Hey guys, sorry I missed last week! Our landlord decided to come over for a 'mandatory inspection' and we were running around like out hair was on fire.

On the plus side, I've added new pictures of memes Suzume is in to Kono Family Pics over on my AO3, to my deviantart, and to my tumblr. The first two are under Lore55, and last is Lo-55.

Whatever Suzume had been expecting on Tuesday, when in impulse or insanity she took Shouto to get his ears pierced and swore she would kill his father (metaphorically) in eight months, it wasn't what had happened.

But that was okay.

She thought, privately, that Shouto, and Dabi, and their siblings, deserved more than metaphorical vengeance. But it wasn't her choice, now was it?

When Friday comes around and she finds that not one, not two, but three of her brothers are going to be home when her classmates come over, she realizes that her expectations for this are going to be wrong as well.

"I know that you boys basically invited yourselves over," she says to Kirishima as they all crowd onto the train, "but I feel like I should warn you that my brothers are… weird."

Kirishima sits beside her. In the seat in front is Bakugou and Kaminari. Behind them sit Toru, and Shoji.

Tsu had been planning on coming with as well, but her period had hit her like a brick earlier that day and she'd gone home early from school.

Suzume makes a private note to invite her and Mina and maybe Midoriya over at a later date.

Shinsou glances over from where he's seated across the aisle from them, looked like Togata has been torturing him instead of cheerfully talking. Suzume is honestly not sure how he ended up coming along, but she's going to blame it all on Kaminari.

The blond hadn't ended his internship, although as Suzume understands it that's got more to do with his graduation requirements than his actual desire to still be there.

Something about manipulating a little girl had left a bad taste in his mouth apparently.

" 'Weird' how?" Kirishima asks, looking genuinely worried. Maybe Suzume scares them more than she initially thought, if they worry so much about how her brothers are.

She hums in thought.

"I well my youngest brother is also going to be a hero, and we all know that every hero is weird A F," Kaminari snorts at her. "The ones older than him are the twins, who are also going to be there. Seiji is a game designer, and Satomi is doing something with agriculture in college. But if I'm being honest he could come home with a giant venus fly trap that eats humans and sings and it wouldn't surprise me even a little bit. "

Kirishima laughed nervously.

"Oh."

"Why are you surprised?" Bakugou demands, twisting to scowl at them through the gap in the seats. "They're her brothers."

"I feel like I should be offended right now?"

"Good."

"Dick head."

"So anyways," Kaminari jumps in before she and Bakugou can start a brawl in the middle of the train. "What are we gonna do when we get there?" He asks, his pretty gold eyes on Suzume.

"I figured we could play a few games before dinner, and then hang out afterwards?" Suzume shrugs. "I dunno, you guys are the ones who decided you were coming over ."

"If you didn't want us too, you would have told us." Kaminari says with certainty.

Suzume can't argue with that. If she was that against them coming over, she would have told them no when they first proposed the idea, or even earlier in the week when she was still upset over Nighteye and his little debacle at the internships.

No.

Instead she let them follow her to the trainstation even though she knew she didn't have to, and now they were all on their way back to Suzume's home.

She leans back in her seat and looks them over.

They seem to have grown in the week that they were apart, even if none of them took on a serial killer and a corrupt cop in the span of two days. Kaminari seems more focused than he was, Bakugou is oddly quiet for such an angry little fuck, and Kirishima's fire of manly determination has only solidified into something firm and resolved. Shoji's shoulders are back with more confidence than she's ever seen him with, and Toru has been excited to get back into the field with her stealth tricks.

We're growing up so fast.

It's startling to realize.

In just the few short months since school had started, so many things have changed and their small group is not the least of it.

Society is starting to shift.

As a general rule Suzume doesn't watch the news avidly. There's too much wrong with the world, and as a minority she's just not a fan of accidentally finding people insulting and belittling her and everyone like her on live television. After the sports festival she's avoided it the very best she can.

She knows what people will say.

That she cheated, that her classmates threw the match, that she was only in the hero course as a charity case and someone needed to save her before she got herself killed in the field. She knows that there will be debates and furious parents. She's seen several people in the school drop out and vanish, more than is normal in the Gen Ed and Business departments.

Suzume really doesn't feel like watching that.

But she meets other quirkless people on the streets.

She's plain enough most folks will never recognize her, but her own people approach her on the reg. They talk to her, encourage her, thank her for going up on the screen and throwing hands.

She doesn't know what to do with it.

But she knows that other quirkless people are enrolling in martial arts.

She knows that other 'boring' or 'creepy' quirked people are doing the same. After Shinsou.

And the cults keep coming, the Hero Killer video still aired.

Although that one was softened by the sheer amount of memes people had made of Suzume punching him in the back of the head.

Her personal favorite is the edit where her fist is looking for free real estate.

Suzume opens her phone to scroll through some of the ones she'd saved. Kaminari had sent her most of them.

*Suzumebachi's fist, Monologer* it's free real estate.

Suzumebachi will look at a monologuing villain and ask 'is anyone going to punch this dude?' and not wait for an answer.

No Fear. Getting cold cocked while monologuing. One Fear.

*Gru from Despicable Me's explanation* Kill all the fake heroes. Make a dramatic speech about why. Get knocked t f out. Get knocked t f out?

Her own name was plastered over Dipper Pines from Gravity Falls, looking down at a piece of paper that read 'Talking about killing a bunch of people who were just kinda bad at their jobs'. "Whoa! This is worthless."

Batman slapping Robin across the face, with her as Batman and Stain as Robin.

The only video released of the incident was blurry at best, so there weren't a lot of clear shots of her face. On top of that, most people seemed to have decided to use their hero names instead of their real names. Even the press release had used them, but they'd been referred to as what they were, UA high school students, so if people really wanted to it wouldn't be hard to figure out that 'Shouto' was 'Todoroki Shouto', 'Tenya' was 'Iida Tenya', and 'Suzumebachi' was 'Yusada Suzume'. The only one who was even remotely difficult was 'Deku'.

But people seemed to have come to the conclusion to use their hero names, and for that much Suzume is glad of it.

It's something that all of them will have to get used to eventually right? If they plan on being heroes, which they all do.

A text pops up on her phone from Satomi, and a wave of fondness goes through her. She's missed him.

"My brother is bringing his car and my mom too, so we'll be in different cars. Who wants to go with who?" she asks, looking around at her-

At the boys.

"I'll go with Baku-bro," Kirishima offered.

"Oh, same," Kaminari waved his hand. Bakugou scowled at them both, but he's already been scolded for yelling on the train once today. "We can hitch a ride with your mom, since your brother is so weird."

Suzume doesn't point out the fact that her mother raised them, and is probably equally weird in her own way.

Not probably. She is.

Who the fuck else eats cherrios with orange juice?

"Then I guess Shoji, Shinsou, and me will come with you," Toru says cheerfully. She claps her invisible hands together and bounces a little.

She, like the others, had brought a spare change of clothes too school that day. It was normal enough for teenagers to hang out in their school uniform outside of school, but with the group they had gathered there was a good chance that they would end up in some kind of fist fight. Training, or just Suzume sick of Bakugou's mouth, it was hard to tell.

Either way, Toru sits beside her in jeans and a t shirt, and the boys are all dressed similarly. Kirishima and Shinsou had on hoodies, and Shoji is wearing his usual mask.

Suzume will be glad to get in real person clothes as soon as she's home.

She stands when the train pulls to a stop in the station that she could navigate in her sleep if she wants to.

"See you next time, Togata," she shoots a smile at the blond, who smiles back. It's strained, but there. She hopes he doesn't think she's angry with him. He had stood up for her, after all, and he hadn't known what Nighteye was going to do.

"He was nice," Kaminari muses as they head out onto the train platform. Suzume has the weirdest feeling of leading a band of misfits on a quest as they head to the parking lot, looking for her mother and brothers cars.

"He was chatty," Shinsou wrinkles his nose.

"I don't wanna hear that from the guy who introduced himself to our class with a speech," Suzume tells him dryly.

Shinsou rolls his eyes at her.

"Suzy!"

She looks up to see her middle brother waving at her from beside a truck. He's got boots on and his arms are tanner than she's ever seen them.

Suzume breaks into a smile and sprints across the parkinglot, heedless of the other cars, to slam face first into Satimi's chest.

He laughs and spins her around. He's gotten stronger, working out in the fields or whatever he's doing at agricultural school. His hair is longer, and for the first time ever he's not a perfect and exact copy of Seiji.

It's startling to see.

He sets her down and smiles down at her.

"So. You're bringing boys home now huh?"

Suzume groans and kicks him in the shin.

Satomi laughs at her, and turns to her classmates who are, for some reason, gaping.

Satomi loops his arm around her shoulders.

Chiasa emerges from the car parked a few spaces away and looks over her guests critically. Her hair is getting longer, and the dye is fading more and more.

Her whole family needs to get haircuts.

"Mo-om, Suzume kicked me," Satomi whines.

"And I'll do it again!"

"Children," she says with exaggerated patience. "Stop fighting."

They scowl at each other, but it fades in an instant and his red eyes soften for her. His grin is crooked and it shows off one of his venomous fangs.

This is her brother, one that she hasn't seen in months. She can't stay mad the whole time.

Satomi looks over her classmates, but his smile doesn't falter. The plants must be doing him good. He looks happy, just in general.

"Did you kids decide how to split up?" he asks.

She nods, and she, Shinsou, Toru, and Shoji climb up into his trucks cabin while the other boys pile in with their mother. She hopes Bakugou remembers what she told him about her mother. She really will paralyze him if he doesn't behave himself.

Yusada Chiasa raised six children and married a man in the Yakuza. She's tougher than almost anyone would ever give her credit for being.

Suzume has never said it outloud, but she privately thinks that her mother could be incredibly dangerous if she wanted to be, and it only has a little bit to do with the poison that dips her clawed fingers.

There's something about Chiasa that seems so unbreakable.

Suzume squishes in between Toru and Shoji. They're both warm, and Toru practically puts herself on Suzume's lap when they all squeeze into the truck.

Shoji looks down at them.

"I could sit in the bed…" He is the biggest out of all of them.

"Don't be silly," Suzume scolds. She wraps her arms firmly around Toru. "You're staying right here."

He doesn't fight her. His eyes curve ever so slightly over his mask. Shinsou sits on his otherside, his eyes on the window.

They pull away from the station.

Chiasa's car leads the way, and through the back window Suzume can see Bakugou waving his arm at Kirishima, who doesn't even look worried.

"So. The angry one. Moms gonna stab him," Satomi says as they near the house.

"Oh, for sure," Suzume agrees.

"Your mom will stab Bakugou?" Toru asks. This close Suzume can feel soft hair against her cheek, and smell Toru's shampoo. Some kind of passionfruit.

"Only lightly." Suzume assures, patting her leg.

Once they stop in front of the house Shoji helps Toru down out of the truck, then Suzume, like a many-limbs gentleman. Bakugou is looking pale when they walk in, and Kaminari looks like he's trying desperately not to laugh at his friends predicament.

"Did mom threaten him?" Suzume guesses.

"Yeah. She totally did," Kaminari grins. "Your mom is kind of scary. I see where you get it from."

Suzume stares at him.

"Thank you?" Normally people tell her she looks like her dad. To hear that is… strange, but not unwelcome. She does love her mother.

Suzume guides her gaggle of friends upstairs to her room, and leaves them to inspect her wall of weapons with gap jawed stares while she changes into soft black overall shorts and a poofy sleeved shirt that she thinks looks like it belongs on a pirate.

When she steps back inside, her friends gape at her.

"What?" she asks, crossing her arms over chest.

Toru waves at her.

"Nothing! We've just never seen you outside of your uniform before."

"It's not that weird," she grumbles. She goes and sits on her bed, tucking herself next to Toru with Kirishima on the other side. Shoji sits in her desk chair and Kaminari and Shinsou are perched in her window box.

Bakugou sits on her desk itself, staring at her.

"It's just not the style anyone thought you'd have," Toru defends.

Suzume shoots her a weird look.

"What were you expecting?"

"I dunno. A karate uniform?"

Suzume snorts a laugh.

"Yeah, no."

"I thought you'd walk around in army pants and a tank top," says Kaminari helpfully.

"Why are you even thinking of what I'd wear at all? Weirdo," Suzume rolls her eyes at him. What a dork. "You all dress exactly how I thought you would."

"Well that's not fair. You're creepy smart."

She's not sure if she's flattered or mildly insulted.

"I wonder what Tsu would have worn. Green, do you think?" Toru leans against her side.

"Who cares what anyone wears?" Bakugou snaps.

"Says the boy in designer jeans," Suzume drawls lazily. She hooks her arm around Toru's middle and turns to lean her back on Kirishima. It sandwiches her pleasantly between her two classmates.

"It's too bad Tsu couldn't make it," Kaminari wrinkles his nose.

Shinsou looks up from his phone.

"Why did she cancel on us anyways?"

An uncomfortable silence ripples through the boys.

Suzume finally says, "Her period is kicking the shit out of her, so she went home to rest instead."

Shinsou turns an interesting shade of pink.

"Oh."

Kaminari shifts uncomfortably in his seat. He looks at Suzume, or maybe Toru, or both of them.

"Can I ask something weird without one of you getting mad at me?"

Toru lifts her head. Suzume feels her breath on her face and looks at the invisible girl, exchanging a glance, before they both turn towards the blond.

"Sure," Suzume says at last. "But I get to ask a weird question back."

Kaminari fiddles with one of his bracelets.

"Are periods actually that bad?"

Suzume pauses. Kaminari looks like he genuinely wants to know. The question is curiosity, not dismissal or malice.

"Well," Suzume drawls. "We're bleeding out the shredded remains of one of our internal organs. So yeah, it can be. But it varies from person to person. Sometime it's barely noticeable. I've had ones so painful that I've lost all the feeling in my legs."

The boys all stare at her in horror.

"You what?" Kirishima hisses.

"E-yeah," she nudges Toru away and rolls her sleeve up to she can show them her upper arm. "Last year they got so bad my mom took me to get this, so it could level them out."

She points to the little matchstick sized bump on her inner arm.

"What is it?" Kaminari asks, leaning closer curiously.

"Technically? Birth control," Suzume shrugs. "But my period don't cripple me anymore, so that's the important thing for me."

They asked her about period. And Kaminari promised to answer her weird question in return so…

"My turn. So, boners happen for no reason sometimes right?"

It's funny to watch so many strong boys go beet red so fast.

"Yeah?"

"Cool. So what do you do with it when that happens? Just like, wait? What if it happens during gym?"

"Oh. uh. Don't you have brothers to ask this too?"

"Kaminari. I have never, and will never, ask my brothers about their dicks."

"...that's fair."

Kirishima shifts behind her back. "Some guys tuck it up in the waistband of their pants," he said at last. "Or down the leg. They go away in a few minutes."

"But don't they hurt?" Toru asks, her head tilting to bump into Suzume's shoulder.

Bakugou scoffs. "Don't be stupid. They're annoying, but you're gonna die because your dick is hard."

That, at least, Suzume could attest to.

Shoji makes a soft, 'huh' sound. They look at him, and he blushes under his mask so hard it goes up to his ears.

"It's just. I didn't realize it, but other guys can't just move it somewhere out of the way like I can. Or make it disappear for a while."

They all stare at him.

"Shoji," Suzume says at last, "You're incredible."

The tension in the room breaks and Kaminari snickers while Shoji looks like he wants to disappear. The conversation moves on to finals, and what they think the physical exam will be, and how they want to prepare.

Toru wants Suzume to show her how to fight, without needing weapons, and Kirishima offers to help them as well, when he's not studying with Bakugou. Shinsou wants to join in too. Ever since his debut at the sports festival its looking more and more likely that he'll make it into the hero course, just like Suzume always knew he would.

It's a few more minutes before they're all called down to dinner.

The diningroom is packed with teenagers and young adults. A big pot of curry and another full of rice gets passed around the table and the chatter fills the air. Their house hasn't ever been this crowded before.

They're halfway through eating when Seiji looks at his twin, and draws the attention of everyone else.

"You know Satomi, there sure are a lot of energetic kids here."

"That there are, Seiji."

"It's been a long time since we've had so many people. You know what I was thinking we should play, dear brother?"

"What, brother dear?"

Seiji looks out over Suzume and her classmates. The evening sun is burning in the window.

"We should play murder."

Suzume slowly grins.

Hell yes.