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Hitoshi’s coming weeks after his experience as Akinari are both calming and intense as hell.
He’s got a lot better stamina and fighting capabilities that he hadn’t before he had met his secret guardian Angel, Izuku Midoriya, and his guardian angel's teacher who just happens to be his hero idol, Eraserhead aka Aizawa-sensei.
So Yeah… crazy past few months, cause Hitoshi now feels he might have a chance at whatever living hell the physical exam at UA for the hero course could be. With the encouragement from them both and the encouragement he feels at seeing himself improve, despite how he still can’t actually beat either Izuku or Sensei in a spar, he’s majorly better than he was before he had met them.
Hitoshi is a lot closer to both of them too, he never imagined he’d be taught by his hero idol but here they were, he also just.. kinda accepted he’d never form close friendships with people after he got his quirk.
But again, here they were.
He had a friend and a mentor…
…
God this was the craziest year of his life for sure.
Anyways, on the topic of Izuku again, his experience as Akinari was.. definitely new. It was.. he can’t bring himself to say or even think anything negative about the experience, just that it was something he’d never expect a quirk to be able to do but then again he’s seen a kid with a plank of wood for their head as a classmate so maybe he shouldn’t be too surprised.
But Akinari was.. he is legit a complete byproduct of a quirk that can only be made with another person in the mix, he’s heard that some rich family had people that could create things but not a whole new person like Izuku could. And his friend has only done it with one other person, their mentor, and.. it was crazy something like Izuku's quirk even existed, crazy how he just happened to be his friend's second ever fusion.
It made him feel special, a good kind, he’s only ever been special in the sense he’d be a special kind of problem. But when he was Akinari he felt… god, he feels kinda embarrassed to think it but.. he felt like.. wanted? Appreciated? He doesn't really know. All he knows is that he hopes Izuku doesn't really figure out how much he admires him. In a weird turn of events, he also kinda does want his friend to realize how highly he thinks of him but he also knows he’d be too embarrassed to ever confirm it.
He’s not embarrassed of Izuku, no way he’s a good guy, he’s more embarrassed of himself more than anything.
Hitoshi’ touch starved okay? He also just feels so comforted as the fusion, is he still a bit paranoid and a lot more anxious? Yes, but in a way he doesn't mind it. Akinari is still a person, err— persons, that has combined flaws of both people he can’t be expected to only have the good traits.
A part of him wants to say that Akinari's quirk falls under the Flaw category but it’s kinda also a mix of his own and Izukus quirk so he can’t bad mouth it since it’s part Izuku… it’s a absolute travesty but he can’t bring himself to feel bad about Akinari's quirk completely. Akinari has seemed to get a weird mix of quirk admiration but also paranoia.
Hitoshi doesn't like his quirk and has a hard time not hating on it like most people in his life do.
Izuku hadn’t had his own quirk until 10ish months ago and has admired other quirks his whole life, constantly studying them.
So Akinari thinks about his quirk, its possibilities and such, but can’t bring himself to apply it in the slightest. Can’t bring himself to properly test it cause of his own paranoia at what it could do, but it’s also completely mixed with Izuku's anxiety so it’s even harder for the fusion to use it without being overly nervous. they were able to get a fact of it down.
Akinari can brainwash anyone as long as they're directly speaking to him, and doesn't have to respond, that person just has to be talking to Akinari at all. That's the farthest they’ve ever been able to test. Hitoshi’s fine with it. Izuku definitely wants to test more but because Izuku is a saint, doesn't say anything about finding more.
When they did test Akinari's quirk, Izuku and himself visited the alley cat afterwards. Hitoshi had his “talking to people” battery out so Izuku just mumbled and theorized in his notebook the entire time. It was nice and he's come to see out of his and Izuku's hangouts that Izukus mumbling, a very embarrassing realization really, is very nice to listen to… he’s fallen asleep on multiple occasions. He doesn't mean to just happens.
He’ll just be listening to Izuku and then he’s out like a light. And it’s not like what Izuku is explaining is boring, it’s kinda cool seeing Izuku figure out how something works in real time, it’s just a very calming sound.
Its also really fucking annoying because the first few times it had happened Izuku has assumed he was boring or, god forbid, annoying him somehow to sleep? He doesn’t know how annoying someone to sleep would be possible but nonetheless he had to, very embarrassingly, explain why he keeps passing out like he hadn’t slept for 2 days straight the moment Izuku mumbles.
Izuku, of course, felt honored that he was able to help Hitoshi sleep. Most likely because Hitoshi has complained in the past of how god awful his sleep schedule is because of his insomnia that no melatonin could ever cure. Izuku went far enough to record a few small audio recordings of his mumbling and then formatted them into little videos he could listen to.
Cause, like his past assumptions have shown, Izuku is his guardian Angel or at least some sort of being of goodness that could do no wrong.
After all of this it’s turned to them hanging out most days, only not doing so when their own junior high exams came up or chores and such were to be done the whole day.
Akinari had really brought them Closer together…. Literally.
but other than all that they’ve cramped in as much physical and quirk training they could’ve for the entrance exam in the weeks that had lead up to now. He and Izuku waking up to the entrance exam, himself still in his school uniform with a duffel bag with his workout clothes and pencil or two just incase as well as a water bottle and his beat up phone and Izuku in a pair of jeans and one of his dumbass shirts that says “jeans” on it with his yellow backpack that definitely has more than he’d need in it.
God he wants to run away, because what if he fails?
But..
at least Izuku's here
..
Izuku has always thought that if he had a power like Kac- Kats- no- Bakugou, that he’d be as liked and supported as him.
Which is true if he had a power like Bakugous he’d be as liked and worshipped.
But.. in full honesty he didn’t want to be worshiped, he wanted friendship, a very different word that ended in ship, he wanted someone to talk to, to tell his thoughts of quirk science, hero’s and just… enjoy each other's company.
And he got that with a very different quirk from Kac- no- Bakugou… and maybe he’s not as liked as k- Bakugou but he’s got so much more support he’s ever imagined.
Izuku always had support from his mom! don't immediately accuse her of things! But… It wasn't as strong as now, she wanted to do the best for him and was just scared of the possibilities of heroism for her kid, he can’t fault her for that, and even if he did she's supporting him now, even through her fears. And that's enough for him.
He’s also got the support of Shouta-Sensei (don't tell anyone that he calls him Shouta-sensei only Hitochan knows that!) He's been taught a lot by the man and he’s so excited about what he’ll learn at school alongside Hitochan!
Speaking of Hitochan, even though he’s not been as long as a supporter he’s still been a lot for Izuku. He was scared that he’d be lacking in enough social skills that he’d just weird people out, especially with how specific his quirk is, yet he was able to befriend Hitochan.
Izuku still wasn’t sure how he did that but he thinks helping Hitochan against those bullies, and anytime they came around, gave him a few good points! Maybe it’s because he likes caffeine… Probably the fact he likes cats and that cats like him.
Izuku was also still reeling from the fact that Hitochan thinks his quirk is cool. he was expecting him to be somewhat a little disappointed and only think it’s interesting once he talked about it more in detail, he wasn’t even thinking Hitochan would ever think it’s weird or gross as Hitochan had been met with disgusted responses towards at his own quirk, but he wasn’t prepared for Hitochan to look at him in the most genuine Awe that he’d only see when Shouta-sensei does something cool.
Especially as when Izuku had bursted in tears, was he surprised how Hitochan thought he was mentally strong the moment he said he only got his quirk, at the time, only 7 months ago and had spent most of his life quirkless.
Izuku felt so cared for by a friend more than he ever had in a very long time when he had given that quirk to Hitochan, how they went back in forth quietly in their hug before Izuku had even thought about his quirk when Hitochan had hugged back and placed his head on Izuku's and then.. It was Akinari.
Akinari is his second ever fusion and he couldn’t be happier that Hitochan was his second ever person for it. Akinari is their friendship personified, quiet company in a cat cafe, mumbles of Izuku's new theory to himself and Hitochan if he was listening closely or had fallen asleep, Whispers of pro heroes they saw that day on the news or from a distance, all sorts of things it was all Akinari. Akinari was their genuine desire for someone to understand them as well as their acceptance of one another with nothing less.
and it was nice to be liked! He wasn’t used to it at all but it was something he well- liked! He hopes that their friendship lasts a long time because he is so happy to have someone like Hitochan by his side!
At the start of his dream of being a hero the definition of being beside his best friend when they became heroes was being a shadow, a silent help, he was ready to be Kach- Bakugou's support hero.
But when he talks about being a hero with Hitochan, he isn’t talked like he’d be in the background, he’s talked like they'd be beside one another. And he didn’t think that could be more encouraging than being a hero at all.
When he thought of being a hero as a kid he always assumed he’d always be ka- Bakugou's shadow. And that was fine by him, he never cared for being number 1 or being admired, he cared about helping others and if he had to do it in his childhood friend's shadow he’d do it
But now trying to become a hero beside someone, like Hitochan, was better than he had ever thought it be.
He’s thought about the comparisons in his friendship with Hitochan and Bakugou a lot in the time of getting to know Hitochan and… Izuku doesn't think he could consider Bakugou his friend….
NOW! Don't get him wrong! He’ll always admire Kach- Bakugou! But… Bakugou’s just… not good for Izuku and hasn’t been good for him for a very long time. He hasn’t thought about their relationship for a long time and as he’s gotten Hitochan as his friend, he’s come to realize that K- Bakugou hasn’t been his friend since he was first ridiculed for not having a quirk, by his childhood friend not standing up for him.
And, even though Hitochan hadn’t been in a situation where he had to defend his honor, he thinks he would. Why does Izuku think that? Well… he told most of his experience of getting his quirk and a vague mention of Bakugou in the background of his explanation saying someone would say his quirk was still practically quirkless.
But Hitochan hadn’t said anything about being with or without a quirk to Izuku, he just latched on to the fact someone was messing with Izuku and asked if he was still being messed with and was met with relived purple eyes after saying that his harasser wasn't and hasn’t talked to him once and he was actually going to online school,
His friend was once again relieved but seemed to register the quirk part of the discussion and treated the words he spoke caution. But what Izuku was expecting was some admission that he thought a quirkless hero wasn't totally possible but as what his friend said came out of his mouth he remembered who his favorite pro hero actually was. An example of a a what if quirkless hero.
His friend didn't react with pity or disgust as his brief mention to Izuku’s past quirkless-ness.
”I think you could do it,”
That's what he had said, someone believed a dream of his was realistic, possible.
And that's what truly cemented the cause of their fusion he thinks, though Izuku’s quirk is oddly specific, he theorized it’s a self protection mechanism of some sort.
Despite his quirks weird functions, he’s so glad his quirk has so far only brought him good things.
Izuku’s always thinking of how people are going to hate him despite the fact that he has a quirk but he tries his hardest to put his anxiety to rest by remembering he knows people who think good of his quirk,
his mom, Yamada-San, Shouta-sensei and now Hitochan,
He has people he can trust now
And now, it's time to see if it’s all paid off at UAs entrance exam
Izuku is kinda, very, terrified of what's going to happen at the practical and mental tests.
But at least his best friend is here… even if he can feel Hitochans fear from beside him