Hello everyone, so this is a 20 chap special and is almost 2 times long with over 2000 words(Usually it's 1100). Enjoy.

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"PUT ME DOWN!" yelled Izuku.

Right now, Izuku was on his way home. Except... he wasn't 'on' his way. He was currently held by Ochako Uraraka as if he was a balloon and was being taken home by her.

"OH HELL NO!" yelled Ochako as she glared at him.

"I said I am sorry Ochako," said Izuku with puppy eyes.

"No. This won't work now. I will tell your mother what you did and then we'll see," she said as she came to a crossroads.

"Uh... where is your house?"

"Put me down and I'll tell you," said Izuku as Ochako's eyes once again started to tear up.

'I know she's doing it purposefully, BUT THAT IS WORKING!' thought Izuku as he cried anime tears.

"Take a right," he groaned.

"Good," said Ochako as she pat him on his head.

"You'll get sick," he said trying to get her to put him down.

"I don't care," Ochako replied.

As they reached Izuku's home, Ochako rang the bell.

A few seconds later loud footsteps were heard.

"IZUKU!" said Inko as she came out only to see Ochako.

"Huh? Oh you must be Uraraka," said Inko, blinking twice.

"Yes Mrs. Midoriya, and here is Deku kun," said Ochako as she brought her hand down showing her a floating Izuku who grinned at her nervously.

"Uh... what is happening?" asked Inko as Ochako sighed.

"He got injured and Recovery Girl told him to take it easy. He wanted to get home but I didn't trust him so I brought him here by making him float," Ochako said as Inko nodded.

"Oh. Well, Uraraka chan come in," said Inko with a smile.

"Ah, no, it's fine. I just wanted to make sure he doesn't do anything stupid like jumping in to fight a villain again," said Ochako with a soft glare directed at Izuku.

"HE WHAT!"

"Ah, don't worry, a lot of people have scolded him, including Ray san," said Ochako reassuring her.

"And not to mention she slapped me for that," grumbled Izuku with a pout.

"Right. But Uraraka, you should come in, Izuku talks a lot about you and I wanted to meet the girl that has stolen his heart," said Inko as both of them blushed.

"WHAT! MOM ITS NOT LIKE THAT!" Izuku yelled, flustered.

"But weren't you talking about how pretty she looked in her hero costume?" said Inko teasingly as Izuku literally swam through the air to his room.

"Well, come in," said Inko with a bright smile as Ochako scratched the back of her head.

"Are you sure I won't be troubling you?" asked Ochako nervously.

"Yeah yeah, just come in. We can have tea and then I could show you Izuku's baby photos," she said as stars formed in Ochako's eyes.

"WOW! LET'S GO!" she said as she excitedly got in.

As Inko seated her and walked into the kitchen Ochako looked at a picture of Izuku and his mum on the table.

"Wow, Deku kun looks really cute as a child," said Ochako picking up the photo.

"Yeah, he was always a big All Might fanboy," said Inko as she took a look at the photo. Izuku was in his signature All Might onesie.

"Seems so," giggled Ochako.

"I just feel so sad," Inko said with a sigh.

"Huh? Why?" asked Ochako.

"Well, when he was four years old, he was deemed Quirkless," said Inko from the kitchen.

"Huh? But he has a quirk," Ochako exclaimed.

"He is a really late bloomer. He got his quirk roughly 10 months before the Entrance exam. From there he met Steve who was here on a tour and some business," said Inko as Ochako's eyes widened.

"Really?"

"Yes. But he always wanted to be a hero. He used to say that he would save as many as he could and would become like All Might," said Inko as Ochako felt her heart rate increasing.

"Yeah... he saved me too. During the Entrance exam, the 0 pointer was about to crush me, but he jumped in to save me when everyone else was running away. Even today, he saved Aizawa sensei. Sensei would have been dead if Deku didn't jump in on time. Even before that, he had saved Tsu chan and Yaoyorozu kun..." Ochako said with a smile.

"It scares me... even with his quirk, he still isn't prepared. Yet he goes around risking his life for others," said Inko as Ochako looked down.

"But not anymore."

"Huh?"

"He has friends like you. For almost his whole life, he has been an outcast. But now he has found friends like you and Steve, who actually care for them. And you both took an extra mile for him, you actually worry about him. I believe he is safe with you," Inko told her as Ochako's eyes widened.

"So please Uraraka, take care of my son," Inko said as Ochako nodded.

"I am pretty sure he likes you," Inko added as she came out with tea, causing Ochako to blush.

"R-really?" 

"Yes. What about you?" 

"I-I do too... he's so heroic and selfless. He saved me, he saved everyone else, he works so hard, he is just too good. I can't not lo- like him. But I don't want to get in his way to become a hero, not when he is working so hard," Ochako said as she put her right hand over her heart, gripping her shirt.

"You won't get in his way of becoming a hero," said Inko handing her a cup.

"Huh?"

"He cares about people. I heard all he did from Steve. Let me tell you something, he only truly excels when he is fighting for people he cares about. He found out about his quirk when he was saving Katsuki from a sludge villain. Then when he saved you, he let out all his power. I don't know what happened today, but I am sure he did something extraordinary to save Aizawa," Inko said.

"YEAH! He hit the Nomu with some weird punches which were really powerful. In fact, the punches sent powerful shockwaves through the whole USJ!"

"See. I am pretty sure that if you enter his life as something more than a friend, he'll only get more motivated and work even harder. Plus when he gets too stressed, I don't think anyone other than you would be able to help him. Take it from me, hero life is very stressful."

"Yeah. Wait how do you know Hero life is stressful?" asked Ochako confused.

"Well... do you know about Kineti?" asked Inko as Ochako remembered the old hero.

"Yeah! She was a hero who entered the top 10, but a few months before I was born she stepped down for unknown reasons. I remember her photos, she had green hair... wait WHAT!"

"Yes, I had to step down since I wanted to raise Izuku properly," said Inko with a giggle.

"WHAT!"

Izuku was outside the door, listening to the whole conversation, as his eyes teared up.

'Wow..." he thought with a smile.

'I love them both with all my heart,' thought Izuku as he walked towards his room with a content smile.

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Izuku was on his bed when he felt his phone ringing.

From the Living room, he heard a lot of laughs as Inko was showing Ochako Izuku's baby pictures. Izuku was grinning from ear to ear as he picked up the phone.

"Hello, Izuku Midoriya this side," he said.

"Ah, Midoriya, I am Nezu speaking," came the voice from other side.

"Ah, principal Nezu, what can I do for you?" asked Izuku with a smile.

"Well, it's just Nezu outside the school. As for what you can do, I'd say we need to discuss some stuff. So I'd suggest you open your laptop and log on to chess.com or something," said Nezu as Izuku chuckled.

"I guess you are obsessed with chess like me sir?" 

"Yes," Nezu replied as he sent Izuku a request for a match.

"Alright, so I wanted to talk about the consequences of this attack," said Nezu as Izuku nodded.

"Yes sir."

"So I trust my staff, however, I find that you and I think quite alike and we both are way ahead than our peers in terms of our wits," said Nezu as Izuku smiled at the praise.

"Thank you, sir. So what do we need to discuss?" 

"First let's talk about the leader of the group," said Nezu as Izuku heard a beep.

"Talking without me?" asked Steve joining the call.

"Ah, Steve, in case you didn't notice I tried to call you thrice," said Nezu.

"Right. So, yeah, go ahead," said Steve.

"You guys forgot about me, I've been in the call for the past 10 minutes while Nezu and Midoriya were setting up their chess match," said Naomasa over the call.

"Right. So first of all, as I already told you, the Nomu had multiple quirks. However, I noticed that its thinking ability was almost non-existent. In fact, he seemed like a statue until Shigaraki Tomura ordered him to attack," said Izuku as Nezu agreed.

"About that. We recovered the chopped-off arm of the Nomu and we found multiple quirk factors in his DNA. And the person who it originally was, he was a criminal," said Naomasa.

"I am almost 100% sure that the Nomu was already dead," said Steve, for the first time opening his mouth.

"Huh?"

"While I was working across Africa and South America, the local authorities had found multiple dead bodies with two or three quirks," said Steve.

"So... one cannot handle two quirks?"

"Two is still okay, a person can survive for years even with two quirks, but not anymore. You see, a human body still hasn't reached the stage that it can handle multiple quirks. Copy and All for One can only do it because it's a part of their original quirk, so the Genetic factor actually becomes a part of their Original gene factor."

"So it was already dead..." muttered Izuku.

"Right."

"Okay, as for the leader, Shigaraki Tomura as he introduced himself, he has a quirk that causes anything he touches with his 5 fingers to decay. I am sure that the Media incident happened because of him too. He acts like a weird kid. During the whole time, he was treating the attack as some kind of video game, and to be honest, his costume was a little... whack. Scary, but still whack. Unless they were real hands and not props, then it would be purely scary," said Izuku.

"I agree. From the account of the students and as Steve told me, I'd say he is a manchild. He is kind of like our own students," noted Nezu as Izuku started thinking.

'Why would someone like him try to kill All Might?'

"And also, there was this Warp Gate guy, I think his name was Kurogiri or something," Steve added as Izuku moved his pieces.

"Right. I think after they caused the distraction, the Warp quirk guy used his quirk to get inside the room with schedule and took it," said Nezu.

"But how did he know where to go?" asked Tsukauchi.

"Well... that brings me to my next speculation. There is a traitor in UA," said Nezu as he played his move.

Everyone was silent for the next two minutes as they both continued to play their game.

"Well... I don't want to believe it but your point has a concrete base," said Izuku.

"Huh? How can you say so?" asked Tsukauchi.

"Well... no one is allowed to get inside the school and the blueprint isn't public. I am not saying there is one, but the evidence is tipping the scales towards it," Izuku said as Nezu sighed.

"Well, right now we can't start pointing fingers, we need to stick together. But... I trust you all the most," said Nezu.

"Wow, you didn't add All Might in this chat," pointed out Steve.

"Well, Toshinori is a great hero, but this call is full of smart people, I can't include him in that. He might have extremely good fighting skills, but he's a little blockhead when it comes to this kind of work," Nezu said as Tsukauchi laughed heartily and Izuku and Steve suppressed their giggles.

"Alright, we'll conclude this call. I have to talk to the staff too. I believe you'll be there to brief us Naomasa?"

"Yes," he replied as a notification popped on Izuku's screen.

Check Mate

"And I must say Midoriya, to last whole 30 minutes against me is a big deal," Nezu said.

"Right Nezu, sir," said Izuku as the call disconnected.

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