The brocoli family

After a not really harmonic breakfast, Nokia won a trip to Naoyuki's blacklist, with no return airplane ticket.

The feats of Fujikawa were: force him to take a photo with the clown in the entrance, buying him a 'Happy Meal' without nuggets, and throwing him to the playground ball pool for kids.

Don't tell how awkward it was to see a grown man of his same age throwing him a plastic ball while grinning from ear to ear saying: "Come here to play, Naoyuki-kun!"

And then the man started to swim in the ball pool.

"........" Naoyuki.

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At the end, his mother took tons of photos of them 'having fun together', deciding to finally go back home after an hour in the fast-food restaurant.

Fujikawa Noki drove them to an apartment complex and then said goodbye to the couple of mother and son.

Naoyuki paid attention to the detail that they never did skin contact, so the relation of these two may not be as close as he thought at the beginning.

The salary man 'Nokia' even said goodbye to Naoyuki personally, promising that the next time he will bring Naoyuki to McDonalds again.

To what Naoyuki responded using his quirk to lock the car from inside… still with keys plugged in the lock cylinder.

It was so funny to see how Nokia panicked noticing that he couldn't open the car door…

But the crafty man very discreetly pretended to go to buy something in a nearby store.

To not become object of ridicule in front of his 'crush' and her child.

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"Here's our home, Nao-chan, do you remember this place?"

Naoyuki raised his eyes, walking in the parking loot of this place he could see six tall buildings of five floors each, they were all longer than wide, and each apartment complex had one number of 1 to 6 in the wall of the top floor.

"I think it looks somehow familiar." The boy answered without much confidence.

"That's nice." The mother smiled.

As steps goes by, Naoyuki looked at the building with more curiousness, what he said wasn't just to please his mother, he actually feels like he had seen this place before.

Then he realized why.

"Good morning, Eto-san, Naoyuki-kun." A softly spoken voice sounded from their back.

As both turned their heads, a green hair woman walked into their vision. She had turquoise color eyes that stand out of her clear skin, and a bon on her silky hair that shows simplicity. Her outfit consisted in a peach-colored long-sleeved sweater over a white shirt, and a short blue skirt that covered her long thighs.

Beside her, there was a freckled child about the same age of Naoyuki, his arm was hanging to his mother's hand like an old rag, with a facial expression full of hopelessness, his mouth was muttering something to himself, but it was not audible.

Naoyuki immediately recognized who they were.

"Hi Midoriya-san, and hi, Izuku-kun. where did you guys go so early?" Naoyuki's mother responded to the greeting of Ms. Midoriya.

"We went to the hospital for Izuku's quirk test, but…" The green hair woman paused her speak and made a gesture of 'no' with her finger.

To what Naoyuki and his mother understood immediately.

And like trying to avoid the topic, she asked back to Naoyuki's mother: "Where did you and Naoyuki-kun go in this morning? I haven't seen him since a while."

"To the hospital as well, Nao-chan had an accident last week and he was hospitalized until today, in the morning he was discharged, so I went to pick him up." That have said, she stroked her son's hair.

"I see, hi Naoyuki-kun, nice to see you again, how you are feeling?"

"Good morning Ms. Midoriya, I'm pretty good, thank you." Naoyuki replied with child behavior.

"Oh, that's nice to hear, you're so polite." The green hair woman ducked to rub his cheeks, clearly the system was right in that part, he was irresistible for 'okasans'.

But, on the other hand, his own mother seems surprised:

"Nao-chan, you remember Midoriya-san?" Eto asked full of doubts.

"Yes, I do, but not a lot, I remember a bit about Izuku too." The minor pointed to the shaddy boy next to the green hair lady.

"Ara, what are you guys talking about?" Ms. Midoriya entered the conversation with doubts too.

Naoyuki's mother looked melancholically at her child and then to her neighbor, after a sigh, she spoke to her friend.

"You'll see, Nao-chan didn't end up with serious injuries, but he lost part of his memory. So far, the only person that he remembers is me." Eto decided to skip the incidents in the first medical result, maybe she didn't want her friend to know.

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that." Ms. Midoriya apologized, then both women looked at each other, they were in the same situation, both unfortunate mothers with a kid with problems…

Meanwhile, Naoyuki cautiously studied Midoriya Izuku, the protagonist of this story. With him in front, Naoyuki could finally understand where he was at the timeline of BnHA: When Midoriya realized that he was quirkless, it was at the age of 4, the same age than Naoyuki.

For good or for bad, he accepted the fact, and then started to think about the original anime.

If everything goes well, All for One will be seriously injured by All might in five years, losing big part of the quirks he collected for a century and more. Following that same logic, the main story arc will start in ten years.

"Do you want to drink some tea while we talk in my apartment? Naoyuki-kun can play with Izuku-kun like they used to, maybe it would be good for both." Ms. Midoriya suggested, she really wants her kid to find a distraction far from the quirkless problem, playing with his friend could be a good choice.

The woman clasped her hands together in apology.

"Oh... Sorry... my work shift is in half an hour, maybe another day?"

Naoyuki turned to see his mother, until now, she hasn't told him anything about a work shift. And when Naoyuki was about to think that it was a lie, the woman continued: "But can Nao-chan stay in your house as usual? I asked Suzuki-san in the morning, but it'll be better if he can play with Izuku-kun."

"Of course, just let him with me, Izuku-kun would be so happy to play with him, right? Izuku-kun?"

"....…...." seeing that there was no response, Ms. Midoriya turned her head, "Izuku?"

"Quirkless… No quirk… Quirkless…No quirk…" The broccoli head kid was still in his world.

"......….." Naoyuki.

"....…....." Naoyuki's mother.

"...…..." Ms. Midoriya.

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It was 11:30 am.

And after all, Naoyuki's mother did let him in Izuku's house. She just left saying "I'll come back by dinner time" and ran in a hurry, which made Naoyuki think that maybe the economic situation of his family wasn't that optimistic.

"We are going to eat at 2:00 pm, are you ok with that? Naoyuki-kun?" Ms Midoriya asked as he changed his shoes in the entrance.

"Yeah."

"Is there anything you want to eat?" The green hair woman kept asking.

Hearing that question, all the cells of Naoyuki's body were activated, getting him into a state of alert.

"Traditional Japanese home cooking, please!" The boy raised his voice.

Izuku's mother, or perhaps Midoriya Inko after Naoyuki asked her name, didn't know what that was about, but she accepted smiling anyways. Later, she told him to go to play with Izuku at his room.

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As the anime and manga shown, the room of Izuku was full of toys and posters of All Might. In the closet, there were a lot of t-shirts and hoodies with the colors of All might's costume, and even the sheets of the bed had some superhero touch. Naoyuki never understood this level of fanatism, but for now, that was not important.

"OMG! Is the real Izuku!" Naoyuki laughed as he rubbed the freckled face of 'Deku', then his arms, and then his hands. Naoyuki felt like he was making a dream come true.

28 years old adult? What was that? I'm just a kid.

And since Izuku did not react to his 'abuses', he just kept making mischief around.

"Izuku, what do you want to play." Naoyuki finally remembered his roll of little friend, so he asked very enthusiastically.

"Quirkless… No quirk… Quirkless…"

".....…..." Clearly the kid was still in his traumatized phase, no matter what Naoyuki tells him, Izuku just keeps ignoring everything.

"Quirkless… Give up… hero…"

Watching the little boy so affected by what happened in this morning, Naoyuki couldn't help but feel distressed. The Izuku that he remembers is the one that jumps into danger fighting the biggest crisis, but the person next to him now was just a kid whose dream was ruined.

If he was crying, Naoyuki won't hesitate to comfort him, but the problem is that Izuku is keeping everything for himself, there's no opening from where Naoyuki could approach.

The silence in the room was in a death point, Naoyuki felt that necessity to say something.

And so he did.

"Emmm, Izuku-chan, you know… hmm… you can becom-"

Suddenly, a voice in his head interrupted his speech.

[Ding!]

[New task accepted!]

[Main task: Relight the flames of the dreamer!!!]

[Mission objective: Help Midoriya Izuku to recover his passion to become a hero.]

[Limit of time: 1 week]

[Punishment: -5 cm of little brother.]

[Award: 200 hero points]