Eijiro couldn't breathe. Couldn't move.
He had been walking in the direction of Dagobah Beach after school to keep grinding away at the mess when he heard a shout from a pair of girls from his school across the street. Looming over them was a monster of a man. A Villain.
He needed to move. Why couldn't he move?
Suddenly, another boy with a familiar coat and metal circlet was between the monster and the girls. Loki. "Hey, did you need help with something?"
Eijiro took a frightened breath as the monster turned his attention on the small Quirkless teen. The monster took in a breath to speak before freezing and widening his eyes. "Lord has a Little Lord?"
From what Eijiro could see of Loki's expression he was just as confused by the question as Eijiro was but the boy did relax slightly at the lack of hostility. "Er… What is your name, big guy? If my Dad is your Lord he probably would want to know I found you."
"Lord named me Gigantomachia."
In the confusion, the two girls slipped away and Eijiro found his feet moving toward the pair that passersby were giving a wide berth. By the time he reached the pair, Loki was fixated on a texting conversation with presumably his father. "Is everything alright?"
Loki nodded, holding up a finger to wait to Eijiro before looking back up to the monster of a man. "Dad says you should be at your post where he left you. How did you end up all the way here?"
The large man seemed sad at the question. "Lord said he would visit me when he could but he has not in a long time. Thought that I could find him and help."
Loki sighed and patted the man on the arm. "I'm sure Dad will be glad to know you were worried about him but he left you to protect that place for a reason. Come on, let's see about getting you back. I'll ask Dad to meet us there." He turned to look at Kirishima. "So much for meeting up early to hang out, huh?"
Eijiro scratched the back of his head. "I mean we could still hang out. I could tag along and we could head to the beach later?"
Loki seemed to consider that. "Hold on." He sent a few more texts before nodding to himself and pocketing his phone. "Alright, you can tag along. Just a warning, my Dad will probably be a bit much when we get to him. Come on, Machia, let's get you back."
Loki only managed a few strides before the giant man scooped him up to carry him. The boy sighed and leaned back in the man's arms, seemingly resigned to his fate. Eijiro had to jog slightly to keep up with the man's strides. "What do you mean by much?"
"He is a bit intense about everything一 Turn right down that alley, it's faster一 Anyways there is a good chance that he and Machia are going to spar for a bit one we get there. It should be interesting to watch at the very least一down that side street, Endeavor patrols that way around this time一Dad is breaking out his new helmet prototype and everything."
They made fairly good progress to wherever they were going before Gigantomachia apparently got tired of having to slow down a bit for Eijiro to keep pace because the boy soon found himself scooped up much like Loki had been in the man's other arm. With that the pace picked up quickly and Loki was distracted giving out directions to the large man. The buildings quickly began to vanish and more and more trees appeared around them. Suddenly Eijiro was worried how he was going to get back home before nightfall.
Soon enough, they were in a large clearing. "Lord's not here…" Okay, as scary looking and strong this guy was, that was pretty heartbreaking.
Loki patted him on the arm. "Let me down so I can tell him we are back here."
Eijiro found himself being set down beside Loki in front of the man. Loki was quick to pull out his phone and send off a couple texts. Before Eijiro could ask about them though, a doorway of dark mist appeared next to them.
A shiver passed down his spine at the sight of the man who walked out. He was tall and well built in a full suit sans tie. Suddenly he understood what Loki had meant by testing out his prototype helmet. It reminded Eijiro of an eyeless skull. His instincts screamed at him to run but he found himself freezing once more at the sheer power this monster of a man gave off.
And then a cyan haired older teen strolled out wearing a hoodie and sweatpants carrying a bowl of popcorn before the doorway closed behind him. Loki snorted as he looked at the older teen. "You here to watch too, Tomura-nii?"
He brought a gloved hand down to ruffle the vigilante's hood. "You bet Brat. Everyone else is a bunch of cowards." He pointed up to a barely visible cliff of the trees that Eijiro realized he could faintly see movement from. "They are going to watch up there. Mom wants you up there too but I figured you would know if you need to hide up there or not."
Loki shook his head before surprising Eijiro by pulling off his mask. He had forgotten how much the vigilante looked like Sir Nighteye. The vigilante grabbed a handful of popcorn to toss in his mouth. "We should be fine. Machia would only want to fight me if Dad lost. I am his precious Little Lord for now."
Loki's older brother snorted. "Really living up to your title Small for One."
"Small for One?" Eijiro gave the boy a puzzled look.
Loki rolled his eyes before pointing to his father, apparently chatting with a now sobbing Gigantomachia. "Our Dad goes by the name All for One in some circles because of his Quirk by the same name."
Eijiro's heart skipped a beat. All for One.. That sounded a lot like… "Err, you said I could talk to you about One for All?"
That got a surprised look from the cyan haired teen. "Wait, you brought All Might's successor here to watch this? I thought we were trying to hide the fact Father was alive from him."
Loki waved him off. "Kirishima deserves to know what the hell he is getting himself into if he was to blindly follow All Might."
Before he could question further, Loki suddenly kicked him in the chest and yanked his brother back as a shockwave of solid air cut through the ground right where they had been standing. Eijiro found himself hardening out of reflex as the shockwaves continued. Where the two men had been standing was a massive impact crater that Gigantomachia was seemingly pinned down in. Above him, firing round after round of destructive power was All for One, floating as if the ground was still at the level it had been moments before. Then darkness filled his vision for a moment before he found himself crashing to the ground higher up than he had been. Oh he was up on the cliff now.
"Tomura, when I told you to retrieve your brother, I was expecting you to come back before the fighting started." There was a small green haired woman glaring down at a form of Tomura who was clearly more distracted by the fact his popcorn had largely not survived.
There was a massive explosion off to his right. Eijiro quickly became distracted as the two monsters began to really fight. Eijiro had a sudden frightening realization that All for One had been pulling his punches so that they could get away. "Damn, the Old Man can still fight after all. I had wondered." Eijiro found himself looking up at the black haired and heavily scarred man standing above him. It was the scarred boy next to him that really caught his attention though.
He began to pick himself up off the ground. "Hey, aren't you the missing son of Endeavor?"
The black haired man snorted. "Which one?"
Todoroki Shoto lightly shoved the man with a frown. "Stop joking about Touya like that, Dabi."
The man gave the boy a soft smile. "Right, sorry Hyouka. It was just too tempting with how easy it was."
"Hyouka?"
Todoroki shrugged. "My alias while I am hiding from my Father. I would prefer it if you didn't mention I was hiding from him with the Midoriya's. I'll go back eventually, I just needed to get away from him until he cooled off a bit. I do not wish to be alone under the same roof as him while his temper is running high. I did leave a note that I was going to stay with friends but given I have been reported as kidnapped, I suspect he didn't believe it."
Eijiro blinked at the boy in surprise and a bit of concern as he found his eye drawn to the burn scar over the other boy's eye. "Endeavor…did he…?" He gestured toward his own eye.
Todoroki nodded. "In a manner of speaking."
Eijiro took in a sharp breath before nodding. Yep he was most definitely not saying anything about where the boy was. "So you prefer Hyouka?"
The boy smiled softly and nodded again. "For now. At UA I will likely prefer Shoto though since I plan on Hyouka being my hero name."
Eijiro offered him a shark-toothed grin. "It's so manly that you have your hero name picked out already. I'm Kirishima Eijiro."
Suddenly a pair of arms was thrown over his shoulder. "Oh that was so cute~! My littlest brother making friends with my other little brother's friend!"
Dabi sighed as he helped Eijiro regain his balance. "Himiko, you can't just go tackling strangers from behind."
Eijiro turned his head slightly to see a pouting blond girl maybe a year older than himself. "Aw, Dabi you're no fun." She turned to look back at him. A look of delight appeared on her face. "Your eyes are so pretty! Like Dad's and Kats! Oh and Uncle Shou when he uses his Quirk!"
At his confusion Dabi chuckled. "Her favorite color is red, kid."
Eijiro felt himself light up. "Really? Mine too!"
She gave a small gasp. "Really?! Izu you never told me your friend liked the color red too!"
A slightly ruffled Loki wandered into view. "I didn't know, though, given his favorite hero is Crimson Riot, I'm not surprised."
Dabi nodded in seeming approval. "Yeah, that is a good hero to use as a role model unlike some others. Shame he never broke the top ten."
There was a chuckle behind him from the green haired woman. "Since we are clearly not all watching the fight anymore, perhaps we should return back to the bar to wait for them to finish?"
Dabi sighed. "Yeah, it isn't like we can see much of what is going on because of how far away they are and fast they are moving."
"One moment." A man that Eijiro hadn't noticed, seemingly made of dark mist, raised a hand and opened a doorway for them before vanishing through. No one hesitated outside of Eijiro to follow but with Himiko tugging him along he quickly overcame his fear of the unknown.
---MiM-MiM-MiM---
Overhaul was slightly annoyed with each man that came back saying that they hadn't seen anyone enter or leave the publicly listed Midoriya apartment. He should have considered that with the boy's connection to him publicly available online, Sir Nighteye would have of course moved his family to a safe house. It was only logical.
Still, there had to be a way of finding the boy and subsequently the League. So he had someone break into the government records office to find anything and everything on the Midoriya's.
It seemed that the boy was not an only child. As he flipped through the information, a registration for a pair liquor licenses caught his eye, one older than the other. Staring up at him from the photos was a man matching the description Larceny had given for the mystery blue fire Quirk user and a cyan haired Shigaraki Tomura. Midoriya Dabi and Tomura.
Overhaul had to laugh at that. They were not even trying to hide properly were they? Though, given that Sir Nighteye, a Pro Hero who held the respect of the Symbol of Peace himself, was their uncle perhaps they didn't need to try so hard.
It raised the question of why they were running around saying they were going to kill All Might like that if they likely knew the man himself personally. Of course, perhaps that was the problem. They knew who he was behind the smile.
Still as interesting of a discovery as this was, he was no closer to finding their place of residence. Their home was listed much the same as the others despite the fact there was little way they all fit in that one apartment. So perhaps it had never been their true address.
He looked at names of other relatives listed for both parents. Midoriya Hisashi had no living family, just a long deceased set of parents and younger brother. A dead end in more ways than one. Out of curiosity he clicked open a scan of the man's drivers license to see the face of "All for One." Ah, so the white was probably Shigaraki's natural color. The man child's eye color likely came from him too. It raised the question of if the strange coloration of his remaining two siblings was Quirk related though. Eye color was often more variable thanks to quirks. Given the color of the scarred man's flames, bright blue eyes made sense. Given their father's own Quirk and eye color combination, the elder's flames were likely cooler which was to be expected or the man would destroy his mouth every time he used his Quirk.
The part of him that was medically inclined was curious how the daughter ended up with a shapeshifting Quirk though…Ah, adoption papers for one Midoriya Himiko. That explained that.
He was letting himself get distracted.
Overhaul clicked back to the family listed page. Midoriya Inko formerly Sasaki Inko. Eldest sister and former legal guardian of two younger brothers. Interesting. Sasaki Mirai was obviously Sir Nighteye based on age alone; the younger was far too young to be him. Aizawa Shouta, formerly Sasaki Shouta.
Jackpot. Another nephew. The in-process adoption papers and current acting foster guardian papers marked his next lead. Shinso Hitoshi, third year student of Soumei Junior High School.
---MiM-MiM-MiM---
Eijiro was not quite sure how it happened but now he was currently sitting on a stool in a bar playing Mario Kart with his head wrapped up in cling wrap and foil as his black hair was slowly being turned white. Well that wasn't true, he knew what happened. He had asked how all the siblings had so wildly different hair colors. Apparently having naturally white hair made it easy to dye it.
Himiko and Loki (no, he should probably try to think of him as Izuku since he was no longer in costume) still had their natural hair colors but Himiko was adopted so didn't match anyone else in the family unless you counted the locks of hair that Sir Nighteye bleached for his distinctive look. Of course, their cousin Hitoshi didn't match either with how lavender he was, but he too was adopted and looked enough like the biological son of their youngest uncle that most people wouldn't even realize it apparently.
Eijiro just had to take their word for it for now.
They were bleaching his hair for a reason, of course. Evidently they had a box of red dye that they had been planning on using for the ends of Himiko's hair the next time the elder brothers needed to dye their roots which was soon enough that the impromptu to hair dying party had happened. The only ones still present in the bar untouched were Izuku, Shoto and Kurogiri, the latter because he didn't have any hair, the second because his natural hair would have only been able to be dyed black since red hair did not bleach white enough to match his other half and the former because he wore tinted hair gel regularly when he went out in costume but didn't want to go black full time.
A timer went off on the phone next to the boy in question. "Okay, Himiko, you should be good to rinse your hair out. Kirishima let me check you to see how your color is doing."
The blonde hopped up and disappeared into the public toilet to rinse the ends of her hair out in the sink. Dabi turned his gaze to follow her. "Try not to turn the area around the sink into a murder scene with the dye."
A thumbs up popped back out of the door. "I can do that O-niisan!"
Tomura grumbled something under his breath that Eijiro could hear but Dabi clearly did from the shit eating grin he gave his slightly younger brother. As Izuku messed with the back of his head, a question nagged at his only-child brain. "So is this what having siblings is like?"
Izuku snorted. "Sometimes. Most of the time there is more yelling at one another. Dabi and Tomura exchange insults and death threats as signs of affection for one another. My sort of cousin Kacchan is the same way. The two of us were close enough in age that until Uncle Shouta adopted Toshi, he was as close to my twin brother I could get. I mean he still sort of is, but it is more than just the two of us against the world now. Plus there is Tenya and Hyouka now too. And you."
Eijiro felt his face heat up. "Me?"
"Of course! We are friends aren't we? That reminds me, I still need to get you added to our hero chat. All us future 1-A students have been using it since we added Hyouka to the group. Oh that reminds me一Tomura? Kirishima, Kacchan, Toshi, and Tenya all need nicknames from you."
The cyan hair boy looked up from the game. "The fuck? Why?"
"It is our current name theme for our chat. I'm Small for One and Hyouka is Peppermint. The others need names too."
The teen blushed slightly at that. "Well for starters since the kid is All Might's successor he could be Small Might like you are Small for One. Bakubrat is still your pet Bomberanian. Hitoshi can be Mewtwo and Tenya is Sonic the Hedgehog I guess."
Dabi snorted. "Couldn't think of anything for them so defaulted to Video Game characters I see."
The slightly younger man shoved his older brother. "Don't be a dick. Mewtwo is a psychic purple cat, what else would he be? And you can't tell me that you don't jump mentally to Sonic for the Iida's too."
Dabi made a strange chopping gesture with one hand. "I am just saying there is an even better character for him even in the same franchise. He should be the robot version of Sonic. That is a thing right?"
The red eyed brother's eyes widened. "You mean Metal Sonic?" His eyes narrowed. "Wait, I thought you said you didn't play any of the games I recommend."
The blue eyed brother averted his gaze. "Okay I might have lied. Some of the Pre Quirk shit wasn't too bad."
The shorter brother hopped up to his feet pointing an accusatory finger. "I knew it! You have been picking up more and more of my gamer terms without me having to explain them to you!"
Shoto leaned over in his seat next to Eijiro. "I think they have forgotten we are here."
Behind him Izuku snickered. "Probably. You want to help rinse the bleach from Kirishima's hair and add the dye?"
"Eijiro." Eijiro turned to offer both of them grins. "It's only fair, what with me using your given names and all. Plus like you said we are friends."
That earned him a smile from both boys.
---MiM-MiM-MiM---
There was someone following him and Tenya. Hitoshi was not surprised by this given what had happened a few days prior with Shoto and Uncle Mirai but it was still annoying. As Tenya turned his head as if to look more directly at him, he clearly checked behind them out of the corner of his eye. "You know, I am sort of glad I am farsighted and not near right now." He turned back to the front. "He is not doing a very good job at hiding the fact he is following us."
Hitoshi snorted. "Probably just following me to try to find the League. I just can't believe he is walking around in that stupid mask. Way to broadcast your existence." He led the way into their normal cat café that they normally did homework in with Katsuki. Katsuki was already inside with his shit spread over the table to claim it for them. "Hey Kats, how was Hell?"
The platinum blonde looked up at the pair of them with a snort. "Same as the last couple times you asked. Frankly, I'm shocked that everyone didn't get transferred out to other schools already. The break would have been the best time for it for everyone."
"Nedzu said they are drawing the case out in the courts since they don't feel pressured to move everyone since Izu is no longer there and he was the primary victim."
Tenya shook his head. "I just don't understand how an institution like that could think to misuse their power to such a degree."
Katsuki snorted. "Fuck if I know. Aldera is getting shut down at the end of the school year regardless of what happens but it sucks that I'm stuck there until then too unless the courts get their heads out of their asses and force the transfers to other schools." He set down his pen and quickly sparked his palms as a cat jumped up into his lap. Hitoshi found himself snickering as some of the other customers jumped slightly at the noise but none of the cats reacted at all outside of a few annoyed ear flicks. It was easy to see who was a regular while they hung out here and who wasn't.
As Katsuki pet the one cat in the place that had decided the warmth of Katsuki's lap made his loud noise worth it, Hitoshi was annoyed to see a fairly entitled looking American tourist woman walking over to their table. "Karen incoming."
Tenya looked up from his notebook he had been thumbing through. "What?"
Katsuki on the other hand clocked the woman head their way with a groan. "You have to be fucking kidding me. Please tell me one of you is good at English. The Nerd normally helps with those types."
"Excuse me? Just what do you think you're doing using a Quirk like that in here? Public Quirk use is illegal and you are scaring the animals!"
Hitoshi rolled his eyes. "I've got this." He turned to the lady. "Ma'am unless you want my cousin covering all the cats in nitroglycerin which would either combust or poison the animals, he has to spark his palms occasionally. Also in case you didn't notice, none of the cats care since they are used to the noise by now. We come here after school everyday. Additionally the law against Public Quirk use allows exceptions for medical related issues which Katsuki's sparking is counted under."
"And why are you the one telling me this and not your cousin?"
Hitoshi raised an eyebrow at her. "Because I am the one with an English teacher for a father and a voice Quirk that's effectiveness is affected by what language I am speaking? I'm the most fluent in your language out of the three of us and I assume since you came over here speaking English your spoken Japanese is not great."
"I thought your schools were supposed to teach you all English as a second language?"
"I mean, yeah they do, but I wouldn't expect most to really be conversationally fluent until, like, mid way through High school? We are still just Junior High students."
"Well I still don't think you are telling the truth about him being allowed to use his Quirk like that. How would a Middle Schooler really know a law like that well enough to know the exceptions to the rule?"
Hitoshi gave the woman a slow blink before turning to face his cousins. "Do you think we should call Pops or Uncle Hisashi to talk to her?"
Katsuki snorted. "Call the Nerd. It would be funnier."
Tenya waved his arm like normal. "Katsuki sicking Izuku on an unsuspecting person is unnecessarily cruel."
"What the hell is he saying? Those gesturesー!"
"Ma'am that is just a tick he does because of his OCD. Besides, he was just telling Katsuki it would be rude to prank you by calling our other cousin who is even more fluent than I am in English over my father or uncle who both speak fluent English and know the law in and out."
The woman huffed. "Is this uncle this rude boy's father?"
"No, neither of Katsuki's parents are bad at English but I suspect they might be rusty. Besides like I said, my father and our uncle know the law very well."
"And why would an English teacher know the law so well?" She smirked as if he had fallen into a trap.
Hitoshi snorted. "Ma'am, he teaches at UA. One of the prerequisites for the job was he had to be a Pro Hero."
She gave a disbelieving snort. "Sure he is. Alright, which Pro Hero is he then?"
Hitoshi fished out his phone and quickly flipped through the photo gallery to find the selfy his Aunt Nem had taken with his phone of the two of them and his Pops while he was hanging out at UA for the week while his transfer to his current school was being handled. "I don't have a lot of pictures of us together with him in costume but this one is recent enough."
The woman nearly shrieked at the image. "What the hell is that woman wearing in that?!"
"...Her Hero costume? You could Google her easily enough. Her Hero name is Midnight and she is one of my father's best friends and coworker."
The woman seemed to reluctantly look at the photo at the man with him. "I don't recognize him. What is his hero name supposed to be with that ridiculous outfit and hair? And isn't he a bit young to be your father?"
"I'm adopted so no. His Hero name is Present Mic."
"What kind of name is that?"
"It is a shortened form of Presentation Microphone. He is also the voice behind 'Put Your Hands Up!' Radio. He plays a lot of English music for tourists like yourself."
There was a flicker of recognition at that, however before she could continue, a familiar head of cyan hair walked in the door and brushed past her to sit in the last open seat at the table. "Izuku sent me a text that you needed help with getting rid of something."
Katsuki burst into laughter. "Oh my fucking god!"
Even Tenya was fighting off a grin as Hitoshi gestured to the woman. "She thinks she knows more about our laws than we do and can only really speak English."
"Ah." He turned in the chair to look up at her. "Is there a reason you are harassing my cousins while they are just trying to do their homework or are you just having fun bothering a bunch of 15 year old's?"
"And who are you supposed to be? The cousin they were considering calling?"
"Nah, that would be my little brother Izuku. He is an agent of chaos and sent me here in his place. It wasn't like I was doing anything anyways."
"You don't have a job to be at?"
"Lady, I work in a bar that opened like an hour ago. The place is generally dead until it gets dark out most days so we don't need both me and my older brother there right now to help cover the bar."
"Aren't you a bit young for that?"
"To drink yes, to serve no. I am mostly the bookkeeper anyways. Lady did you actually need something or could you just leave my family alone?"
She shook her head as if to clear it of spiderwebs. "Right, your cousin here was very clearly breaking the Public Use law with his Quirk."
"We are talking about the Bomberanian right?"
That threw her. "The what?"
"You know, Bomberanian. Like Pomeranian but Bomb since he sweats fucking nitroglycerin? It was a pun."
"Err…Yes that one."
"Lady, do you know what a Biohazardous Quirk is?"
She grimaced. "A Quirk that without proper care that can hurt others accidentally. Whyー?"
Tomura waved a gloved hand. "Lady, what the hell do you think my cousin's Quirk is classified as? He is both extremely combustible and poisonous if he doesn't periodically burn that shit off. Sure he doesn't have any gloves or anything as a support item like I have for my own biohazardous quirk but that is because that would be more dangerous than him without anything so long as he sparks periodically. He is legally required to use his Quirk in public."
She looked slightly dumbfounded at that. After a moment, she just spun in her heels and went back to her own table. "Good riddance."
Hitoshi gave Tomura an impressed look. "And you managed to go the whole time without slipping into gamer lingo."
Tomura swatted at him lightly. "Brat. This is what I get for coming to help you out." He pulled himself back up to his feet. "Well that is my good deed of the day done."
Hitoshi reached out to grab his sleeve. "Before you go. A guy in a bird mask stalked Tenya and I all the way here from school. I am not sure if he is still outside or not."
Tomura scratched at his neck lightly in thought. "I didn't see anything like that myself when I came in but I will keep an eye out. If he shows back up later when you leave, text Kurogiri to send help."
Hitoshi nodded. "Got it."