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Looking up, then up, then up again, Izuku edged his elbow back and activated the emergency feature to the newly built equipment he was trialing.
If he’d been facing an Alpha he’d not have bothered, an Omega he’d not have needed too, both of them a pup his age could almost certainly talk his way out of trouble.
But he was facing a Beta!
Not just a beta but a beta hero.
And not just any hero, but a beta hero going by the name of Eraserhead.
Who was now sniffing the briny scent wafting on the air and Izuku pressed harder against the hidden trigger, pouring the invisible mist into that same air as he blessed the windless night that yes, he was breaking curfew in the worst way by being out in but now it was going to save him because -
The hero raised his goggles and said, “Here's how this is going to go.”
Knowing those words were a prelude to the paddling any pup his age was solidly due in this situation, Izuku raised his chin, said as truthfully as he could project, "I am so terribly sorry!” knowing the hero would expect him to be trying to talk himself out of trouble rather than what he was actually about to do…. and flexed his right ankle with a sharp flick, making the world explode around him!
*
Running like hell as his emergency light-dump flared, shifted, twisted, and soundlessly roared behind him, he panted and damned near squealed as he hit ground, rolling back to his feet when he stumbled and went down and scrambled up again, pelting for home, knowing at least one hero was gonna have the grudge from hell against him.
A beta grudge, holy fuck, he was doomed!
*
It was a faint shine of eyes that caught his attention, and a sharp difficulty in tracking the almost invisible figure down after a pretty solid search that kept his attention but now, looking down at a tiny kitten, clearly omega just from size alone, Shouta knew all the protocols for this situation.
Zashi facing the pup would have just gone “Awwww come here sweetheart, oh gosh, it is late late late let's get you home but first, have you eaten?”
Because despite being taller than Shouta himself, Hizashi was all omega!
And Oboro and Nemuri both would have been all alpha stern and frowny and the kid’d turn the waterworks on - clear as day the kid was assessing the situation, and would use anything to get out of it if he could - and they too would cave to big eyes and a trembling lip and heartfelt apologies.
Because of course they’d be heart felt, because no kid wanted a butt-felt spanking, which this pup was on a one way ticket to receiving, right to the destination of REGRETSville!
Hiding his sigh because he wanted to just give the pup a pass too but couldn't dare, they were breaking so many rules and were in so much danger, so he said his opening piece and the kid had honesty dripping from every syllable when they said sorry, despite no scent at all other than a weird briny one now filling the air and then
The world exploded!
LIGHT
Worse than any flash bang he'd ever encountered yet utterly silent, and it kept going, even with his hands clamped to his streaming screaming eyes Shouta could see it, damned near feel it, cold briny sea smelling supernova.
Cradling his face in the crook of his arm Shouta tapped out his emergency, agony ballooning in his entire head, and thought ‘That fucking light dumping little shit, I’ll teach him to bioluminesce at me!’
*
It was too much, way too much, his stupid panic had made him dump his entire container, the binding agent letting it go out as invisible streamers and ribbons, each one snagging and catching on his clothes and anything around him, special polymers in those not letting it stick, only catch, spinning out as a vast web with him the center of it and bam!
He was free.
In his room now, pacing, because that hero used his eyes, dark adapted, they were a good hero, Izuku’s favorite even, and he’d hit him with a stadium's worth of light in a tiny little supernova right into the uncovered unprotected eyes of a dark adapted Beta.
He’d hurt him.
Crawling under his bed Izuku began to cry, because he’d hurt his hero!
*
Eyes bandaged despite healing from Chiyo, Shouta endured the lecture he’d rightly earned for lifting his goggles in any setting he wasn't totally in control of, and nodded, because only the pain he’d suffered from his mistake got him out of anything worse than a lecture.
Worse though were all the questions Uncle Higari kept pelting in to ask him, and then running out again when Shouta didn't know the answers!
Vowing to spread the misery, he had to wait four days to return to the roof, upon which he found absolutely nothing, not even a hint of scent with which to start tracking his little menace!
*
‘Blind my Shouta will you?’
‘Let's be having at you then!’
Savage rumbling snarls falling unheeded from between grinding teeth, Nezu hunted!
*
Being spun and slammed into a wall, Izuku bit hard and fast and deep and Bakugou squealed and flinched back and yelled “HOLY FUCKING HELL YOU SHIT!!!”
Detention for both of them, and a lecture on NOT BITING for Izuku, and NOT GRABBING OMEGA’S for Bakugou, and both of them spent almost the entire hour glaring at the other, until Katsuki crossed his eyes at Izuku who gave a smothered choked off snort giggle and they both were off into wild gales of laughter, earning three more days detention!
*
Wandering homewards Kats leaned over and sniffed, “Someone forgot his extra strength invented by his genius self scent blockers today, so whacha guilty for Izuuuuuuuuku?”
Eyes blowing wide at the surge of SHAME/REGRET REMORSE/needNeedNEED Kats demanded, “Holy fuck, what did you do!”
*
Sitting in a park much later as his friend finally stopped crying, Kats said with numb lips, “You attacked a BETA hero?”
Of course that set off the waterworks again but damn, if Izuku’d set out to fuck up, he couldn't have done it worse.
Because omega’s and guilt were a bad combo, and his Izubug was nuts at the best of times!
*
Guilt got shoved into a box as Izuku worked, because working let Izuku ignore it utterly, only being dragged out of his den for school, and even then it was as much his own need to get good grades as it was his mother getting a break from the sounds of his working.
*
Having shoved her little one out the door, now staring at his room in baffled despair, where had her little changeling even come from? No one on her side of the family was like this, or on her once mate’s side either!
Work tables laden to groaning with inventions, three tailor’s dummies wearing things she had no name for, a bubbling tank of what looked like slime that smelled like nothing on earth, and glowed like a container of sunlight, several things clearly weapons despite the utter ban on any weapons creation at all so that was a discussion to be had soon enough, again - her baby was so restless, and it scared her!
Because he was quirkless, and had to be protected, but maybe once he got into her office as an intern in a year, then the numbers would take hold of him the way they'd done for her and he'd start settling down - looking at all the unfinished things in the room she shook her head in disapproval - and she knew as soon as Katsuki was old enough and they bonded then her Izuku would settle right down.
Pups, that was what her own pup needed, and she'd made sure he'd be able to bear more than her sad little lonely only, she'd have loads of gran pups to raise and love and her mates-to-be assured her the risk of them being quirkless was so small as to not even worry them. So soon, all really would be well and her little Izuku would be happy, just the way she was.
Sighing in joy at the vision in her head she headed to work, the Kenmire audit was proving to be a solid pest but she’d find that fucking missing amount, and then bat the entire company to death with it!
Snarling softly as she headed into battle, she understood numbers, and all Izuku had to do was give them a chance and they'd keep him happy too, she was sure of it.
*
Three weeks after he'd light-attacked his favorite hero (he was having nightmares now about it cause he was so bad) three weeks of solid relentless work, Izuku held a beauty of a gizmo, one he was rightly proud of.
Compressed into a capsule the size of his palm was enough of his bio light bomb liquid to equal the most common flash bang, but silent, and it lasted at full brightness for five minutes.
Activated with a sharp spike in gravity, such as hitting the ground at high speed, he knew Eraserheads goggles would easily compensate for the flash, as long as he kept them on that was, and he worked in the dark all the time so it was the perfect weapon to add to the ones the Beta carried already.
Looking at his letter of apology he set out to copy it as neatly as possible, then sprayed everything down with his scent neutralizer, over the counter as a base yet ultra powerfully condensed with a few tweaks of his own, and wrapped it all up neatly.
The next step was the tricky one, so he headed out to drop it at Put Your Hands UP radio station, aiming to hit the doors at the regularly scheduled tour times.
Three times a day anyone who wanted to join could take the tour, and Izuku was a regular, so it was easy to smile and bounce in excitement - totally real cause he’d seen Mirko in the distance on his way in - and then leave his parcel in the toilets, tucked down behind the supplies in the closet, so it would only be found when the toilet rolls needed refilling.
No cameras, no one to see, yet the clear tag For Eraserhead - Care Of Present Mic would get it to the goal.
Now, job done, apology sent, maybe the fucking guilt would just go away!
*
All of them looked at the note, heavily underlined as it was, and the gift.
Dear Eraserhead,
I am so terribly sorry, I didn't mean to go so heavy on my dump, and hurt you instead of just escaping.
As I can’t take it back instead I give to you a light dump of your own, your goggles should easily handle the lumens yet anyone without them will be rendered temporarily blind instantly.
Again I am so terribly sorry, and will never do it again!!!
No name, no scent, and Higari snapped it up and damned near ran away with it, despite no one even thinking of stopping him with his new toy, leaving Hizashi to say it for all of them. “Little listener feeling guilty huh? Good!”
Agreeing, Shouta growled, “Maybe it'll get his ass in here sooner than the entrance exam!”
Cause while the pup had been omega tiny, they’d been older than his first guess of eight or nine, so maybe they might be near the right age, and Shouta had a duty of care to deliver, despite the gift!
And of all pups, omega’s were the most prone to simply handing themselves over for discipline when they knew they’d earned it, and this was a clear attempt to get their guilt to go away.
‘Yeah,’ Shouta thought as he looked again at the letter, ‘good luck with that pup!’
*
Fully kitted out, Kote and Suneate feeling very odd against his forearms and shins yet secure, he was powered up and ready, because he was going to be a well rounded stealth hero, and to do that he needed to be fast, cunning, stealthy, mobile and agile and skilled and this was the mobility bit.
Looking over at a table covered in glass circles, he grinned at some of the stealth bits that were almost done, and threw a raincoat over his new look.
Bulky yet comfortable-ish, he’d need to adapt some extra padding or something cause he sat in increasing discomfort waiting for full dark and had to stretch himself limber to wake his legs back up before heading to the area he’d chosen.
A corner of his ancient city, bordered by canal, river, train tracks, consisting of huge decaying buildings that once were warehouses and now were his usual testing grounds.
Looking up at his chosen spot he activated the final bit of rescue equipment, a forced air safety net, and activated it.
He’d had to save for years to afford one of the awesome bits of kit but as he powered up his shin and forearm braces, he didn't want to die in this test!
Placing the outside edge of his right Kote against the cement wall he felt it catch and let his mind fully engage in the test, because as he soundlessly crawled up the wall each of his guards bonded at the molecular level to grip, hold, and a flexing of wrist letting them go again, it looked awkward, was awkward, and uncomfie in the extreme yet in only minutes he was looking into the interior of the building through ancient glass windows far up the wall, and he turned his left arm loose, his three remaining limbs holding him painfully in place, and let a gloved finger trace a circle on the glass, leaving a line of let-it-go juice behind, and caught the circle that fell free, to tuck away.
He’d been practicing this maneuver for months so the microphone was in place and he was climbing down again, finally rolling free and laying trembling on the ground, soaked in sweat, and crying as he laughed in triumph.
Quirkless, support items only, he’d just climbed three stories of blank wall, gotten mock surveillance equipment into place and then extracted himself from the area.
Just like a stealth hero should.
He was trying to make the glass liquefier work on a smaller area, but it only worked for a circle the size of his hand spread or larger, and only as a circuit, rather than a blob, which was contrary to all his research to date and was making him crazy!
But as long as it did work then he’d be able to work with the limitations, while trying to make it work the way it should..
Power Loader said tech took time, creativity, flexibility, and determination.
All of which a quirkless omega needed to have to make it into the hero course!
*
Wanting to ask Izuku how he was doing on his UA plan was like an actual pain in Katsuki’s guts but they’d made a pact years ago, don't ask, don't tell.
Because his folks would ask him and he’d have to answer, and no one wanted Izuku to be a hero.
Which was stupid as fuck but just last night his dam’d started again, “Soooo, how’s little Izu-chan? Not still wanting to be a hero, is he?”
Air sweet with combined parental scents of calm/obey Kats growled a forced, "Yes, he does still want to be a hero.”
“Tone pup.” And that was his sire, so Kats whined an apology but fucks sake what was it to them if his friend wanted to be a hero!
And then his dam again, “Well, I’ll see what Inko says tomorrow at coffee. I'd have thought she’d have gotten him over that pointlessness years ago but I guess with entrance exams coming up it’s no wonder he’s being foolish again.”
Forcing the words through the haze of command fragrances Kats managed to ask, “Why?”
“Why what pup?”
“Why is it foolish? He’s so smart, and he wants to be in support,” - true but not all of the truth - “so why try and block him getting into UA at all, he’ll be - ” “He will be just fine in the office with Inko, he is good with numbers and as a quirkless omega he doesn't need to be part of any of the hero industry!”
The words snapped out, hard and sharp and Kats whined again, because here it came - “NO omega of ours is going to push themselves into vulgar sight like that, and as soon as he’s old enough you’ll mate with him and he’ll be part of our pack, and Inko will too.”
“You know it's the price of her joining us, her son being your mate, we decided that when you two were born pup, this is the way it is and that's final!”
Final, yet he didn't want to mate Izuku, Kats didn't want to mate anyone, he wanted to be a hero and get free of his parentals forever, and to get Izuku free too!
Inko was okay really, a bit wet and spineless but other than that she wasn’t bad, but his sire and dam were nightmares.
*
His liquid glass gear worked, even if not the way he wanted, and perhaps if he just got a bit of super bond he could glue the circle of glass back into place once he got the camera set up? It wouldn’t fill the hole properly but it might prevent drafts from the missing piece and hmmmm….
His climb-any-surface gear worked, he’d now used it on metal - not great but he didn't fall - brick, cement, wood - he almost got stuck on wood, had to wind the power back so much he actually fell - and now could dial the power up or down with his gloves to tailor his movements to the underlying materials he was moving across.
His light dump defence worked amazingly well, the tiny bombs even better than his suit based dump, and he was now working on a flare for calling for help in emergencies or just because it would be pretty, like the aurora and maybe he could come up with a way to make it different colors even cause that would be super cool hmmmmmm…...
His self defence was coming along well, even if he had to use his tech skills to observe the class and self study, because his mama was dead set against his getting anything like hero training, despite its being something all omegas were recommended to get, self defence was important!
But on that front he was going to be close to average or even slightly under it when taking the entrance exam which was a right pest!
Free running was going good, that at least he could disguise as Having Fun With Others, all capital letters fully intended.
Escrima use still needed work, but he was getting there, knives and darts he was pretty good with cause of practicing in the woods, throwing rocks helped his targeting skills too, and he was aiming at trying out for the hero course and support, he didn't have to be a hero, just show his potential!
It was what he told himself over and over again, yet if he had potential he would have just taken his spanking like a good pup and not hurt his hero but -
His mother and her suitors would have found out.
Could he do one without that second one happening? Because he was going insane with it hanging over his head, the sorry gift didn't work, he felt worse than ever now.
“You smell like shit!”
A frantic sniffing of himself later and he was off in pursuit of Hitoshi, feckless git, scaring him like that, cause Izuku was obsessive to scent damp himself, and now Kats was coming whoopping up the rear and the three of them were flying the course, the way they wanted to fly the run up to exams together and no one would let them!
Cause Hitoshi’s pack disapproved of his hanging with anyone not vetted by them - rich packs just be like that, he’d said - and Kats’ parentals didn't want him getting attached to anyone THEY didn't approve of which was anyone not Izuku, and Izuku’s mama didn't want her fragile baby playing with the big rough pups anywhere at all where she couldn't watch and be sure he was safe.
It was why she let him “play” with his hobbies in his room, and let him buy so much stuff most kids couldn't have, even if he did hack a bit so she didn't spot the dangerous stuff.
No pets, no friends allowed, so she had to give him something, and his hobbies were it, the bribe to stay her good little puppy.
“So you ready?”
“Almost.” - “Yes he is!”
The answers overlapped and Hitoshi laughed, “Right, so, Kats says you are, even if no one knows how or what you’re doing, and you say almost so you are and are just going over and over and over your strategy now so I have another question for you, battle broccoli….”
Wary now as a wary thing cause Hitoshi missed nothing, Izuku braced for the question, Hitoshi laughed and asked, “What did you do? Cause even scent blocked you look guilty as shit!”
It took the two of them working on him, but with Hitoshi as an omega - and didn't his pack give him some shit for wanting to be a hero rather than just giving them grand pups as soon as he was of legal age to reproduce - and alpha Kats growling and snapping, Izuku gave in and a bit at a time he told them all of it, all his sneaking and hiding and running the night and his equipment and all of it because it was so close now, the exams right around the corner and it was worth the risk cause he had to get some of it off his chest before it ate him alive!
The consensus was “Holy SHIT you did WHAT!?!”
*
So close now to the entrance exam, ages after sending the sorry-I-did-it gift, Izuku woke in the night, sick to his bones of feeling like he was…..
Guilty and ashamed and afraid and bad.
Izuku knew what it was called - Primary sexual designation reward and punishment syndrome - omega pup version.
And how it worked - It was where the guilt of having done so many bad bad things - like being out after dark without permission and against all the rules, testing tech in dangerous places alone, being caught and then fucking blinding a beta hero - builds up until the stress of it has the pup seeking out punishment for the situation or past actions making them guilty in the first place.
He was already dealing with it with his mama, because he lied and lied and lied to her relentlessly, but if he didn't lie she’d lock him up and he’d never get free, never mind grow up into a hero.
And he lied and lied and lied to his best friend's pack too, because same deal.
So that was an underlying grinding shame that he thought he had a lid on until he pulled that epic shit with the glow bomb and now, heaving his guts up for the third night in a row, he was as quiet as possible because no matter how sick it made him, confession to mama meant the death of all hope.
But, maybe, if he just held on he’d get into UA and then confess, and they’d protect him from her while dealing with how he'd behaved and what he'd done.
Omega rights would protect him in many circumstances but a beta parental over rode loads of those same rights, especially at Izuku’s age.
Crawling back into bed he clutched his stomach and whimpered, shame and guilt clawing at his mind.
*
“Any luck?”
Taking his life in both hands Shouta interrupted Nezu and braced, cause his sire had been snappish indeed lately, and if it was the reason Shouta suspected then - “NO! No luck at all, Shouta!”
“Ah, right,” Hands behind his back for his communication bracelet he pressed a code and said, “Well…..”
“No it isn't! Not well at all, how can an omega pup hide like this!”
Spotting Ryou easing towards them Shouta made placating gestures and noises as he retreated, knowing his primary pack sire was going to deal with this and he wanted to be well out of the way!
Because when Nezu got caught up in shit like this it was all bets off and yep, diving to the side as Nezu lept to escape Ryou's lunge to catch, the chase was brief yet used walls, window ledges, roof tile hangers and Shouta himself as it spun to a finish with Nezu clamped in strong arms and grinding his teeth into Ryou’s jacket sleeve as Sire carried him away.
Letting his breath out in a whoooosh Hizashi peered around the corner and said, "THAT, is gonna be one epic spanking!”
“Yeah, let’s both of us get out of here so we don't get any part of it!”
Together, in utter accord, they bolted!
*
It was getting worse, he was throwing up several times a day, and he was out every night now trying to work through it, and polish away any bugs in his gear, because it had to be perfect.
But now he was just walking, because Kats had a sniffle that he thought might turn into a cold and with the exams only days away he was tucked into bed with every medication available trying to stave it off, Hitoshi was somewhere not being let out by his pack, and the guilt was going to eat him alive if he held still so in self defense, he kept moving!
Walking as blink by blink it got darker, streets emptier, quieter as his feet pad pad padded along the path with sickness surging up and down in waves.
And then, like a sudden burst of clarity, he knew where Eraserhead spent his days, times, hours and a simple check of his phone and he knew exactly where the hero would be.
He could find him.
Could just go and get it over with and be okay again!
Totally forgetting it wasn't day, that it was instead deepest blackest night, Izuku gave a resounding chirp of utter relief at finally knowing what to do and began to run.
*
With every iota of information available - a single snippet of footage of a pup disguised totally, Shouta’s impressions of them, and a single letter - Nezu’d failed to find them.
And gotten his tail end properly roasted for letting it ride him the way it had, letting himself snap and snarl at the ones he loved just through being upset.
Wincing at the memory of his mates strong solid dependable levels of care blazing across his ass Nezu snapped his head up to an alert, a simple program to spot anyone matching the incredibly limited descriptions of the pup they had being out at night and lunged for the computer!
Easily finding the running figure he hissed, why was a pup out at three in the morning running, and what were they running from?
Calling Shouta onto an intercept he watched how the pup moved, saw the skills, and the still pupish mistakes as they lept up and across and over anything that got in their way, and sighed in relief when Shouta managed to catch them.
As nothing was chasing then it was probably guilty puppy syndrome, but how bad was it to force a pup out into the darkness to hunt down a complete stranger just to punish them?
Still with no ID on the pup, he settled in to watch on cams, to watch and listen on Shouta’s gear, and called Ryou in, because they might need him on this.
Even grumpy-sleepy, their big dog was a good idea!
And the question of why no pup was being reported missing at this time of night was also a worry, one to be delt with soon.
*
Running was dream like, easy at first but it was going more nightmare than dream now, he was panting and sweaty and his feet hurt and his hands too and his muscles were burning but he couldn't stop and then
SOMEONE GRABBED HIM!!!
Screaming a high shrill help-me cry, his nose flooded with BETA and he sobbed in relief as he relaxed, even with their hand not able to catch his scruff point because of his armouring, especially made just to protect that spot, simply the smell alone was enough, because it was Eraserhead!
Going utterly limp, the only thing in his head was it was going to be awful but then it’d be over!!!
*
Getting word the pup was out again Shouta’s first reaction was a thought, ‘I’ll teach you to risk yourself like this pup!’
But his second was ‘Is the pup alright, what the hell is wrong?’
Then, already running flat out to intercept him, he remembered guilt, and omega’s, and how dangerous that could be and how long the pup had been stewing in the very emotion that was so bad for them.
And when the pup went limp in his arms, burning with fever and stinking of vomit and misery, things were clearly worse than expected!
*
Beta was carrying him, even with all his gear and things in the way it was like being held in comfort.
Kats gave him hugs, Hitoshi too, only if no one could see or catch them but it was great when it happened, but mama didn't, said he was too old for that kind of thing now, but surely if he was then he was old enough to make his mind up about his own future, not rely on her?
Wondering muzzily if Beta might answer the question he tried to ask, but then remembered, he was gonna get spanked, cause he‘d been so bad.
The wash of calming scents that met his sudden rise in misery had him chirping dozily in contentment, no matter what was coming, cause beta had him!
*
The pup was limp in submission, rousing now and again with a tide of shame/regret need/reluctance that Shouta met with his own calming nature but
The pup stank of need!
Not need for a spanking, even though that was there, but he -
It was subtle, but Shouta had a very good nose, and the kid was masked but the run had soaked most of whatever the pup was using off, leaving him near naked and the smell of hungry puppy was strong.
Not hunger for food, but it smelt of hunger, not need for material things, but for care.
An Omega puppy simply needing a spanking for being naughty would not smell like this, he’d smell of guilt and reluctance and acceptance, not this complicated tangle and Shouta was glad indeed to see the gates of UA, passing them easily to head for the side entrance, nearer to home.
Because home had Nezu, Ryou, and Chiyo, all of whom had taken him at this age and sorted him right out, so he was hoping they could help him with this one, cause the smell of the pup was breaking Shouta’s heart!
*
“I don’t want to.”
Holding his arms around himself Shouta watched the tiny omega on the bed, fourteen and still so tiny, omega’s got late growth spurts, it would be a full year at least before he started growing out of his puppy and into his more mature self.
“Good, because that proves you’re caring nature, yet - ”
Rolling his head back and around and down again, they watched Shouta finally scrub his face and mumble through his fingers, "Gotta be me, I know.”
This is why he worked with older teens, and was a hero in the night, to avoid even meeting pups!
Yes, when he caught the naughty little thing he’d have spanked him rosy, but….
“I have never seen naughty puppy syndrome so badly advanced, and we believe it to be pack based, rather than just his having escaped you in such a way, but that he did so is certainly making it much worse!”
“For now he will sleep, while Nezu works to dig his past and current life into full view, for now, you my lovely one will get in with him, scent him thoroughly and I will sit here so you both can smell me clearly.
Bowing to the decree, Shouta got into the hated hospital ward bed and curled with a relieved sigh around the pup, now dressed in a soft sleep gown, uncle Higari having long escaped with the gear the pup was clearly working on.
As his uncle had given a hunt-call as soon as he’d seen it, a call that had been enthusiastically responded to, Shouta whispered into soft green hair, “Who’s gonna get Higari ‘n Zashi outta the labs?”
“Me,” Ryou said firmly, “the easy way or the hard way, totally up to them.”
Chuckling as he let sleep claim him, pup safe in his arms, Shouta relaxed fully at last.
*
In the end, with UA and Nezu behind getting the job done it was easy enough.
Midoriya Izuku was accepted into the hero course even before he woke up, simply on the strength of his self made support gear alone, because as Higari says, “Bits of this stuff is built with some of the most revolutionary thinking I’ve ever seen!”
Clutching tight to the beta who he’d hurt, Izuku looked with huge eyes and said, “But isn't that cheating?”
They’d decided to start with putting the pup into the hero course first, before dealing with the rest of the shit storm but now the pup was spiraling hard and then Shouta’s Sire proved yet again that Ryoudad could fix anything because a sharp bark of laughter had the pup jumping in shock, the official book on how to get into UA thumped down onto the bed and there, in bold black and white, Ryou tapping the words - Impressive Tech and out-of-the-box thinking.
“But, what about my friends?”
“Ah, your alpha friend Katsuki, we have already spoken to him, and to your omega friend Shinsou Hitoshi, they will be tested tomorrow by myself,” Nezu grinned, “and if they pass they too will be accepted into class one A, as you have been.”
“Shouta will be den-mothering them then, or if they fail to pass do not worry, they will be taken care of regardless and you will be able to spend quality time with your age mates.
Shouta will deal with you and all of the rest of the eventual class, in the pup dorms, and speaking of dealing with pups.”
“Oh,” big green eyes looked up with determination and dread, as he said, "I'm really sorry it took me this long, will you do it now please? I I I can’t, ummmm, please just do it!”
Only his pack could see his own dread and reluctance but as expected their Shouta stepped up properly, “Of course I will petal, that’s what beta’s are for.”
“Now, first, tell me all about it!”
*
Telling Beta all about it took Izuku over an hour, and he did try not to drag it out but everyone was so good, they asked questions and knew stuff, and asked smart questions and answered his ones too and it was so awesome….
~
But that was done now, and he whined and began to cry even before it started, just getting into place had him pouring how sorry he was into the air in sight sound and scent and then a large hand was on his bottom, he’d been right it did cover his entire tail end and he cried out in a desperate ki yi yi as it lifted and came back with a sharp spank and he YELLLLLED!!!
*
It was official, this was the most dramatic puppy he'd ever had over his knee, and part of him wanted to just give in and cuddle him yet, because he’d earned it, run like hell to avoid it, hurt and made himself actually SICK in the process of escaping it, Shouta firmed himself and landed the second and third spanks, mindful of how he wasn't holding a hardheaded hero student but a pup looking to become a hard headed hero student and achieving that goal in totally unexpected ways!
And paying for them now, even the years of lying to a fem undeserving of the word Dam, never mind mother!
Giving attention to the entirety of the pups bottom was easy, his hand spanned it in its entirety, which made the spanking both memorable and thorough for the pup who was incoherently wailing huge sobbing sucking gulps of air now and with a huff of exasperated fondness Shouta tipped him a bit higher and said, “Last five pup!”
If he’d thought the pup was loud before, he vowed to put ear plugs in next time they were in this position but regardless he added extra snap and fire to the final ones and then sighed in relief, done, it was done!
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Holding Izuku in his arms not much later, after loads of sobbing snotty hiccupping puppy burrowed into his arms slowly calming down, Shouta watched two new pups enter in Nemuri's wake and their flinch at the clear scents blanketing the room, the blond whistling “Damn, you killed him?” And the other mouthing silent words and then huffing as he waved his hands in a clear “Yes that!” gesture, yet when Izuku whined at them they both came into the group cuddle easily with Shouta simply wondering how on earth he’d gotten into that position.
But an omega going mute, and even now soundlessly reassuring his pup-mate with many pets on their head, letting the alpha blond be loud enough for them all as he growled and chuntered and grumbled at both Shouta and Izuku, that was all kinds of wrong!
Although being grumbled at by the alpha pup was, frankly, adorable.
The sooner they got these three settled into the dorms the better, especially as it was his turn to have a dorm class and be the official Den-Mum so he had Hizashi and Nemuri helping him, instead of the other way round, gave him a bit more pack standing for a change, which was nice.
Beta he might be but his elders took no shit from any of them, him included, so being able to get away with things with his own mates was nice, and this way he’d get away with more.
Speaking of getting away with nothing, here came said same elders, so Shouta made Izuku sit up, ignored his high pitched yelp as his so terribly tormented slightly pink bottom rubbed across the mattress and didn't laugh at him, even if his spike of humor was clearly smelt by all.
“Dramatic much?” Katsuki whispered loudly enough to be heard out in the hall, and Hitoshi ducked down to hide behind them both, seeming to forget there was a whole ass beta in the bed who edged him up and back into view, keeping a hand on his nape, rubbing soothing circles on it as the purple haired pup relaxed slowly.
Settling in for the long and in depth talk about how they all three now belonged to UA, newly categorized as pups-at-risk, the home visits on all three showing things were bad enough to just take them, all in different ways, none of them good for the pups.
A long road ahead, Shouta thought as he continued to cuddle all three pups, helping them to ask questions and to understand the answers, it was indeed going to be a long road but it was one well worth walking!
Especially as his entire pack would be part of it, so Shouta didn’t have to do it alone.
Curling deeper into comfort as Hizashi started all three on sign language lessons he felt himself relax fully at last, because yeah, his pack had this in the bag!