[ LEARN TO BE HAPPY, ]
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❝Seriously?! No!"

"My my, why are you so defensive? Your opinion doesn't even matter in this,"

"I'm his fa-"

"You two can't go a day without fighting, can you?" The curly haired boy interrupted the fight between the animal hybrid and the homeless looking pro-hero.

"Izuku," Aizawa called out to the boy, his furrowed eyebrows lightly relaxing.

Aizawa Shota! Pro Hero, Eraserhead.
Quirk - Erasure: the ability to temporarily erase other people's powers simply by looking at them.

Izuku huffed, giving the man a pointed look. "I could hear you yelling from a mile away, no wonder you're Hizashi-san's husband." Izuku rolled his eyes.

Midoriya[Aizawa] Izuku! U.A.'s Principal's apprentice.
Quirk - Flame Manipulation: the ability to manipulate fire— ᴇʀʀᴏʀ!! ᴍᴏʀᴇ ɪɴꜰᴏʀᴍᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ɪꜱ ɴᴏᴛ ᴘʀᴏᴠɪᴅᴇᴅ ᴅᴜᴇ ᴛᴏ ʟᴀᴄᴋ ᴏꜰ Qᴜɪʀᴋ ᴛᴇꜱᴛ.

He walked towards them, "What are you two arguing over now?" Crossing his arms, Izuku narrowed his eyes at the two pro heroes.

Nezu smiled like he always did, dark eyes glinting, "Now now, Izuku! No need to look at me like that, I'm not at fault here."

Nezu! Pro Hero, Mr. Principle!
Quirk - High Spec: the ability to possess and hone a high level of intelligence that surpasses that of human.

"Are you trying to say I'm at blame, Nezu?" Aizawa scowled, his eye twitching in annoyance. "Well, while I am not pointing fingers, you were the one that Izuku could hear yelling." Nezu retorted, a smile on his face.

"You-"

"Ahem." Izuku finally interrupted, unamused.

Aizawa and Nezu both turned to face him.

Izuku sighed, tired of his shitty life. "Again, what are you two arguing over?" A better question would be, what did he do in his last life to deserve this?

Aizawa and Nezu slowly turn to each other, making eye contact, Nezu with a creepy grin and Aizawa with a frozen face. A feeling of dread filled Izuku's guts.

"...Don't say it." Aizawa warned. Nezu's smile stretches even more,

"IZUKU, WOULD YOU LIK–"
"SHUT UP YOU DAM-"

. . .

"...You want me...to be a teacher."

Nezu enthusiastically nods. "Brilliant idea, isn't it?" The hybrid ignored the roll of Aizawa's eyes, "Some of the first-year teachers are peevish over the increasing mess the students were being last year, and on top of that, All Might's a rather...ghastly teacher and needs dire help in the subject of teaching, so I was thinking for you to help him out.

Most heroes nowadays are forgetting the purpose of their brain and how heroes were before quirks became the norm, and rarely use any decent strategy in fight, relying purely on their quirk – you will be a great help in that area as well, Izuku!"

Aizawa disapprovingly frowned, glaring at Nezu. "I don't approve of thi-"

"Shut up, the adults are talking." Nezu interrupted before looking back towards Izuku, waiting for the boy to reply. A tick mark appeared on Aizawa's forehead; he dug his face inside his scarf with a scowl.

"But, what about my education? Aren't I supposed to go to U.A myself? Aren't I too young according to the U.A. policy?" Izuku shot out some of the flaws he could see with a raised eyebrow.

Aizawa slightly straightened his wonky-as-fuck back, looking at Nezu with smug eyes. Yeah, NeZu. What're you gonna say to that?

"Your education is already above impressive, plus I am still teaching you! You will still be going to U.A., just as a teacher assistance, and will still be participating in most important stuff, such as the sport festival! And what is the U.A. policy going to do to the Principle of U.A. himself?" Nezu chirped back as if he'd already anticipated the answer, which he probably did.

Izuku hummed, looking like he was considering this, but he really wasn't.

Working with All Might? Of all fucking people?

Tell him to take a swan dive off the roof and it'd be a better suggestion. [Did you see what he did there?]

There was no way Izuku was agreeing to this.

"NO! THIS IS A TERRIB-" Aizawa screeched in the middle of Izuku's thought.

...You know what, maybe he will do it. Just for the sake of messing with Aizawa. [Izuku will 100% regret this decision in the future]

"I'll do it." Izuku lightly answered. [In the back of his mind, he could almost hear himself in the future, screeching at him to not accept this and this wouldwnkjns-]

Huh. Weird, Izuku thought he heard someone yelling at him.

Aizawa's jaw dropped and Nezu's eyes sparkle.

Izuku had a feeling he was going into something deeper than he thought.

He smiled; This was going to be fun.

[ 𝙴𝚇𝚃𝚁𝙰 ]

Shota glared at his coffee.

It would be an odd scene to anyone who came in because Shota's love for coffee was bigger than his hate for Nezu, but Shota had closed the door just after entering, so that scenario wasn't possible.

'That chin lacking rat!' Shota cursed out Nezu in his head, recalling the conversation he just had.

Why did Izuku even say yes?! Didn't he hate All Ass?? [All Ass literally cause have you seen this man's ass?!?!?]

"SOmE oF thE firSt-yEaR tEaChErS aRe PeEvIsH oVeR tHe InCrEaSiNg mEsS tHe sTuDeNtS wErE bEiNg LaSt YeAr- Literally nobody even complained! It's all Vlad's fault." Shota didn't know how it was Vlad's fault, but it was. Deal with it.

'Bastard's just tryna take Izuku away!' Now, anyone would say that was a far-fetched guess, but Shota has seen shit with his very two eyes, he'll have you know!

[ Flashback – Nezu's office, CH 24- A bIRDiful distraction ]

"We've found someone who wants to adopt Izuku..."

Now, Izuku had ignored everything that had happened after this, going into high denial and ran away from U.A.

Well, here it is. What actually happened.

"There's someone who wants to...adopt Izuku?" Shota repeated the words to himself, as if he couldn't believe it.

A crunching feeling in his gut that he was all too familiar to.

Unhappy. A simple word, but it was just enough to explain his feelings.

Shota was unhappy with this.

Why? He didn't let himself dwell long on the question before he chapped his mouth open to say a singular word, "...who?"

And if his fist tightened, he ignored it.

Nezu's face darkened in an odd way, his lips twitching. "It's..........................."

.

.

.

.

.

.

"...me."

...

...What.

Shota's solemn face dropped, his jaw dropping.

Nezu took that as an invitation to continue with a sharp smile, "I have decided to adopt Izuku, and make him my son. Not only shall he be the most excellent son in the world, but he will assist me in great things-!" His smile stretched creepily, and anybody could tell the hybrid was planning something.

Shota's face comically darkened; his face covered by his hair as a vein popped in his raised fist.

Papers appeared out of nowhere in Nezu's hands as he tightened his tie professionally. "I already have the paperwork printed and ready-"

Shota snatched the paper with his hand and Nezu's by his tie with his other hand.

...

Shota threw Nezu to the wall from his tie and tore the paper into pieces.

"Rat."

Then, he walked out of the office like nothing happened. [Students stayed out of his way because he was letting out a demotic aura that suffocated everyone. His colleagues wondered who had stolen his sleeping bag this time.]

[ Flashback End – Nezu's office, CH 24- A bIRDiful distraction ]

Shota aggressively sipped his coffee.

He'll find a way to keep Nezu away.

...

[ Trigger Warning ]
This story will have mentions of quirk prejudice, suicide, suicide baiting, self-harm, violence & gore, mental illness, death, panic attacks, assault, and possibly more. I am in no way ridiculing these triggers, most of these are serious things that happen all the time in real life and are to be taken seriously.

Please do not continue reading this story if you do not feel comfortable with these topics or get easily triggered.

Everything you read will be your responsibility to handle after this trigger warning and I will not be held responsible for your reaction or what you decide to do after reading, but there will still be a short trigger warning before a chapter if deemed necessary.

Proceed with caution and have a good read, dear reader(s).

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Posted at 18/04/2023