A New Home
There was one week until the sports festival.
And Izuku had no plans to even go on patrol for that week since he was laying low to get a better grip on where everyone looking for him was at in their investigation.
The kids were currently with Ayumi-san after Izuku had drilled into Katsuma's and Mahoro's heads that they had to go under fake names when in public. Mahoro was now Haru and Katsuma was Kuma.
He really tried to give the kids names that resembled their real ones in some way so that they would be more likely to answer and a little less likely to slip up.
Ayumi-san was told that Kuma and Haru were his and Ari's cousins that he was looking after for an undetermined amount of time.
Anyways, the reason she was babysitting was so that Izuku could start making their warehouse more like a home. He also had to get to work on Mahoro's and Katsuma's new identities while erasing all 4 of their footprints.
He would ask Todoroki to help but he didn't really want anyone to know where they lived now. The less people that could spill the location the better.
So he checked his bank account. Checked over the second floor to see what it needed before making a list and dressed up to go out.
He had dubbed his teleporting ability shadow traveling since he had to use shadows to do it anyways. So he shadow traveled to all of the different stores.
Buying paint, some simple cheap furniture, lightbulbs, two mattresses for Katsuma and Mahoro, and then he bought two surprises for the kids.
When he got back to the warehouse he changed into a ratty tank top and some old shorts. He then got to work on the first room, laying down the tarp and taping off everything that didn't need to be painted.
He had found a ladder in a storage closet so he put that aside for when he needed it. Pouring the cool lavender paint into the tray he set to work. He was planning to use his limited art skills to paint a mural for the Katsuma and Mahoro since this was going to be their room.
He wasn't really sure what they did and didn't like yet but he was sure you could never go wrong with simple designs. Like covering a wall in giant lilacs.
He hopes all of the purple wouldn't be overpowering and it would stay peaceful.
It took him 5 hours to finish painting that single room since he had to make sure the flowers looked as good as he could get them and that the paint job was clean and even.
When he was satisfied with the paint job he waited patiently for it to dry.
Once it was finally dry he peeled off all of the masking tape and removed the tarp. Positioning the ladder to let him change the light bulbs he quickly switched out the florescent bulbs with much softer ones that were still bright.
Grabbing the high powered vacuum he had rented from some odd company he worked on the floor. The carpet was awful and rough but they didn't have the money to replace it so it would just have to do.
Once he deemed the carpet clean enough he started decorating. It wasn't much in all honesty but it was giving the kids a clean warm room with beds.
Izuku in all honesty had a distrust in bed frames. It just gave unwanted visitors a dark place to hide. But that wasn't a problem since there was no way he could afford 4 bed frames. He was lucky to have 4 mattresses.
Back to the decorating.
He put the mattresses on opposite sides of the room. He had gotten gray and white sheets for both beds paired with two pillows on each bed.
He then added a mirror to the room and two empty clothing racks. And boom he now had a room prepared for Mahoro and Katsuma.
Moving on to the room next door he prepped it the same way. This would be him and Eri's room. He had asked the girl if she had wanted a different room than him and she had started crying so they were still sharing.
He was going for a light blue this time around and the accent wall was going to be bluebells. Don't ask how why he liked painting flowers so much. It was the only thing he could paint largely and in detail.
This time it only took 4 hours to finish. It was a really good thing the kids were spending the night with Ayumi-san because there was no way he would've been able to clean everything up in time.
He brought in their two mattresses and pushed them together. He could move her's later if she wanted to be on a different bed. He took the time to assemble a desk for himself and the two clothes racks that would hold his and Eri's limited closet.
When he was done setting up Eri's stuffed animals he finally started to clean up everything he had used to paint and build the furniture.
Now it was time to wrestle the bathrooms and the kitchen. Joy.
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Todoroki was only slightly worried since Momiko hadn't answered any texts all day. He had mentioned that he had just recently moved so it probably wasn't anything like he was ignoring him.
God. He really needed to find some other friends if he was going to be like this when Momiko didn't respond.
It had certainly proved to be a busy day at school though. Uraraka was still acting strangely as the sports festival neared, she had this weird dark aura surrounding her.
Speaking of the sports festival he really needed to talk to Momiko about if he should use his father's side. Even if Momiko said he should he would probably just end up not using it again.
Though that would be a whole different story if Momiko and Ari actually came to watch him in person. It was one thing for Todoroki to know that they were watching him from home and for them to be in the stands.
Their thoughts on how he did mattered way more than Endeavors. Natsuo probably wouldn't even say anything to him and Fuyumi would be teaching so she wouldn't be able to watch it. So Momiko and Ari watching meant a lot to him to say the least.
It was close to midnight now and he was still having trouble sleeping. He could see if Momiko was still up. Most likely not since moving was stressful. But he could hope.
Peppermint: Are you still up?
EnergyDrink: Sadly.
Peppermint: ?
EnergyDrink: I've been decorating my new place since like 8:00 this morning.
Peppermint: It's that bad?
EnergyDrink: Don't even get me started.
We don't even have a T.V. now, just a shitton of computers
Peppermint: I could buy you one..
EnergyDrink: Omg Ro. Stop spending your money on me.
Peppermint: But I like spending money on you and Ari.
Energy Drink: sijxshuajsixdns
Stop sounding so sad. God damm Ro.
Peppermint: ):
EnergyDrink: Jfc.
Go to sleep, you have school in the morning and that Aizawa-sensei sounds like he takes no excuse.
Peppermint: I guess you're right.
Good night Miko
EnergyDrink: Night Ro.
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Bakugou had been in a bad mood ever since the USJ. He just couldn't figure out what his ties to that vigilante were. He wouldn't bullied a kid with a teleportation quirk, those were strong and pretty rare.
After a few hours of questioning the Detective and Aizawa were more confused than him.
He had stated his only friend had passed and no detective there was no way he could still be alive. No he did not have a teleportation quirk, he was quirkless.
After Detective Lie detector had determined that he in fact was telling the absolute truth the whole time he was permitted to go home.
How could he be someone's 'precious Katsuki' if he didn't even know them? Or their 'childhood friend turned bully'? Not to mention that weirdo vigilante talked to that mist bitch like he knew him.
At least he had his new annoying ass friends to help him whenever he was too into his own head. Especially since it was nearing the one year anniversary of Izuku's kidnapping and then one year anniversary of his death.
God. That's something he didn't need to think about tonight. It was too late for that, it was almost midnight after all.
Damn. He hopes that he wouldn't be too distracted at the sports festival since it was two days before his disappearance. Maybe he should tell his dumbass friends? They knew something was up and there was no way he would ever take advantage of someone he could call a true friend again.
Yeah. He'll tell them tomorrow, it would be nice for someone in the class to know what was up with him.