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Shouta listened to Yaoyorozu complain about the vents in her room for like the twentieth time in the week. Other girls have also complained to him, but when he checked the air conditioning system, everything was alright. That doesn´t mean that nothing was happening, the girls and some of the boys were also complaining about weird sounds on the same vents, so…
“You said that the expert can´t come until Friday?” Aizawa said to Nezu over the phone, feeling the headache return. He had a lot of things to do, especially now that he was going to have a meeting with Endeavour about why he wasn´t allowed to contact Shouto anymore tomorrow. “What if the girls are right and there is a mice nest? Or a rat?” he sighed after a sassy answer form his boss. “You know, forget it, I will do the job myself.”
“Woow, babe, aren´t you taking too much at the same time?” Hizashi asked, getting out of the shower in that moment. “You are taking care of Hitoshi´s transference to the hero course, watching Bakugo and Midoriya´s progress with therapy, Todoroki´s family situation, Dabi becoming temporary guardian of his brother despite being in the League of Villains, Endeavour´s assholish behaviour… do you really want to play exterminator now?”
“It´s just some mice, a cat can take care of mice.”
“You are not a cat, Shouta”
“But I like them, I have watched them, I can take care of a few mice”
With those last words, Eraserhead marched off to his mice exterminating quest. The dorms of Heights Alliance were usually bustling with life, the common room filled with students to the brim, but right now the children were huddled in their rooms, the girls on a sleepover and the boys… well, he didn´t know, the thing was that they were not there. Which was excellent for his vent quest, because if the mice managed to get away, there were not going to be any screaming wannabe heroes trying to catch them and getting in his way. Or to comment about his failure in case they indeed escaped.
Anyway, through some amazing feat of luck, Aizawa managed to locate something strange. Apparently, there was some obstruction in a main conduct, probably the mice´s nest. Now, how to take care of that? Doing the simplest thing, the pro-hero grabbed a screw driver and took off the lid. As he opened the vent, the sound of something collapsing came. And, much to his surprise, from the air conditioning vents came a flow of clothes that felt to the ground along with some papers and CDs and… and… panties… oh, God, they were panties!! At the end, screaming, came 1-A´s resident pervert. Mineta. A pervert that apparently used his short stature and the vents to spy on girls. A growl started to come from him as he looked at the VERMIN that was polluting his class.
“What was that… ARHHHHH!!” Ashido said when the students arrived to the common room, where the avalanche occurred. “That is my new bra!! I have been looking for it all over my room!!”
“And my panties!!” Hagakure yelled.
“Ack!! Disgusting!!”
“Pervert!!”
“I… I can explain!!” Mineta tried to say, looking at his irate classmates. And by that, he wasn´t meaning only to the girls, but the boys too, because a few of them looked close enough to use their quirks on the rotten grape. “I only acted like any other warm blooded man…”
“You are not a man, you are a rat!!”
“How… disgusting” even Yaoyorozu was feeling nauseated, holding one of the papers. She immediately dropped it, as it was sticky with… something, besides of the shock of finding herself completely naked in there. “This… he used the vents to take naked photos of the girls on their rooms and the bathroom!!”
“WHAT?!!”
“DISGUSTING!!!”
“MONSTER!!!”
“PERVERT!!!”
“SAY YOUR PRAYERS, MIDGET!!” Mineta trembled as his classmates closed up on him, some of them with their quirks already out to kill him. Bakugo looked especially murderous, but that seemed to be his natural humour, so… suddenly all of their quirks disappeared as a white scarf wrapped around the midget, nearly squeezing the life out of him.
“Sensei…”
“Who is going to deal with him is me” Aizawa said, his eyes flaring red. “Let´s see how he explains this to Principal Nezu”
The teenage heroes thought about it for a moment before leaving way for their teacher to drag the rotten grape away from Heights Alliance and towards the school. While he was doing so, he beat himself for not having expelled the damn depraved boy the first day. It was not that he didn´t want to, because he really wanted to once he realised what a danger he to the girls not only in his class, but in all the school and industry (and he was, because he saw one picture of Nejire Hado in his stash and was sure one of the bras could only belong to Nemuri). Unfortunately, the boy´s uncle was in the board of directors of UA and he had not been allowed to. In fact, nothing short of a mayor incident would have allowed for Mineta to be expelled from the school. Well, here was their mayor incident…
Not that the damn man was going to abandon so easily.
“Come on, it´s not so bad!!” the uncle said, offending every female in the room. Even the president of the board of directors. “I mean… I agree that this time Minoru overstepped his boundaries and deserve a punishment, but can´t he do some hours of detention and seminaries on sexual harassment and consent? Maybe even banning him from the girl´s side of the Dorms…”
“It doesn´t matter if he uses the vents again to take naked pictures of them” Shouta countered, feeling the headache that was beginning to form a few weeks ago with the suicide situation of Bakugo and Midoriya explode in full force on his temple. Normally he would avoid that kind of reunion with all his might, but… “Mineta-san, your nephew is a lost cause as a hero.”
“Just look here…”
“He doesn´t respect females at all, he had demonstrated it enough times by objectifying and sexualizing not only the pro-heroines he sees in TV, but his own classmates. I can´t have someone like that in my class in good conscience, not knowing what he can become.”
“Only because he acted like a boy?”
“Mineta-san, that was not acting like a teenage boy” Nezu spoke after sipping some tea. “That was acting like a budding sexual predator and if we allow one to get a full-fledged hero licence, then he will use it to harass thousands of females. This is something we can´t allow.”
“But…”
“Indeed, we can´t allow this. It would be a blemish in the UA´s reputation if one of their former alumnus end up getting sued for sexual harassment. A scandal” Shouta wanted to say that they were about to have a scandal regarding a former student anyway, but he kept his mouth shut. “The board of directors support your decision to expel Mineta Minoru.”
“But… but madam president…”
“Just have his homeroom teacher to fill the paperwork for the expulsion and the kid to retrieve his belongings from his room at the dorms, as he is not a student at this school anymore.”
“Thank you”
Shouta left the room relieved, exhausted and a little bit disappointed with humanity. In his opinion, this meeting should have never even taken place. Mineta should have been expelled on sight when he was found over that pile of photos, underwear and CDs that, he found out, contained videos of the girls changing. The piece of shit should have been kicked out of the school immediately, no buts allowed. Or that is what he grumbled as he laid on his sofa while Hizashi make him a cup of coffee with cream and sugar. Normally he would drink it black, but… tonight he wanted something to sweet the day. More sour taste and…
“Here you go, kitten, and here you have a pill for the migraine” dammit, Hizashi really knew him. “I´m sorry that your little exterminator adventure ended up like that, babe. But looking on the bright side, now Hitoshi can begin in the hero course a few months before the expected date. And move into the 1-A Dorms by tomorrow.”
“Talking about moving, that is not going to happen” the black haired hero said, taking the first long drink of his sweet coffee. “At least not for a few weeks.”
“Why? He was so eager to move out of the 1-C dorm…”
“Think, Zashi, do you really want Hitoshi in the same room Mineta had without a team of dangerous materials and cleaning service leaving it habitable again? I certainly do not”
“Yuck” the blond left his own coffee on the table, his mood for something edible completely spoiled. “I don´t think he would mind, at least not if you explain it that way.”
“I won´t give details”
“Of course not, babe, and I agree. He doesn´t need to hear about that.”
---------------------------The day after--------------------------
Shouta thought he had been cured from the headache the day before with a combination of his husband´s care and a very effective pill, but it turned out that the relief was only temporary. After an hour of hearing Endeavour the bastard bark (not in the cute way like Ryou, but like a broken down bulldozer). A few barks and his head was about to explode… dammit, he was going to need a new pill after this.
“What my father wanted to say” Fuyumi Todoroki, apparently her father´s social aid for the meeting. “Is that this situation has been completely misunderstood. It´s true that we had some family issues, like all families, but we are working on them. Dad has been trying to be a better father lately and…”
“Oh? So you admit that he wasn´t a good father before?”
“No!! I… was saying that he focussed more on his job as a hero than us, but he has changed his attitude lately and has really been trying…”
“Then” Shouta continued, trying not to show his pity to the woman in front of him. She was clearly so caught up in her desire to have a family that she was willing to go whatever length necessary to have that. “his claims that his father threw him out of the house because he came out of the closet as homosexual to you…”
“A complete misunderstanding, I assure you!!” the white haired female assured him. “Neither my father nor I have something against him being gay” it was clear in Endeavour´s face that it was a lie, but Aizawa didn´t reply. “We… might not have reacted well to the news and scared him at first, but we didn´t consider the possibility that he… well… we already talked to a psychologist to talk to him and…”
“Apart from that, Todoroki-san” Eraserhead finally cut her down, completely ignoring Endeavour. “We have received concerning reports about your brother´s home life. It has come to the school´s attention that there were some instances of home violence and child neglect or plain abuse in your household.”
“Shouto is exaggerating things…”
“The thing, Todoroki-san” he continued without paying attention to what she was going to say. “is that someone submitted a report on your father to the school. For child abuse.” Her eyes widened. “And it was not your brother Shouto.”
“Who? Natsuo? My brother…” Shouta shook his head. “Then that person knows nothing!! It´s just plain slander against my father!!”
“I demand to see the report” Enji finally opened his mouth to talk after finishing barking. The teacher didn´t see anything against that. He had copies of the papers with him, after all, and the originals were safe in Nezu´s vault. And, even if he realises that his eldest son was alive, Enji didn´t have a way to find or contact him, as the young man was hidden and his youngest would never give him his brother´s phone number.
“Suit yourselves” he handed over the papers. The pair of father and daughter read the papers carefully, even the signature. Their eyes widened when the name of the person, their faces passing first through disbelieve, then panic and finally anger.
“THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!! THIS PERSON CAN´T BE TOUYA!! MY BROTHER TOUYA IS DEAD!! SOMEONE IS POSSING AS HIM!! AIZAWA-SAN, I DEMAND TO KNOW WHO THIS PERSON IS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM!!”
“You can always ask your younger brother, Todoroki-san. As for him being a fake, I´m afraid that´s not possible” he passed more papers to the pair. “UA takes security of their students very serious, especially after the villain attacks. So when we found out that Todoroki was living with someone strange, we thoroughly investigated the person. It resulted that the man that opened his house up to him is his older brother Touya. And Shouto seemed to know that very well.”
“Touya… is that… is that true? Is he… is he alive?” Fuyumi put a hand over her mouth when Shouta nodded with his head. “And Shouto… knew?” another nod. “This… this can´t be… this can´t… Touya… what have you done?” tears appeared in the ice wielder´s eyes. “Why did he run away?” then something came to her mind. “Can you give me his phone number? I´m sure that if I talk to him, this misunderstanding…”
“It´s no misunderstanding, Todoroki-san, Touya also gave this” he showed them copies of the photos Dabi gave them as support to his case. “How do you explain this?”
“Training, sir, it´s only training” Fuyumi now sounded desperate. “It… my father trained both Touya and Shouto. It maybe… got out of control a few times, but… but he has been more careful since then. If I explain that to him, he would understand…”
“I´m sorry, Todoroki-san, but your eldest brother requested to keep his phone number from you. You can ask your younger brother for it if you want…”
“I will…”
“If that coward can´t face me, then he is the same failure that before. My Shouto doesn´t need him… or this school if they meddle with his training like this!!” Enji rose, finally out of his shock and trying to intimidate the other hero. Yeah, not a chance. “I will take Shouto out of here and turn him into the hero he is destined to be with my own two hands!!”
“SIT. DOWN” Eraserhead said, glaring at him with his quirk activated. “You are not going anywhere near my student, Endeavour. And neither are you touching your firstborn. I will make sure you never hurt them again.”
“How dare you!! I am N°1!!”
“You are no hero!” Aizawa also got up from his seat. “You are only a big bully that beats his wife and children!! That has gotten away with that only because you have a hero licence and the Commission on his back!! But this is over, Todoroki. You are never putting your hands on any child again, not even your own. They are under UA protection now.”
“Fa… Father… Aizawa-san…” Fuyumi tried to calm them down, but she cowered under her parent´s glare.
“You have no right to take my children from me!!”
“And you have no right to beat Touya nor Shouto.”
“That failure Touya has it out for me!!” Enji continued screaming. “He is also envious of Shouto, because he is perfect, and would make anything to undermine his training!!”
“Please, Todoroki, not even you believe that” Shouta continued with his serious expression, but his tone turned into one of mocking. “Your eldest is hurt, angry and more than a bit traumatized, but somehow he has the best for his sibling in mind. He has dedicated his life to bring you down and I´m more than a little bit tempted to let him. Just so the world could see the kind of scum you really are…”
“You dare…”
“This conversation is over” the teacher finished it. “Leave the school premises and remember that you are banned from them from now on.”
Enji Todoroki had an expression of intense rage, his hulking body towering over Aizawa, but the younger hero refused to get intimidated. In the end, the pile of burning trash that was Endeavour left the premises melting the floor in his way, clearly throwing a tantrum. His daughter followed, looking a bit resigned, but certainly not defeated. Shouta sighed, knowing that this was not the last time he heard of her.
And, as ever, he was right. That night, while he was babysitting his brats, seeing Ashido dancing, Sato preparing popcorn for some movie and Todoroki trying his brother´s awful pick up moves on Midoriya (he still couldn´t believe Dabi has a boyfriend if those were his moves), Shouto´s phone rang. It was not his sister, but…
“Natsu? Wait a moment, I´m getting out of the room” the boy did so. Aizawa followed and, when the ice and fire wielder did nothing to stop him, put the phone on speaker, he knew that he wanted his teacher to listen to the conversation. “Okay, I could talk.”
“Fuyumi told me what happened… I´m sorry, Sho, I should have been there for you… but I´m glad Touya was. Even if the bastard didn´t have the gall to contact me after that, at least to calm me down.”
“I can give you his number if you want to talk to him” offered the younger Todoroki.
“I would love that… but no. Nee-san is decided to rope him into this happy family farce of hers and I don´t want her to find his number on my phone in case she rummages through it. She might just hand it to the old man and then… well, we know well how that´s going to end” Aizawa could practically see the Nomu Dabi was going to send against Endeavour if he dared to try to contact him. “Anyway, tell him I say hi.”
“Okay”
“And that his villain costume is great. Very metal” both heroes froze. What?! “What? Do you think you were the only one to recognize Touya with his edgy new look? I didn´t want to believe it at first, but… well, it´s accepted. And for a villain, our brother is very heroic, so I don´t mind anymore. Also, that scar on the old man´s face is a work of art.”
“Yes, it was.”
Aizawa smiled, calmer with Todoroki´s family situation now. The father was a monster and the sister deluded, but the brothers were not so bad. At least not when they were not wearing villain costumes. He was about to leave when Shouto ended his call and turned to his teacher.
“Sensei, can I talk to you about something?” Shouta, a bit surprised, nodded. “I´m worried about someone, but… it´s not a UA student and… this is a bit in behalf of Dabi…”
“Spit it out, Todoroki”
“I´m worried about Hawks.”