That Evening - Ray's POV

I walk with Dad to the new Therapists office and Dad pats my shoulder. "Don't judge too fast. Try to last the whole session." Dad says to me.

I sigh slightly. "I'm not looking forward to this." I say to Dad who nods.

"I know, but he's supposed to be a good therapist." Dad says to me.

I go to knock on the door when I hear a man on the other side, say to come in.

I stare at the door confused, but I walk in and Dad leaves.

I look at the clean cut guy, he's got tanner skin, not real tan, but noticeable, he's wearing a suit, looks to be in shape, has a scruff with a sharp jaw, he's ok looking, but that's cause I have a type.

"Hello Ray, which last name is it?" He asks me.

"Midoriya. On papers that's what it is." I say to him.

"Hello Ray Midoriya, my name is Cameron." He says to me.

I nod. "Hi." I say and I close the door behind me.

"Sit, let's get to know you a bit." Cameron says to me.

I watch him slightly confused, he's the eager type, he wants to know how to help.

I sit on the couch and I talk with him about issues I had that were getting fixed with another therapist that I stopped seeing, and issues I've been having, how my mentality is, a bit of back story on how the issues started and little things. Cameron doesn't interrupt me once, he talks when I finish. He listened to the issues and asked questions about them that some I was able to answer, some I wasn't.

"So, Ray, how was the session?" Cameron asks me at the end of our time.

"A lot better than some of my previous ones. Thanks." I say to Cameron.

"Of course, now, how would you like to schedule our sessions?" Cameron asks me.

"I tend to like having a session every day, if that's possible, if you prefer to have weekends free, that's fine." I say to Cameron who nods.

"Alright, well I have no life here in Japan other than my job, so every day works for me. What time of day would you like to have our sessions?" Cameron asks me.

"Preferably evening like this one, I have a lot that happens in the afternoon, so 8 o'clock?" I ask him.

"And so you can vent safely after a long day about stuff that happens?" Cameron asks me.

"Yes." I say to Cameron who nods with a smile.

"So 8 until 10, how does that sound?" Cameron asks me.

"That sounds perfect." I say to Cameron who nods.

"Alright, I will see you tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock." Cameron says as he gets up, so I follow in suit and I get up as well.

We go to the door and I leave.

I go to the dorm house.

"How was the new therapist?" Katsu asks me as I enter my room.

"He's good. I sat there and we talked about the issues I've had, and am currently having, where they stemmed from, and he listened the entire time, asked me questions about them when I finished talking, I felt listened too, which is a lot better than my previous sessions." I say to Katsu who hugs me.

"That's great Baby." Katsu says to me as he hugs me tighter.

I smile as I hug him, my chin on his shoulder and my arms around his waist.

Me and Katsu eat dinner and afterwards, we cuddle on my bed and I end up falling asleep pretty quick.

The next day during training with Shinso and Matthew

"Mom doesn't want you around." Matthew says to me. "I don't want you around her, you only bring her grief." Matthew says to me annoyed.

I nod. "And I don't want you near me, yet here we are. Be pissy all you want. I don't give two flying fucks. I'm being forced to be nice to you, so you can at least be nice back. I'm going to a different therapist, so chill the fuck out." I say to him.

"I feel sorry for the shit your gonna be dragging your new therapist through then. He's just trying to do his job, and all your gonna do is bring trouble to him." Matthew says to me.

"Fuck it, done being nice, you need to take a fucking chill pill, your not helping my anxiety, I get you want to protect your mom, but I want to protect everybody, so I have to go to therapy to get my issues worked out otherwise I will make to be a very shitty hero, I'll have to power to be one, but not the mental stability that I need to be one. So either shut the fuck up about this and leave it alone, or fuck off, I will deal with those issues when they arrive, not right now, I already have to fix everything I fucked up on. When I started here, I had no intention of therapy, I had no intention of my therapy getting out to everyone because my classmate had to be a dick, I had no intention of hurting anyone, and if you could look past that abnormally large nose of yours, you could find the facts for yourself and shut the fuck up." I say to Matthew, quite annoyed and he stares at me in shock. "Not everyone grows up with a therapist for a mother and a stable family, some people have to go to therapy because of how fucked up their childhood was, so I need you to leave me and my issues, out of your issues with me." I say to Matthew.

"I was wondering when you were going to snap." Shinso says to me.

"I have not been having a good day." I say to Shinso.

"At least you didn't beat him to a pulp, that's an improvement." Dad says to me.

"Hey, no, actually, that's fair." I say and Dad nods.

"I do not have an abnormally large nose." Matthew says to me annoyed.

My phone buzzes for breaking news and I look at it to see some pros talking shit about me live, cause I criticized them yesterday.

"Ray, what did you do?" Dad asks me.

"I criticized them cause they were being assholes to me." I say to Dad. "One of them's a gambler, the other is a pompous asshole who cares more about his appearance as a hero, than actually doing hero work. He leaves everything to his side kicks." I say to Dad with a shrug.

"How were they being rude to you?" Dad asks me.

"They were rude to me, calling me a child, they were fighting for the city of Kurashiki since the Mizukage agency is shut down for the next two weeks since they're on vacation, and I wasn't having that bullcrap, and since Kurashiki was my mothers jurisdiction and her agency is technically mine, it's in the will, I would have to reread it again, but that's painful, I gave partial rights to the city to Endeavor's agency because I do my work study under him and I told the pros to fuck off." I say to Dad who nods.

"That's no excuse to be rude." Dad says to me.

"They were calling me a child, I'm almost an adult, I've seen more shit than they have, I'm probably more mature than most of them." I say to Dad.

"No excuse." Dad says to me.

"I think it was perfectly called for." I say to Dad with a shrug.

"It was not." Dad says to me.

"Either way, now they're showing what they truly think of me, and I personally, couldn't give less of a shit. I knew they didn't like me, so I wasn't gonna be nice." I say to Dad who gets quiet at that.

"How do you know they didn't like you?" Shinso asks me.

"I've been around enough people to tell." I say to Shinso.

"How do you know people dislike you when you rarely talk to strangers?" Dad asks me.

"Cause I can hear them talk shit. Civilians are not discreet." I say to Dad who stops asking those questions.

The door opens and in comes Nora with her Husband.

I look at Dad, staring at him, cause I want him to handle this, I don't want to handle this at all.

"Ray?" Nora asks surprised when she sees me.

I give her a small wave as I stare at Dad.

"Matthew, you didn't tell me you were training with Ray." Nora says to Matthew.

My phone buzzes and it's more breaking news.

I look at it to see Kurashiki is under attack from a large swarm of villains.

I get a call from Endeavor and I pick it up.

"Get here as soon as possible." Endeavor says and hangs up.

"Just when I thought my day couldn't get any worse." I say to Dad as I show him the Kurashiki attack.

"Endeavor call you already?" Dad asks me.

I nod. "Yeah, he doesn't do small talk over the phone, he just told me to get to his agency, I'm assuming this is why." I say to Dad.

"Alright, get going." Dad says to me.

"I'll be back later, probably much later." I say to Dad who nods.

I grab my bag and my gloves.

"Yeah, go save a city." Matthew mocks to me.

I look at him and I smirk. "Unlike you, I was planning to." I say and I leave.

"Was pissing him off, a good idea?" Shinso asks as he walks with me.

"No. But nobody mocks me." I say and Shinso nods.

We walk to my dorm house and Shinso leaves.

I head up to my room and I get changed into my hero costume.

"Good luck babe." Katsu says as he kisses my cheek when I leave my bathroom. I smile as he holds my belt of capsules out for me. I kiss Katsu on his cheek as I take my belt.

"Thank you Honey." I say to him, making him smirk.

I put on my gloves and I grab my guns.

I head to Endeavors Agency and Inferno briefs me on the Kurashiki situation while Combustion hands me my folder.

"It's cold as fuck today." I say as I pull my cloak tighter around my shoulders, amusing Inferno.

"Once we get fighting, you'll be ok." Inferno says to me amused.

I nod and Endeavor walks out and we head to Kurashiki.

"Combustion, Cascade, you two will be paired up, don't lose sight of each other, Inferno, your with me." Endeavor says and continues to pair up his side kicks.

I load my guns as me and Combustion head out.

"This is gonna be a piece of work." Combustion says as we watches the villains.

"Then stay back, I'll handle it." I say as I put my mask on.

"Not a chance." Combustion says to me as we get to work defeating the villains.

I shoot a few villains with water who were about to surprise attack Combustion.

"Your welcome." I say to Combustion and fire sweeps around me from Combustion, which feels really good since I'm freezing, however it startled the shit out of me.

"Your welcome." Combustion says to me with a smirk and I see a few villains on the ground, toasted.

"Thanks." I say to him.

Combustion's hand lights a fire above it and we walk as I unfreeze my fingers over the fire.

"It must be weird not having a fire quirk." Combustion comments.

"Weird how?" I ask him.

"The world would be very cold to me if I didn't have my fire quirk, so it must suck for you to have a water quirk during the winter." Combustion says to me.

"I can't deny that. The world is very cold." I say to Combustion. "I've been an icicle a few times. Didn't enjoy it, but water freezes in the cold." I say to Combustion with a small shrug.

A reporter races this way with her camera man, she's got two villains behind her.

I watch the movement before I pull out my gun and I shoot both the villains with enough water pressure to knock them out.

"Oh my god, that was terrifying." The reporter breaths out as she stands in front of us, scared out of her wits.

I look at Combustion. "We should take them to the safe area." I say to Combustion who nods in agreement.

"Ma'am, do you and your buddy have any injuries?" Combustion asks the two.

"No, we're ok." The reporter says to us.

"Good, then let's go." Combustion says to the two and I follow behind the three as we go to the evacuation area.

"Cascade, isn't this supposed to be your city?" The reporter asks me as the camera focuses on my face.

I stare at the Reporter. "I'm a teenager thay babysits the city for my mother." I say with no emotion and Combustion clears his throat. "Get that camera out of my face, or I'll break it, the city is in danger, and so are you guys, cause if a villain is watching the news, they could easily find us if they knew the city." I say to Reporter and they quickly turn the camera off.

"Your having a bad day, aren't you?" Combustion asks me.

I shrug slightly. "No offense, but I'm not talking about my day in front of anyone who works for the media." I say and Combustion nods.

"Cascade!" Endeavor yells.

I look at Endeavor dead in the eyes. "No." I say and Endeavor smirks at that.

Inferno joins my side and she looks nervous.  Combustion stands on the other side of me as the two civilians go into the safe building.

The four of us talk and we make a final sweep of the city as the police move behind us to take care of the knocked out villains.

When I get back to the dorm house.

"I still don't understand why you respect Endeavor." Tara says to me when I enter the dorm house.

I stare at her. "I'm not starting that bs again." I say as I walk to the elevator.

"Do you know how annoying that is for me? That you respect the guy that our Mom's hate?" Tara asks as she follows me.

"Ray?" Shoto asks confused.

"God forbid that I respect the hero who saved me from my abuser when I was five." I say to Tara whose eyes widen in shock. "God forbid I respect the pro whose been changing his act and asked me for help to help fix his family that he broke." I continue and Tara shuts up. "God forbid I respect the pro whose been patient with my ass that keeps getting hurt and training me after my major injuries, like both times I got shot, or when I nearly died when saving Eri." I continue. "I respect the pros who actually want to help and are trying to do right by the little people. So excuse me for being different than our mothers, but my mother is not me, I am me, I had my mother for a very short time unlike you, so I am who I am because I had Inko, and she's a damn fine mother." I say to Tara who instantly looks guilty.

"Yeah I was gonna warn you guys, Ray's not been in the best of moods the past few days." Mina says nervously.

Matthew walks in with Dad and Shinso and I instantly scowl at Matthew who is scowling at me.

"Dad?" I ask.

"Ray if you and Matthew don't along, I'll lock you two in the training room to get along like I did with you and Bakugou." Dad says to me.

"Dad this is my sanctuary, this is the one place where I don't have to deal with assholes. Don't bring assholes into my sanctuary, there's no helping whatever that is." I say as I motion to Matthew.

"HEY!" Matthew yells at me.

"You've been a dick to me, shut up. Cause I was fully intending to start off on the right foot with you. Then you fucked it up. Shut up." I say to Matthew.

"Babe?" Katsu asks as he gets out of the stairs to see me not having a good time. "What the fuck is going on?" Katsu asks annoyed.

"Now Ray, apologize to Matthew." Dad says to me.

"No, why would I apologize? He's been fanning the flames of my issues that I've had to fix myself." I say to Dad. "He can fuck off until he learns to check himself. He'd never say this shit to his mother, so he shouldn't say it to a girl either, it's not justifiable." I say to Dad.

"Mom isn't having a good day." Denki says worried.

"Your so full of yourself." Matthew says to me with a roll of his eyes.

"I'd rather be full of myself, than of your bullshit." I say to Matthew, staring him dead in the eyes, annoyed. "And that may be selfish in your eyes because everything has always catered to you your entire life, from your choice of schools, your friends, your family, your teachers, your pissed I'm the one person who doesn't take your bullshit." I say to Matthew who looks pissed off about that.

"Excuse me? I've had just a difficult life as you." Matthew says to me pissed.

"Oh I'm sorry you always got blueberry waffles instead of chocolate ice cream in the morning, that must have been very difficult." I say to Matthew in a fake sympathy tone.

"Should we be here?" Momo asks worried.

"We never see Mom get upset, she's always cool headed. The last time she got upset was when Mineta leaked that she goes to therapy and it was all over the media." Denki says to Momo.

"Come on, let's take a break from this." Katsu says to me as he tries to pull me away from this. "Your boiling hot." Katsu whispers, worried.

"What? Can't take owning up to your bullcrap?" Matthew asks me.

I go stand in front of Matthew and I slap him, and I slap him hard, to which his ends up stumbling back. "Don't you ever, fucking dare say that in front of Katsu whose only looking out for me, so I don't fucking kill you. Because he can attest that I can get violent, real fucking quick." I say to Matthew, pissed. "And if you talk shit about my friends, or my family, I will get violent, don't test me. I've been lenient with you." I say to Matthew who is staring at me with tear pricked eyes. "I hope that fucking hurt." I say to Matthew. "You do not get to come into my life, and criticize me for trying to fix what got broke. Go stay in your ignorant little world where it revolves around you, because if you spew your shit at me, I will put you in your place again. No one treats me like shit, not now, not ever again. I've had enough of that in my life." I say to Matthew.

"That wasn't nice." Dad says to me with a disapproving tone.

"Yeah? Well I've had enough of his bullshit, and you let him freely speak shit about me, your own daughter, and did nothing about it, so I'm fighting for myself." I say to Dad, staring at him, completely done with peoples bullshit today.

"Does somebody need to see their therapist?" Matthew mocks and I break his nose, easily.

"Cameron is gonna have a field day." I say as I walk to the elevator. "Hope your nose fucking hurts Bitch." I say as I enter the elevator.

Katsu joins me and when the door closes, I slide down the wall onto my butt.
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