"Why the fuck can deku leave so god damn early?!!" The roaring voice of Katsuki Bakugo surfaced the final period of the day. Most of Class-1A  were more jealous than curious now as to why their classmate can leave early with Kota.

Its being a week already since Izuku showed up with the PussyCats kid along with the change in schedule. Lunch then when school ends, it had only became a recent occurrence.

Kota got to know each of the Class one-A students. One group of people that Kota couldn't find himself talking to was the girls of Izuku's class. The thought back during the summer in the steamy hot bathes was to much for the young child.

Though there are the ones that Kota instantly started to feel distaste for and it wasn't because of the hero goal. Katsuki Bakugo, a loud, short tempered, and foul language using idiot that really annoyed the young child to unimaginable heights. It did not help that he would always get upset when anything had to do with Izuku. Always referring the temporary guardian as 'Deku' or 'useless' just dug the hole deeper.

Only once had Kota brought up why Katsuki and Izuku were on such off terms. Izuku explained that that how he is. Later on the child realized that it wasn't just Izuku that he yelled at but anyone who got on his nerves. Throwing out nicknames of certain classmates such as 'Half-an-Half' or 'round face'. Honestly to the kid, the blonde hero in training was starting to get on his nerves.

"Hey Izuku?"

"Yes Kota?"

The first name basis came around the third day as the child did not want not address Izuku as nothing when they talk. Izuku on the other hand, he used the first name with Kota since day one so there wasn't any noticeable changes.

"Can I call my aunt?"

"Sure thing, here you go."

Kota looked up at Izuku as they were sitting down in a empty cafeteria. Izuku paused drinking his water to reach for his phone. Going through the contact list which was fairly small. He found Kota's requested contact.

'Mandalay'. Pressing the name on the touch screen to have the phone ringing for the other line to answer. Izuku handed the device to Kota who put it up to his ear.

With Mandalay, her team just finished rescuing a couple of people in a burning building. Granted the team was still recovering from the damaged Ragdoll. She had become quirkless when the villains abducted her during the summer camp raid. Thanks to the leader of the league of villains, her power 'search' was taken away.

Shino Sosaki, a pro hero and leader of a three(formally four) man team was talking to the police officers. Reporting in on any victims of the fire and who may be injured, missing, and deceased. Fortunately there where no casualties, otherwise just a few minor injuries some civilians had attain.

Ring

Ring

Ring

Shino excuses herself from the police officer and made her way to a spot where she can answer without much background noise.

"Hello."

She did not looked at the contact name of who was calling her. Given the exhaustion of just finishing the task. Her mental thinking wasn't yet up par yet as her physical readiness. Shino didn't expect her own nephew from calling her.

"Auntie...it's me."

Her once hardened and focus eyes softened at the sound her only family member.

"Kota? I haven't heard from you all week. How is U.A.?"

It was true that her own nephew did not contact her by any means. She did trust U.A. to not worry about the safety of its students but this was her only family member who is no older than six. It did comfort her a bit knowing that he called her.

"Yea, sorry about that. So far it's been alright, Izuku has been showing me around the campus and letting me do my own thing."

Shino quirked an eyebrow at this. She hoped that the teenager was not being irresponsible about his presence around Izuku.

"Really now? Well I am glad you called me. Learn anything over there?" She asked wondering what Kota had been up to lately as a bunch of events can happen over the weekend.

"I learn that I need to be in bed by eight and up by six which is tiring on the weekdays. Izuku must watch over me when I am on the school grounds, that involves classrooms, cafeteria, and restroom."

Sosaki was glad that Izuku was keeping watch over Kota which cleared up the misunderstanding of Kota able to do what he wants so long as it's in the presence of Izuku and appropriate as well as legal.

"That's good to hear. Find anything you like or dislike?"

Even though Kota was safe in the pro hero's eyes, that doesn't mean it was perfect where her nephew was staying at. Boarding at a institution for future pro heroes was the obvious downside to Kota's opinion and Shino knew that.

"The food is okay, getting up early is a pain, and Izuku's classmates are... loud."

The woman thought a bit sadly since it sure sounded like Kota was disappointed and wanted nothing more to leave. Although Shino knew that her nephew can get through this until the heat dies down.

"I know it's hard on your part Kota, but do your best to get through these two months. Then I will get you and we can move on. Please do your best to understand both you and I's situations."

Sosaki pleaded with the young child, hoping to find forgiveness in his soft yet harden voice. She then heard a sign from the child.

"Yea...okay I understand I guess, just I wish things were different."

Hearing the sadness in his voice hit the aunt hard. This wasn't just some civilian, not just some child, no it was her nephew which hit hard as she couldn't think of a better way to solve the issue.

"I'm going to go... see you Auntie."

A temporary goodbye, Shino did say goodbye to the child but requested to talk to Izuku.

"Hello? Mandalay?"

The voice of the temporary guardian came through the speakers of the pro heroes phone.

"Yes I am here, how's the boarding Deku?"

An odd hero name she had thought to herself.

"It's being going well and no issues on my end."

The teen kept it simple. Shino's soften voice became a more harden by the tone.

"Thank you, I also want to make a request."

She wanted to talk to her nephew more and more. Since they are farther than they ever being before she wanted to make sure Kota can at least call twice or three times a week.

On the other side....

Izuku was in the hallway talking to Mandalay while Kota was getting some water from a nearby fountain.

"Alright I will make sure he does check in on you three times a week." Izuku couldn't really suggest anything from his stand point. The way both his teacher and Mandalay made this situation seem as a job or a task. Thanks to zero experience with kids, Izuku found himself stuck. He obviously had many questions on what to do but to Izuku this wasn't a baby sitting or a day care watch over. This was a personal task for him to help Kota overcome the pain inside of him.

Izuku only had to start with the simple stuff for now.

"Mandalay, do you know anything that Kota likes to do for fun or hobbies of his."

Asking about the personal pastimes that Kota enjoyed or doesn't mind doing would be a start. Shino then began to go through the list of things her nephew would enjoy doing before the incident.

Izuku found out that most of this pastimes has to do with heroes. The only exceptions were playing sports like soccer or baseball. Music was still a unknown subject towards the child so maybe Izuku can have Jiro or one of the girls to introduce Kota to music. As it turns out Kota likes read and sometimes write short stories which got Izuku in a familiar category. Knowing that Izuku can make attempts to get to know Kota more than just simple small talk. After all it was two months of looking after a child, and the teen should not see it as a job at all more like an opportunity to learn something new about himself and the child.

Back with Mandalay...

Once a few more words were exchanged about the interest that Kota has, the aunt and nephew said there goodbyes on the phone.

"Hey Mandalay!" The adult turn her attention to her teammate: Pixie-Bob.

"Yes? Is all the people evacuated?" Sosaki asked no focused on the task at hand.

"Some more people are still missing but I need you to relay the message to see if anyone can make it at the 'meet-up'." Her slick blonde hair move through the motion of the air breeze as she demands more assistance on the search part.

With a nod, Mandalay used her quirk 'telepathy'.
'Everyone around the vicinity, it is all right I am Mandalay of the Pussycats. Any people stranded head to the tower on the lower point of the hill, officers and medics will be there. If you find others stay together and don't separate, the search team and us heroes will be there to find you.' The message was sent out and now it was the duty to help out the civilian.

Back with Izuku...

As lunch came to an end, Izuku noticed the looks that he received from other students. Due to the presence of a young child name Kota, many did not know the reason or purpose as to why a teenage student had a small child accompany them.

"What's with them?" Kota felt a bit off by all the looks towards him and Izuku( mostly Izuku). Izuku looked down to meet eye contact with the child. "It's because it's a bit uncommon to see a child at a Highschool unless it's after the instructional hours."

"They should look the other way." Izuku feel how uncomfortable the boy must a have been due to those words. "We're almost there." With words to give some patience to the child, the two walked with Kota still behind him.

As school came to an end, the rest of the day was spent having some of Izuku's classmates and himself play some sports on the field. Izuku himself was never really active until the ten months of hell just to get his quirk that he still cannot control.

Playing sports was in attempt to get the child to have fun while he was staying there. Thanks to Kota's lack of participation, Izuku's idea did not get anywhere.

There had been several subtle attempts to see if the child would be interested in anything. That did not go as plan either. With one attempt that lead to another made the young child bored and more or less by himself.

Come around evening when the class was having dinner, Kota was sitting on one of the lobby sofas eating the dinner that was provided. Izuku who simply felt bad for pushing the boy into disliking the class a bit more, felt the need to make amends.

Walking towards that same sofa where the child was.

"Is it alright if I sit here?" Izuku asked politely earning a nod at the young boy. "Thanks." Izuku sat down next to the small child.

"You want to do anything? Have anything in mind Kota?" Izuku asked as he turn to look at the boy eating his dinner. "No." Simple as that. Though the boy could have been a bit lenient on the tone.

"Well, how about since sports wasn't really good then we~"

"Stop." Izuku caught himself as the child plainly said no more. "Just stop okay? I don't want to do anything with you or your class. Just let me wait out these two months. Thanks for trying though." Kota kept a stern look on his face and his voice did not express any verbal formality. The young boy signed and left to the kitchen then to the room.

The only thing Izuku could do right now was escort him through these next eight weeks.