"And that's what's been going on." Midnight finished her explanation while taking a sip from a can of soda, a smug grin on her lips as Mt. Lady glowered at her.

"That sounds so fascinating!" Momo exclaimed with sparkling eyes, practically vibrating as she zipped around the restrained Mirko to look the machine over. "A fully developed virtual simulation that perfectly simulates other possible timelines and scenarios, oh the possibilities are endless!"

"I know right?" Mei said with a grin, hopping up from her spot and pulling the busty ravenette into a one-armed hug. "Just imagine how useful this baby could be for training simulations-"

"Or help plan out raids and disaster relief projects!"

"Exactly! And don't even get me started on…"

"Oh god, they've gone full nerd mode," Mina said in a joking tone of exasperation as the busty teen duo kept going back and forth with ideas. "How much you wanna bet they start drawing out business contracts or something soon?"

"That's a sucker's bet, ribbit." Tsuyu said blandly whilst Iida looked affronted.

"Mina! As an esteemed member of U.A. you should be ashamed for trying to condone something such as gambling!"

"Oh will you relax Iida, it's called a joke," The acidic pinkette said with a giggle as the speedster ranted, before smirking when she saw him chopping his arms around like he normally does. "You know, since you're always acting like such a robot maybe we should just have Mei upload a sense of humor into you."

"Excuse me?!" Iida asked with yet another shocked look, only this time it was also tinged with terror.

However, before anyone else could respond, Mei suddenly appeared next to the rule abiding teen with a giddy expression and a weird helmet like contraption she got from god only knows where. "Oh, I got just the thing! It's called the-"

"AAAH! Not again!" *Swoosh*

…

For a moment pure silence filled the room as everyone stared at the empty space that Iida once occupied, the only trace left of him being the scorch marks left on the floor by his sudden and abrupt departure.

"I'm pretty sure that's the fastest I've ever seen him run before, ribbit." Tsuyu said, her expressionless face belied by the surprise in her voice.

"For sure," Mina mumbled in agreement before turning to Mei with a raised brow. "What the heck did you do to him to make him THAT scared of you?"

Sure the sports festival was bad when she basically turned him into a walking advertisement but Iida had honestly sounded ready to crap himself for a moment.

"Eh, I don't know, who was he again?" Mei shrugged as she put her invention back… wherever the hell she got it from with a disappointed sigh, missing the dry look she was getting from Mina, Momo, Toru, and Tsuyu.

"Anyway, that still doesn't explain this." Mt Lady said with a scowl, getting the room's attention back as she held up her phone to show the GIF of her again.

"Oh well, that's mostly just revenge for calling me old on TV with an extra side of kiss my ass bitch." Midnight said haughtily, complete with middle finger and smug grin.

…

"THAT'S IT!" The gigantification quirk user screamed before bodily tackling the adult rated hero to the ground. "I'm gonna kick your ass hussy!"

"Gnn! Is that the best you got! I've had toddlers hit me harder than that!"

"Oh really?! Let me guess, while visiting your grandkids hag!?"

"What did you say cunt!?"

"You heard me bitch!"

"Uhhh, should we do something?" Momo asked as she and the rest of the room watched the two heroines tear into each-other physically and verbally.

"Heck no, I'm not getting caught in the middle of that mess." Mei stated as Mt Lady punched Midnight in the face, to which the adult themed hero responded by biting her knuckles, the pinkette already losing interest as she went back to her babies.

"Well we could at least help Izuku out," Tsuyu said while pointing towards said green-haired boy, who had still been in Mt Lady's grasp when she attacked and was now pinned between the squabbling heroines, his arms flailing wildly as he was smothered by their chests. "I don't think he's gonna last much longer, ribbit."

"Pffft, hahahah!" "Oh god hahaha!"

Mina and Toru burst into laughter the moment those words left the frog girl's lips, whilst said girl and Momo blushed lightly once it hit them why the pair were laughing.

"I-I wouldn't be so sure about that Tsu, you know w-what they say about the quiet ones." Toru only just managed to say between fits of giggles while her acidic companion doubled over with her hands against her waist.

"Stop it! Hahahaha! My ribs are gonna crack!"

"Hey guys! You might want to settle your shit fast," Mirko suddenly called out, causing the laughing duo to stop and even making the squabbling heroines to pause long enough to see the rabbit woman pointing towards the paused project. "It's ready to go again."

*Thump* "Guh!"

"Oh, already?" Midnight asked while using the momentary distraction to her advantage to daze Mt Lady with an old-fashioned punch to the gut, before hopping back to her feet and dusting herself off like nothing happened. "Thanks for the heads up."

"You… bitch." As she made her way back to her seat, the adult-themed heroine blatantly ignored the scathing glare she was getting from the downed blonde, though she did stop to pick up a now fainted Izuku.

But rather than setting him in an empty seat, she instead held him on her lap as she sat down, the back of his head resting on her bosom as she playfully ran her fingers through his curly green locks.

"D'aaaaaw~! That's so cute!" Toru gushed, hovering over the pair with a cloud of sparkles around her. "You look just like a big sis doting over her little brother!"

"That's just what I was thinking." Momo said while discreetly took a few pictures from a camera she popped out of her arm.

*Click* "That's going straight to Tweeter," Mina on the other hand had no such reservations as she shamelessly snapped a picture with her cellphone and posted it online. "Hashtag Most Adorbs Ever."

"Aaaand it's already trending, ribbit." Tsuyu said while checking the feed on her own phone, a bit of amusement and amazement bleeding into her voice at the fact the picture already had several hundred likes and comments.

"Alright ladies, that's enough," Midnight said with an exasperated tone belied by the smug grin on her lips which only grew when she noticed a still pissed looking Mt Lady taking a seat on the opposite side of the room. "Let's get this show going."

As she spoke, the adult-rated heroine reached over and hit the play button, causing the girls to quickly scramble to their own spots.

"Midnight, you're certainly staying up late... be sure to get some rest okay? You'll be a teacher at U.A. this year, and you'll still be doing your hero duties, so you've got to make sure to stay well rested."

"Mid..." Midnight was sitting in front of a computer, but she also had her phone on a stand on her desk, and she was speaking with her father over the phone on video chat.

"To be honest, I sometimes forget your name isn't actually Midnight." Toru admitted sheepishly, to which Midnight just waved off.

"Don't worry about it too much, happens all the time. Why do you think I put so much emphasis on what you pick for your hero names?" The purplette asked rhetorically. "Once you gain any popularity it will be basically the only thing people will know you by."

"That makes sense," Momo said with a small nod as she rubbed her chin. "Like with All Might, he's the most popular hero ever but none of us even know what his real name is."

"Toshinori… Yagi…" Izuku mumbled out quietly as his head lolled to the side, making the whole room fall silent.

…

"Wow, even in his sleep he's a total All Might otaku, ribbit." Tsuyu stated bluntly after a few moments, breaking the silence as a round of giggles erupted from everyone else at once.

She had just answered the phone, and looking down at herself, she realized that she had never gotten out of her costume. Her father was just teasing her a little of course, but she took her mask off and put her regular glasses on, and she still a sweater on over her hero outfit.

She would get changed out of her hero costume when her father hung up.

"Out of curiosity, have any of you forgotten to take your costumes off while doing day to day stuff before?" Mina asked the Pros curiously.

"Yeah, once or twice, though it didn't usually take long to remember." Midnight admitted, giggling softly when she remembered those particular incidents.

Meanwhile, both Mirko and Mt Lady shook their heads negatively, neither either able to recall or just not willing to mention such incidents for one reason or other.

"So, how have you been my little flower?"

"I've just been doing some research... some stuff that Kurama said to be a few weeks ago has been stuck in my head. I've contacted the public record's office to get permission to go through their files in the search for who he might be." Midnight stated as she rubbed her cheek, staring at the computer screen in front of her. Since Kurama never revealed a lot about his Quirk, other than the poison aspect of it, people just assumed his ability to jump across buildings was him using thick poison to stick to walls.

On the screen were two sets of items, one was a set of pictures and looped videos showing Kurama doing various feats during his 'heists' and another showing a long, long, LOOOONG list of individuals who had similar capabilities.

However, there was one little bit that was tickling at Momo just a little bit as she quickly picked apart all the details. "That… kinda makes sense for the climbing but how did you conclude the jumping as well? Would not making his poison stickier actually make it harder to jump?"

"Not if he could increase the viscosity to make the poison less sticky and more elastic just before each jump, ribbit." Tsuyu countered calmly, making the busty ravenette blink.

"Oh yeah, I didn't think of that. Thanks Tsu."

"No problem."

"Oh, Kurama, he's a funny one. He seems a lot like a kid who just wants a little attention, his parents must not pay any attention to him at home, or teach him any better."

Everyone in the room aside from Momo and Mt Lady couldn't help but cringe, hiss, and/or groan at that, earning them odd looks from the aforementioned duo.

"What? What's wrong?" The gigantification blonde asked with a raised brow.

"Kurama's an orphan." Mirko stated bluntly, earning a second round of cringing, only this time from everyone- *Thwack* "The fuck!?" and a smack across the back of her head by Midnight.

"Try having a little tact, will you?"

"Oh come on, he's not even real! *Smack* Stop that!"

"... Poison, sticking to walls, and... he made a joke about bugs... In Japan, even when I narrow it down, there are still hundreds of people with Quirks that cover these basics... There is the Asui family, all of them have the Frog Quirk..." Midnight explained it to her father. There were dozens of people with the Frog Quirk, multiple dozens on both sides of the Asui family, who had a tradition of producing a ton of people with that Quirk.

Before anyone could even say anything, Tsuyu pulled her phone out and after fiddling with it a bit flipped it over to show a group photo which had at least a hundred different people all crammed together, almost every single one of them having a variation of the Frog or Toad quirk.

"Awww look guys, it's a little Tsu!" Toru immediately gushed while pointing towards near the middle, completely forgetting that only two people could actually see her do that, where sure enough there was a ten or eleven-year-old Tsuyu.

"D'aaaaaw, sooo adorable!" "Look at her face, she looks just like a cute little tadpole!" Mina and Momo exclaimed at the same time while leaning in closer, unintentionally squishing Toru between them in the process.

There were a dozen of animal related Quirks that allowed for all of those basics, and she was able to narrow it down a little by searching only through the males who were between 13 and 17 years old. Still, she had dozens of suspects even as she looked through those names as well.

"Ah, I don't understand your hero work, speaking of family... when are you going to settle down and start one of your own. I want to hug a grandchild before my time comes." Her father spoke with a firm tone, and Midnight sputtered for a moment in shock, having not expected that.

"I'm not that old!"

"Hehehe…"

"You got something to say to me?" Midnight asked threateningly as she glared at the not so quietly giggling Mt Lady. However, rather than respond verbally, the blonde simply smirked back at her while pressing on her cheek bones, causing the skin around her eyes to bundle and wrinkle.

That was all she needed to do though as Midnight's brow started to twitch wildly and a vein bulged on her forehead, the only thing stopping her from going over and kicking her fellow pro's ass being the still unconscious boy on her lap.

"You're already 30 dear, and you're not getting any younger. When I was your age, you were already 3 years old, and let me tell you something, and it was a miracle. We adopted a child, thinking we couldn't have one, and then you were a happy surprise a few months later... I miss your brother..." Her father seemed saddened as he remembered her older brother, though both her brother and her mother had passed away in a villain attack. She nodded her head in agreement, since she missed them too.

It was just her and her father in the family now.

"Wait, what?" All anger in the adult-rated heroine instantly vanished under a flood of confusion as her gaze snapped back towards the projection. "That's not right."

"It isn't? Wait, what part?" Mei asked, her attention naturally peeked. "Oh, are the graphics out of sync again? I can fix that real qui-"

"No, not that, the thing about my mother and brother," Midnight clarified. "They aren't dead, and my brother is definitely not adopted."

"Oh that, meh probably just a programing glitch or variable adjustment, don't think about it too much." The inventor said with a dismissive wave of her hand and went back to working on the device in her grasp again.

"I'm just fine, and I'm not old yet... I'm just not super young is all. I can't afford to settle down right now, or take care of a baby... with pro hero work and being a teacher, I just don't have the time to raise a child who needs a lot of attention..." Midnight blinked a few times, before a wide smile started to cross her features. She looked through the list of people with Quirks that would fit the bill of what Kurama's Quirk might be.

Naruto Uzumaki.

"Oh-ho, what's this? Is somebody's secret finally out?" Midnight asked as she licked her lips sultrily.

Though, he couldn't be Kurama, since Kurama had yellow eyes with bar pupils, and their personalities were different. Not to mention, Naruto spent most of his time at the orphanage with the kids he helped out with.

"Nope! Hahahah!" And just like that, her smugness vanished as both Mirko and Mt Lady erupted into laughter.

"Hey, at least I had him on a suspect list, that's a lot more than you can say."

"Oh please, any dumbass can slap a list together of a bunch of random idiots and go 'Well none of these guys is him'."

"Oh dumbass am I? That's a real laugh from the wannabe Playboy bunny."

"What did you call me?!"

"And what are you laughing about you blonde bimbo? At least I catch my own criminals, you're just hop in at the last moment after everyone else has done the work for you."

"I DO NOT!"

"…Anyone else think this is starting to feel like of those cheesy reality show comedies where the main cast all hate each-other yet somehow become best friends?" Mina asked while holding her hand up, the rest of the girls gradually joining her over time as the argument continued.

""Us best friends? As if!"" Midnight and Mt Lady said in almost perfect sync, blinking in surprise before glaring at each-other balefully. ""Hey! Don't copy me! Stop that! No you stop it! I said stop it!""

This went on for a while, with both sides, three once Mirko rejoined the argument, continuing to fire insults and retorts with relentless vigor. However, when it reached the five-minute mark and still showed no signs of stopping, the humor of the situation had worn off.

With shared looks of bland annoyance, Momo passed out earmuffs for Mina, Mei, and Toru before holding up a really big airhorn.

*BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR*

"Gah! My ears!" "What the fuck!?" "Fucking hell!" "Huh!? What!? Where?!" All three women immediately clapped their hands over their ears with pained cries, the blaring sound striking at their eardrums like anvils. At the same time, the sudden noise jolted Izuku back to consciousness, the shy teen's head jerking around in confusion and surprise as he tried to make sense of his surroundings.

Once he did though, the poor boy almost instantly turned redder than a boiled lobster upon finding himself on his Hero Art History teacher's lap with the back of his head sandwiched between her breasts.

"I-I… sorry… not w-what… I mean… s-s-sorry!" He muttered out apologies and excuses at high speed while instinctually trying to get off, only to be thwarted by Midnight herself as she unintentionally held him in place while she cupped her ears protectively.

"Are you three done acting like toddlers now?" Tsuyu asked dryly with a deadpan, getting the three women to turn towards her. "Or are you gonna keep acting like my siblings when one of them steals the TV remote?"

"Hey! We aren't…" Mirko started to argue back indignantly, only to trail off with an awkward cough when all the teens gave her identical bland look. "They started it."

"And we're finishing it," Momo stated whilst setting the airhorn down and pulling her earmuffs off. "Now if you don't mind, I'd quite like to continue with this most interesting video."

Her piece said, the creation quirk user turned back to said projection, with the rest of the room's occupants thankfully following suit.

"Uh, c-could you let me g-go now?" Izuku asked quietly as he tried once more to pull free from Midnight's grasp. Sadly for him though, rather than let him loose the purplette's grip only tightened as she rested her chin on his head with a playful smirk.

"Nah, this is pretty comfy, maybe later." No one was sure whether they should feel sorry for the boy or call him a lucky bastard.

Still, seeing his name in the list, and her talk with her father, combined with her own thoughts, had given her a very great idea.

'Wait a second… is this going where I think it's going?' Midnight thought to herself, eyes widening as she realized what exactly her other self was planning. She wasn't the only one either as Izuku and Tsuyu's donned identical expressions.

-A Few Weeks Later-

"Man, this... this one sucked... you're without a doubt the closest one to having captured me... but still no dice." Naruto sucked in his breath, poison dripping from any part of his exposed skin. Once more, he had been faced with another member of the Top 10... this time the Number 10 hero, Gang Orca, a very large man with a body that looked similar to a Killer Whale, with all the abilities of a killer whale to back up his appearance.

"Seriously? He beat Gang Orca?" Izuku asked in disbelief as the projection panned between the villain and hero. "How though? Sure his poison is strong but Gang Orca knows about it and could immobilize him with sonic waves once hegotcloseunlessKuramacouldcounterthemsomhow…"

"And there goes Midori," Mina giggled out as the green-haired boy started rambling under his breath, the words falling from his mouth faster than anyone could keep up with, picking down the ways the fight could have gone down just based on a glance of the aftermath. "You know, sometimes I wonder if the reason he does this is because his own brain can't keep up with itself."

"I could see that." Tsuyu said with a soft croak while Toru and Momo nodded.

"Where did he get that notebook?" Mei asked as she glanced at Izuku curiously, who sure enough had one of his ever iconic notebooks in hand, the shy teen jotting down notes almost as fast as he was mumbling.

"We're still trying to figure that out too." Tora admitted with a shrug.

He was strong, fast, and the way he could paralyze somebody with sonic waves had been tricky, though thankfully his own Toad abilities also made him stronger, faster, and more durable than a normal person. Also, since his Quirk included Toad abilities, including creating soundwaves of his own that he had been able to use to neutralize Gang Orca's hypersonic waves, and prevent himself from being paralyzed by them.

"How fascinating, I had no idea that the Toad quirk was so multifunctional," Momo said in slight awe, before blushing awkwardly as she turned to Tsuyu. "Erm, not that I thought it was a bad quirk or anything like that, I just-"

"It's okay Momo, I know what you meant," The frog girl waved off the ravenette's apology. "Even I'm surprised with how many different ways Naruto has found to use his quirk, I never even thought to try even half those things myself."

"So you can do that soundwave thing he mentioned too?" Mina asked excitedly, only to pout disappointedly when Tsuyu shook her head negatively.

"Not really, all I can really do is this."

Leaving her mouth open just a little bit, the greenette's neck started shaking slightly as a soft vibrating hum filled the air. It was actually rather pleasant too, sending a gentle soothing sensation rippling through everyone who heard it.

However, before anyone could really enjoy the feeling, it stopped as Tsuyu suddenly broke out into a small coughing fit.

"Ah! Are you okay Tsu?" "What's wrong?" "Are you hurt?" Each of her friends asked at once as they huddled around her worriedly, only to back off when she waved them away.

"Relax guys, I'm fine, ribbit" She said in a slightly hoarse tone while sipping at a glass of water. "It just stresses my voice box out a bit when I do that."

"Are you sure Tsu?" Momo asked in concern getting a slow nod in return, before creating an instant heat pack and a small towel. "Alright but at least take these."

Not wanting to aggravate her throat more, Tsuyu just nodded again and accepted the items, gratefully pressing them against her neck as the heat soothed the sore muscles.

"... Just what is your Quirk?" Gang Orca asked politely as he laid down on the ground, his face against the concrete. All of his sidekicks were surrounding him as well, after he had gone down in the battle (though, his opponent never actually threw an attack), they had tried to capture Kurama for him, only to fall to the poison as well. "Poison alone can't neutralize my sound waves, or enhance your body to be as fast or evasive as you are." Gang Orca looked out of the side of his eye at the one who defeated him.

"While he is technically right, I don't think his point is as accurate at it seems." Momo stated, earning curious looks from Toru, Mirko, and Mina whilst Mei, Midnight, and Mt Lady nodded.

"What's that supposed to mean." Toru asked with a cocked eyebrow.

"Well quirks have been shown to give all sorts of abilities and traits that are seemingly unrelated to the actual quirk itself, such as how Mina has horns despite her quirk being Acid, or Koji's appearance when his quirk just lets him talk to animals," The busty ravenette explained. "Sometimes they're just random mutational affects, but most of the time its actually carryover from previous generations of quirks. So for all they could know, Kurama could have simply inherited enhanced strength and speed from one of his relatives."

…

"Huh, the more you know." Mina said with a shrug.

Naruto looked down at him, and took his trophy, his red tie, and put it into his pocket, before he calmed down his breath.

"Now that would be..." Naruto's phone started to go off, and he looked at it, and saw it was one of the caretakers from the orphanage. That was weird, they usually never called him until they wanted him to go and get something for the kids while he was out and about.

'Oh boy, looks like I was right.' Midnight thought with a sigh, a bemused smirk forming on her lips.

Naruto jumped up and landed on the side of the building, before he started to hop higher and higher, until he was on the top of a taller building in the area. "... sup, you're speaking with Naruto, watcha need?" Naruto answered his phone now that he was out of ear shot of any heroes.

"Where are you right now?"

"Just taking a walk, gotta stay in shape and all that jazz... why are you calling me? Shouldn't you be taking care of the kids?" Naruto asked, since they had a job to do, and they should be doing their job instead of wasting time talking to him. Yeah, it was technically their job to take care of him, but in a few years, he would be their boss. The relationship between him and the caretakers was an odd one, they made sure never to get on his bad side since it could affect their job in the future.

"Makes sense, don't want to get a bad rep with the guy who's gonna decide whether you still have a job or not one day." Toru said while Tsuyu and Mina nodded in agreement.

"How fast can you get back here?"

Odd, ever since he became a teen, they never really set a curfew on him or asked him to come back just to come back.

"Oh man, now that would be the life." Mina said with a envious sigh, smiling mischievously as she daydreamed of all the fun stuff she could do with that kind of freedom.

"Hey, I've got a bone to pick with you!"

"... give me maybe 30 minutes... 45 possibly, I wandered kind of far away." Naruto stated as he jumped back when he saw Mirko jump up to the top of the building.

"Grrr… what am I, some kind of pit-stop now?" Mirko growled through grit teeth when she heard Naruto speak so casually about getting away from her other self.

"Well, given how often you've guys have fought-"

"Finish that sentence and we'll find out what my foot looks like after I've shoved it up your ass." The rabbit woman cut Toru off mid-sentence, causing the invisible girl to squeak in fright as she reflexively covered her rear end.

Naruto hung up his phone and put it back into his pocket, before he looked and saw Mirko land right in front of him. "Sup Bun-Bun, I've already returned what I stole, and took my trophy from Gang Orca... and I don't have a lot of time left to play today. Can we time this for... same time next week?" Naruto asked her as he gestured off the building right down towards the poisoned Gang Orca and his gang of poisoned heroes.

Mirko's eye twitched, and she pounded a fist into her open palm.

The 'real' Mirko was just like her counterpart, only with the addition of muttering several types of insults that would put even Katsuki's foul mouth to shame.

The answer was-

"Grrrrrr... whatever... it's not like I wanted to chase you anyway. You better commit a crime next week, at this time, in this city though... and don't get caught by any other heroes before I catch you." Mirko growled at him in a half-shouting tone. She relaxed her shoulders, though she had flushed cheeks as well.

...

…

"""""""…What?""""""" Everyone in the room muttered at once in shock, their eyes threatening to pop out of their heads as they stared at the screen in complete shock, none more so than Mirko herself who's jaw had dropped so hard it actually made an audible *crack*.

"Well... thanks for under-"

Mirko grabbed him by the hoodie, and pulled him into a searing kiss, glaring into his eyes, slipping her tongue into his mouth. She let go of him and disconnected, before she stepped back. Naruto was shocked when he saw watched her go faint from taking some of his poison, his body was still coated in a fresh layer of poison he had yet to allow to fade thanks to his recent encounter with Gang Orca.

"... I'm still a pro hero dumbass." Mirko collapsed onto her side, and glared up at him. "... If I let a criminal escape, while being able to chase them, I would be a failure as a hero... I might not be able to move, but this time it was ME who kissed YOU... you got that?" Mirko glared up at him, making sure to put emphasis on her words just so that he understood.

He didn't steal a kiss from her today, nope, today she got him back and took it from him, and he didn't defeat her either. She used his poison to defeat herself.

"No way… she just pulled a Tsundere," Mina said in complete disbelief before suddenly grinning madly when she turned to a still frozen Mirko. "Oh my GAWD! You totally got the hots for him!"

'Oh god fucking damnit, I should have known,' Snapping out of her daze, said rabbit heroine groaned as she was instantly swarmed by the acidic teen along with Toru and Momo whilst Midnight just scooted a bit closer with a Cheshire grin. 'Damn that hot blonde idiot and his fun chases.'

"Sooo… anything to say for yourself Mirko?" Midnight asked in a suggestive as she leaned in, making poor Izuku almost die from embarrassment as he was squished even further into her bust.

"Fuck off, so what if I'm into the guy, I don't see how that's any of your damn business."

"So YOU are into him too?" Mina asked coyly, causing the whitette to freeze again before swearing as she palmed her face. "Who'd have thought, the mighty miss Mirko is into the naughty bad boy type~."

"A hero and villain dating, how scandalous yet so romantic sounding." Momo mumbled, a heavy blush on her cheeks as she drifted off into a daydream. "Secret dates during 'chases', the day you finally 'catch' him when he proposes, and then after a lovely honeymoon you settle down to run the orphanage together with six or seven kids of your own."

"Oh Mirama babies! They'd be sooo CUTE!" Toru squealed with sparkles all around her as she hopped in place.

And as all this went down, poor poor Mirko's face was turning redder and redder, putting even the ripest tomatoes to shame, while steam rose from her head. "I-I swear to god, when I get out of this stupid thing-"

""I'm not hearing a denial~!"" Mina and Midnight chimed at the same time before erupting into giggles.

"JUST GET BACK TO THE GODDAMN SHOW ALREADY!" The rabbit woman roared in fury, before scowling even more when everyone just laughed even more as they reluctantly settled back into their seats.

She didn't lose, she took herself out of the game, there was a difference.

"Then... I guess I'll be off then..." Naruto jumped off the side of the building, since he didn't know what to say to that.

Mirko was weird today.

""That's cause she's in loooove~!"" Mina and Toru sang out with wiggled brows, causing said hero to groan in annoyance.

-Later-

"I'm back... so what do you need me for?" Naruto asked as he walked into the main office without feeling the need to knock on the door when he entered. He saw a somewhat familiar head of dark purple hair, but done up in a spiky ponytail, and she was out of her hero costume. She actually looked pretty different while wearing a non-sexual office dress that covered her body up decently like a working adult.

"No kidding, at first glance you're like a totally different person." Toru said, glancing from the onscreen Midnight to the 'real' one and back again.

Sadly for her, though he didn't know her real name, Narurto could recognize Midnight by the sound of her voice alone (Toad Quirk, being able to tell the difference between voices was a mini-ability).

"Okay, now it's just getting ridiculous, what else can his quirk do?" Mina grumbled with a huff, since it seemed like every other scene showed some strange yet useful trait the blonde was able to use to startling affect.

"Oh, hello Naruto... we were introduced a few weeks ago, but this will be your first time meet the real me, not the pro hero Midnight. I'm Nemuri Kayama." Midnight introduced herself by her real name to Naruto, since she was out of costume. Midnight, no Nemuri, got up and gave a normal bow to Naruto. She extended her hand to him, and he took it, the poison on his body had already dried up until he released some more, making him safe to touch for the moment.

"... I thought I said I wasn't going to go to U.A…" Naruto told her.

"Oh yeah, that's that good question, why are you back at the orphanage?" Toru asked curiously as she turned to the 'real' Midnight.

However, all she got in response was a knowing smile as the purplette gestured back towards the projection.

She nodded.

"Well, I was talking with my own father, and I'm already 30... it's time I settled down and started my own family... but as a Pro Hero and Teacher, I just don't have the time to raise a baby... but... there isn't a law saying that your first child has to be a baby." Nemuri explained with a growing smile.

"Oh… oh my goodness! Midnight's gonna be a momma!" The invisible girl exclaimed happily before wrapping the adult themed heroine in a hug. "Congratulations!"

"Thank you Toru, but perhaps save the cheer for the real soon to be mother." Midnight said in amusement, getting Toru to giggle sheepishly as she let go.

"Yeah, good idea."

"Oh... OH!" Naruto realized and a large grin came over his face.

"Well, there are a ton of really good kids here. I can give you a tour, and you can pick from them. They've all got really cool Quirks, and I've made sure they're really well behaved." Naruto hadn't expected her here to adopt, and if that was the case, he would make sure to match her up with the perfect child for her. He grabbed her by the wrist and started to pull her. "I'll take you to the girl's rooms first, as a single woman, a girl might be better for your lifestyle... but if you're looking for a boy, we've got really good boys here too." Naruto was excited.

Another of his kiddos was getting a real home today and starting their new lives with a family of their own, instead of their little makeshift family, one that was always falling apart.

"Whoa… he looks so happy." Momo said in awe at the sheer amount of joy that appeared on Naruto's face when he heard that someone was going to be adopted.

"Indeed," Mirko muttered in agreement with a small nod. "Such dedication and care, he'd make a great parent one day."

Giggling softly, Midnight nudged the rabbit heroine's side with a devious smile. "Already planning for kids Mirko? I had no idea you worked so fast."

"Oh for the love of…"

"It's odd seeing him so energetic," Toru said just before Mirko could erupt once more in rage. "He's always had that laid back go with the flow vibe."

"Just goes to show how seriously he takes his future job, ribbit." Tsuyu chipped in quietly as she sipped some more water.

"I've already picked."

"Oh... well, that is cool too, just tell me their name and I'll go-"

"Naruto Uzumaki."

...

"Bwahahahaha! Oh my god that's hilarious!" Mirko couldn't help but burst out into laughter as soon as she realized what was happening. "What are the odds?! What are the fucking odds!?"

And she wasn't alone either as both Mina and Toru were leaning on each-other for support as they giggled uncontrollably, Mt Lady had fallen out of her chair laughing her ass off, Momo was doubled over not so quietly giggling into her hands, and Tsuyu was croaking softly.

"I don't get it, what's so funny?" Mei asked with a raised brow, turning to one of the only other people not laughing, Midnight, though even the adult purplette had an amused smirk on her lips.

"My other self just adopted the villain she and every other hero has been trying to catch for months without even realizing it."

"Oh… I still don't get it."

"... No... no, no, no... I'm too old, nobody wants me... my Quirk is Toad, totally lame, and I'm going to turn 16 this year." Naruto stated as he waved her off. She was joking, this was his home, the place his parents built together. It was his destiny to be here forever, taking in kids and finding them homes.

All humor in the room died almost immediately once Naruto said that, his almost broken sounding voice striking like a hammer blow.

'Sheesh, I get dedicated, but he's making it sound like I'm destroying his whole life by adopting him.' Midnight thought as her faced scrunched up slightly in confusion and worry. Sure it was expected for a kid to have trouble adjusting to being adopted, especially if the parents adopting the kid were a bad match, but she'd have thought that he'd be happy of all things to finally get his own chance to have a family of his own.

"You're also up for adoption, like any child here." The head caretaker spoke to Naruto from behind the front desk.

Naruto was stunned.

Nemuri smiled.

"You're right, you're 15... you're old enough to understand I won't always have time for you, and you're a good kid. You should be allowed to experience your own youth. So I adopted you... it's not much, but welcome to my small family." Nemuri smiled and extended her arms to hug Naruto.

When she had met him weeks ago, she had thought it was sad that a young boy was being forced to spend his time looking after others, instead of being allowed to chase his own dreams, and take care of children that would just leave him. Kurama mocking her, and her father calling her to ask her about her settling down, had made her remember Naruto and the orphanage. Then, she remembered that everyone could win if she adopted him. Her father would have a grandson, she would have started a family with a son that was mature enough to not need all of her attention, and Naruto would gain a family with her so that she could give him her unspent maternal love.

"That all makes sense, except for the part where he looks ready to rip you and the other lady in half at any moment." Mina said nervously, actually cowering a bit as the projection passed over Naruto in a way that for a second it looked like he was glaring at all of them instead.

Naruto wasn't smiling, and he didn't even make a move to hug her.

"You... you..." Naruto looked at the caretaker with fury in his eyes.

"Just like any child, you're up for adoption, if a viable parent wishes to adopt you, they can do so. Though, since you were adopted, your father's will states that this orphanage will transferred to the government so that you can fully enjoy your new family."

Naruto stopped shaking.

…

…

"…Son of a bitch," Midnight groaned as she faceplanted into Izuku's hair. "So that's why he's so pissed."

That orphanage and the kids inside were all Naruto truly cared about, it was his life's goal to run that place while making sure every kid within got a nice happy family… and her other self had just done fucked that up entirely.

"Fine... I'm not taking your name though... if my name is the only thing I'm keeping from my parents, I'm not going to lose that." Naruto spat out, his words as harsh as poison.

Nemuri's smile softened.

She didn't say anything though.

Though she knew this was what was best for him, so that he could actually experience life, she knew this was going to be a very hard transition for him. She was changing his life, a life he had become accustomed too, but she was old enough (though STILL YOUNG) to have the life experience to know that he needed more experience in life, to see if this was the path he really wanted to take.

Hopefully, he would come around and see it her way.

A dreadful silence fell over the room as Mei's machine went back into buffering mode, nobody having any idea what to say or do after such a sudden and dramatic mood killer.

-End Chapter-