the calm after the storm
Nemurie was so worried she didn’t even remembered anything after she saw the send location. it was in the part of town where mei lived so must have been on the way to her. but he wasn’t at her house so he never came to the house. he was stopped before he could knock. She was just getting more worried since izuku didn’t answer anymore she could only her his faster becoming breathing.
she didn’t even realized emi ran after her out of the cat cafe but she was really glad she followed.
when she finally came to the location where her son was supposed to be she only saw a bridge. But that was in first glance if you looked closer you could see shadows that … moved. And then she heard something that made her heart stopp. Izuku sobbed.
her little pumpkin pie crying his poor heart out as the shadows snapped around him.
then she realised it the shadows seemed to protect him. like he was in a sea of darkness which stormed around him. it almost looked like a …
quirk
but izuku couldn’t have a quirk. a quirk couldn’t just manifest out of nowhere. there were late bloomers but they became their quirks until their 8 birthday. So izuku couldn’t be a late bloomer right.
And then it hit her like a lightning strike. Someone could manifest a quirk in a highly traumatic experience. like near death or torture. What happened?
she heard a gasp behind her and realised emi must have come to the same conclusion as she did. So she decided to act.
without thinking she walked towards izuku speaking soothing words. She had to be there for her kid. but as she walked closer the shadows begann to snap more and more.
She could only see izuku for a second but after that second she was terrified. Izukus hair was completely ink black which faded into a toxic green in the end. and his eyes filled with so much tears. so much tears. His Irises were now the same toxic green his hair was. The white was slowly getting more black. like his eyes where slowly flooded with tar.
"call eraser emi." midnight said in a low voice, trying to stay calm for izukus sake.
"Izuku can you hear me ? I am here now okay?I am not going to hurt you. you can talk to me." She tried to talk to izuku but the only answer she got was a silent whimper. In the background she could hear the worried voices of her best friends.
She tried a different approach "Izuku it’s me mama okay. We celebrated Christmas together and you pranked your sister and gave her a child tea set as present. But that backfired because she loved it. emis here two. I know you and your hellish sister like to tease me about her." she whispered that last part but just kept going " you know shou and zashi they gifted you a cat jumper when you where little so you could nap better. I even took a picture of shouta, momo and you sleeping on the couch while a documentation on support companies was on TV. You remember the picnic we made with the hatsumes and yamazawas where you teased your sister remorseless about having a cruch on mei. Or when we where eating icecreme and you and your sister had a competition on who had the better so at the end momo modified hers so she could beat you. you pouted so long about it." Kayama took a breath and chuckled at all the memories. izuku calmed down a bit but still wouldn’t let her in. so she kept on talking. "you know the day when you became your glasses and were worried that the other kids would make fun of you. so mei and momo build themselfes glasses so you wouldn’t feel alone. Or that one time your sister felt really sick so you made her a tea party with you playing the violin as background music. Or that beach day where i activated my quirk on Toshi so you, mei and momo could bury him in the sand and make a funeral for him."
halfway through her stories Shouta arrived watching as nemuri calmed down her son. when he finally calmed down enough he gave a short and wet chuckel before he fell unconscious on the floor. the shadows and his hair became normal again. all three adults rushed to izuku in an attempt to catch him before he could hit the ground. But when nemurie tried to catch her son he slipped trough her fingers like air. As he layed on the ground she tried again. nothing happened.
She finally let a tear slip down her face as she looked at her unconscious son. tear tracks on his cheeks with puffy,red eyes that looked so wrong on him.
after a moment emi and Shouta appeared behind her. Eraserhead removed izukus newfound quirk and nemuri could finally hug her son as she cried into his shoulder. emi padded her back as shouta spoke soft words to the crying mother.
when she wiped away her remaining tears izuku slowly opened his eyes. "good morning my little sunrise " she spoke with so much love he immediately relaxed in her hold. he whispered a broken but loving "hey ma" as tears welled up in his eyes.