About three days had been quiet for Y/N. He and everyone else didn't do much after All For One arrived at their current hideout which remained to be the former headquarters of the Creature Rejection Clan as all of them rested a bit from the events of their fight with the heroes and planned out their next move. Even the said planning didn't include much, though as they at first wanted to get into touch with Toga before the real planning of their next move will begin.

Barely anything worth mentioning during those three days. Shigaraki was still sleeping even though Y/N was constantly checking on him and waking up every day hoping that he would finally wake up. Origami was feeling hungrier than usual as well and looked like was always hungry. Even after she was done eating her own ration of food. Y/N always made sure to give her half of his portion whenever it happened. Whether he got full portion or not didn't matter to him. He didn't deserve it.

An interesting information came out to the public as the true number of how many members of the Paranormal Liberation Front managed to avoid getting captured. If he was honest with himself, the numbe was much larger than he expected to be as the number almost consisted of 700 people. It didn't make him feel better, though as he knew it was a small percentage of what Shigaraki's army used to be. Y/N wished Asano was one of them, but knew it was just a wishful thinking.

He tested his new second Quirk out during those last few days as well and found out how it worked. His second Quirk gave him an ability of with slowing down his perception of time to see everything around him in a much faster rate. It helping him with the headaches was just an addition to the main ability of it. He had to admit something to himself, though. Him now having two Quirks was still something he was trying to get used to, considering what kind of development it was for him.

The h/c haired boy was gathered in front of the TV in the the former headquarters of the Creature Rejection Clan and he wasn't alone for it. Origami, Dabi, Magne, Spinner, Minene and Daiki were gathered in front of the TV as well as all of them surrounded by the couch in front of the TV by either sitting down on it or standing around it. All of them gathered in front of the TV right now for one reason.

The said reason was a press conference where Endeavor, Hawks and Best Jeanist would finally adress everything the public was demanding answers for. All of them stared at the TV, showing interest in one way or another as they wanted to know how the top three heros will address everything. All For One, Kizuki and Skeptic were not with them right now as latter two were busy trying to hunt down Geten and the former was busy with his own thing.

Y/N silently listened as Endeavor was asked about Daby by one of the reporters. The h/c haired boy looked far from good to say the least. The bags under his eyes were more noticeable and he looked more depressed than anything. Everyone around him, aside from All For One, Skeptic and Kizuki who were busy with their hunt for Geten, tried to talk with him and he always either changed the subject and told them he's fine.

"...Dabi is indeed my oldest son, Todoroki Toya. I can't deny what he spoke is the truth. I stand before you to apologize for my misdeeds." Endeavor admtted shamefully everything Dabi talked about in his video being true, bowing his head to the public. Y/N, Origami, Dabi, Magne, Spinner, Minene and Daiki listened silently as Endeavor included more details regarding his family situation, knowing the media would demand those answers from him anyway.

Daiki shook his head at the details from Endeavor, "Shit."

"Watching the video was bad. Listening about all of this directly from him is much worse." Minene shook her head as well, cringing a bit at the details from the number one hero.

Origami sighed sadly, "Yeah..."

"To think this man has an audacity to call himself a hero..." Spinner muttered under his breath. He couldn't help but wonder about one thing when he uttered those words. What was Stain thinking about all of this?

Magne shifted her gaze from the TV to Dabi and placed her hand on his shoulder in a comforting manner while having a sympathy filled expression on her face. Dabi paid no attention to her, though and focused on the TV instead, "Sweetheart. I'm so sorry you had to grow up with this man..."

"He admitted it. Now, let's see what you will do with it." Y/N thought to himself, looking at Endeavor with a disgusted look on his face. Even though he already assumed what the heroes will do with this infomation, he was sitll interested to see how they will handle the matter of Endeavor.

"You're saying that he didn't lie, but he did. Best Jeanist is alive, which refutes Dabi's claims that Hawks murdered him." A female reporter pointed out, getting many voices of agreement from her fellow reporters as some of them stood up from their seats and began questioning Hawks and Best Jeanist about it, demanding them to get their stories straight.

Hawks held up his hands, trying to get the crowd of the reporters to calm down as he spoke up to them, "Best Jeanist was made to look like he was dead and that's how I infiltrated their ranks. But the rest of the awful things Dabi mentioned are correct for the most part. My father's identity. How I killed a desperate villain who was running away and his friend who tried to save him. That's all true."

He bowed in front of the crowd in a shameful and apologetic manner, causing everyone in front of him to go silent by his confirmation, "I apologize for hiding the truth about my origin. I know now that it was a mistake. Regarding Bubaigawara Jin and Tengai Hekiji. When it comes to Bubaigawara, I thought I had no other choice but to keep him out of the fight. If he had activated his Quirk, the damage would've been unimaginably worse than it already was. I did want to bring him in for his crimes. But in the end, his concern for his fellow League members forced the issue. I had to act. I feel awful for how things went down. I just hope you'll believe me."

Y/N clenched his hand angrily, feeling all the emotions of rage and revenge filling his body as he stared at Hawks like he wanted to skin him alive, "You had no other choice but to kill him? Don't bullshit me righr now. You could have done some many things instead of killing him. You could have knocked him. You could have put him to sleep by placing something in his drink. You had so many possibilities to take him in and yet, you decided killing him was the best option."

Hawks looked up to face the crowd in front of him again as he addressed the next matter, "When it comes to Tengai Hekiji, his death was an unfortunate accident as I wasn't expecting him to be there. I tried to keep him out of the way and told him to stay away from me and Bubaigawara. He wouldn't listen to me, though. I even trie to knock him out, but it unfortunely it didn't work. I truly didn't want to kill him but I was unable to stop his death from happening as he ran straight into my blade and before I knew it, he was dead."

"I see. So this is the direction you're taking with it. You're trying to pin it as an accident and blaming Tengai for running straight into your blade.." Y/N went further into his thoughts, feeling all the negative emotions inside him growing as he clenched his hand further. At the same time. He couldn't help but wonder what would Rappa think if he saw this and the way Hawks spoke about Tengai's death, "Too bad you didn't bring up one thing to them. You didn't brought up the fact that all of this is your fucking fault. You started everything by killing Jin-kun and Tengai-kun. Everything that happened after that. All the deaths and all the destruction. It's on your hands."

"I've got a question..." A female reporter made herself known a second later, "In the chaos caused by Gigantomachia, my own mother was seriously injured as the town she lived in was the first one in Gigantomachia's way. Do you really think apologizing and saying you feel bad fixes anything?" Do you have any idea how many people lost their homes? Their livelihoods this week? I don't think you understand how much you screwed up."

Endeavor closed his eyes and lowered his head a bit, "If we stood up here crying and carrying on, would that make your mother better?"

"Huh? No of course it wouldn't! But you could do something besides talk!" The female reporter retorted angrily, "What makes everything worse is the fact that what happened with Gigantomachia rushing through the cities wouldn't have happen if t wasn't for you! Gigantomachia was awoken solely by your actions. The information released into the public by the villains and the Mask warning about Gigantomachia only confirmed it."

"You make a good point." Hawks admitted, "However, you're missing something here. You're talking as if the villains aren't to blame here. They're to blame here as well as they had Gigantomachia in the first place."

"He's right." Best Jeanist confirmed it with a nod of his head, "Even if they had no way of controlling him and his rampage like they claim they have, it doesn't mean it's not their fault. They're at fault here for having a weapon they can't control. They shouldn't have had a weapon they can't control in the first place if they cared about civilians as much as they claim they do in the interviews released by Kizuki Chitose and the videos they had posted online."

Hawks nodded in agreement, "Exactly. I managed to speak with some of the villains from the Liberation Front during my time as a mole in their organization and all of them are a bunch of people who refuse to acknowledge they're in the wrong for the way they're approaching everything. The Mask himself admitted to me he doesn't see any other way of achieving his goals even when I asked him if he considered there's a better way of doing everything. If anything, the videos and the interviews they had released into the public is a way of them trying to excuse their horrid actions."

"What?" Origami exclaimed.

Spinner shook his head, "This fucking guy really is something else."

"A way of excusing our horrid actions?" Magne asked as she looked at Hawks with a mixture of anger and disgust on her face, 'Didn't he try to excuse Twice and Tengai-kun's death a few moments ago by writting them off as something he had to do and an accident?"

Dabi crossed his arms, "Are you suprised by it? It's exactly what one would expect for them. Always claiming to have the moral ground even if they don't have it."

"Our videos are trying to excuse our actions? Their purpose was meant out stories would be heard and people like us would know they're not alone out there. They were meant to show how people are treated in your perfect society when they don't fit your criteria..." Y/N asked angrily. Everyone glanced at him for a second. They could tell just how much Y/N was angry with Hawks. He looked like he was ready to skin him alive right now.

Minene shifted her gaze between all the members of the League, "Does he seriously think your stories shouldn't be made public and should be swept under the rug instead?"

"What else were you expecting from them, Kasumi-chan?" Y/N replied with a question of his own, "To publicy acknowledge their flaws and admit not everyone is treated well in their perfect society of the Era of Peace? Maybe in a different world."

"Most of those government dogs if not all of them are too stubborn to admit this." Daiki stated.

Magne nodded in agreement, letting out a sigh, "All of them making us into monsters for fighting back and claiming they have the moral ground when they attacked us first and killed two of your friends just confirms this."

Best Jeanist changed the subject of their conversation with the reporters a second later as he declared, "But right now, there are fewer heroes in the field. We're no longer equipped to protect so many citizens. With that in mind, we have patterned a temporary solution. After consulting with government officials, we'd like to announce that, starting today, UA High and other schools with hero courses will be designated as emergency shelters. There should be plenty of space in these facilities for anyone who is scared or seeking protection. Families of enrolled students are already moving into these buildings."

"You want us to leave our homes with no idea when we can go back?" An unknown male reporter demanded to know the answer.

Endeavor slammed his hands against the table as he leaned closer towards the crowd in front of him, Hawks and Best Jeanist, "We're looking toward the future. Direct your blame and anger at me, but let us help you. Plenty of pros are still risking their lives for you. Again, I'll say, watch me."

Dabi chuckled a bit, "Watch you? Haven't had enough pain yet? That's fine by me."

Spinner crossed his arms, letting out a sigh, "Looks like nothing will be done about these two fakes aside from the bad publicy."

"Looks like it." Origami nodded in agreement, letting out a sigh herself.

"Their reputations are damaged and a lot of people still want to lynch the Hawks, so at least there's that." Y/N stated. What else would he expect from the heroes? To actually take out the trash among them and actually have people who deserve to be called heroes in their ranks? He knew the thought of it was too good to be true, "I'm still waiting for U.A and Shiketsu to come out into the public with their statements about Bakugo and Kazarip, though."

Minene looked at him questioningly, "What do you think they will do about them?"

"I don't know." Y/N gave her an honest answer, "No matter what will happen, I'm already satisfied with what already happened to Bakugo, though as I destroyed his dreams. Just like he destroyed mine. Him getting kicked out of U.A will be just cherry on top. I want more to happen to Kazari, though as I have no way of taking his Quirk away from him as we don't have any bullets left."

"Are you done watching?" Skeptic's voice took them out of their discussion. Everyone shifted their attention to him and saw him and Kizuki standing in the doorway to the room.

"What do you want from us, weirdo?" Dabi wanted to know.

"Would it hurt you to be nice for a moment?" Skeptic rolled his eyes, "We're here with some important news."

Y/N looked at him with an interested look on his face, "What is it?"

"We managed to locate Geten." Kizuki revealed.

Y/N's eyes widened a bit, "Really?"

Skeptic nodded in confimation, "Yes. We even spoke with him directly and he gave us his current location and situation to us. He isn't alone. He has a group of the other escapee's from the PLF with him. Some familiar faces to all of you are among them."

"The blonde bi..." Kizuki stopped herself from saying it for a second and corrected her worlds, "Toga is with him."

"What? Himiko-chan is with him?" Origami's felt her eyes widen at this information, feeling a massive wave of relief go through her body at the same time. She wasn't alone. Everyone from the League felt equally as relieved by the information of Toga being safe and sound with their associates.

Skeptic once again nodded in confirmation, "Yes. Geten and his group stumbled upon her yesterday when she was on her own and she tagged along with them."

Origami smiled, "I see. Good. Is there anyone else with him?"

"Yes." Skeptic confirmed it to Origami, "Your advisers. Slice and Nishimura are with him."

Origami's smile grew at this, "Really? That's great."

Kizuki shifted her gaze to Spinner, Dabi and Magne, "Your advisers are with him as well."

"Really? Who is it?" Magne asked with an interested look on his face as Spinner looked interested in knowing the answer to this as well while Dabi kept his expression blank at this.

"From your adviers, Mummy is with Geten." Skeptic replied as Magne smiled slightly at the news. He aftewards shifted his gaze to Dabi, "From Dabi's advisers, Nozue is with Geten." Dabi nodded at this as Skeptic shifted his gaze to Spinner, "From Spinner's advisers, Narukami and Kitagawa are with Geten."

"What about Chimera?" Spinner asked, "He isn't with them?"

Skeptic shook his head, "No. He isn't. It's pretty much confirmed he was caught at this point."

Spinner sighed sadly at this reveal, "I see."

Y/N nodded in understanding at all of this information, "What are waiting for if we know their location, then? We should go get them."

"This is exactly why we're here." Skeptic nodded at him, "All For One is already waiting in the emergency aircraft with one of the Nomus. He told us to come and get some of us before we'll leave to collect the others."

"Not all of us can come, though." Kizuki added, "A few of us should stay here and protect Shigaraki

"If that's the case, then I'll stay here." Spinner instantly volunteered for the job.

"I'll stay here as well." Magne added as Minene and Daiki exchanged glances with each other and nodded, silently coming to a mutual decision.

"Both of us will stay here too." Daiki declared as Minene silently nodded in agreement.

Kizuki nodded in understanding, "Very well."

Y/N shifted his gaze between Origami and Dabi, "Are you two staying as well?"

Origami shook her head, "No. If Himiko-chan is with Geten, then I'll go with you."

"I'm sitting this one out." Dabi gave Y/N his answer a second after Origami gave hers.

"Actually you need to come with us." Skeptic told him.

Dabi narrowed his eyes at him, "Why should I?"

"Geten requested for you to come with us." Skeptic explained, "He apparently wants to talk with you about something important. He didn't specify what it exactly is, though."

Dabi sighed, "I see. If that's the case, then I guess I can tag along as well. It's not like I have anything better to do right now as we finished watching the press conference."

Not having anything more to discuss and not wasting any time, Y/N, Origami, Dabi, Skeptic and Kizuki bid their farewells to Magne, Spinner, Daiki and Minene and turned away from them. All of them started to make their way towards the emergency craft a second later and reached their destination a moment later with All For One checking who was coming with him to collect Geten's group. The aircraft took off into the air, beginning to take all of them towards their destination.

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Y/N looked out of the window of an emergency aircraft from Tartatus, watching the night sky fly past him due to the sun going down not so long ago as he and the others were still on their way to the assigned meeting spot with Geten and everyone else from his group. If he was honest with himself, he had no idea how much time they had left until they'll reach Geten and his group and he wasn't paying much attention to it right now. He just wanted to be left alone with his thoughts right now.

After the emergency aircraft took off into the air, he distanced himself from the others and left himself alone in the back of the said aircraft. Even though Origami suggested him to accompany him, he declined her offer by telling her there was something needed to think about and needed to be alone for it. Origami seemed worried by it, but respected the boundary he had left her and left him alone, letting him know she'll be somewhere else on the plane if he changes his mind or needs her.

It was when Y/N shifted his attention away from the world outside the aircraft as something rang through his ears. It sounded like someone had just sneaked up on him from behind. The footsteps were different, though. They didn't sound like they came from a human, though. It immediately made him assume what it was and his suspicions were confirmed a second later as he looked over his shoulder and saw Cyborg standing behind him, making sure to keep himself close to him.

The h/c haired boy turned away from Cyborg a second later, letting out a sigh as he shifted his attention back to what he was looking at a second later. The way how Cyborg had approached him out of nowhere didn't suprise him one bit, though as he had grown used to him acting like this over the course of the last few days. Cyborg acted as if he always had a need of being close to him whenever he was around and he made sure to show him this behavior again right now as he moved closer to him as Y/N inched away from the Nomu a bit, wanting to keep his distance from Cyborg.

"...Thinking about Cyborg?" All For One's voice pushed him out of his thoughts as he shifted his attention from the Nomu and set his eyes on All For One, "I've noticed the way you've been acting around it whenever it would get close to you over the course of the last few days."

"I just feel weird whenever I'm around it. I instantly think of him being Cyborg whenever I look at him." Y/N gave him an honest answer, sharing the thoughts he was having about Cyborg for the last few days with All For One, "I would feel normal if it was someone else. Knowing how it's the same guy I fought it all this time ago just makes me feel weird. The way how it seems attached to me and always tries to get close to me when I'm around doesn't help..."

All For One nodded in understanding, "I see."

"Am I wrong for thinking it's attached to me in some way or am I just making stuff up in my brain?" Y/N wanted to know.

All For One shook his head, "Don't worry. You were making stuff up in your brain in regards of Cyborg's attachment to you. Believe me when I'll tell you there's a good reason to why he keeps himself close to you as much as he does."

Y/N raised his brow at it, "What do you mean?"

"He was designed to act like this when it comes to you." All For One explained to him.

Y/N's eyes widened slightly at this information, "What?"

"You heard me right. It acts like this as I told the Doctor to make it your own personal Nomu." All For One nodded in confirmation as Y/N silently stared at him, processing this information, "After Cyborg's body was brought to the Doctor and the process of turning it into a Nomu was completed, the Doctor was waiting for the right opportunity to suprise you with your own personal Nomu when he was certain the right time for it came. Unfortunely he was captured before it happened."

"I see." Y/N said in understanding, letting out a sigh as he glanced away from All For One and stayed silent for the next few moments. He found himself thinking about his feelings regarding Nomus and his feelings regarding Cyborg being turned into a Nomu. He remembered how indifferent he felt about it back when he found out the Nomus were made out of human corpses due to those people being already dead when they were turned into the Nomus.

He clenched his hand, leaving this subject on his mind as he realized his feelings regarding the Nomus and what they were made off of had not changed. In fact. What happened a few days ago between his organization and the heroes only made him more indifferent on it. The heroes were okay with Hawks killing Twice and Tengai and okay with Endeavor's abuse. Why should be feel bad about their buddies becoming Nomus? It's not like normal civilians were used to make them.

All For One placed his hand on Y/N's shoulder, taking him out of his thoughts as Y/N looked over his shoulder at him, "However, I'm glad Cyborg managed to survive the recent events and has proven himself to be a capable Nomu even if the Doctor was captured. You know why? Because now Cyborg will be at your service. You can consider it a side reward from me for all the hard work you had put into improving yourself ever since you were placed in the League.

"I see. Thank you." Y/N nodded at him, bowing his head respectfully like he did back when All For One told him he was proud of him. If he was honest with himself, he didn't felt anything when All For One told him all of those words now. He just felt numb to all of it right now as he was too tired to express any proper emotions right now due to how little he slept for the last few days.

"Make sure to use him well whenever he will service you. You wouldn't want to anything to my reward for you, right?" All For One asked him as Y/N silently nodded at him. He removed his hand from his shoulder a second later, not ending the conversation here as there was something else he was planning to have a conversation with Y/N about, "Now with the matter of Cyborg settled, I would like to speak with you about something else. Honestly I came here to talk with you specifically about it, but then the matter of Cyborg came up."

Y/N raised his brow questioningly, "What is it?"

"Has Tomura ever told you how I found him?" All For One voiced his question to him.

"What?" Y/N asked, having not been expecting All For One to ask him about Shigaraki's past out of all things.

"You heard me right." All For One confirmed it to him, "Since Tomura regained his memories of his past and what happened to him before I found him and took him in, I want to know if he said anything about it."

"No. He didn't." Y/N shook his head, "When he told me about this, I asked him if he wants to talk about it and he told me it doesn't matter and how it only reassured him in our goal. I didn't push him about it afterwards as he didn't seem bothered by it that much and I didn't want to push him on it."

"I see." All For One said in understanding, "Would you be interested in learning about it from me?"

Y/N looked at All For One with an uncertain look on his face, "What? Would it be okay, though? I don't want to intrude on Tomura's privacy by finding out about it without him agreeing to this."

All For One shook his head, brushing Y/N's concerns off, "Don't worry about it. I'm sure Tomura won't mind me telling you this. You know you can trust me with this. Right?"

Y/N stared silently at All For One, seeming to be deep in thought right now as he clenched his hand again. Even though he had second thoughts about it, he couldn't help but admit what happened to Shigaraki. He remembered Shigaraki telling him how he killed his entire family once. He never learned he full details behind it, though. He would be lying if he never asked himself what happened to his brother and what caused him to become a villain.

"...Alright. You can tell me about it." The h/c haired boy gave All For One his answer a second later.

"Very well. I'll start from the beginning." All For One replied, looking like he was holding back a grin right now.

All For One wasted no time and started his explanation of what happened to Shigaraki right away. He told Y/N everything and Y/N was left stunned by the details of everything. He found out how Shigaraki was now originally born as Tomura Shigaraki and was instead born as Tenko Shimura. He found out how his brother was the grandson of Nana Shimura who happened to be one of the previous users of One For All and All Might's former teacher.

The further details included the abuse Shigaraki suffered at his home by the hands of his own father Kotaro who grew hateful for the heroes after his mom and Shigaraki's mother abandoned him. He afterwards went to the day when Shigaraki's decay Quirk manifested and he accidentally killed his entire family as a result of that, leaving him all bloody, homeless and more importantly in need of help.

The help never came, though. Shigaraki wandered streets all by himself for who knows how long and passed by countless people who never reached out to him or tried to help him. Everyone just ignored him in disgust, thinking it wasn't their job to help a bloodied boy who was wandering the streets all by himself and that it was the heroes' job to help him. Shigaraki was all alone until All For One found him and took him in, giving him a name upon him and the said name was something Y/N known Shigaraki for ever since he met him.

All For One finished his story by saying, "...This is why Tomura must have grown to care about you as much as he did. Both of you were abused by your families and were left all alone until I stumbled upon you at your lowest. He must have seen himself in you once you got to know each other and his attachment from you only grew from there and reached the point both of you are on right now. If I were to guess, he probably considers you the healthiest family relationship he has ever had and I'm certain you feel the same about him."

Y/N stared at All For One silently, taking all the time he needed for process all this information. he bowed his head, lowering his gaze to the ground and pinched the bridge of his nose, "...Tomura."

The h/c haired boy kept himself silent for the next few moments, having no idea what to do or say right now as he blinked away to stop the tears from releasing from his eyes. If he was honest with himself, he felt like crying right now. His tears wouldn't be directed towards him, though. They would be directed towards Shigaraki and what happened to him before All For One found him.

He shook his head to himself, having managed to stop himself from crying and let out a deep inhale and exhale as the imagine of a lone Shigaraki wandering the streets all by himself and being ignored by everyone refused to leave his mind. He didn't even want to imagine how it must be like. It was even worse than what happened to him or to anyone else from the League. Was this why Shigaraki cared about all of them?

He pulled his hand away from his nose a second later, looking at the window in front of him with a blank look on his face as he felt a wave of anger go through his body when he found himself thinking about one part of All For One's story about Shigaraki. Everyone ignored a bloody child wandering the streets and refused to reach their hand out to him until a villain had to step in him and help him out. Just like what happened to him when he was all alone when All For One came into the picture and saved him from suicide.

"See? This is what you've been allowing to happen and you have an audacity to say you're not ruining everything?" The h/c haired boy thought to himself, clenching his hand as the wave of anger continued to fly through his body. It was exactly why he hated the hero society as much as he did. They always made people believe like they could take care of everything and stuff like this was happening, because of it...

"Is everything alright, Y/N?" All For One asked him after a few moments of silence between them, pushing him out of his thoughts as Y/N looked up at him again, "It must have been a lot for you to take in."

"Yeah. It was." Y/N nodded in confirmation, "I just can't believe all of this happened to Tomura. All of it is just so terrible.."

"It indeed is." All For One agreed with him, "A shame All Might created such a world. Don't you think?"

Y/N nodded in agreement, leaving himself with his thoughts regarding Shigaraki and what he had just learned about his brother, "Yeah. To think he called himself a a Symbol of Peace while stuff like this kept happening under his nose and refused to acknowledge it..."

"Good thing you and Tomura are working towards the destruction of the world he had created. You already set up the foundation for it. Now all you need to do now is finish what you started." All For One told him, making Y/N lower his gaze to the ground slightly as he placed his hand on his shoulder, "Y/N. I know you've been through a lot and have a lot of on your mind right now. I know you must be thinking about Tomura and how terrible what he went through was."

Y/N stayed silent, looking out of the window as All For One went further into his words, "Now that you know about his past, you must be seeing some parts of yourself in him. Just like he did in your when you were introduced to him. This is why I placed both of you in the League all this time ago as I was hoping to see both of you relate to each other and I'm truly happy with it. You two truly remind me of me and my brother Yoichi and what I failed to achieve with him."

The h/c haired boy continued to remain silent and All For One used this as chance to say even more to him, "I'm certain you two will achieve great things together once Tomura gets back into his best shape and both of you will work together. You'll see. Soon enough your and Tomura's dream will be achieved if you'll keep working together and bring down everyone in your way. Soon you'll get exactly what you want and I'll get exactly what I want..."

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Izuku looked around himself, feeling the tense atmosphere in his hospital room as he was laying on his bed and found himself surrounded by his mom and All Might. Aizawa was present for the discussion as well, despite his injures as he fullfiled his duty as Izuku's homeroom teacher and came for the meeting Inko demanded to have with him. He knew not coming for it would just make things worse for him as well as Inko would probably write it off as escaping from this conversation and it would make her more angry than she already was with them.

All Might shifted his gaze away from Izuku and Inko to Aizawa who was still wearing his blue hospital clothes and saw him sitting on a chair, holding a cane which he was using a cane to move around due to his missing foot from his fight with Shigaraki. He set his eyes back on Izuku and Inko and flinched a bit at the look Inko was giving both him and Aizawa right now. He had faced the Demon King of the criminal underworld of Japan twice and he doubted he was prepared to face Inko Midoriya's fury.

The former number one hero sighed, "...I think we can start our discussion now."

"Yeah. We should." Inko nodded in agreement, crossing her arms. Even though her voice was calm, she looked like she was ready to drill a hole in both All Might and Aizawa's heads. Her expression sharpened a bit when she set her attention on Aizawa, "How could you not notice anything going on between Izuku and Katsuki ever since they started their education at U.A? Was Katsuki always acting like this in class?"

Aizawa nodded in confirmation, letting out a sigh, "Yes."

Inko nodded in understanding, her expression darkening, "I see. So you didn't do anything about this behavior from him and allowed him to act like this, making him believe he's above the rules and can do whatever he wants without any consequnces of his actions. I've heard you have a habit of expelling your students on the first day of school every day."

Aizawa's brow twitched a bit at the mention of this while All Might looked suprised by Inko knowing about this. It made him ask himself how did she found out about it. Could she find out about it from Izuku? Probably now. He got the answer to his question a second later as he recalled Izuku telling him his mom was a lawyer a few times. It must have been how she somehow found out about it.

Inko noticed the silence from Aizawa and used it as a chance to go further into her words by telling him, "Because you feel that they aren't up to your standards, you feel the need of expelling them."

"Yes." Aizawa confirmed it with a guilty look starting to form on his face.

Inko crossed her arms, "So instead of putting an actual work into your students, you simply get rid of them because you don't want to deal with them? Apparently, you observed Bakugo's behavior these last few months and yet, you did absolutely nothing to correct. Was this because he was an easy student to teach? Was it because he was such a prodigy that he didn't need to be taught? In case you're trying to ignore it, his behavior already almost drew someone to suicide. How far would he have to go before you would do something about it? Would someone really have to die for you to do something about it?"

Aizawa clenched his jaw, trying to come up with an answer only to find out he had nothing to say to her. All Might stayed silent as well, knowing how quickly this conversation went in Inko's favor as everything she had just told them was nothing but true. He knew Aizawa couldn't retort to any of it as nothing he would say would make him look better here. Letting out a sigh, the former number one hero knew what he had to say here.

"Mrs. Midoriya. If I may say something here, all of us made a terrible mistake when it came to the relationship between young Midoriya and young Bakugo. All of us were convinced their relationship was the one of rivals." He told her upon letting out his sigh as he cursed himself mentally for everything.

He cursed himself mentally for allowing it to happen and for not doing anything about it. Even after he overheard the confession Bakugo made to Izuku about him turning Y/N into a villain due to him seeing the regret Bakugo expressed when it came to his actions. It was when All For One's words about Bakugo from their conversation in Tartarus. As much as he hated to admit it, everything All For One told him about the relationship between Y/N and Bakugo was true...

The former number one hero took a deep breath as he went further into his words, "Our severe lack of judgement is to blame here. We should have done more about Bakugo's behavior and we should have kept our eyes on him more. We failed as a teachers to keep your son safe." He shifted his gaze from Inko to Izuku, "I'm sorry for failing you as well..."

"I'm sorry as well." Aizawa added as Izuku shifted his gaze between both of his teachers, feeling overhelmed by the apologies from them, "Midoriya. I've let you down since your first day as my student. My judgement was wrong and I only harmed you for misunderstanding the relationship between you and Bakugo. I promise that all of it ends today." He bowed his head, "Forgive me for failing you as your teacher."

"I-It's okay?" Izuku stuttered out, remaining overhelmed by the apologies from both All Might and Aizawa as he wasn't used to getting those from his teachers. The teachers back in Aldera would probably never apologize to him, "T-To be honest I always thought you were a good teacher..."

Inko's eyes softened a bit at the scene in front of her, turning herself back into the kind woman she was known to be for a few secods until her expression grew serious again, "Now. Can we discuss what are your plans with Katsuki?"

"His past behavior and his behavior at U.A are being analyzed. The matter will be handled and Bakugo's punishment will be decided as soon as possible." Aizawa gave her his answer, letting out an internal sigh as he thought about everything and the rough spot U.A was in right now. Shiketsu was in a tough spot as well but their situation wasn't as bad as theirs as Tomohito's didn't show his bullying behavior from Aldera after he started to attend their school. Unlike Bakugo who continued to show his behavior.

Izuku opened his mouth, trying to say something about Bakugo getting into trouble, but his words died in his throat when Y/N's enraged face when he talked how he always defended Bakugo even when he was always treating them like filth and always admired him flew through his mind. He recalled how Y/N openly denounced their friendship and calling him a fake hero because of it. He recalled how it made him feel as if someone had just stabbed him in the gut and twisted it. All of this made him stay silent. He wasn't going to defend Bakugo's actions. Not anymore.

It was when he stopped paying attention to the conversation going on between his mom and his teachers as he found himself thinking about Y/N. He found himself thinking about everything his friend did. Y/N was confirmed to have been responsible for the deaths of over 24 heroes. It included a top hero of Japan and one of Izuku's teacher. A fact that Izuku was still processing. He couldn't believe Y/N was responsible for so many deaths. Even if Y/N himself had directly told him about that and showed no remorse while talking about it.

Those heroes weren't the only casualties in their fight against the Paranormal Liberation Front as well. About 66 heroes were confirmed to have died as of now. The number was counted without the helpers such as Gang Orca's helpers and without the heroes who died in Shigaraki's decay wave due to the number of heroes who perished in it being unknown. If those two were being counted as well, then the number would have been way over a hundred and would probably even be closer to two hundred than one hundred.

It wasn't all. Y/N fought his classmates and hurt them as well. He even took away Bakugo's Quirk by using one of Overhaul's cursed bullets on him after tricking Mirio, Nejire and Iida by making them believe they had managed to get through to him. He didn't even want to mention Y/N helping Shigaraki in his attack on Tartarus and freeing All For One which caused even more breakouts and Japan becoming as dangerous as it was right now or him using one of Overhaul's cursed bullets on Bakugo, making him Quirkless.

He shook his head to himself, thinking about everything his friend had done and the way he acted towards him and everyone else from the hero side. The person he saw back there wasn't his friend. The Y/N that he knew and remember from the past wouldn't have done any of those things and wouldn't have acted like this. The Y/N that he knew never would do any of those things and would be disgusted by someone commiting such actions.

It was when the dark green haired boy found himself thinking back to the conversation he had with Shigaraki back when they were fighting each other and how it played out when Y/N was brought up by Shigaraki to him. At first, he brushed Shigaraki's words as Shigaraki trying to mess with him to have him lower his guard and leave an opening for him to attack. However, he looked at all of it differently now after everything that happened.

"You are holding me back from my dream!"

"That's exactly why I'm here!"

"You're here for what? To stop me? You know you will be ruining Y/N's dream as well if that will happen?!"

"Stop! I won't be ruining everything for Y/N by stopping you! I'm going to stop you and save Y/N!"

"You want to save him from what? He doesn't need saving! If anything, he's perfectly happy where he is right now!"

"I'm going to save him from the life he forced himself into and I'm going to show him this is not a way of achieving his goals! I'm going to save him from having to be around people like you and the League!"

"Do you really think he needs saving from us? Do you really think I would hurt Y/N? He's like a younger brother to me and I would never hurt him!

"Stop lying to me! I know Y/N and I know he would never agree for any of the stuff the League if he was made to believe there's no other way of achieving his goals! If it wasn't for you, then he would know he doesn't have to be a villain to achieve his goals. I know him and I know he's a good person! He already showed it when he saved Eri-chan from Overhaul! He will notice there's a better way of doing everything if he'll be pushed in the right direction."

"Really? Is this what you're saying to make yourself feel better?"

"I'm not saying this to make myself feel better. I know it's the truth."

"You really think Y/N is the same person you had known him back when you two were attending school together? If that's the case, then you are keeping yourself deluded by thinking Y/N is the same person he was before he joined the League! You want to know the truth?! Y/N was helping me in orchestrating everything since we attacked your little summer camp! He's been my right hand throughout all of this and I was always glad to have him as my player two! Both of us have a shared dream and are working towards it!"

"..."

"You want to know the best part about it? He was actually happy for you as you were living our your dream and accepted the path you took! Too bad you couldn't do the same and are desperately holding into some fantasy of Y/N being the same person you knew! You want to know the truth? Y/N doesn't need you. He needed you before he joined the League but you were too busy admiring the guy who was making him miserable to notice it. The truth is that he's happy with us. With people who actually understand him!"

"People who understand him? I've known him for most of my life. I understand him and I know what kind of person he is..."

"Who do you think understands him more? You, a guy who was alright with him getting tormented by the guy you admired and aftewards hid it from everyone once the truth about him being the Mask, or us, people who genuinely make him happy? I think you already know the answer to this question. You failed him as a friend and me and everyone else from the League fixed up everything you fucked up."

Izuku lowered his head a bit upon recalling the conversation between him and Shigaraki, finding himself thinking about the words uttered to him by him over and over again. As much as he didn't want to admit this, Shigaraki was right. He had deluded himself into thinking Y/N will be the same person he had known him for most of his life. The thoughts of Y/N now being a different person had never crossed his mind as he didn't allow himself to have those thoughts.

Looking at it now, he knew it was a massive mistake on his part as he knew it didn't help him one bit in his mission of saving Y/N. When he spoke with Y/N, he tried to talk with him as if he was still the person back in Aldera High. He didn't try to talk with him as if he was a normal person. He never considered the possibility of Y/N refusing to accept being saved by him as well and the suprise caused by his refusal caused him to say some very bad things to him.

It was when the matter of the videos released by the League came up in his mind as well. He recalled the way Y/N talked about wanting to save the world and making it a batter place and how hopeful and determined he sounded about it. It was a complete constrast to how cold Y/N was during their conversation. He was like a completely different person and the said person didn't act like his friend would. All this hope he had when he had recorded his confession video must have been flushed down the toilet the moment Hawks killed Twice and Tengai.

He didn't only thought about Y/N's video, though. He thought about the videos of the rest of the League as well and he couldn't help but notice how similiar all of them were to some of his friends. Toga and Mustard, especially the latter, were similiar to Shinso. Even the remaining members of Nine's crew shared some similiarities with him even if he had a hard time admitting this. It didn't just end with them, though as Spinner was similiar to Shoji and the similiarities between Origami and Eri became more evident as well after Origami confirmed their suspicions about her homelife in her video.

He lowered his head more, keeping himself with his thoughts as the similiarities between the League and all of his friends continued to pile in his head. The way how he drew the comparisons between all of them and his friends reminded him of what happened between him and Gentle Criminal and how he used to be someone who aspired to be a hero only to have his life ruined by a single accident he had caused while he was trying to save someone.

The dark green haired boy cursed himself mentally, cursing himself and his delusions regarding Y/N being the same person from Aldera. His delusions and the way he talked about the League in front of Y/N was what ruined everything between him and Y/N and he was certain Y/N hated him right now for the way he acted. Y/N openly voiced it when he called him a fake hero and a fake friend. Just thinking about those words felt like a stab to the gut for him...

Izuku sighed, beginning to regret the way he approached saving Y/N more with each passing second as he knew it just made things wose. If only he hadn't spoken about the League the way he did in front of Y/N, then maybe things would have turned out differently. If he hadn't defended Hawks killing Twice and Tengai the way he did, then maybe things would be better. If he did something about Bakugo, then maybe none of this would have happen...

He once again cursed himself for making all of those mistakes again as he knew what he had to do now. The image of the way Shigaraki looked at him when All For One was taking control of him engraved itself in his mind. The way he how his mind was crying out to see his brother as well often repeated itself in his mind after what happened between him and Y/N and Shigaraki because he now know Y/N was the brother Shigaraki's mind was crying out for.

The dark green haired boy nodded to himself, becoming more certain in what he was going to do now. He knew many people won't like his choice and he knew his mission of saving Y/N lost a lot of support. He couldn't blame them for backing out, though. What Shigaraki had done was unforgivable. What Y/N had done was unforgivable as well even if he didn't want to admit it. He wasn't going to give up on his friend, though. He knew he messed up here and was now going to try to fix everything...

"...Izuku." He was pushed out of his thoughts regarding everything a few seconds later as he looked up and saw Inko looking at him with a questioning concern on her face. She must have just finished talking with Aizawa and All Might about whatever they were talking about for the last few moments. His mom voiced her question to him a second later, "Why didn't you tell me Katsuki was h-huring you?"

Izuku flinched a bit at the question, "M-Mom..."

"I should have paid more attention. Maybe this way I would notice something earlier..." Inko said with a guilt filled tone and look on her face, "A-And if you felt like you couldn't come to me, then I have myself to blame here as well."

"N-No! That's not it." Izuku shook his head, hating to see his mom upset like this, "I-I just didn't want to bother you..."

Inko let out a deep breath as she looked at him with a sad understanding on her face, "Izuku. You never want to bother anyone. You know it would be alright for you to tell me. I'm your mother, after all. " Izuku lowered his gaze and Inko instantly took notice of this. She quickly looked at him with a concerned look on her face, "What's wrong? Is there something else bothering you?"

"I-It's Y/N. I-I tried to save him. But I approached it in the worst possible way. I think he hates me now..." Izuku replied in a tearful tone as All Might lowered his gaze to the floor, letting out a sigh.

Inko placed her hand on his shoulder, keeping her concerned expression on her face, "Izuku. I'm sure he doesn't hate you..."

"I hope so..." Izuku sighed sadly, not knowing if he should believe his mom's attempt at trying to make him feel better or not. He had no idea whether Y/N truly hated him or told him whatever he told him a fit of , he was was certain about one thing. He was not going going to give up on Y/N . He was still going to save him and not only him. He was going to save Shigaraki and he will try to save as many of them as he can as well. Especially after what he saw inside his mind...

Or at least he will do his best to save them. He just wanted all of this sadness to end...

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The emergency aircraft from Tartatus landed on the ground, having just reached it's destination of the assigned meeting spot with Geten's group. After being informed about the aircraft nearing it's destination, everyone gathered themselves in front of the exit as they waited for the aircraft to land. The aircraft landed a few seconds later and the exit from it slided down, touching the ground and allowing them to leave it.

Y/N slowly made his way outside the emergency aircraft and was followed by Origami, Dabi, All For One, Skeptic, Kizuki and Cyborg. Upon leaving the aircraft, the group of seven quickly took notice of the old looking house in front of them. The house looked really old and it looked like it hadn't been inhabited by anyone in years. It looked like it was enough to fit a group of people as well. All of it reassured them that this must have been the current hideout of Geten and his group. It was just too perfect of a hideout for them.

Their assumptions were confirmed to be true a few seconds later as Geten who was keeping his face uncovered by not having his hood on walked out of the house. He was followed by a few familiar faces in the form of Mummy, Slice, Nishimura, Nozue, Kitagawa and Narukami. All of them were followed by at least several more people from the Paranormal Liberation Front. Y/N couldn't recall their names, though. They must have been one of the many low ranking members of the army. Toga was nowhere to be seen, though.

Skeptic greeted Geten with a nod of his head once Geten got himself close to him and the rest. The look on his face showed a rare relief when he laid his eyes on his fellow high ranking member of the Meta Liberation Army, "Geten."

"Skeptic. Curious." Geten nodded in return, greeting him in return as he stopped directly in front of the group of seven with his group, "I'm glad to see both of you didn't got caught back there."

Kizuki smiled at him slighty, "The feeling is mutual. Good to know more of us managed to make it out of there."

Skeptic sighed, "I just wish Re-Destro didn't got caught."

"You and me both." Geten admitted, letting out a himself. He kept the words Slice uttered to him in mind, though and he intended to keep going for Re-Destro, "We'll keep on going for him, though. For both him and Trumpet."

"Exactly. Even though Re-Destro was caught, the fire of the liberation will not be extinguished." Kitagawa nodded in agreement as he looked between the group of seven in front of him and noticed a certain lizard man was missing, "What about Spinner?Where is he? We were told he managed to escape as well."

"I can't see Magne as well." Mummy remarked, having noticed the lieutenant he was placed under was somewhere to be seen as well.

"Both of them stayed behind at our hideout to keep an eye on Shigaraki who is still resting from everything. Minene and Takeuchi stayed with them." Y/N quickly filled him on why Magne and Spinner were absent right now, getting nods of understanding from everyone who was curious to know about this.

"Hasaki-chan. Nishimura-kun." Origami smiled slightly at the view of her advisers as she walked over to them, "You have no idea how glad I was when I found out you two managed to escape from getting captured."

Slice smiled back at Origami, "We felt the same when we found out you managed to get away as well."

"We felt the same when we found out you escaped as well." Nishimura added, "What about Arasaka? The Co-Commander mentioned something about Minene and Takeuchi, but didn't mention her. Do we know anything about her?"

Origami's smile faded away from her face the moment Arasaka was brought up by the fox man. Letting out a sigh, she explained to them what happened to Arasaka as she knew there was no point in hiding it, "Yeah. We know. She was caught."

Nishimura's eyes widened a bit, "What?"

"What do you mean?" Slice wanted to know with a suprised look on her face.

Origami wasted no time and quickly explained everything to them, "Arasaka-san was caught when we were leaving the mansion on Machia's back. We had no time to collect her as we couldn't control Machia as he was focused on getting us to Shigaraki."

"I see..." Slice sighed sadly. First Nine died and both Chimera and Arasaka were captured. Why did she kept losing her friends. At least Chimera and Arasaka were still alive and could be taken back in some way. She knew now it wasn't the time for it, though.

Origami took notice of the way Nishimura and Slice, especially the latter, reacted to this information from her quickly tried to change the subject of the conversation by asking her about Toga. Even though she was told Toga was with their group, she was still yet to see her best friend among them, "What about Himiko-chan? Where is she?"

"Origami-chan..." A blank near emotionless voice called out for her a second later. Origami's eyes widened a bit, having recognized this voice as Toga's straight away. Even if the tone of it was completely different from the tone she was used to.

The dark green haired girl looked in the direction of it and saw Toga standing in the back of Geten's group. Her expression was as blank as her tone was. Origami wasted no time upon seeing her best friend and pushed herself into run towards her, "Himiko-chan!"

Y/N looked in the direction of the shout and saw Origami hugging Toga, holding her as if he life depended on it and Toga didn't return the hug, looking like she was in some sort of trance right now while keeping her expression blank. The h/c haired boy sighed, knowing it must have been been caused by Twice's death. He pushed himself into walk towards Origami and Toga a second later, knowing what he had to do right now. Dabi gave him Twice's handkerchief, after all.

"Toga." He called out for his blond haired friend, having just made his way to Origami and Toga as Origami pulled away from Toga and released her from the hug. Toga shifted her attention to Y/N a second later. The h/c haired boy flinched a bit upon seeing her expression from up close. Seeing Toga like this just felt so wrong, "I'm glad to see you again."

"Me too." Toga nodded at them. Her usual excitement and cheerfulness was gone from her voice. The blond haired girl noticed Y/N had an eye bags similiar to hers, but didn't make a comment about it. It made Y/N and Origami exchange worried glances with each other.

Origami looked at Toga questioningly, "How did it go for you after you left Machia's back?"

"I spoke with Ochaco. Everything is clear to me now." Toga gave her an honest answer as Y/N and Origami once again exchanged glances with each other, wondering what Toga mean by that. The blonde haired girl ignored their expressions and went further into her words, "I wandered on my own for a bit until I was found by the eskimo's group. We stuck around each other until we managed to get into contact with you through the long hair's equipment."

"I see." Origami said in understanding, "Good to know you managed to find them. Otherwise it would take us longer to find you."

Toga hummed in ageement, "Yeah."

Y/N remained worried by the way Toga was acting right now as he knew now it was the right time for him to give her the handkerchief. He reached into his pocket, grabbing it as he told her, "Toga-chan. There's something I need to give to you."

"What is it?" Toga raised her brow at him as Y/N pulled out a familiar pink handkerchief into her view and gave her a good look at it. It didn't took Toga long to recognized the handkerchief. She knew it was the handkerchief she gave Twice straight away. She looked at Y/N with a suprised look on her face, having a hard time believing he actually had on it, "I-Is that?"

Y/N nodded in confirmation, "Yes. It's the handkerchief you gave to Twice back when we were dealing with the yakuza. I thought you should have this."

Toga looked at the handkerchief in front of her with a tearful look on her face, breaking herself out of the blank state he was in ever since she made herself know to the others. She grabbed the handkerchief from him, clutching her close as if her life depended on it and let out a whimper, "Jin..."

"Himiko-chan..." Origami said in worry for her best friend.

Toga looked at Y/N tearfully with a mixture of sadness and gratitude on her face, "Y-Y/N. Thank you for giving this to me..."

Y/N brushed her gratitude off, knowing it shouldn't be directed towards him. It should be directed towards Dabi instead. He made sure to point this out to Toga a second later, "You shouldn't be thanking me. You should be thanking Dabi instead. He made sure to collect Twice's belongings from his body back at the mansion. He was the one who told me I should give this to you."

"Really?" Toga asked, letting out another whimper as her tearful eyes shifted their attention to Dabi. Y/N and Origami followed her example as they set their eyes on Dabi as well and saw what he was doing right now after keeping himself on the sidelines ever since All For One and Y/N's group arrived at this place. All three of them saw him walking over to Geten who was having a conversation with Skeptic and Kizuki.

"Hey, ice dude." Dabi called out for Geten once he got himself close enough to him. From the tone of his voice, everyone had a hard time telling if he was interested in this talk or just wanted to get this over with. Knowing Dabi, it was probably the latter.

Geten shifted his gaze from Skeptic and Kizuki to him and narrowed his eyes slightly at the view of him, "You came."

"I heard you wanted to talk with me about something so here I am." Dabi explained his reasons for coming here to him, "Didn't had anything else to do as well so you can say you lit up my curiosity well enough to make me come so get to it. Let's see if it will be worth coming here."

Geten nodded to him and wasted no time when it came to explaining himself. He didn't gave Dabi a full answer straight away, though as he at first wanted to bring up a few stuff to him at first, "...Listen. I know a lot has happened between both of us since Deika City and our relationship was far from friendly. No matter if it was the stuff in the Deika City or the stuff once the PLF was formed. Both of us made it clear to each othat that we don't like each other and would prefer if we didn't have to work together once we were placed in the regiment..."

"Can you get straight to the point? Not a fan of the sentimental crap like this." Dabi cut him off. By this point everyone around them was watching the conversation between them as they found themselves intrigued by Geten's words and couldn't help but wonder why he would bring this up to Dabi right now.

"What I'm trying to say is that I never suspected you to be my cousin when all of those things between us happened." Geten explained. Everyone stopped what they were doing as soon as those words left his mouth and looked at him in a silent suprise, having not been expecting to hear this from him.

Dabi blinked at him in suprise, needing a few seconds to process , "...What?"

"I second that. What?" Mummy voiced his suprise on this matter as well. Everyone else around him looked like they wanted to ask the same question. Everyone aside from All For One. All For One looked at the scene in front of him with an interested look on his face.

Geten nodded in confirmation as he kept his attention on Dabi, "You heard me right. I'm your cousin from your moms side. I'm a Himura. We're relatives. Far relatives, but relatives neverthless."

"I see." Dabi replied as he turned away from Geten and pushed himself into walk with an in intention of distacing himself from him. From the look on his face, everyone could tell he had no idea how to react to this information and had a lot to think about right now, "Alright. That's all I needed to know. Now if you'll excuse me, I want to be left alone."

"Fine. If you say so." Geten nodded at him, "Just don't think our conversation ends here, though. We still have a lot to talk about."

"Great. Looking forward to it." Dabi replied. Everyone couldn't tell whether he was sarcastic or not when he uttered his reply. Everyone was leaning more to the former, though.

Toga watched the scene in front of her with a slightly suprised look on her face, wiping her teary eyes a bit as she continued to clutch the handkerchief as if it was her most prized possession, "...He really was Dabi-kun's cousin for all this time."

"Looks like it. I don't think Geten would lie about something like this." Origami nodded in agreement, looking equally as suprised by the revelation. It was when she recalled the comment Mustard made back when all of them fought Geten in Deika City. His comment was about how Geten looked similiar to Dabi. The dark green haired girl shook her head at this. If only Mustard knew how close to the truth he was with this comment...

"First the stuff with Endeavor and now this? Just how messed up Dabi's family is..." Y/N asked himself, shaking his head. At the same time, he couldn't help but ask himself. Was this the matter Geten once brought up to him? Was he talking with Re-Destro about this?

"It's a great question, Y/N." All For One's voice rang through his ears as Y/N, Origami and Toga turned towards it and saw him walking towards Geten. His body language revealed just how pleased he was by this information. He stopped in front of Geten, standing over the shorter man with a grin threatening to form on his face, "Geten. You and I have a lot to talk about once we'll settle ourselves down somewhere away from the civilization. Think how much help your identity will be for us and all the possibilities associated with it. We have two relatives of the current number one hero on your side. It will be one of the many final nails in the coffin we need to put an end for the hero society."

"I see." Geten replied, looking like he didn't know how to react to All For One's words. He was certain about one thing, though. The way he talked with him about it was much different from the way Re-Destro talked with him about it...

"Speaking of settling ourselves down, what are we going to do now?" Mummy asked.

"Like I already said to Geten here, we'll settle ourselves somewhere where we won't have to worry about getting captured for now." All For One shifted his gaze to him and provided him an answer. Everyone from Geten's group shifted their attention from him and Y/N, looking like they were waiting for him to say anything.

Y/N nodded in confirmation, "He's right. We have to find a way to gain contact with the other survivors and regroup with them before we'll make our next move. Whenever it will happen, all of us need to be ready for it and doing it right now with just our group would be reckless and stupid. Not to mention, I feel like all of us need to rest a bit."

"How are we going to regroup with everyone, though?" Narukami asked, "Almost 700 of us escaped, getting into contact with all of them will take a while."

Y/N shook his head, "Don't worry about it. We'll find a way how to do it as quickly as possible. It will give us all the time we need to spread out further message further as well."

"In fact. I already came up with a solution for this." Skeptic added as everyone turned to look at him. Once he made sure everyone had their eyes on him, he explained the plan to them, "One of us or a few of us will split up from the rest and will be given the current location of every surviving membe of the PLF once we will come into contact with them. They will use this as a chance to look for them themselves. This way we'll have two parties looking for the survivors. Our group and the lookout group."

Narukami nodded in understanding, "I see."

"Who will be in the lookout group?" Slice asked.

"I'll do it." Y/N instantly volunteered for the job as everyone turned to look at him once he voiced his willingness to do this job.

Origami looked at him with an uncertain look on her face, "Are you sure about this?"

Y/N nodded in confirmation, "Yes. It's my job to look after those people due to my position as the co-commander. I think it will be for the best if they'll met up with me out of all people as well since I'm supposed to be leading them and all. I could work well for their morale as well."

"I see." Skeptic said in understanding.

Skeptic looked around himself, "Is anyone else up for the job?"

Y/N shook his head before anyone could say anything, "No. I'll do it alone."

Origami's worry grew at this, "What?"

"Are you sure?" Geten wanted to know.

Y/N once again nodded in confirmation, "Yes. All of you should use this time to rest before we'll make our next move."

Slice looked at him questioningly, "What about, though? You don't need to rest?"

Y/N shook his head, "No. I already rested enough during the last few days."

"Your bags under your eyes say otherwise." Kizuki muttered under her breath.

No more words were said after this even if a few members of the group looked like they wanted to object Y/N going all by himself out there. All For One spoke up before anyone could say anything, though and the idea of Y/N going all by himself out there was decided on. With this plan being what all of them decided on, everyone turned away from Y/N and started to make their way towards the emergency aircraft from Tartatus.

All For One remained close to Y/N as he held ou an earpiece to him, "Use this while you'll out there as a way of contacting either me or Skeptic. Either of us will contact you when we'll have something to share with you as well."

"Alright." Y/N said in understanding, taking the earpiece from All For One as he looked up at him questioningly, "If I were to come back to you and everyone, where am I supposed to head as I don't think you will remain in our current hideout with the others for long."

All For One nodded at him as he provided him an answer straight away, "You're right there, Y/N . I already have a few locations where me and your friends can stay while we'll be planning out our next move. But do not worry. I'll inform you about the location I'll decide on straight away."

Y/N nodded in understanding, placing the earpiece close to his ear, "Alright. I'll make sure to keep my ears open for when you will contact me with the location."

"One more thing before we'll part ways for now." All For One told him as Cyborg moved closer to them and stopped between them. The Nomu stood closer to Y/N, though, "Cyborg over here will assist you in your little mission as he will serve as your source of transport over your country. He was designed to be your personal Nomu, after all and now it's time for him to finally fulfill his job."

Y/N shifted his gaze between All For One and Cyborg, leaving himself with his thoughts for a brief moment and gave All For One a nod of his head a moment later, "Alright. You're right. Having him with me wll make everything easier for me. i'll make sure to make a good use out of him while I'll be out there."

"Very well. Make sure to make a good use of all the additions the Doctor placed in Cyborg when he turned him into a Nomu if you'll find yourself in trouble." All For One nodded back at him, "Now. Remember something while you'll be out there. Everything around you and everything you and your friends, including myself, are doing this. All of this is for your and Tomura's sake."

Y/N silently nodded at All For One, letting him know he will keep this in mind as All For One smiled in a satisfied manner and turned away from him as he started to make his way towards the emergency aircraft, leaving the h/c haired boy alone with Cyborg. Once Y/N was left alone with the Nomu, he was approached by someone new and this person was Toga. Toga stopped in front of him, looking at him with the blank expression she had on her face earlier.

"To..." The h/c haired boy began to say only to get cut off a second later as Toga wrapped her arms around him in a hug. Y/N slowly hugged his friend back, "Don't worry. I'll watch out for myself out there. Now go with the others and rest for a bit. Okay? You more than deserve and need it. Tell Spinner and Magne that I'll be fine from me. Alright?"

Toga pulled away from him a second later and gave a silent nod of her head, showing him she understood everything he had just uttered to her. The two friend shared one final glance before Toga turned away from him and started to make her way towards the aircraft. All the while still clutching Twice's handkerchief. After parting ways with Toga, Y/Nwas was approached by one more person tnad this person was Dabi.

"What is it..." He once again found himself getting cut off by the person who approached him as Dabi leaned towards his ear and whispered something to him. Y/N's eyes widened slightly at whatever Dabi had just told him as Dabi pulled away from him and nodded at him, showing him he was serious about what he just said to him before turning away from him and walking off.

Y/N watched Dabi walk away from him with widened eyes, leaving himself with his thoughts regarding what Dabi had just said to him before he was pushed out of them by Geten who was walking towards the aircraft with Skeptic and Kizuki. He set his eyes on all three of them as Geten noticed him staring at him and nodded at him, wishing him luck out there. The h/c haired boy nodded back at him, silently showing him he appreciated his thoughts.

"Y/N." Origami's voice rang through his ears a second later as Y/N shifted his attention to it and saw Origami staring at him with a worried look on her face. Origami stopped in front of him and grabbed his hands into hers as she looked directly into his eyes with hers, "Are you sure you don't want me or someone else to come with you?"

Y/N nodded in confirmation, "Yeah. It be safer for me to move on my own. I'll have Cyborg to help me out in everything as well. I'll be fine. You'll see."

"Just be safe out there..." Origami wished him luck, looking to be extremely reluctant about letting him go all by himself.

Y/N nodded at her, "I will."

Origami leaned closer to him a second later and pressed her lips against his, giving him a goodbye and a good luck kiss and Y/N returned the kiss a second later. The two remained like this for the next few seconds before pulling away from each other. They shared one last glance with each other before Origami pulled her hands away from him and turned away from him. The dark green haired girl pushed herself into walk towards the aircraft a second later as she followed Toga and Dabi towards it.

When everyone was on board of the airship, it slowly took off into the air and flied off in the direction it had came from when Y/N and All For One's arrived at this place earlier on. Once he was done watching the airship leave, Y/N turned away from the direction it had gone into and set his eyes on Cyborg. Knowing he shouldn't waste his time, he moved towards it and Cyborg crouched down a bit, allowing him to climb up on top of him. Y/N sat down on top of his back a few seconds later and adjusted his position a bit, wanting to make himself comfortable.

"Let's go, Cyborg. Take me to the nearest city." He told the Nomu after making sure he was comfortable enough for the upcoming flight as he pulled out his mask and covered his face with it. Cyborg instantly obeyed his command as he summed the boogie pack and took of into the air with him...

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I wanted to get this chapter out about two weeks sooner, but got busy with the private life stuff and the process of writing it was slow because of it. The next chapter will open up the Dark Deku arc.

The new TADC episode came out and I loved it. Jax was a fun asshole like always. Gummygoo was a fun character as well and the scene between him and Pomni was really deep and touching. I wish he had lasted longer as well. They really had me thinking he'll become a reccuring character only for Caine to Thanos snap him a few seconds later. The singing commercial with the plushies was fun, by the way. Never thought I'll see Gangle swearing, but I ain't complaining about it, lol.

Season 7 of MHA came out and I loved what we received from it so far. The new opening and ending are both amazing. I already have an idea of how it would look like with the addition of the characters from this story, but I'll wait with those until we'll reach the events of season 7 in this story. While Star and Stripes appearance in the anime was as short lived as it was in the manga, it was amazing. The battle was everything I wanted it to be in the anime and I'm excited to see how the anime will handle the rest of the stuff from the manga.

Saw the leaks for 424 and holy shit. It was definitely a lot to take. While everything in the previous chapter worked wonderfully with what I had planned, this one here leaves me with some thinking to do. I can already tell how exhausting the Final War arc will be to write for me...

I'm gonna go into spoiler territory here so you can skip this part of A/N if you're anime only or haven't read this part of the manga, yet:

This chapter was filled wth emotions from both Kurogiri and Shigaraki. Kurogiri saying he needed to protect Shigaraki was great. I really wanted to see Kurogiri saying he needed to protect Tomura Shigaraki scene and now I'm happy it happened. The scene where he mentions Shigaraki's friends left be feeling both sad and happy.

Shigaraki. God I feel so bad for him. I was really hoping that he would have been able to regain control of his body and seeing him get killed makes me sad (the fact that he's my favourite character played it's part in it as well). His last words to Izuku about Spinner were touching as well. He really loved his gamer lizard friend till the very end. Now it really makes me wonder if Toga and Dabi are really dead and if Spinner is really braindead from all the Quirks.

Now Let's go the AFO stuff. It was unexpected but it's a welcoming addition to his character (even though I still consider him to be one of the most despicable villains I've seen in a long time). The stuff between him and Yoichi made me sad a little. It showed he wasn't pure evil as well. I kinda like this because the series repeatedly emphasized that EVERY villain is still human, no matter what they've done. It always felt weird that the manga did "every villain except AFO". It showed even he had humanity left in him.