I'm mostly trying to do some scenes as the two get more comfortable around each other, so the scenes are a little jumbled around and kinda skip around in time.
There was a knock on the door.
"What?" Hitoshi grumbled, sitting up.
"Can I come in?"
"Sure," Hitoshi said.
The door opened, and Izuku poked his head in.
"Mom got called in early, so Dad's making breakfast and bentos for us-ready for Day 1 at Aldera?" Izuku asked.
"No," Hitoshi sighed, getting out of bed.
"That's the spirit," Izuku said sarcastically. "Dad worked in America for a few years, so when he's making breakfast, we usually get pancakes, scrambled eggs, stuff like that. Cereal's always an option, too, if that's not what you like."
"...sounds good," Hitoshi said, grabbing his school uniform out of the closet.
"Sweet, I'll let Dad know," Izuku said, shutting the door as he walked away.
Hitoshi stared at the door for a few seconds, then he quickly changed into his new school uniform-another school, I'll be leaving soon, anyway-why do I have to go, I'm just going to get bullied again-he brushed aside those thoughts as he opened his door-having his own bedroom was a little weird, that didn't happen often-he just…had to not hurt anyone here and could stay for at least a while, huh? Izuku hadn't been there the previous day-apparently he usually disappeared for a while on Sundays, according to Inko, longer when new foster kids came in.
"If you want to stay, at least pretend around them that we get along, and tolerate me when they aren't around. No bruises, cuts, new scars, and please no insults."
Well…that seemed easy enough. Inko and Hisashi were really nice to him…so far, at least. Some foster homes pretended to be nice for the first few weeks before turning on him for his villainous quirk. (Granted, they outright said they didn't care that his quirk was villainous when he asked, repeating what Izuku had said, heroic, so-called villainous, or no quirk at all, didn't matter to them. Ha. They'd show how much they really kept to that soon enough.)
Either way, it had only been a little over a day, but it was nice here. He had his own room, had been told to tell Hisashi or Inko if he was getting bullied (yeah…that one wasn't happening), and had been told that Saturdays were usually for family bonding, and he was welcome to join any Saturday he wanted, but if he didn't want to…that was ok, too.
This family was weird.
Hitoshi walked over to the kitchen, where Izuku was already eating his scrambled eggs, and Hisashi was fixing up another plate, but turned and beamed as Hitoshi entered the room.
"Hitoshi!" Hisashi said. "Want me to make you a plate? You can make yourself one, too."
"...I'll do my own, thanks," Hitoshi said, carefully walking over and grabbing a plate, grabbing one pancake and a scoop of eggs before going to the table, where Hisashi and Izuku were both already eating.
'Any interesting quirks recently, Dad?" Izuku asked between bites as Hitoshi sat down-there were only four chairs at the table, so he didn't have a choice of sitting by neither of them, but out of the two, Izuku seemed like the smaller threat, so he sat next to him, across from Hisashi.
"Oh, this pretty wind quirk-I can't tell you much about it, but it's called Stormcaller," Hisashi said.
"Hmm…interesting," Izuku said, looking at his plate. 'If the name is literal, then that means it must be based on storm winds, maybe even having a storm aspect to it-winds during storms like typhoons can travel over 190 kilometers per hour, but that would probably be the limit and send the user into quirk exhaustion-I bet that all the quirk nerves would be concentrated in the hands and upper arms, although it's also possible to have more located around the mouth depending on the activation style-hands are typically more common for wind quirks, but breathing like Dad's fire breath can also be rather common for quirks like that…"
Hisashi, with a fond smile on his face, reached over and tapped Izuku's plate. "Don't forget to eat, Izuku-you won't be late to school, but don't you usually like to leave some extra time in the mornings? You wanted to show Hitoshi around the school beforehand."
Izuku snapped out of his mutter storm and hunched his shoulders. "...right, sorry."
"Don't be sorry-your mouth can't keep up with your brain is all-but we should try to curb that habit a little better, kiddo," Hisashi said, ruffling Izuku's hair fondly and tapping his plate again. "Now, eat. Long day of learning ahead of you."
"Right!" Izuku said, scarfing down his food.
Hitoshi watched the scene unfold-that was another thing about Izuku. His muttering habit and analysis of different quirks…he had yet to ask about Hitoshi's quirk, but according to Inko, Hitoshi could expect that to happen at some point. Joy.
Well, school was going to happen today, whether Hitoshi liked it or not. Might as well eat up beforehand.
…..
"The king of the school is Katsuki Bakugou-I call him Kacchan, but you shouldn't do that unless you want to piss him off."
"...why do you call him Kacchan?" Hitoshi asked.
"We were friends as kids," Izuku said.
"You said you don't have friends," Hitoshi said.
"I said were," Izuku said. "No one likes the quirkless kid-I'm showing you around the school, but otherwise, we meet up at the gates and happen to be heading the same way. If I'm not there ten minutes after school, I suggest heading home on your own. I also might show up running, so if I do, just take off, too-don't bother trying to follow me, I'll be running from bullies."
"I already don't like this school," Hitoshi said.
"Eh, don't get in Kacchan's way-stay clear of his hands, too, his quirk is called Explosion, he sweats nitroglycerin and ignites it in his hands, making various sized explosions, can cause first and second degree burns if you're not careful, but he's barely older than we are, so I'm almost scared to see how he'll get when we're older-right, muttering, sorry. You catch my drift. People here don't like weak or villainous quirks, but it's better than no quirk-bullies focus on me more than anything, but I can handle myself-just enough that I'm not too hard to bully, enough for it to be fun, apparently."
"You shouldn't have to deal with that," Hitoshi said.
"You're just saying that-don't worry about me," Izuku said as the two stepped onto school grounds. "You just live in the same apartment building as me unless the teachers say otherwise. That's why I'm showing you around the school and walking home with you."
"...you really thought this through," Hitoshi said.
"Stay a few steps ahead of everyone else," Izuku said as they entered the school, a few students nearby staring. "Front entrance and all that, shoe lockers right in the door-like any other school you've been to, I suppose."
"...yeah," Hitoshi said, looking around.
"What class are you in again?" Izuku asked.
Hitoshi thought for a few seconds. "Uh…5-C?"
"Different than mine-your locker would be right over there, then," Izuku said, pointing as he opened his shoe locker-no tampering over the weekend, that was either a good sign or a really bad one. "You're already enrolled in your class, so your locker should be there-you grabbed your school shoes first, right?"
"Yeah-found it," Hitoshi said, taking out his school shoes and changing into them. "So…where did you say my class is?"
"You're right down the hall from me," Izuku said, gesturing for Hitoshi to follow him, which Hitoshi quickly did-
"Hey, who're you?"
Both boys stopped to see-
"Hey, Tsubasa," Izuku said, cowering a little bit and inching away.
"Go away, Deku," Tsubasa said.
"Deku?" Hitoshi asked, giving the boy an odd look.
Tsubasa scoffed, gesturing at Izuku. "That freak is quirkless-I haven't seen you around before. You new?"
"...first day," Hitoshi said.
"Got it-I'll show you 'round-you'll want to avoid that one-we don't know if it'll infect you with its quirklessness," Tsubasa said, reaching over with one wing and gently guiding Hitoshi along.
Izuku watched the two walk away before he shrugged and turned in the opposite direction-there was more than one way to get to his classroom, and he wasn't going to follow those two.
….
"Everyone, this is Hitoshi Shinsou. He probably won't be here long, but be nice to him."
Hitoshi looked over his new classmates before giving a small wave and going to an empty seat, sitting down.
"Are you going to share your quirk?" the teacher asked gently.
Oh, right, that's a thing. He could just not say anything, but with Izuku in the school…maybe people really would overlook a villainous quirk because there's a quirkless kid a few classes over.
"Brainwashing," Hitoshi said.
The classroom was immediately dead silent as the teacher cleared his throat and started roll-call.
…
"Hey."
Izuku looked up mid-bite, then quickly swallowed. "Shinsou, what are you doing up here?"
"You said I could join you on the roof if I wanted, right?" Hitoshi asked, plopping down next to Izuku and opening his bento. "Curry, I see."
"Yeah-it's really good," Izuku said, taking another bite. "Mom and Dad are really good at cooking-they can get really busy, though, so sometimes, I stop to buy a bento at the convenience store before school." He hummed. "Doesn't taste as good, but food's food, better than nothing-or, even worse, cafeteria food."
"The cafeteria food taste that bad?" Hitoshi asked.
"No, the kids suck, though," Izuku said.
"Oh, tell me about it," Hitoshi said. "I'm probably better off running after school like you said you might."
"Eh," Izuku shrugged. "You still might be able to find friends and such with some kids around here. You'd have better luck doing that in the cafeteria, you know."
"I'll probably be gone in a few weeks, anyway," Hitoshi said.
Izuku hummed, taking another bite of food. "Already that annoyed with me, huh?"
"Nah, you're chill," Hitoshi said.
Izuku gave him a weird look, and Hitoshi gave him one in return.
"...what?" Hitoshi asked.
"...that's a new one," Izuku said, then shrugged. "All the other kids left because they didn't like me-I'm quirkless, so that makes enough sense."
Hitoshi hummed. "No, not really."
Izuku huffed, taking another bite. "Sure."
"You don't trust anyone, huh," Hitoshi said.
"Of course not," Izuku said. "Why should I?"
"...fair point," Hitoshi said, taking another bite. "People suck."
"Yeah," Izuku said as his phone dinged, and he looked at it- "Ooh, a new Gang Orca fight!" He immediately set his food aside and clicked on the link. "Oh, this is so cool-Gang Orca is such a great hero! He's mostly on the coast and working on water-based rescues and villains that come up with that, which makes it amazing that he's so high in the rankings while being discriminated against for having a mutation quirk-I still think that it's really dumb that people don't like mutation quirks, mutation quirks are so strong-heroes with mutation quirks don't typically make it so high up the rankings like Gang Orca has, but recently, there's been a surge of mutation quirks getting higher in the rankings-"
"I did not understand most of that," Hitoshi said.
Izuku tensed up, then hunched his shoulders. "...sorry."
"You do that a lot, huh," Hitoshi said, rolling his eyes. "I have a feeling I'll have to get used to it for as long as I'm around."
"As long as you're around me-or just ignore me," Izuku said. "Most people do."
Hitoshi went to reply, but Izuku dug out earbuds and plugged them into his phone, one hand holding his phone while the other covered his mouth.
…
"Looks like they're both at work," Izuku said as the two stepped into the apartment. "I'm gonna head out for a little while, then-you know where the snacks are, right?"
"Yeah-I'm gonna take a nap," Hitoshi said, making his way over to his room.
"Sweet," Izuku said, walking over to his room, changing, dropping off his backpack, locking his bedroom door, then leaving.
Hitoshi, meanwhile, got into his bed, glancing at the All Might figurine-he'd figure out how to give that back to Izuku later-and quickly fell asleep.
….
"That move makes sense considering Kamui Woods' quirk causes a major weakness to fire, so switching to have Wash take on this villain is a smart decision while Kamui Woods works on crowd control. However, that's not the best mash-up in this situation-"
"Interesting-what quirk do you think would work better in this situation?"
"Well, in short notice, Wash was the logical choice since he was close by and the closest hero that could potentially subdue the fire, but with more time and preparation, the Water Hose Duo would be the smartest choice, seeing that the two have strong water quirks. Based on the way that the two use their quirks, I wonder about the placements of their quirk nerves…"
Hitoshi stared at the two quirk nerds sitting in front of the television with the news on as Izuku became unhearable-he still had no idea what quirk nerves were, only that he'd vaguely heard Izuku mention them once or twice, and at this point, he didn't feel like asking.
Inko sighed happily as she looked at Hitoshi. "Those two are always like that, as you've probably noticed-I remember when I first started dating Hisashi, he would mumble just like Izuku does. He grew out of the habit-I'm sure Izuku will, too, but until then, it's endearing."
"...ok," Hitoshi said. "Something to get used to, I guess." He snorted. "Maybe I can even understand what they're saying. I'm only catching words here and there."
"Unfortunately, I think you'll find it'll stay that way," Inko sighed. "I'm still not sure what Izuku's saying all the time."
"All Might!" Izuku suddenly shouted, lunging for the remote and turning the volume up eagerly. "It's an All Might fight, All Might fight!"
Hisashi laughed as Izuku bounced in place, talking so fast that Hitoshi didn't even try to understand what he was saying as All Might battled a villain on the news. At least, he mostly didn't try, not until-
"All Might's quirk appears to be energy based to a degree, which would explain how he can have different levels of strength depending on the fight-the difference is subtle, but it's still there between this fight and the last one-which makes the matchup here not exactly ideal considering the sheer amount of energy colliding and knocking away the reporters and causing insane amounts of wind-All Might has certainly earned his title as the Number One hero-he's the coolest!-but in this situation, it would be better to have someone that's not as much of a heavy hitter and would end this fight quirky in order to minimize the amount of damage done to the surrounding area-that building has a chunk of concrete missing from the bottom, I wonder if All Might realizes how dangerous that is and works to evacuate the civilians inside before the building collapses-in cases like this, a quirk similar to Eraserhead's would be best to prevent the damage, or a quirk like Hitoshi's Brainwashing would be a good idea, stop the villain from being able to do damage like that-of course, Eraserhead is underground, and his quirk wouldn't stop the villain from running, so Hitoshi's Brainwashing quirk would be best in this kind of situation to minimalize casualties, which means that the best quirk in this situation would be something similar to Midnight's quirk in order to knock the villain out quickly, but Midnight is not in the area, but it would still make sense for a different hero to be dispatched for this situation rather than All Might-his agency deals with damage done in his fights really well, though, so as long as he's careful to prevent casualities, that should be easy enough-"
Izuku…knows Hitoshi's quirk? Hitoshi never told him what it was…right? At least, not directly, but Izuku never hesitated to answer any questions Hitoshi directed towards him, even saying…
"What was that about my quirk?" Hitoshi found himself asking.
Izuku snapped out of his thoughts and looked over at Hitoshi. "Oh…sorry about that. It would be more useful in this situation to minimize property damage-All Might's great and all, but the force of the blasts is causing damage to nearby buildings."
"There's come a day where Izuku criticizes All Might-I never thought it would be possible!" Hisashi said.
"All Might's the best hero there is for a reason!" Izuku said, looking at his dad. "But there could still be people in that building-All Might probably thought ahead for the damage and had other heroes on-call to evacuate people, but as for rebuilding the buildings, perhaps Cementoss would be on-call to get that situation taken care of since rebuilding with construction crews would take a while and those are office buildings, people need to work and make money, so closing down the buildings for an indefinite amount of time wouldn't be ideal-"
There was a ding noise.
"The oven's done, so food's ready!" Inko said, stepping over to the oven and taking out the lasagna.
"Aw, but the All Might fight," Izuku said, pouting slightly.
"We can see it from the kitchen table-let's grab food-quickly, now, don't want to miss a thing," Hisashi said.
"Ok!" Izuku said, getting up and walking over to the kitchen.
…
"About my quirk…you said it could be used there?"
"Well, yeah," Izuku said, blinking at Hitoshi. "Brainwashing is a great quirk for that situation."
"I didn't…I never told you about my quirk," Hitoshi said.
Izuku shrugged. "Well…no, you didn't, but I did overhear someone saying something about a new kid with a quirk called Brainwashing, so I can easily guess that's you. Based on the tone of your voice and how smooth it sounds, I can guess that your quirk is voice activated, I haven't seen you use it yet, so I'm not completely sure about the rest, but I think I can guess that it has certain requirements for control, it would mean your quirk nerves are concentrated around your voice box, similar to Present Mic's-right, mumbling, sorry-"
"Do you know that you talk a lot?" Hitoshi asked.
"That was-" Izuku started, and Hitoshi took control of him.
"Spin in a circle," Hitoshi said, and Izuku did that. Hitoshi then reached over and flicked Izuku's forehead to break him from his control.
"There," Hitoshi said. "That's gonna break your whole 'so-called villainous quirk' thing, huh-"
"That. Was. So. Cool!" Izuku said, making Hitoshi jump as Izuku had stars in his eyes. "So it's question based, and your voice changes slightly-definitely a mutation of your vocal cords in order to cause that to happen, concentrated quirk nerves there-being under control made it so I was less aware of my surroundings, it was foggy, which was an interesting feeling, and the only thing I could hear clearly was your command-if I didn't respond, would you still be able to take control? What if I didn't respond right away? Could it be used in an interrogation setting to make the person talk? Is it an on-off quirk where you either have complete control or you don't, or could it work similar to a suggestion quirk where you can guide someone into believing something? If I had a quirk, could you make me use it under your quirk, or would that reach past the limits of what you're able to do? What are the limits of what you're able to do? How many people can you control at once? I wonder-"
"You…you don't think I'm a villain," Hitoshi said.
"Of course not!" Izuku said. "I mean, if you were, you probably would've done more than just make me spin in a circle, and based on my character analysis of you so far, you don't seem like someone that wants to hurt others, otherwise you probably would've used your quirk to do much more at this point to hurt others at our school, and based on the fact that you've been worried about bullies at school, you haven't exactly been fighting back against it-"
"You," Hitoshi said slowly, "are by far the strangest foster sibling I've had so far."
"...oh," Izuku said, hunching his shoulders. "That's…you probably didn't want to hear that-"
"I didn't say it's a bad thing," Hitoshi said.
Izuku blinked, then beamed.
His smile is too bright, was the first thought that went through Hitoshi's head.
….
Izuku ran through the school grounds, having nearly been ambushed by Kacchan and his lackeys at the shoe lockers-he had some new parkour moves he wanted to try today, so he was going to walk home with Hitoshi, drop off his backpack, and head over to his usual spot, but if Kacchan got to him and used his quirk, it was gonna hurt, and Izuku wouldn't be able to go today!
Izuku ran towards the front gates, where Hitoshi was waiting already-of course he's already waiting, I had to stay behind in class for a few extra minutes because the teacher wanted to talk to me about my recent essay-I've already told him not to bother with me when I'm being chased-
Izuku darted towards the gates and darted past Hitoshi, giving him a small wave as he continued to run for it, hoping that Hitoshi would understand-
He heard a shout, and when he glanced over his shoulder, he saw both Hitoshi and Kacchan sprawled on the ground, then Kacchan was getting up to yell at Hitoshi-
…
"What are you doing, you extra?!" Bakugou yelled at Hitoshi, who just blinked at him.
"Maybe you shouldn't be running through school grounds like a madman," Hitoshi said slowly. "I mean, you ran into me."
"What'd you say?!" Bakugou yelled.
"Are you going deaf or something?" Hitoshi asked. "I said you shouldn't be running through school grounds like a madman. You ran into me."
"You shouldn't be in my way!" Bakugou snapped.
"Yeah, because I have a radar for exactly where you are when we haven't met yet," Hitoshi deadpanned. The only reason he knew who this kid was was because Izuku had pointed him out once on the way to school.
"He's that new kid," Tsubasa said. "The one that came to school with Deku on his first day."
"Tch," Bakugou said. "You friends with the freak or something?"
What did Izuku say I was supposed to say in this situation? I don't exactly want to say that I'm his foster brother, that's going to lead to way too many problems.
"Downstairs neighbor," Hitoshi said. "He knows the way to school, so he walked with me here on the first day, and we usually leave at the same time, anyway." He glanced in the direction Izuku had gone-he had, kinda smartly, continued to run away-Hitoshi couldn't see him anymore. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go home." With that, he turned to walk away-
Bakugou's hand fell on his shoulder. "Hold it, eyebags. We're not done talking here."
"You're not, but I am," Hitoshi said, brushing him off and briskly walking away-
"Psst!"
Hitoshi jolted and turned his head to see Izuku standing in a side alleyway that Hitoshi ducked into.
"Sorry about that," Izuku whispered, guiding him through. "They won't bother us if we go this way-tiny, dark alley and all that-they also head the opposite direction, so that helps."
"Yeah," Hitoshi said. "They suck, huh."
"Kacchan's gonna be a great hero someday…when he gets over his superiority complex," Izuku said.
Hitoshi snorted. "Sure."
"He will be," Izuku said, then stopped and grabbed onto a fire escape. "Ever jumped across rooftops before?"
"Have I what?" Hitoshi asked.
"Probably not, then," Izuku sighed. "It's such a valuable skill, though…"
"Can you?" Hitoshi asked.
"...yes," Izuku said.
"I'm gonna need to see this one to believe it," Hitoshi said. "We going up?"
"You might have a harder time-I don't want to leave you behind…but if you want, I'm practicing parkour at a nearby skatepark once I change out of my uniform…if you want to join me?" Izuku asked.
"Are you serious?" Hitoshi asked.
Izuku nodded sheepishly. "Well, you're probably going to take a nap, so probably not-"
"Oh, I've got to see this," Hitoshi said. "Let's head home and change-do Inko and Hisashi know?"
"Nope-please don't tell them!" Izuku said as the two kept walking. "I hate making them worry about me, so I try to be quiet about it, but I…I want to be a hero, so without a quirk I have to do everything I can to get there…"
"Smart choice," Hitoshi said, then paused. "What…what have you been doing? If Inko and Hisashi don't know, probably not martial arts stuff, huh."
"I have been!" Izuku said. "Through internet videos, I've been teaching myself how to fight, been teaching myself parkour, doing some strength training-One Punch Man was an interesting anime to find, it's older, but it's very interesting to think that Saitama was pretty much an ordinary man that was able to fight before he started his strength training, and I know that they said that it's pretty standard stuff, but if I want to get stronger, I need somewhere to start, so 100 sit-ups, 100 push-ups, 100 squats, and a 10 kilometer run everyday is good enough to start at than any place, I guess-"
"I'm sorry, you do what everyday?" Hitoshi asked, eyes wide.
"...just some strength training-I try to do half of it in the morning, and the other half in the afternoon while you're napping…" Izuku said, scratching the back of his neck. "If I want to be a hero, I'm going to have to work ten times as hard as everyone else…you know? High school is still five years away, but if I want to get in…I need to be stronger, faster, smarter than I am right now."
"...that's…that's a fair point," Hitoshi said, then groaned. "I want to be a hero, too-I should probably think about that, too, since my quirk isn't physical."
"If you want, you can train with me!" Izuku said. "Just…please don't tell Mom and Dad about it, I don't…I don't want them to worry and make me stop, you know?"
"Ok…I won't," Hitoshi said.
"You promise?" Izuku asked.
"I promise," Hitoshi said.
"Thank you!" Izuku said, hopping slightly as they left the alley and stepped onto a busier street. "Alright, so I've been doing this routine since I was eight, but I started with ten each day and worked my way to where I am now over the course of a few months-I"m probably going to add more, but I'm still ten, so maybe I'll add an extra ten with each year I get older, you know? But! But! Parkour is a workout, too, so I also get stronger while doing that, and I'm having a lot of fun while doing that-oh! We can also train your quirk and be heroes together-if you want to, that is, I know that you might not want to be-"
"I want to be underground," Hitoshi said. "I'm guessing you don't."
"No…I don't," Izuku said. "So not heroes together…sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself-"
"It sounds like it could be fun, though," Hitoshi said, scratching the back of his neck. "We could…we could work together when we get older, you know?"
Izuku smiled wide. "That sounds amazing!"
Hitoshi found himself smiling, too, as Izuku started to ramble about different agencies that had limelight and underground heroes in them.
Oh, I hope this placement lasts for a while longer…it's been three weeks already, and I…I don't want to even think about leaving…
…..
"I'm glad you're happy here, Hitoshi."
Hitoshi nodded at his social worker. "Yeah…it's a nice house."
Ms. Sakura nodded, writing something down on her clipboard. "Getting along with Izuku, Inko, and Hisashi alright?"
Hitoshi nodded. "I'm not in the same class as Izuku in school, but we eat lunch together. Inko and Hisashi are really nice, too. Busy sometimes, but that's fine. They make time when they can and like to do family stuff."
"Alright!" Ms. Sakura said. "If you're happy here, then I'll leave you to it and check back in in a month or so-let me know if that changes, though, immediately, ok? But you should be fine-I've yet to have kids actually want to leave this house besides hating Izuku, but you don't, so that shouldn't be an issue."
"He's nice," Hitoshi said.
"I'm glad you think so," Ms. Sakura said, gently patting his head. "I'll see you soon, ok?" With that, she stepped into the genkan and put on her shoes, leaving-
"I'm guessing that means you're staying?"
Hitoshi jumped to see all three Midoriyas peeking at him from around a corner, all smiling.
"Yep," Hitoshi said. "She'll be back next month…unless you want me to leave, I'm staying."
"And we don't want you leaving!" Inko said, walking over and pulling Hitoshi into a tight hug. He tensed for a half second before returning the hug. "You're staying for as long as you want to!"
Even if…that's forever?
Hitoshi didn't share that thought as Hisashi and Izuku eagerly joined the hug.
…
"Backflip!" Izuku said, running at the wall and kicking off it, indeed doing a freaking backflip and landing on his feet, arms outstretched.
Hitoshi groaned. "I still don't understand how you do that."
"Ok, so this took trial and error to do and a few months-I think I've figured out how to explain it, though, so let me just think for a second…" Izuku said.
….
"I thought you two were neighbors."
"What the heck?" Hitoshi whispered as he stared at Bakugou sitting on their couch-the boy in question was staring right back.
"This must be your new foster child!" a woman who looked like a female version of Bakugou said, walking over and hugging Hitoshi. "Hi, I'm Mitsuki Bakugou, but you can call me Auntie! This brat's my kid-you've met? That's good-how long you've had this one, Inko?"
"A month and a half now-Hitoshi, I'm sorry, this was last second and I didn't want to wake you from your nap," Inko said sheepishly. "They're just over for dinner."
"Time to get to know us, though!" Mitsuki said with a big smile. "I'm Inko's best friend-but still, you've met my brat at school, I'm guessing? Same or different class?"
"Eyebags is in a different class, hag!" Bakugou yelled.
"Hey, I'm not a hag!" Mitsuki yelled back.
"I walk in the door and immediately hear auntie," Izuku said, stepping into the room.
"Izuku!" Mitsuki said, walking over and bear-hugging the boy. "You've grown so much since I've last seen you-all the more reason I should come over more often!"
"We're usually pretty busy, Mitsuki-the Midoriyas aren't much better," a man with brown hair sighed. "Hello, I'm Masaru Bakugou-feel free to call me Uncle Masaru or whatever you're comfortable with. What's your name?"
"...Hitoshi Shinsou," Hitoshi said.
"Nice 'ta meetcha, Hitoshi!" Mitsuki said.
"Mitsuki, we don't know the kid-at least use his last name" Masaru sighed.
"...is this normal?" Hitoshi asked Izuku.
"Pretty much, yeah," Izuku said. "Sorry, would've mentioned it if I'd known."
"We had a cancellation this afternoon and decided to stop by last moment!" Mitsuki said. "Just our luck that Inko and Hisashi were free, too! So of course I had to stop by and see my nephew and the new kid."
"...ok," Hitoshi said awkwardly.
"So, what's been new, Izuku?" Mitsuki asked. "Any new All Might figurines you want to show off?"
Izuku perked up and nodded before running off to his room.
"Hitoshi, what's your favorite hero?" Mitsuki asked.
"Eraserhead," Hitoshi said.
"...I'm not familiar with him," Mitsuki said.
"He's underground," Hitoshi said as Izuku slid around the corner, holding as many All Might figurines as he could carry, stars in his eyes-here we go.
"Are we talking about Eraserhead?!" Izuku asked excitedly as he walked over to the coffee table, setting his stuff around, rummaging for a second before pulling out-ok, that's absolutely perfect. "I got this from a store and bought the other materials-it was too perfect to not."
"So you made an Eraserhead cat plushie?" Hitoshi snickered.
Izuku tossed the plushie at him. "Don't be mean to Erasercat!Besides, he matches Cat Might!" Izuku picked up another plushie-that one was clearly official merch of All Might…as a cat. "It was too purrfect not to do, so now there's matching ones! So! I got Cat Might a little while ago-he's wearing All Might's Silver Age costume, it's a great costume because-" With that, Hitoshi stopped being able to understand even one word he said as he rummaged through his (mostly All Might) hero merch to show to Mitsuki, Masaru, and Bakugou, who didn't exactly look thrilled to be sitting on the couch listening to Izuku ramble, but he looked…calmer than he did at school. It was weird.
….
"By the way, you can keep Erasercat."
"...huh?" Hitoshi asked, blinking at Izuku. "Seriously?"
"Of course!" Izuku said. "I…I actually made him to give to you for your birthday, but that's a while away still, so I didn't want to wait that long-I'll have something else when it comes to that, but…think of this as a 'happy month-and-a-half here' gift instead!" He picked up Cat Might. "We match now!"
"Are…are you sure?" Hitoshi asked.
"Of course!" Izuku said, hugging Cat Might to his chest. "Do you like it? I can figure something else out-"
Hitoshi quickly gave Izuku a hug.
"It's purrfect," Hitoshi said. "Thank you."
"You're welcome," Izuku said, hugging him back.