Chapter 5 Closure

<p>Izuku was sitting at the front entrance of his apartment with tears pouring out of his eyes at the sight before him. "Izuku why are you crying, are you hurt," a feminine voice gently said to him. Shaking his head and wiping his tears away he replied,"No mom just a bad dream, nothing to worry about."<br/><br/>Right in front of him was a woman with green hair standing about Izuku's height. She was a little on the chubbier side and had a kind smile adorning her face, this was his mother Inko Midoriya. <br/><br/>"Well then let's sit at the table and you could tell me all about it. I have your favorite Katsudon cooking as well," as she said this Izuku followed her through the familiar hallway of the apartment he grew up in, taking in all the nostalgic things around him. He was so caught up in his trip down memory lane he didn't realize they arrived at the dinner table until he bumped into his mother.<br/><br/>"Careful, you need to watch where your going or you could hurt yourself," his mother said this as she said this he nodded his head, indicating that he understood. "Good now sit down and tell me about that dream you had, I'm going to make sure the food doesn't burn," Izuku's mom made her way to the kitchen while saying this as he obeyed her and sat down trying to think of how to begin.<br/><br/>"Well I don't know where to start, it's kind of a long story and I—" as he said this his mother interrupted him,"Well then how about you start at the beginning." Taking a deep breath Izuku nodded his head,"Well it all began when I got back to the apartment after ditching Katsuki and his band of fools, they had been bullying me and I had finally managed to ditch them by hiding in a dumpster—," he rambled on for what seemed like hours to his mother about what had happened in the time that she was gone.<br/><br/>From her death, to the intense bullying, the spider bite and the strange abilities hog from it, even his decision to become a vigilante and why he made it. "Most recently I met a rather weird girl named Hatsume Mei, she had caught me while I was testing one of the gadgets I made for my vigilante work and wouldn't back off when I didn't tell her how it worked. Instead she dragged me to her house where I met her parents. Her mother may look intimidating with her hawk like eyes but she's actually really caring and her father—," after taking for a bit more he was finally at the end of his story while his mother just listened patiently with that same gentle smile on her face. Their food had long been finished at this point.<br/><br/>"—her mother ended up sending me home with a plate of food anyway," Izuku had finally finished his monologue, allowing his mother to speak,"I'm glad to hear you made a friend. As for these powers of yours I'd like to tell you to be careful but something tells me you'll end up in trouble anyway. Just promise me you'll be responsible and stand by any decisions that you make, never lose track of yourself and who you are."<br/><br/>"I promise, I won't let you down," the food had long since been cooked and eaten. He had noticed long ago the kitchen window visible from his position at the table showing nothing but bright white outside. 'I know this is a dream, how could I not know? But even if it's a dream I should be allowed to enjoy this moment at least for now,' as Izuku thought this time ebbed away until he noticed his surroundings started to become hazy. His mother got up and started walking away as she spoke,"It seems our time is up, Izuku. It was nice seeing you again, as well as hearing that you made a friend. I want you to know that I'm proud of you and whatever you decide to do."<br/><br/>Upon seeing his mother walking away he made to chase after her,"Wait I'm not finished, there's so much more I want to talk to you about. Don't go, I'm not ready for you to leave yet." She turned around at this,her surroundings were getting brighter and brighter as he reached out for her,"No one's ever ready, but I'm more reassured now. You are paving your own path, making a life for yourself. As long as you stick with your choices and don't do anything too crazy then I believe you will be ok."<br/><br/>'No not again, even in my dreams. I didn't even get to say goodbye last time. Come on Izuku, if you can't even say it in your dreams then things really are hopeless aren't they" seeing the uselessness in his running, Izuku stopped moving and gave the most genuine smile that he could. 'That's right this is a dream so I can visit her at anytime, if anything what I should be doing is give some reassurance,' he opened his mouth and spoke to her," I love you mom, I'll see you again soon."<br/><br/>It looked like she was about to say something but as Inko opened her mouth a shrill beeping noise came from out of nowhere and the next thing he knew he was inside of his bed staring at the ceiling. Turning off his alarm clock Izuku got up and opened his closet to get out his clothes for the day.<br/><br/>Walking into the restroom and turning on the shower his mind seemed to be preoccupied with the dream he had. 'It's been a long time since I had a dream about mom, I'm not quite sure what to think about it. I do have to say though I haven't had a dream that pleasant since before her death. As a matter of fact I have had very few dreams in that time and the ones I did have weren't very good.,' while thinking this Izuku remembered what his mother said in the dream.<br/><br/>'I don't know how well I will do but I promise to try to live my life as best as I can. When we do meet again, I will be someone you can be proud of,' after these thoughts Izuku finished the rest of his shower in peace.<br/><br/>After getting dressed and brushing his teeth he made sure he had everything he needed prepared in his bookbag, today was a special day after all. 'Today is Friday, the day I take the test to leave school early. I'll have to wait for the results to leave and that should be in by the end of the weekend so today is my official last day of school. It's also the day the world is introduced to the vigilante Frost,' he was ready and about to walk out of the door when he noticed a neglected corner of the room that he rarely went to.<br/><br/>This corner was covered in dust from top to bottom and had a cobweb in the top corner of the ceiling. The only piece of furniture there was a nightstand that had a single picture frame on it, so much dust caked it's surface that the picture was no longer visible. Grabbing a rag from his work desk Izuku made his way over there and wiped the desk up, clearing all the dust and grime off of it. Once that was finished he moved onto the picture itself, taking great care in cleaning it.<br/><br/>Slowly the picture revealed itself to be one of his mother, smiling gently into the camera that took her photo. Setting it down a single tear escaped Izuku's eye, sliding down his cheek before he wiped it away.<br/><br/>'I'm sorry for not taking care to see you properly mom. If I'm being honest with myself I believe I avoided this for so long because I didn't want to admit the fact that you were gone. I was weak and refused to admit the truth in front of my eyes, but not anymore. I'm finally starting to see things a bit more clearly now. I'm finally starting to accept things and I believe that with time I will be ok. Maybe not anytime soon, but I can at least promise that I won't ignore how I feel anymore,' smiling at the picture he gave the face in it one last wave and a smile before turning around to leave,"I'll see you soon mom!"<br/><br/>Walking out of the doors of the orphanage Izuku was more sure of himself than he had been in a long time and arrived at the school just as the bell rang signalling the start of class. Walking into the class and sitting at his seat, he passed the time by jotting down new gadget ideas in his notebook. He was currently working out the kinks in one of the gadgets for his official hero suit that will debut when he makes it to UA.<br/><br/>The gadget was going to work as a substitute for spider webbing, seeing as how it was now pretty obvious to him he did not get that ability. 'Ive got the chemical formula for my webbing down, however it's a fluid that turns into webbing upon exposure with the air. In order to get it to act how I want it too I'm going to need a mechanism that pressurizes this fluid and shoots it out as thick ropes of webbing, now as for the materials I'll need—,' Izuku got so into his notes and planning that he didn't notice the time go by until he heard the bell ring signalling lunch time.<br/><br/>While everyone else got up and headed toward the cafeteria, Izuku made his way to the exam room which just so happened to also be used for detentions. Walking into the room which looked no different from any other classroom in the school he saw the examiner that would be watching over him during the test. He was a portly old teacher who was actually due to retire at the end of the year. With his thinning grey hair and and clean shaven face filled with wrinkles, he looked like anyone's stereotypical school teacher.<br/><br/>"Ah, Mr. Midoriya your right on time. You can choose any seat you wish and I will hand you your test. You can only start your test when I give the ok and when you start you will have sixty minutes to complete it. If you finish early I suggest double checking your answers to make sure there aren't any errors. If you understand them we can begin," as the teacher said this Izuku slightly nodded his head to show he understood and took a seat at the front of the room.<br/><br/>The teacher gave him his test and upon receiving the ok he began. As he expected he already knew the answers to the questions on the test but since he didn't want to bring attention to himself pretended to be slower than he actually was. Still despite that he finished the test in twenty minutes so he spent the rest of his time pretending to look over his answers.<br/><br/>"Time's up Mr. Midoriya put your pencil down and hand your test over to me," Izuku did just that and left soon after, heading back to his regular classes. The rest of the day went as normal with him writing things down in his notebook and Katsuki harassing him until finally the end of day bell came and he hurried out of the classroom eager to start making the gadgets he wrote down in his notebook today. <br/><br/>He headed to Takoba Beach to see if he could salvage some parts for his project and that was when an idea hit him. 'Maybe I should try calling Mei to help out. I promised to call anyway and I'm sure she would be more than happy to help out. It would also make searching for parts that much easier,' after thinking it over for a while he took out his phone and after a moment of hesitation, pressed call on her contact.<br/><br/>It only had the chance to ring once before she picked up,"Hello this is Hatsume Mei, baby maker extraordinaire! Who is it that I'm talking to right now?" Taking a breath he responded,"Hey it's Izuku, I was going to head to Takoba Beach to gather some parts for a project I'm working on, I was wondering if you would—," he was cut off before he could even finish his sentence,"I'll be there in ten minutes, just wait for me!"<br/><br/>Before he could even retort she hung up the phone. Sighing, Izuku put his phone away while continuing the walk to his destination. Eventually he got tired of walking and opted to run instead so he went to a secluded area and took off, arriving at his destination minutes later. Not long after he arrived, Mei came running into the beach towards him.<br/><br/>Coming to a stop a couple feet away she dropped to her knees seemingly out of breath. "I-I made it! So, what'd I miss?," she was panting in between sentences as she spoke, slightly worrying Izuku although he knew the reason for it. "Um, are you ok? If you want we can wait and let you cool down a little before starting?" at his words Mei shook her head,"No let's start now, I'll cool down soon enough. Besides you never told me exactly what it was we were working on?"<br/><br/>Smiling at her enthusiasm for gadgets but still a bit worried Izuku got straight to business," In order to explain that I would like to explain my quirk, which for now I'll simply call spider. It allows me to do anything a spider can do, except make webs. So I'm making a gadget that can do so for me. I'm planning on being a hero so I'm going to need all the advantages that I can get."<br/><br/>Smiling at his ideas she replied," A hero huh? I would've preferred the support course myself but that's just me, anyway do you got schematics or even a rough idea of the device you want to make?" When she asked these questions Izuku nodded and brought his notebook out turning it to the page depicting the gadget he was planning to make while replying to her,"Who ever said I couldn't do both? Heros can have businesses on the side you know. I love helping people and there are multiple ways to do it. I want create things that are a help to society and save people as a hero, that is my goal!"<br/><br/>Mei looked at him for a moment, she was shocked at his conviction. After staring at him for a while she smiled a bit before taking the notebook from his hands,"Well then I guess we should take a look at the first baby on your list then?" With that she took a look at the gadget he had written out on the page in front of her,"Aside from the chemicals I seem to have everything we will need back at my house so here's what we will do. You are going to go get the chemicals you need and stop by my place tomorrow. Then we can begin making the gadgets once we have everything we need, we don't need to salvage for things we already have after all."<br/><br/>Izuku nodded at that and since it wasn't too late yet they spent a bit of time talking to each other about their day before parting ways. Upon leaving the beach he immediately went to a store he knew held the chemicals he needed and purchased them. None of them required any kind of special permission so he didn't have any trouble acquiring them.<br/><br/>After leaving the store Izuku rushed back to the orphanage as it was getting dark and he needed to get ready for his first night as a vigilante. Arriving at the orphanage he immediately went to his room where he retrieved a suitcase from under his bed that contained his costume.<br/><br/>Unlocking the case he put the costume on and admired himself in the mirror. With his white cloak and hood covering him and white military style cargo pants he looked very military aside from the white mask and hood completely hiding his face from anyone's sight. To top it off was a black utility belt complete with his grappling gun and frost grenades he had carefully prepared. Taking a deep breath, Izuku steeled himself for what he was about to do. "It's go time," he said this to himself as he opened his window and jumped out into the night.</p>