barley any louder than a whisper
"You really think someone is going to help you," Bakugo mocked as he got closer to Izuku. "You're nothing but a villain who doesn't even deserve to breathe the same air as me."
"I-I'm….no…t..a..vilain" Izuku whimpered, Bakugo laughed at Izuku's rebuttal.
"Yeah, if you're not a villain, then explain that!"
Looking to Bakugo, Izuku saw what he was meaning, his legs were on fire, more specifically his green fire. Izuku pushed himself over into the upright position and quickly tried to pat the fire out. But when he tried to, his hands passed right through the flames, like there was nothing underneath, he kept trying to pat the fire out, but this only served to fuel the fire even more. Izuku tried to stand up but fell onto his face like he literally had no legs to stand on.
Soon the fire surrounded Izuku, but before the flames could engulf the young boy. They suddenly moved towards Bakugo. Izuku tried to warn Bakugo to move, but it was too late, the flames engulfed him. But instead of seeing Bakugo burn to death in the flames, he saw Bakugo start to grow in size. Just as the figure in the flames reached the size of an adult, the green flames suddenly become more docile. Then the figure stepped out of the flames.
The figure wore a black sleeveless shirt, accompanied with a red leather vest that he wore over the shirt, a pair of worn blue jeans with a few holes burned into then, the figure's clothing being capped off with a pair of red combat boots. Looking up, Izuku saw the figure had hair as black as smoke, a light dusting of freckles across both his cheeks. But his eyes, his cold, soulless eyes, once Izuku saw them. He knew who he was covering in front of.
"H-h-his…sias..shi" Izuku trembled the name of his father out, fear holding him greater than ever before.
Hisashi looked down to see Izuku tremble before him. "Well, well, well. Long-time no see kiddo" Hisashi smirked, he laughed as he saw Izuku try to get up only to remember that he had literally not a leg to stand on. "Come on now. You think I'm going to hurt you, I mean you and I are the same after all."
"N-no…I'm..n-n-ot li-ke you."
"Really, kid?" Hisashi asked with a scowl, "You have the same fire as me. We look the same, and besides, I know that deep inside that "Golden" heart of yours that believes in heroes will save everyone with a smile. There's a trickle of darkness in there that I know you that wants to make everyone suffer for mistreating ever since you got your quirk, am I wrong?"
"You are! It's not true!" Izuku screamed back at Hisashi
"Is it not? Really?" Spoken with a smile more familiar than Izuku ever wished it would be. He thought back to the teachers supposed to be caring, the classmates offering to 'play', and even his mother pretending she was truly going to look after him. "Funny, not so quick to shoot back the second time?"
"RAAAGH!" The boy taking no more lunged forward to... what? Fight? Run past him? Embrace the only person who hadn't turned on him even if only through not being there to do so? Whatever course of action he was about to try Hisashi didn't let him, and with a quick blast, Izuku found himself with burnt, blackened stumps from his shoulders to match his now reduced to unusable flames for legs.
Awww Izuku, look what you made me do. Don't worry, though. I know someone who will patch you up and make you. More. Like. Me," But just as Hisashi was about to grab Izuku by the collar, Izuku suddenly felt something grab him from behind and pulled him into the void. Izuku watched as he slipped further into the darkness as Hisashi pounded on the barrier between them screaming
"You can't run forever..ever...ever little Izu..zu, I'll always come back..ack...ck... and one day I. Will. Have you!...ave you...you...ou..." Hisashi voice echoed as Izuku continued further into the void, till the screams of his father faded into nothingness.
"Izuku! Calm down. It's just a nightmare!" Touya shouted as he shook Izuku awake.
"T-t..oua.." Izuku whimpered as he woke up, Touya sighed in relief
"Thank god, I heard you screaming and thought something happened. It's okay, Izuku, you just had a nightmare, it…" before Touya could finish his sentence, Izuku almost tackled into him, gripping his t-shirt. Soon Touya could hear Izuku crying as he started feeling his tears soak through his shirt.
"T-t-t..ya…it..s..a-ay,…sho-o…b-b-bak…go….H-h..is..s-sahi" Izuku blubbered as he continued to cry into Touya shirt. Through all the crying, blubbering, and snot, Touya was able to figure out Izuku nightmare seemed to have thrown his primary bully at him with no way to flee and that near the end his father had shown up.
Touya pulled Izuku into a tight hug and started to rub circles on Izuku back, to try and calm the kid down a bit. Touya continued to sooth Izuku for the next hour. Thankfully it seemed to have an effect as Izuku stopped crying, or the kid had run out of tears to shed.
"Don't worry Izuku, none of those guys will hurt you ever again."
"Y-you..me-ean i-it?" Izuku asked, hiccupping due to his crying
"Yeah, they'll have to get through us, and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be able to get past my mom or dad," Touya chuckled back, still holding Izuku close.
"Touya…I'm scared….c-can I…. stay in your room?"
"Sure, little guy, I told you, any issues come and get me" picking Izuku up, Touya walked back to his room, but not before grabbing one of Izuku's nightlights. Getting back to his room, Touya tucked Izuku into his bed and set up the nightlight for him, before getting into the bed himself, he made sure to open his window to keep the room cooled for Izuku.
Touya soon got back under his covers and settled in "Night Izuku."
"Night Touya…...thank you" Izuku whispered as he closed his eyes, soon falling back asleep like nothing had happened. Soon Touya was fast asleep as well, a smile across his face, happy he had helped the little cinnamon roll again.
A/N: Ok I definitely didn't expect this chapter to be this long but overall I rather enjoyed writing it. I hope you enjoyed all the stuff izuku did with the family and Hisashi's first appearance in the series. Also got a message the other day asking about ships, before anyone jumps the gun on this, I have ships already planned out, I just won't be tagging them in this fic until it's official, granted in my new fic, I might drop that info at the start in the tags
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and hope to see you again soon.
