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Izuku sat in the bed wide awake and looked out the window, he could see the others laying around him but he couldn’t feel them. Recovery Girl had mentioned that his senses would be dulled for a while due to the stress his body endured, but he didn’t think it was that. He could still hear their heartbeats clear as day and he could see the birds a mile away.
He felt disconnected from everything, like he wasn’t really there. He thinks he heard Hound Dog mention something similar before, but he couldn’t remember what it was called.
“Izuku?” He jumped a little at the voice and turned, seeing Shinsou stand by the door with a small frown. He looked to the others around and slowly crawled out of the bed and padded his way into the hallway with Shinsou closing the door.
‘Is everything alright?’ Izuku signed, Shinsou looked at him a little shocked.
“I should be asking you that, you just..went back there, and now you’re back with another forced quirk,” Izuku rubbed at the scales on his neck a little nervously “Not that having a new one is bad! Unless it is? I have no idea what I'm supposed to do in this situation honestly...just...do you wanna talk about it?” Izuku let out a small laugh.
‘I think you’re doing ok,’ Izuku looked to the door, everyone was still asleep from what he could tell ‘Let’s talk somewhere else.’
“How about that cat cafe, the one where we ya know, actually met.” Izuku smiled a little and nodded as the two left the school, making sure to let Nedzu and Recovery Girl know that they were leaving the school.
The walk to the cafe was silent, they paid for a three hour visit at the cafe and had gotten coffee and hot cocoa.
“Always the cat magnet.” Shinsou joked as another cat laid down on Izuku’s lap. He had at least two on each leg, one laying across his shoulders and a kitten in his hair.
“They like the heat.” Izuku whispered, his throat still bruised from the incident. Shinsou nodded a little as he took the kitten off of Izuku’s head and looked at it, it was missing an eye.
“Poor thing, wonder what happened,” Izuku took the kitten back and held it close to it’s chest. “Think your dad will let you adopt em?” Shinsou asked as the kitten cuddled closer to Izuku.
“What do you mean?” Shinsou stared at him for a second before face palming.
“Sorry, figured you knew, cat cafes usually bring in rescues to be adopted, figured we could ask Aizawa Sensei if we could adopt the kitten, then you could have a little friend.” Izuku looked at the kitten and smiled. It was a small Maine coon with black and white fur, obviously larger than a normal kitten but still small.
“I don’t think he’ll mind.” He let the cat continue to rest against his chest as they dipped into another silence.
“Do...do you wanna talk about it?” Izuku looked up to Shinsou who looked awkward but worried “We..when we were there we could hear you yelling, it felt awful just hearing it, but it was happening to you.” Izuku looked at the cat on his chest before scooting over to Shinsou.
“I just wanna rest for a while.” He leaned against Shinsou who moved so that Izuku could lay against his chest. Letting the cats lay on and around them.
“I can help with that.” Izuku laughed a little as he cuddled the Maine coon closer.
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Tenko woke up around noon a little confused, he had expected Izuku to still be there after the day he had but only Aizawa and Himiko were still there.
“Tenten!” Himiko tackled him into a hug with a smile.
“Good to see you’re awake,” Tenko looked to Aizawa and nodded “The detective is on campus right now, we know you want someone else here with Tyou, if you want to wait for Izuku or Touya then-” Tenko shook his head.
“No, I don’t really want them hearing about it,” He looked at Himiko hesitantly “Would you stay?” She nodded happily and didn’t release the hug.
“Always!” He smiled and hugged her back.
“I’m ready.”Aizawa nodded and left the room, letting Tenko wake up more and for Himiko to calm him down at least a little.
“Why didn’t you want Izu or Tou?” Himiko asked curiously, she loved hanging out with Tenko, but the other three were a lot closer.
“I didn’t want them hearing what they couldn’t protect me from,” He looked down sadly as he spoke “When we were there I should have been protecting Izuku, he was so young and scared and I did nothing! All I did was cry with him until he finally stopped, forcing him and Touya to protect me while they were always hurt.” Himiko frowned a little and wrapped him in a hug.
“I doubt they see it that way, Tenten, but I’m here for you.” He smiled at her before nodding his head, maybe now he could repay them for everything they did.
“Are you ready to talk Tenko? Remember, take your time, we can always take breaks.” The Detective reminded him as they sat in the chairs.
“I’m ready..just promise that Touya and Izu never hear about all this ok? I don’t want them protecting me anymore.” The Detective nodded while Aizawa watched him curiously.
“Of course, first question, how long were you there?”
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Shouto and Touya walked around the courtyard in silence, Touya could tell that Shouto had a hundred and one questions but wasn’t sure how to ask him.
“Ya know, usually when people have questions they speak up,” Shouto blushed a little and nudged Touya in the side. “It’s fine if you ask some weird questions, I’ll answer them.”
“Why did you leave?” He of course knew that was going to be the first question, he knew leaving had hurt his brother more than it was meant to when they planned it out.
“We knew Tenko was breaking out of mind control, but it was hard to try and help him from the outside. We also knew they were planning something for you guys, if they had people on the inside they could prepare for it and help with little collateral damage.”
“But why didn’t you just tell us?” Touya sighed, he wanted to punch the principal in that moment, he swore the little rat liked all the drama.
“Nedzu thought it could ruin it if you knew, you might accidentally blow our cover or something, I don’t know,” He turned to Shouto and grabbed him by thee shoulders “I didn’t want to leave you, you, mom, Natsuo, Fuyumi, you all are my life line, I wanted to tell you so bad, to assure you that nothing was actually wrong, that we were safe...but I couldn’t.” Shouto stared at him in shock before dragging him into a hug.
“I’m so glad you’re back.” Touya smiled and hugged him back.
“Missed you too brat.”
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“We never actually asked if we could adopt him did we?” Shinsou asked as they walked back into the school, all they had done was tell Nedzu who supplied the funds.
“Nope,” He held the kitten up by its armpits and showed Shinsou “Now we’re cat parents though.” Shinsou smiled and patted the cats head.
“What are we naming her anyway?” Izuku looked at the cat before putting it back on his shoulders.
“How about Yin? Like the black side of a yin yang.”
“Sounds good, sure the others will love her.” They made it to the nurses office and could hear quiet crying, looking in Izuku could see Aizawa, Himiko, and Tenko on the bed.
He slowly opened the door, getting their attention. Tenko looked up from Aizawa’s chest in confusion as Izuku walked over and showed him the cat.
“We’re parents now.” It was silent for a moment.
“What?” At that Himiko and Shinsou broke down laughing while Tenko looked utterly confused.
“This is Yin, me and Hitoshi adopted her.” Tenko stared for a second before slowly picking up the cat, he was glad the school gave him gloves that canceled out his quirk.
“Please tell me Nedzu let you?” Aizawa sighed out as he rubbed his forehead.
“Yep, he gave us the money for her.” Aizawa just nodded, too tired and stressed to deal with it.
“Is that a kitty?!” Eri yelled as she and Kouta ran into the room, getting on Himiko and Tenko’s lap to look at the kitty.
“We leave for ten minutes and now you have a cat.” Shouto seemed just as interested and joined the others on the bed to play with the cat.
“Yeah, we actually have a mortgage too, we figured it was time to grow up.” Touya rolled his eyes as Shinsou talked, though Izuku only smiled.
He was glad to have most of his family here with him at least.