Finding Out
Laughter echoed through the door of the classroom Midoriya Izuku was approaching, for once in his life, early. Normally, the greenette would sleep in and then almost be late for class. Today, though, he actually woke up when his alarm went off and was ready to go earlier than usual.
When he closer to the door, however, instead of just laughter, he heard what sounded like Mina and Kacchan yelling. He finally heard what was being said by both groups, and he almost wished he didn’t.
“Oh, come on! He’s just a useless deku! It’s not like he can hear us anyway!” the voice of his best-friend, Uraraka Ochaco, said.
“I DON’T GIVE A DAMN! WHAT HAS HE EVER DONE TO YOU!?” Mina yelled.
“He clearly thinks he’s above everyone. He didn’t even bother to train his quirk! That is very un-heroic!” his other best friend. Iida Tenya, retorted.
“SHUT UP EXTRAS! ONLY PERSON WHO CAN TALK ABOUT THE NERD LIKE THAT IS ME! AND I’M NOT SUCH A FUCKING COWARD THAT I CAN’T SAY IT TO HIS FACE!!” that was definitely Kacchan.
He peered around the edge enough to see that Iida, Todoroki, and Uraraka were all standing together, and Mina and Kacchan were both looking furiously at them.
The ex-quirkless boy pulled his head back and ran towards the support class, knowing that Hatsume Mei would be there. He and her had started hanging out more since the Shie Hassaikai Raid since he wanted Eri to get used girls and because he often needed a babysitter, and knew Hatsume could be a longtime one since she wouldn’t be a hero and would have more free-time.
He knocked on the door to the classroom and Hatsume opened it almost instantly.
“Midoriya! Why are you here so early, and why aren’t you in class?”
“Can I talk to you in private?”
“Of course!” she grabbed his hand and dragged him to an empty classroom and instantly asked what was up.
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Mei knew something was wrong. Midoriya never visited her until after school, so she was worried, she just didn’t show it.
“so, I woke up and didn’t go back to sleep or anything today, so I headed to class, but I heard laughing and then yelling so when I got closer, I heard Uraraka calling me useless and then Mina yelled at her, and when Iida said I wasn’t very heroic because ‘I never trained my quirk’ Kacchan yelled at him. I looked into the classroom and Uraraka, Todoroki, and Iida were all standing together and Kacchan and Mina looked super mad…” he took a deep breath before continuing “It didn’t hurt too much, I just thought it wouldn’t happen since I was finally out of Junior High…”
“…Is murder legal yet?”
“If your quirkless you could get away with it.”
“Wait, really!?”
“yes.”
“How do you know this??”
“Umm…My quirk came in the day of the entrance exam and until then I thought I was quirkless.”
“Wait, really? I figured your quirk came in late, just not that late! May I get a list of everyone who has ever hurt you?”
“That list would be really long, Hatsume.”
“Mei. Your calling me Mei.”
“Then your calling me Izuku.”
They talked a bit more before he headed off to class, the smile fading to a fake one that Mei thought came all to naturally to him.
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Mina almost regretted going to class early, expect that now she could tell Midori and she knew not to talk to those little bitches.
She saw Midori come to class with a smile, that she thought was probably fake, plastered to his face.
“Midori! Can I talk to you after class?”
“Sorry, I actually have plans today.”
“What are you doing?” she asked, genuinely curious.
“I’m hanging out with Mei from the support course.”
“Can I come with? I don’t think I’ve met Mei.”
“You’ll love her! She’s super nice and she loves her babies.”
“Babies?”
“Inventions.”
“Oh! That makes more sense.” She smiled as she went back to her seat just as Aizawa emerged from his sleeping bag.
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Once school was over, Mei ran into Izuku’s classroom and he face-palmed instantly.
“Mei, why?”
“Because I want babies, Izu.” He heard Kacchan and Kaminari choke on their water.
“I thought we talked about this?”
“Yeah, Yeah. No calling my inventions babies around your classmates.
“OH, THANK GOD THAT’S WHAT SHE MEANT!” Momo yelled.
“What. The. Hell, problem child???”
“Oh, hi! I’m Power-loaders problem child! :)”
“…”
“Mei…”
“Sorry Izu-Chan!”
“teach me how to do that!”
“wait, really? Ok!”
Mei grabbed his hand and dragged him to their favorite empty classroom before teaching him how to do the thing with the smiley face.
He got on the group chat to tell Mina where they were.
Small-Might has joined 1-A idiocy
Small-Might has changed their name to Smiley.
Smiley: @Dancing Alien We’re in an empty classroom.
Uravity: Why?
Smiley: :) because we’re hanging out for a bit
Dad: You shouldn’t be at school after it ends!
Smiley has added Power-loader’s demon to the chat.
Power-loader’s demon has changed their name to Mom of 501
Smiley: have you really made that many inventions? And if your going to steal my phone to add yourself, I’m adding Shinso.
Smiley has added get some concealer to the chat.
Get some concealer: I have no words.
Dancing Alien: YOU HAVE NEVER EVEN TOUCHED CONCEALER IN YOUR LIFE, HAVE YOU?!?!
Get some concealer: …I feel like I angered the gods…
Smiley: the only god is Nezu, sorry.
Mom of 501: Izu, I’m adopting you into the support course. We legit pray to Nezu when he grants us karaoke day.
Smiley: XD
Smiley has added if god were a mouse to the chat.
If god were a mouse has changed their name to God.
God: is EraserHead here?
Smiley: All the messages would be him telling me not to break my bones if that were the case -_-
God: I don’t blame him.
Smiley: :’(
Dancing Alien: Look, you made him sad!
Mom of 501: IF YOUR DYING OF LAUGHTER AND YOU KNOW IT ADD MONOMA TO THE CHAT!
Smiley has added Only human I don’t like besides Mineta and my old classmates to the chat.
Only human I don’t like besides Mineta: ….wtf?
Smiley has changed Only human I don’t like besides Mineta and my old classmates name to 1-B
1-B: do I even want to know…?
Mom of 501: depends, want to be depressed for week?
1-B: no.
Mom of 501: then no.
1-B: Wtf is wrong with this class?
Mom of 501: I am not in this class bish. But Izu is so no trash talking or I slit your throat :)
Dad: Threating people is very unbefitting of a U.A. student! It is also very unheroic!
Mom of 501: …
Smiley: don’t do it…
Mom of 501:
Smiley: Aaaaaaaaaaaand you did it.
1-B:
Smiley:
1-B:
Mom of 501:
1-B: bish I better fucking be on that list.
Mom of 501:
Uravity: I am confused. So very confused.
Get some concealer:
God has added Aizawa (Victim!)
God has changed Aizawa (Victim!)’s name to Aizawa.
God: keep going children. Midoriya is Smiley, Hatsume is Mom of 501, your son is get some concealer (Midoriya did that), and Monoma is 1-B. they started meme-ing and its beautiful.
Smiley:
1-B:
Mom of 501:
Smiley:
Get some concealer:
Mom of 501:
Aizawa: WHY IS MY SON JOINING A CULT OF MEMES????!!!
Smiley: pull out ze fluffy fluffy memes!
Mom of 501:
1-B:
Get concealer:
Smiley: Annihilation round, begin.
Mom of 501:
1-B:
Get some concealer:
Smiley:
Aizawa: …Damnit, my one weakness!
Smiley: hold up, you only have one!? Why was is stuck with like five of them!?
Mom of 501: sorry darling dear!
1-B: and I oops.
Get some concealer:
Smiley: ….Thats it. Mei, plan show off is a go.
Mom of 501: YASSSSSSSSSSSS.
10 minutes later…
Smiley has added Midnight, Hawks, Present Mic, and All-Might to the chat.
Smiley: Memes…Memes…
Hawks: How the hell did you get my number???
Smiley: Hacking is easy?
God: @Smiley
Smiley: hold up, what does this meme mean to me god?
God: you are now my gremlin. Wreak havoc upon your classmates and Aizawa!
Smiley: time to break some bones.
Aizawa: NO!
God: HELL NO!
Aizawa: …
God: …
Aizawa: ….
God: …My kid, got it?
Aizawa: Bish you wanna go?
Midnight has left the chat.
Smiley, Mom of 501, 1-B, and Dancing Alien have left the chat.
He set his phone down and grinned when Mina walked in.
“Midori! I need to tell you somethings that Uraraka and Iida said.”
“I heard some of it, don’t worry” he said. her face shifted slightly to surprise before she asked,
“How much?”
“I heard Uraraka call me useless and left after Kacchan got at Iida for saying that I was unheroic. Yeah, he can go tell that to the little girl I saved.” Mina laughed at that, having been one of the few girls to properly meet Eri.
“She might actually hate someone that wasn’t a villain!” Mina said. he smiled softly at that. When he offered to take care of Eri as a big brother, they were fine with it assuming that his mom was going to help him. She wasn’t.
“Do you guys want to get to the park with me and Eri?” the shortest of the three asked.
They both nodded affirmatives, and he smiled while he left to go pick her up from school.
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Eri walked towards the school gate quickly so she could see her big brother. She knew he might be late if Hatsume-Chan wanted to talk to him or something. The one-horned girl only had to wait ten minutes before she saw the familiar scarred hands and green hair walked towards her.
She bounced on the balls of her feet excitedly. The moment Izu-Nii saw her he kneeled down and spread his arms just before she launched herself at him.
“IZU-NII!” she was always happy to see her brother!
“Hey Eri! You know how we’re going to the park today?” he asked. She nodded her head happily. “Well, Mina and Mei are going to join us, okay?” he always ran this stuff past her, and when she said no, he would call whoever it was and tell them that Eri wasn’t okay with it and to try and do it another day.
“Okay! I like Mei and Mina!” she really did! Mina’s skin was pink, and that was so cool! She said it wasn’t even part of her quirk, just something she has because of her mom’s quirk, which made her look like an alien. Mei also always made Izu-Nii smile, and she could tell he had a bad day today.
She smiled brightly at him just like he did to cheer her up, and he smiled right back.
“Your sad. Why?”
He sighed before responding, “Yeah, I am sad. Some people that I thought were nice said some bad things about me when they thought I wasn’t around.”
Her brows furrowed in confusion. Why would anyone say bad things about her hero? And why when he wasn’t around?
“But guess what?” he said, probably having noticed her confusion slowly melting to anger.
“What?”
“Mina and Kacchan yelled at them for ne because they didn’t know I was there!” she smiled brightly again. She liked Kacchan to because Izu-Nii never makes any faces or flinches (Even if only she seems to notice. And Mei and Mina when they are there.) when Kacchan calls him Deku.
The older of the two children (she didn’t like how all the heroes treat him like an adult who can handle anything instead of a child who has gone through and seen more than anyone his age should) picked the younger up and headed towards the park.
She realized he must have changed at home on the way here, because he was wearing a white t-shirt that she thought said ‘Pants, and black gym-shorts, along with those black sleeve things he always wore. He told her when he saved Kota, a little boy he saved before her, he damaged his arms because the villain could absorb his hits, and he only won when he used a really powerful punch, but he needed the black things to help with his arms.
She was wearing a black over-all skirt with a white short-sleeve button up with puffy sleeves underneath, knee-high socks, and black flats. Her hair was in two French braids, done by her brother, with black bows at the end of each.
(I can’t figure out if Deku if 15 or 16, so I’m going with 15 for my sanity.)
They reached the park quickly, and she instantly saw Mina and Mei.
“Mei, Mina!” Her brother called out.
“Hey Izu!” “Hi Midori!” each girl called back respectively.
They hung out for a while before heading home.
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Lucky for Izuku, today was Saturday so he and Eri could both go somewhere and just chill out for a bit. So of course, they went to cat café, one of his and Eri’s favorite places.
Eri was playing on her tablet, and he pulled out his phone to the 1-A chat.
Smiley has joined 1-A idiocy.
Smiley: @Mom of 501 @1-B @Get some concealer Any of you guys on? Me and Eri are at a café, and I want to meme.
Mom of 501: sweetheart, of course we can meme!
1-B: why the hell not?
Get some concealer: dude, we are in the same café.
Smiley: XD say hi to my midget!
Mom of 501: did he say hi?
Smiley: yes.
Mom of 501: OMG, LOOK WHAT BAKUGOU SENT ME TO EMBARRASS YOU WITH!
Smiley: um…that could be almost any picture of us as children, you know that, right Mei?
Mom of 501:
Smiley: ok, this game it is.
1-B: WOW. JUST WOW. MY TURN NOW!
Get some concealer: DAMN YOU TO HELL! HATSUME, WHAT HAVE YOU STARTED!?
Mom of 501: war, bitch. War.
1-B: hold up. You call Midoriya sweetheart and darling or darling dear, but him bitch? Is this favoritism I smell?
Aizawa: I have no words.
Smiley: HI!!
Smiley: Eri, don’t take my phone.
Smiley: it’s my phone now!
Mom of 501: Hi-ya midget!
Smiley: MEI!!!
Dancing Alien: you know there’s something wrong with you when a child knows who you are based on you chat name…
Smiley: MINA!!!
Smiley: AGHJDDBKASJHKJkjhkAJSHJkjkjhjkhksafsdfsa
Get some concealer: uh…
Smiley: I have retrieved my phone! :)
Mom of 501: XD
Get some concealer: That was hilarious.
Smiley: REEEEE!
Mom of 501: Bitch what have you witnessed!?
Get some concealer: I’m dying of laughter! He saw someone, and legit flipped them off while slowly sipping his drink, and the person just ran out like he was traumatized. It was great!
Smiley: I am a peaceful person until you hurt my little sister and/or friends. he had done both, so he pays the largest price he could at the moment. Bigger revenge will come later, don’t worry :)
1-B: should we be scared, yes or no?
Mom of 501: Get ready to be. So, I texted another group-chat full of fangirls, and one of them drew this. Bitch, Darling, I’m only sorry for the latter
I swear to god it wasn’t me.
Smiley: AFGDFjnjhB
Get some concealer: ….Ummm…I think you killed him?
Mom of 501: GIVE ME A FUCKING ADRESS!!!!!!!!!!!
Get some concealer has sent their location.
10 minutes later
Mom of 501: good news, he’s alive. Bad news, He is very…not mad, but he might legit print it out just to burn it because he legit refuses to accept that he is absolutely gay no matter what. You can’t change my mind U>U
Aizawa: OH HELL NO. NOPE. NAH-AH. I SET DOWN MY PHONE FOR 15 MINUTES, AND THIS HAPPENS!
Dancing Alien: and I Opps!
Smiley has added Angel <3 to the chat.
Smiley has changed Angel <3’s name to princess.
Princess: Hi!
Smiley: ….Eri, start spamming the pictures…
Princess:
Mom of 501: anyone but them types and I kill you on the spot.
Smiley:
Princess:
Smiley:
Princess:
Smiley:
Smiley: and done.
Get some concealer: Did they both spam pictures of them???
Mom of 501: good job sweetheart.
God: yep, just like I said to. I’m proud.
Smiley: dbsdjnsfknn ma
Mom of 501: Izu.Exe. has stopped working.
1-B: wtf?
Mom of 501: bro, he don’t get told that often.
1-B: but why?????
Mom of 501: probably because he breaks his bones even though HE FUCKING HAS TO IN ORDER TO USE HIS QUIRK YOU IDIOTS! But you never know. NOT HIS FAULT BTW
Aizawa: I feel targeted.
Baku-hoe: you should.
God: What hath thy done to Midoriya?
Smiley: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Mom of 501: Bitch, rock paper scissors, whoever loses calms him done!
Get some concealer: Ok.
Get some concealer: GOD DAMNIT!
Mom of 501: DAMNIT I WANTED TO LOSE SO I COULD GET MY MURDER LIST D:
God: if you get it, send it to me.
Mom of 501: DUH! I need loopholes to kill some bitches.
God: you got it.
Smiley: Okay, I’m back!
Princess: How the heckity heck did he do that?
Mom of 501: that…that was actually genuinely kind of nice Bitch.
Get some concealer: and yet you make it feel like an insult. -_-
1-B: thank god the sane ones didn’t have to leave!
Mom of 501 has sent their location
Smiley has sent their location
Get some concealer has sent their location
1-B: damn, I get the picture!
The misfits that click have left the chat.
God: he gave them a name so if they left the chat at the same time, that would happen. Beautiful.
Izuku looked up and saw Monoma walk through the door slightly uneasy.
“Over here you over-confident monkey!” Mei called out. She had no mercy apparently.
“Yeah, yeah.”
“Hi-ya!” Izuku greeted with a small smile. They hung out for a while before he and Eri left, heading home. His mom started spending more time at work after Eri came. Probably hoping people would realize she wasn’t home and take away one of the few things keeping him sane. Tough luck because he never did part from being Phantom.
Phantom was a vigilante that existed for three years and had started four years ago. He was fed up with being weak, so he decided to be himself through Phantom. His alter-ego had been confident, funny, sassy, sarcastic, swore heavily, was ruthless, and could disappear easily, along with leaving phantom glimpses of himself, or leaving enemies with Phantom pains for their whole lives, sometimes those he fought needed therapy to recover from how terrifying he had been.
The green-haired boy set Eri up in her room with her tablet before getting out his heavy-duty notebook and a pen. He sat at his next and wrote about Friday. He always wrote about the biggest event of that week on the weekend, adding things throughout the week as well if he felt like it. The pages were never big, but they still said enough to get his thoughts through to someone somewhat.
He looked at the page he wrote before adding his name, and his old vigilante one.
(It was a bit finicky, but I think it looks okay. Also, I made a mistake, so I did my best to fix it without rewriting the whole line, but when he says he doesn’t trust enough, it was supposed to be he doesn’t trust her enough. So just read it as he doesn’t trust, like he doesn’t trust people in general, K? I just realized it says ‘ bit of’ instead of ‘but if’ reee!)
He set down his pen and closed his notebook before heading to his closet. He reached into the back and pulled out his famous Phantom knives as people called them.
Red embossed vines decorated the handle, shiny steel blades stained with blood. The blades fit perfectly back into the handle making them easy to carry around. He had two, and a sword version with yellow vines, but these were by far his favorite weapon and what he had been most known for. He balanced them each on his index finger (one knife of each hand) and smiled before putting them back in their box.
He had a surprisingly dreamless sleep that night.