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Aizawa’s POV:
Shota had never considered himself father material. Then again, he never considered himself husband material, yet here he is three years into his marriage to none other than his best friend, Hizashi Yamada. Who was really the one to blame for all of this. Shota had never thought of having children before marrying Hizashi. In fact he hadn’t even thought of it after marrying him. No, he only started thinking about it two years ago when Hizashi brought it.
“Hey Sho?” Hizashi asked from where he was perched on the counter next to Shota as said man cooked dinner.
“What do you want?” came the blunt response.
“Why do you assume I want something?” Hizashi asked perplexed.
“Because you only say ‘Hey Sho’ in that tone of voice when you’re about to ask me for something so go ahead and get it over with.”
“I want to have a baby,” now it was his turn to be perplexed. He turned to look at his husband of nearly a year and a half bewildered.
“Hizashi, I hate to break it to you, but we’re both men. We CAN’T have a baby.”
“Well, we could always use a surrogate, but I was thinking something more along the lines of adoption,” was Hizashi’s sheepish reply.
“You want to adopt a baby?”
“Yeah, well, it doesn’t have to be a baby. We could always adopt an older kid since it’s kinda difficult to adopt a baby-baby, but yeah I want to adopt a baby.”
“Hizashi, we aren’t talking a pet fish here. A child is a living, breathing PERSON. They need a ton of care and there’s so much that goes into raising them. That’s an entire live time of devotion. I don’t think we’re ready for that kind of commitment, yet.”
“I know, I know. It’s just … I really want to be a parent, Sho, I really, really do.” Hizashi practically begged. Shota stared at his husband for a long time seeing complete sincerity in his eyes he relented.
“Okay, we can start looking into it, BUT” he interrupted as Hizashi’s face started to brighten,” we need to be sure we’re ready for this before we make ANY decisions.”
“How do we do that?” Hizashi asked a little skeptical. Shota grinned wickedly.
“Well, we’ve always talk about getting a cat, fostering kittens seems like the perfect way to learn how to take care of other living creatures, don’t you think?”
In all honesty Shota was just hoping that by putting off looking into adoption and occupying Hizashi with adorable and needy kittens that he would eventually forget about wanting a kid. Instead, it seemed to have the opposite effect. Now their small family had grown by two. Mochi and Hero, their two foster turned adopted cats. Even with their new “children”, Hizashi was still dead set on having a human child even going as far as basing all their major decisions off of their future child.
This included when they moved apartments. The landlord of their old place was kind enough to allow them to foster kittens; however he drew the line at them keeping any. Grown cats were a liability apparently. So, as they started getting attached to some of their foster kittens and Mic’s radio station started taking off they made the decision to move. When looking at apartments Hizashi would always make sure there was plenty of room for children. Eventually Shota did talk him into a modest two bedroom apart with an office for his radio show under the argument that if they choose to have more than one kid they could always move again.
In addition to basing their living arrangements off a none existent brat, Mic had also began pouring over every available resource on adopting and parenting he could find, including looking at orphanage websites listing children available for adoption, which unfortunately meant that Shota had to read them as well. Even more unfortunately, all of this, the fostering and adopting kittens, home hunting, and scowering orphanage websites, had an unintended consequence. Shota was now looking forward to being parents with Hizashi. Well, maybe Hizashi did intend it, but still. And Shota would deny it with his dying breath, but teaching may or may not have had an impact on Shota’s desire to adopt a brat.
So, with Shota relenting, the couple began an actual effort to adopt. This included going to various orphanages to meet with children. It became clear from the start that neither of them despite Hizashi’s wishes, were cut out for babies. Both of them panicked and didn’t know what to do when holding one and everything went to hell the moment one started to cry. Needless to say they crossed babies off their list. They then looked into older children toddlers to about middle school age. Middle schoolers are even bigger brats then high schoolers, that’s all Shota had to say on the matter. They were a little more successful with the toddlers. However, they never really made a connection with any of the children they interacted with. Nothing jumped out and screamed at them “This is your child.” They just never felt it. This is what led to Hizashi suggesting they go to Entai: Home for Unadoptable Children. The name gave the place a bad rap. In fact, with a little research they found what made the children at Entai unadoptable wasn’t their behaviors or anything it was simply that they were all high school age. Too old to be consider children by most of society (not them, they knew better after years of teaching high school) but too young to be considered adults. So they simple went to live at Entai until they aged out of the system. When the reception lady tried to redirect Hizashi to a different orphanage when he tried to make an appointment it only filled his determination.
So, Shota could say with complete confidence that this was all Hizashi’s fault. Unlike other orphanages, Entai didn’t just show them to the children and allow them to socialize with whatever potential candidate drew their attention. Instead they took them to a separate room that disturbingly reminded them of an interrogation room and gave them a book of all the teens housed there which included each kids picture, some descriptions of them from the staff, and a personal letter from each kid about themselves. Which is what lead them to right now sitting, dumfounded, staring almost blankly at a particular page in that book. The title said #9-26-21-11-21 and under the information section, right next to a photo of their student was the name:
Izuku Midoriya.