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“Everything. Is. Fucking. Heavy” Second mutters as he tries to walk but only manages to drag his feet.
“On your left” Third mocks him by being able to drag his steps a second faster than him.
First floats around them while holding Nana’s hand.
“Be careful, just happy thoughts and you’ll be fine Yoichi” she tries to calm him.
“Don’t let go of my fucking hand Nana, I swear to god, if you let go of my hand right now you’ll regret taking OFA forever”
“You’re squeezing my hand a little too tight honey, if you don’t relax you are going to be the one regretting passing on that quirk” she smiles sweetly at him, he smiles back.
“They are too feral together” Banjo comments.
Hikage hums. “They remind me of the strays that used to live close to my house, they would make my quirk turn on during their fights too” Banjo sides eye him, Hikage looks back at him. “You can never be too careful with cats, they are too powerful”
“I trust you” Daigoro tells him.
“You shouldn't,” Hikage smiles at him.
He nods at his mentor’s answer. “Yeah, I shouldn’t, but I didn’t listen to you when you first told me that and thanks to that I ended up with a pretty cool quirk, not too bad, eh?”
“You died because of that quirk” He blinks at his successor.
“I said not too bad, never said I didn’t die”
En who has been walking behind them the whole time can only think one thing.
Fuck, all of this people are suicidal or adrenaline crazy.
He looks at Eight’s vestige—because this one is a vestige—, he’s been holding his hand the whole time just in case, they don’t want a repeat of last time. “You are the only one sane in this house” he tells him.
Eight blinks at him.
En sighs. “Who am I kidding, you bit Nana the first time you met her”
“Ishikawa! Is very nice to see you” Inko calls to her downstairs neighbor, Ishikawa Mao a young woman, 29 years old, works on a nice bakery—Izuku loves their cupcakes—, is married to Ishikawa Yuu, a young man too, 31 years old, works on a close restaurant, rotates his schedule a little too much, she has only seen him twice.
Ishikawa jumps from where she’s standing in front of her open door and turns around to look at her. “Midoriya-san? What a surprise, I thought you lived upstairs?”
Inko chuckles. “Yes I do, but as I was going through the stairs I saw you and decided to come say hi, it’s been a long time, also, I told you to stop calling me Midoriya, you can call me Inko”
“Oh, okay, Inko-san” Ishikawa blinks. “Wait, did you say the stairs? Don’t you live on the 6th floor?”
“I like to walk” she explains.
“Oh”
“Yeah”
“All right, uh, well, it was a pleasure but—”
“Are you busy right now, Ishikawa? Would you like to stop by? How have you been doing? How is your husband?”
“Ahh” Ishikawa finally closes her door, “I’m actually kind of busy, got called from work out of nowhere, you know how it is” she chuckles nervously, “I’ve been good, uh, Yuu, he has, eh, been great, we have been great, yeah”
“Really?” Inko smiles at her.
“Yeah! We have been amazing, everything is great!” She smiles at Inko, “we are great, it’s just,” She pauses for a moment, “my mom likes Yuu too much, isn’t that a little weird? Why would she call him out of nowhere and not call me? Since when did they start playing games online together? Why does he call her Saki-chan, her name is Misaki, hell, it took him almost a year to call me by my name,” she looks a little too frantic at Inko, “I mean, did your Mother used to do that too Inko-san? Did she start talking a little too much with your husband?”
Inko blinks at her neighbor and doesn’t bother to mention that her mother was dead by the time she met Hisashi, she only has one thought on her mind.
Oh fuck, she didn’t just kill her husband but her mother too.
“Stop by when you are back from work Ishikawa, we can talk a little more privately there, do you have any allergies?” She decides to say at the end.
Ishikawa shakes her head. “No, I don’t, eh, I really have to leave, it was, uh, nice talking to you Inko-san”
She smiles. “Likewise” she watches as Ishikawa walks to the elevator, then walks to the stairs.
She wonders if Himura Rei still plays the Ouija, the last thing she heard of her was that she was getting married.
“Where are we going again?” Second asks for the third time.
“We are going to Nine’s house!” En shouts from the back.
“And what for?” Second shouts back.
“I don’t know! Ask Nana!”
He nods and looks at Nana who is clutching Yoichi’s hand. “Seven, why are we going to Nine’s house?”
She turns to look at him. “What? Didn’t you notice?”
He blinks slowly at her.
She scoffs. “We were at Izuku’s middle school, but the place was infested by ghosts and some low level demon, Yoichi and I decided it would be safer to stay at Izuku’s house”
Third talks this time, Second is too busy thinking, “Low level demons?”
“Those weird-shape misty things were ghosts?” He asks, Second turns to look at his partner, he too? Betrayal.
Seven arcs her eyebrow. “Misty things? You can’t see them?”
Yoichi looks back at them. “You guys can’t see them? There were a looot of dead kids back there, the demon was actually pretty lame compared to the ones back in our time”
Second tilts his head at his other partner.
Is this-is this a midlife crisis thing? Are they finally going through it since they were never able to do it during their lives?
Seven looks at First. “You have always been able to see them?”
He nods. “Yeah, only me and my mom, but I used to be able to only hear them, it was only a few years before dying when I was able to see them”
She nods back. “I started seeing them when I was in my twenties, but I think I remember that my dad used to talk about them, always telling us not to disrespect the spirits”
“Yeah, they can get pretty mad if you do something wrong” his life-partner provides.
Second looks back at his other life-partner. “Are they serious? Are you serious?”
Third, the love of his life, looks at him with pity. “You didn’t see anything? Or heard anything weird?”
“I just, there was a lot of noise? But, isn’t that common for schools? Kids whispering and talking everywhere?”
“I don’t know, I didn’t go to school, I was on the run”
“I know, me neither, I was on the run with you”
“Oh, that’s right, anyway, the whispering? I think that was the demon, I’m not sure since I couldn’t see them, but I think the demon was the one making that noise, the ghosts were mostly talking with themselves or trying pull pranks on the students”
“I hate this”
“Yeah, me too”
“Also,” he turns to look at Seventh and First, “why is Yoichi the one with Float? He is always hoarding that quirk, I think it’s my turn now”
Nana is the one who answers. “Because if he doesn’t he would go even slower than you”
“And why are we going too slow?” Third asks.
She shrugs. “It’s only you three, Four says he feels a little heavy but not too much, I suppose it has something to do with the three of you having been dead for way longer and never have been on the Other Side?”
Second groans. The Other Side? Really?
“I call dibs on Float after Yoichi then” he says.
“What?” Third shrieks.
“Have fun taking it from him” she points at Yoichi, who sticks his tongue out.
“So Toshi, tell me, was I wrong in choosing Nana for that reason?”
Eight shakes his head.
En smiles. “Right? When she hissed at me it felt as if she was calling me, yelling me to look at her”
Eight nods approvingly.
“Well, it’s kind of like what you did with her too, isn’t it? Biting her and then telling her your dreams, uh?” He looks to the sky, “she can’t make fun of me when she basically did the same thing as me”
En looks at Eight who stares back.
“Except the part where she came to me after I got thrown to a dumpster, she was too young, she shouldn’t have done that, I remember I tried to teach her about Stranger Danger, she would kick me everytime saying that she could protect herself” he sides eyes the vestige, “but you, you should know better Toshi, never talk to Strangers, and more if they are weird older guys who are taking a nap on a dumpster, no matter how cute they are, I was pretty cute, you know? Well, I am, but anyway, don’t talk to strangers, weird or older people” he pauses, “though, you are already old enough, right?”
The vestige shrugs and nods.
En hums. “Then you should teach Nine about Stranger Danger, what he did with you was dangerous too, he didn’t know you, and you were this old dude who offered him a quirk, uh, that was actually kind of weird, you didn’t even know his name when you offered him One For All, what were you thinking?”
Eight shrugs and shakes his head.
“Oh right, you can’t talk, sorry, I forgot” Eight pats his shoulder and En smiles at him, “but now that I think about it, all of us decided to ignore Stranger Danger and that’s what got us into this mess” he looks at the firsts holders, “you didn’t hear this from me, but I got it from Banjo-sensei, who got it from Shinomori-san, that apparently he met Third when he was a kid, Third used to give him food and Shinomori-san used to kick him in the balls every time the other one got too close, he said his quirk screamed every time Third got closer” Eight nods at him, “I believe it was Danger Sense telling him that if he made friends with that man he would die, and lo and behold, he did”
Daigoro shouts. “Are we there yet?”
Third shouts back. “I don’t know! Nana, are we there?”
“No! I told you that three times already!”
10 minutes later En shouts. “Are we close?”
“Nana—” Hikage starts.
“I SWEAR TO ANY GOD THAT IS LISTENING THAT IF YOU DON’T SHUT UP I’LL—”
“Oh, we are here” Yoichi announces.
“We are here!” Second screams.
Hikage turns to look at En and Toshi. “Yoichi says we are here”
Eight nods.
“Yeah, we heard, thanks Hikage-san”
Second stares at the door. “So, we just go through the door? Don’t we need permission?”
Yoichi snickers.
Nana smirks at him. “What are we? Vampires? Just walk through the door, we’ll be okay” she explains as she walks through said door.
Second looks at Fourth. “What the fuck did she mean with vampires? Was it a joke? Was it a fact like the ghost thing?”
Hikage shrugs. “Danger Sense says it’s safe” he only says.
“Well, if your quirk says it’s safe, it’s safe” Fifth walks through the door too.
A second later he comes out screaming.
“What the fuck was that?!” He points to the apartment.
Yoichi walks through the door.
A few seconds pass by while everyone stays quiet.
Except for the last two.
“No, don’t worry Eight, Nana will be okay, she is strong, a little too strong in fact” En soothes the vestige.
Yoichi comes back. “Oh, it’s only a ghost, nothing to worry about” Second stares at First, “what?”
He takes his partner’s face in his hands. “I love you, you know that, but at this very moment I hate you so much”
Yoichi manages to say a barely audible, “okay”
“Good, I just wanted you to know that” he squeezes his cheeks.
“All right, love you”
“Love you too” he gives another squeeze then lets go.
The house is alone, only a note left on the table.
“Got called early at the hospital but I’ll be back by dinner!
There’s lunch on the oven, be careful while heating it, we don’t want another accident”
Second reads it and barely glances at the room.
“What the hell is that?” Third asks.
“Oh god Third, you can’t just ask what they are” Sixth whispers.
“How rude” Fifth tsks.
He looks around the room and sees nothing. “I don’t see any—”
“Hello”
“Fuck this, I’m out” he announces but gets held back by Hikage.
He looks at the man, Four only shakes his head slowly. “No point in running away”
He hates this family.