chapter 24

The purple haired boy huffed and puffed, "How much more do I need to do?", he said to particularly no one.

But a green haired boy was in the corner of the room and heard him, "45 more minutes." He stated, making Shinso look at him, "And after that is free time, so work hard." Izuku smiled.

I has been three days since Shinso started training, Toga was particularly hard on him during training, and Twice made sure to make adjustments on the clones so that he would actually go through trouble.

At the moment, the taller boy was fighting his own clone, his objective is to fight them, while they go hard on the attack, and Shinso develops better defensive mechanisms with it.

"You are a devil." He gasped out.

"No. I'm your trainer, there is no devil here." Izuku smiled at him.

And with that, the training continued, Izuku already passed the boy, in just three days the boy developed so much that Izuku didn't know what to actually do, but made him more interested.

Izuku would go extremely hard on the boy in his studies, and analysis classes, and even thought of possible support gear for the boy to use.

Maybe something that can mimic voices that are heard can be useful, Izuku absentmindedly thought.

In the other hand, he was slacking on Uraraka's training, but for that Toga was there, they turned into something close to best-friends by now, if Izuku didn't know better, he would thought that they were in a more intimate relationship.

And talking about Uraraka, Eri loved the girl, every possible living moment, the little silver haired girl would stuck close to the gravity user, so much that Izuku had to make Uraraka be the one that trained Eri on using her quirk, and with a good amount of results Izuku smiled, Eri was not afraid of her quirk anymore and was smiling much, much more.

A face that came to Izuku's mind was Kota, he stopped coming since the new year, just coming once every couple of weeks, Kota was a good friend of Eri, but Izuku is thinking that there must be something between the two that is not making their relationship as friends grow, and that worries the green haired boy. Eri needs friends her age after all...

Toga, was busy most of the time now, training Uraraka, the kitchen for the cafe, her own studies, Izuku worries for the blonde, she is drinking her blood daily, about a third of a pack a day, but she is continuously losing the light in her eyes, Izuku can worry if the girl is truly happy with them.

Dabi and Twice became quite close friends now, before there would be disputes on who was the responsible for the group, but now both of them accepted the big brother role for the kids, and Izuku could only smile as they would play cards with Aizawa and Yamada when they visited late at night.

Izuku was also busy lately, the one for all situation he was dragged into buries his mind with difficult thoughts, plus the situation Stain informed him of, and the plus information La Brava would dump him, plus the cafe work, and the extra help in hero work, was actually starting to take a toll on him.

But something the next day changed that, Bakugo Katsuki, the explosive bomb, and his childhood friend, came through the door, forcibly flipped the wood sign to 'closed', and dragged the green haired boy and the blonde girl with him outside.

"Ka-Kacchan!? What are you doing?" Izuku frantically asked, not really sure of what was happening.

"SHUT UP! And actually walk." The explosion user said.

"Kitkat, can you let go of my arm?" Toga questioned.

"No."(Katsuki)

"Where are we going?"(Izuku)

"Somewhere."(K)

"Are you going to finally kill us?"(Toga)

"No."(K)

"Did you kill someone?"(T)

"No."(K)

"Are you going to kill someone...?"(I)

"...No."(K)

"Train?"(I)

"No."(K)

"Kitkat, are you actually gonna kill someone?"(T)

"I'M NOT! BUT SOON I MIGHT TRY!"(K)

And with that short argument they finally arrived at their destination, the same beach the three of them cleaned, Bakugo took the steps down, finally letting go of the two, heading to a little place with a beach chair, and some towels, taking a few more steps further, Bakugo unwraps a griller that was there, protected with a plastic bag.

Izuku and Toga walked to the the explosive blonde, "Can we know what are we doing here?" Izuku asked genuinely confused.

Opening the backpack he brought, Bakugo took some packages of meat, "Resting." He bluntly stated.

That took the both by surprise, but didn't argument further, and stayed quiet, standing besides the blonde boy.

"Don't just stay there, and help me grill this shit." He said as he took the seal out of the package.

"Kitkat, light the grill up first!" Toga exclaimed, as Bakugo started dropping the meat on top of the griller.

And with that small interaction, the three of them had a fun and relieving day on the beach, in a hot day of spring.

Both, the green haired boy and the girl, couldn't be more glad to have Bakugo as a friend.

When dinner time came, Dabi appeared, three jackets on his arm, Twice, Eri and Uraraka not far behind him, Twice dropped a container with quite a bit more meat packages, some bread, a bag of vegetables and drinks onto a towel.

They all had quite the party, Twice an Dabi were keeping an eye while chatting, Bakugo was playing cards with Eri and Uraraka, and was screaming at how he was losing to 'Round face'.

Izuku was seated while looking at the game, Toga completely lying on him, a smile on her face, as she completely destroyed Bakugo making him get 12 more cards.

After that day, Bakugo promised to himself to never play Uno with those two girls.

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Work came the next day, everyone was much more relaxed from the day before, the worry Izuku had for Toga was leaving him, as Toga would jump at him, and making jokes like she used to.

And that day, was the first one that Uraraka found out the second part of the job of the cafe, she innocently was going to steal food from the kitchen of the cafe, when she saw, Izuku, Toga, Aizawa, Yamada and Hawks, the three with their hero costumes, discussing something.

She took some steps towards them, unconsciously, out of curiosity. Making them notice her, Izuku saw her, and smiled, "And now I know exactly what to do." That smile scared Ochako a bit, but she couldn't help but listen up.

Uraraka was not expecting this kind of thing, there she was, a little cute mask on her face, covering her lower facial features, she recognized the mask as something Toga would use when they go out sometimes.

The brunette was standing in front of a large quantity of large industrial pipes, and her work was to make them float, one by one, and wait for one of the heroes, or Izuku to take them and throw them at a building, why, Uraraka didn't know, but Izuku said it was work, and that she was going to be paid for it...

And with that Hawks asked for three pipes, Uraraka lifted them up, as Hawks thanked the girl, he used his feathers to throw them, and the moment Izuku waited for arrived.

A gigantic of a beast rised from the abandoned warehouse, Uraraka's mouth went agape as she saw a whale like monster, a weird beak on his face, and a brain kinda showing.

The beast roared, "Now!" Izuku yelled, and Aizawa appeared from the rooftop and used his quirk, "Don't let them get away!" Izuku warned.

Toga approached Uraraka, "Our work here is done, my job was only to verify in which warehouse they were." She stated, as she started dragging a dumbfounded Uraraka out of the scene.

Yamada started screaming, and soon other heroes started appearing from different directions, Kamui woods binding some beasts the bigger one was spitting out, Mt. Lady using her size to close the beasts mouth, and other heroes working together to defeat the different monsters.

Hawks was assisting everyone, making sure injuries were at a minimum while attacking and redirecting other beasts.

Uraraka didn't stay to see it until the end, but such a big operation took place, and she helped, she smiled as she thought that she was useful.

Izuku took a step back as one of the white strange monsters attacked him, soon to be restrained by Kamui, These Nomus La Brava told me about are stronger than I thought, but also dumber... Izuku smiled as Mt. Lady finally successfully closed the mouth of the whale like Nomu, stopping it from throwing more Nomus at it.

By using Uraraka's quirk making big projectiles to destroy the structure around the thing, and avoid mass destruction around, and also making a fence, to better herd the Nomus, and the more disponibility of heroes with restraining quirks to be in combat.

The green haired boy smiled, the plan to make the beast that La Brava named 'transporter' worked, the job was to make it active, capture the Nomus it spit in waves, and then subdue it.

This was important, because following what La Brava informed Izuku about, the 'transporter' teleports other Nomus from different locations, or simply stores them in its body, meaning they would be clearing different locations from this creatures, and subduing a lot more that were stored on it.

What made Izuku mad though, was that La Brave told him that they were abandoned projects, meaning they didn't actually have a use for All for One, but be a army of mindless monsters, genetically modified people to only obey orders.

It came to an end as morning came, no deaths occurred, and injuries stayed to a minimum, which Izuku smiled at, the operation was a success, as planned every Nomu was taken into custody, making sure to disable them, by removing the command receiving feature that they had.

Izuku overheard one of the policeman, "With this many, how many missing person report would be solved?" "Don't know, but it would probably be a lot, who could make something so horrible?"

Sighing Izuku headed to Tsukauchi, he familiarized himself with the detective by doing some works with him, and he was also responsible for the new identities of the 3 ex-villain employees.

"Naomasa..." Izuku looked at the sun, "...Good Morning."

Tsukauchi gave a small smile, "You worked hard, kid, go take a break, you did enough."

Izuku nodded, and headed out.

Stepping inside the cafe, Izuku was greeted by Dabi, "Welcome back." He said.

"I'm back..." Izuku yawned, as he stretched, "Going to sleep for a bit, I will take the turns of the afternoon. Can you tell Twice to take care of Shinso's training during the morning?"

"Sure. Sleep well."

Izuku entered his room, laid on his bed, snuggling his face onto the pillow, grabbing his covers as if it was a body pillow, and sleeping peacefully.

Today was a hard day...

When finally got a tip on the whereabouts of All for One, it was just something he deemed as thrash and let it be discovered...

I need to work harder to find him...

I might have to check every peace of information for clues again...

And need to apologize to Uraraka for dragging her into this...

One for All... I have a guess on who as it... But is he drifting from the right path?

So many loose strings, I can't connect them all alone...

I'm needing serious help...

I have to try harder...

I can't turn useless again...

People are counting on me...

And with that final thought Izuku passed out on his bed, sleeping peacefully once again.