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Izuku followed behind Mirio quietly, ever since the other day the blond had been giving him weird looks and Izuku understood why, but he wouldn’t explain further. He knew Mirio idolized the man they were working for and Izuku couldn’t blame him. Night eye was smart, a good hero, and a good trainer, but he had a certain way with words and assuming he knew everything about a person just based on their future and actions.
While Izuku agreed that actions spoke louder than words, he also knew that sometimes words needed to explain those actions.
Night Eye had split them up to do basic patrols, while the police didn’t have enough physical evidence against Chisaki, they had more than enough witness testimonies from Eri and Izuku. It would never make sense to him why they hadn’t just captured the man right away.
“Seraph are you-”
“My my,” Izuku felt his entire body freeze and heat up all at once “I didn’t expect to see heroes around here,” He turned his head slowly to see Chisaki standing at the mouth of an alley, his hands hanging lazily as he tilted his head at Izuku. “What agency are you two with?”
“We’re only students!” Mirio waved his hands a bit, though Izuku could see small traces of power bouncing off the other teen “We’re to low to be associated with any agencies right now.” The winged teen hadn’t thought about Mirio’s feelings, Izuku could shut down, he had been trained too, but Mirio had family that was affected by this man.
“We’re just getting some experience,” Izuku put himself between Chisaki and Mirio, letting his wings flare that small bit “But we need to finish patrolling the area.
“Right! We should be on our way!” Mirio turned away with a hand grasping Izuku’s jacket, silently trying to tug the younger away from the man.
“Of course, have a good patrol Phoenix.” As soon as the word was spoken Mirio turned on his heel, looking ready to try and attack the man.
Izuku grabbed him and pushed him back to the front, continuing to walk like nothing happened.
“Don’t.” Mirio stared at him for a moment before nodding, taking a deep breath before going back to smiling and walking confidently. He noticed the blond pulling out his phone and contacting the other two though.
“We’ll meet up with them on one of the corners.”
“Right.” Izuku felt himself slipping just that little bit, feeling like he was just the robot who watched over two kids and did as told.
“Seraph,” He looked up a little, feeling Mirio’s hand on the back of his neck, gripping it lightly “You with me?”
“I’m here Lemillion,” They made eye contact and held it before Mirio let go “Sorry.”
“No need to apologize! Let’s go tell Sir what happened!”
At least when they met up the hero seemed genuinely sorry that the two had somehow run into the man, but Izuku had the feeling it was planned.
“You’ve been investigating him for a while right?” Izuku wasn’t looking at any of them, his arms crossed and eyes focused on the side walk off to the side.
“We have.”
“He likely knows, he’s smart but he’s getting cocky,” He gripped his arms tighter “He most likely knows I’m interning here as well and if I’m here he assumes Eri is close,” Finally looking to them he sighed “The only reason he never went after her before was because we live at UA, if he’s confident enough to approach us during the day in public, knowing we’re here with you, then it means something.”
“Whatever they’ve been planing could be almost done then.”
“Or close enough that they think they can hold us off long enough to get to Eri and finish it.” Night Eye glared at Izuku a little, though the teen didn’t react.
“We shouldn’t be jumping to conclusions, haste isn’t what we need right now, take your time pursing the target,” The teen nodded once “The strange incident with the car accident and now this could mean anything, do not assume you are correct.” Izuku felt the need to argue, he was the one with the most information whether they liked it or not, but he only nodded again, keeping his mouth shut tightly.
“You two head back to the agency for today, let’s go Bubble Girl.”
“Yes Sir.”
As soon as the two were out of ear shot Mirio took his visor off and grabbed Izuku again.
“Izuku I need to know you’re actually with me, you would never let someone say those things to you!”
“I-I am,” He bit his lip and ran his hand over his scales “Do you...do you know how people always talk about two sides of the same coin?” Mirio frowned a little “All Might had All for One...since I was st-stuck with him for so long I grew scared of All Might once I was out.”
“I see,” The blond sighed a little “Let’s go get changed and then check on the others, maybe that will help!”
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In Izuku’s opinion it didn’t help, it felt like it made it worse because now they were in his sight again, he was the one watching over them while Overhaul Aizawa was away talking to Mirio. He didn’t want the two away either because when they were away it meant bad things were happening and he couldn’t be away from them because what if All for One was doing something to them and-
“Angel?” He looked to his door to see Shinsou, it felt so similar to the other night when the teen had comforted him after his meeting with Night Eye “You doin alright?” He looked down to the two sleeping children wrapped in blankets.
“No.”
“Do you wanna talk about it?”
“...Yes,” Shinsou didn’t need anymore prompting, shutting the door behind him before sitting next to Izuku. The white haired teen hesitated for a moment before leaning against the other “Mirio and I were on a routine patrol while Night Eye and Bubble Girl checked out one of the locations, we ran into Overhaul,” He felt Shinsou lay a hand between his wings, lightly scratching there and making Izuku relax against him “He knows about the investigation...he called me Phoenix even.”
“And you told this all to Night Eye right?”
“I also told him that the mans getting cocky, he’s not trying to hide much...Night Eye told me not to rush in, take my time on the investigation.”
“Full offense to Night Eye, but he wasn’t one of the people kept and experimented on.” Izuku huffed a little and cuddled further into Shinsou’s side.
“Mirio’s angry about some of it, he almost attacked Overhaul before I dragged him out, I think he’s telling dad.”
“He should, I know you want to be involved Angel, but what is this doing to you mentally?”
“I don’t...I don’t know,” He looked down at his scarred hands “I can’t tell if it’s because of Overhaul or Night Eye at this point, seeing and hearing Overhaul made me scared but I still wanted to protect Mirio...Night Eye...is complicated.”
“Are you scared of him?”
“No, at least I don’t think so,” If he wasn’t scared then why and how did Night Eye make him feel that way? “I don’t know but I’m not scared of Night Eye specifically.”
“But it could be something else to do with him?” Izuku only shrugged “Fair enough,” The teen huffed “...Wanna hear about Todoroki and Bakugou getting their ass beat?”