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Izuku didn’t really have days off. If anything it was usually the opposite, the agency he was working for seemed to be working him to death. There were many days where he would fall asleep at the dinner table because he was so tired. This honestly caused his boyfriends a lot of worry. He and they both knew he would do absolutely anything to be the number one hero, even if that meant pushing himself too far. They had all seen him do it many times during his highschool career. But when he neared his graduation he had become better about that. But now he seemed to be going back to how he was when he first started at UA.
He walked up to their apartment taking note of the time, midnight. Shit! Shouto and Tenya are probably already asleep, Tenya did have an early shift in the morning. He groaned slightly as he unlocked the door, It had been at least a week since they all got to spend a night together. Is it really too much to ask for him to just be able to spend some time with his partners? This was really getting out of hand. When he opened the door he was surprised to see Shouto sitting on the couch watching something on TV with the cat curled up next to him.
“Hey, Is Tenya already asleep?”, He asked quietly before he plopped down on the couch next to him.
“Yeah, We were both wanting to wait for you to get home, but it got too late”. He said plainly, kind of like he does when he is talking to someone he doesn't know well. He hadn’t talked to him in that way in years.
“Is something wrong?” Izuku asked scooting slightly closer to Shouto concerned.
“No, well not really”, He said looking away from Izuku clearly trying to avoid eye contact, “ Tenya and I were just talking and we were a bit concerned, you just seem really tired lately and we just wanted to make sure you were doing okay since we don’t really get to see you much anymore and you keep getting home late and.... Oh my God Izuku! What happened to your arm?” Shouto said the last part with widened eyes as he turned back to Midoriya.
“Oh, I just cut it while working, it’s fine, I’ll just wrap it up, in a bit, But….”
“No, we need to get that taken care of. How did it happen?”
“Villian with a glass quirk, He could create giant pieces of glass, it was actually kinda intense., not gonna lie” Izuku said the last part with a bit of an awkward giggle.
“Yeah, I would imagine, why didn’t anyone at your agency do anything?”
“Eh, they aren’t exactly the best at paying attention to the sidekicks, they pretty much told me, if I can take care of something myself to not bother them with it.. but really Shou it’s fine.”
Shouto let out a deep sigh but stood up and extended his hand to Izuku, “okay, well let’s just get it cleaned up and wrapped up for now okay?”.
They walked into the bathroom quietly as to not wake up Iida when they passed by their room. When they got there Shouto opened the door of the cabinet under the sink presumably looking for their first aid kit and Izuku sat on the edge of the sink. He could tell by the tense way Shouto was looking through the the cabinet that he was still upset.
“Well where the hell is it?” Shouto said under his breath.
“Here I can get it, it’s fine, You’re probably tired, Just go to bed I’ll take care of this” Izuku said hopping off the sink and crouching down next to Shouto.
“No I got it”
“Shouto, really it’s fine”
“No” Shouto said still angrily looking through the cabinet
“Shou, please I can tell you’re getting upset, just please let me handle this okay? Go to bed. It’s doesn’t even hurt anymore I can take care of it”
“I’m not upset, I’m just concerned about you! You’ve been working too hard lately it’s scaring me. But we can talk about that another time, right now you are hurt, let me help you! please!” Shouto said with a bit of desperation in his voice.
Shit.. he didn’t want to scare him. Maybe he had been working a little too hard lately, “Okay, okay, I’ll let you, it’s okay”
“Is everything alright” Tenya said as he appeared in the doorway. He obviously just woke up, he looked very disheveled which was very out of the ordinary for him.
“I can’t find the damn first aid kit,” Shouto said, still rummaging through the drawer and sounding very defeated.
Tenya shot Izuku a concerned look, but turned back to Shouto. “I think we moved it into the closet.” Tenya said as he walked into the bathroom closing the door and then opening the closet door, “here” he said, handing Shouto the first aid kit.
“Oh”, was all Shouto managed to say before gently grabbing the kit out of Tenya’s hand before opening it and grabbing the hydrogen peroxide and a cotton ball.
“Okay”, Tenya said before leaning against the closed door, “going back to my original question, is everything alright”
Shouto and Izuku glanced at each other not sure how to respond to that.
“Izuku got hurt at work”
“Not badly, I’m fine”
“You’re not fine, you’re working too hard for an agency that didn’t care enough about you to make sure you weren’t injured!”
Then it was silent for a second. None of them were exactly sure what to say.
“Oh..” Tenya said awkwardly.
Shouto started to help fix up Izuku’s injury as they still sat in the awkward silence.
“Well, Shouto and I had both been talking about this while we were waiting for you to come home. We are concerned. We are not upset at you by any means, but it does seem that your agency is taking advantage of the fact that you are willing to do practically anything to be a hero. We just don’t want you being used or for you to work yourself too hard and you end up hurt” Tenya said obviously trying to think his words though carefully. “We just.. We have both seen first hand that you are willing to push yourself so far that you end up badly injured. We love you, we don’t want anything to happen to you”
“But doesn’t hero work always involve that risk?” Izuku asked.
“Well yes, to a certain extent. But you have been going in to work at eight AM and sometimes not coming home until midnight or sometimes later. There is the normal risk associated with hero work, but that risk becomes much greater when you are not letting your body rest, and when you are constantly stressing about work. You need a good work and home life balance and from what we are seeing you are not getting that.”
In that moment Izuku thought back to what All Might had told him when they first started working together about pushing himself too far. He knew this stuff already. He had let his dedication to become a hero get in the way of his rational thinking, and now his partners were concerned about him. God he was such an idiot.
“We just don’t want you to get hurt.” Shouto said from where he was standing next to Izuku as he finished bandaging up his arm, “and I think we both miss seeing you” he said quitely.
“Okay, you’re both right. They have already given the schedule for the rest of the month, I can’t really change that, but I promise I will talk to them okay? And I’m sorry I caused you both to worry, that wasn’t fair of me.”
“No need to apologize, we were both just rightfully concerned for our boyfriend. But, now that we’ve had this discussion and it seems that your arm is okay can we go to bed? We all need to get some rest.” Tenya said the last part with a yawn.
“Yeah, I think all of us definitely need some sleep” Izuku said as he got off the edge of the sink and the three of them made their way to bed.