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Monoma Neito came from a long line of hero Adjacent civilians, Doctors, support technicians, commission members, and lawyers. His parents didn't approve of his hero dreams, always making sure to point out how successful all of his cousins were in their fields when they saw him. He just couldn't be good enough for his parents or really any of the family, they treated him like an outsider in his own house. It wasn't a home not anymore not since he had moved into the dorms. Honestly probably not since he decided on being a hero, but he didn't know that at the time.
Why they had invited him back he would never know, he thought that they were glad to get rid of him when he went to stay in the dorms. They had practically packed all his stuff for him. He didn't have anything left at the house everything was in the dorms split between his room. Toshi’s room, Zu’s room, and the two common rooms. He hadn't even heard from them the entire time he was in the dorms till a few weeks ago. His mother had called telling him that another one of his cousins was graduating with top honors(he couldn't keep straight what it was this time) and he needed to come to the congratulatory celebration. He didn't want to go, but here he was about to introduce his favorite humans on the planet to what could potentially ruin them. ( shut up Nei you know your guys won't do that )
Izuku had come over bright and early that morning wanting to spend as much time as possible with Neito before they had to leave. Toshi would have been there already but he had a patrol with his dad the night before and Toshi didn't get enough sleep as it was. Neito had threatened no kisses nor hugs for a week if he showed up before getting at least some sleep first.
"I can't do this fuck Zu, I don't want to see them."
Izuku could only squeeze his hand running a thumb across the back of his knuckles as they waited for their third. For all that Izuku was a mumbler normally inside their relationship, he was the quiet one when it was just the three of them or any variation thereof. He liked to listen to them something both the others weren't used to quite yet. Neither had someone that listened all the time no matter what before. Okay, that wasn't quite the truth Toshi had his parents and little sister, and Neito had Vlad King but to have someone else who wanted to listen didn't just have to was amazing and something that both Neito and Hitoshi were grateful for.
The door to class B’s dorm opens and in steps a head of wild purple hair and sleep-filled eyes.
“Still not know how to tame your hair love?”
“Nope not at all and I have no interest in learning.”
“Oh Come on now you know you want me to teach you how I do this,” Neito says running a hand through his fluff of hair which was messier than it normally would be but hands meet hair when nervous.
“From where I stand mine looks better at the moment, your nerves are getting to you aren't they?”
Neito shrugs before nodding.
“Hey look at me?” When blue meets purple Hitoshi reaches out cupping the side of his face, “You my brilliant love are Monoma Neito, there is nothing that you can't do. You are brilliant and going to be an amazing hero, hell you already are an amazing hero” Neito’s eyes close at the words turning his face and pressing into the hand filled with calluses he could map in his sleep.
“You can have it if you want.”
A familiar warmth spreads through Neito soon after the approval. ( Man that felt great every time ). If only he could also have his other parts, but they knew that Izuku's quirk didn't work for him.
“Thanks, Tosh”
“Any time, I need to know you have a quirk out there that you know how to use. Besides, I know we're we are going we need all the help we can get."
"We have to leave soon right?"
"yea Zu we do if we are still going right Neit"
"Okay okay I get it thanks loves let's head out."
Neito stepped back from Toshi's hand and offered them both a smile before letting a mask slip over his face. Before them stood someone they nearly didn't recognize any longer, they hadn't seen him since the very start of the first year. This cold calculated man wasn't Neito it was Monoma. The only traces left of the kind soul was the shaking coming from hands white knuckle gripped onto his partners and the pulse that made itself known thumping against their wrists.
Outside Vlad sat waiting in the car. He had approved this visit for his student (the other two had to get their own approval), why he did though was another story. He regrets that decision when the doors open and the three climb in Monoma on the outside instead of the middle where he had expected the boy to be. Even more so when there is a solid gap between him and his partners.
They tended to orientate themselves for the most protection. Izuku was always on the outside closest to the road in a sense, the powerhouse of the three unless of course in actual battle and Neito had managed to nab a power quirk. Then Neito was in the middle where he could easily grab Toshi’s if he needed but also they could shield him if he needed a minute to recoup or to take a breather. His quirk tended to have the most drawback of all of them and they refused to leave him open to attack or prying eyes during backfire. Then Toshi on the other side was very solid in his own right but also would occasionally need a minute.
So this had to be him begging the others to let him sit on the outside. To give him some space. Vlad didn't know if it was because he was afraid his Monoma mask would break in the safety that was normal or if it was his way of protecting the others when they got there from his family, but it wasn't a sight that he liked not one bit.
(Time Skip that Aray is still writing but isn't wanting to come as easy more like at all, It will get updated at some point)
Neito was the first one out the door feeling himself break under the weight of his parents' words. He should have known this was a bad idea and that this would turn out like every other time he showed up at one of these family events.
Back in the car with Vlad Neito collapses against the back of the seat mask finally slipping off his face. Tears stream from the corners of his eyes as they slip closed. His boys climb in on either side of him and wrap their arms around him. Nodding at Vlad to drive. He wouldn't ask questions not yet anyway, but damn if he would be letting his kid feel like it was in any way deserved.
“Ready to go home Nei?”
“More than you will ever know.”
Vlad wished he could adopt the boy but he would do anything he could for the boy either way. That was his son, his kid and there was nothing anyone could do to change that. He would always be proud of him. Be proud of how much he had grown since coming to UA, in his quirk usage, his hero dreams, and his personal relations. He was proud of who Neito had chosen to spend his time with. He knew what the groups' intentions were and how they wanted to continue to be there for each other even after UA. They were date mates and he honestly didn't think that anything could break them apart. They had already been through so much here at UA, Hitoshi’s foster family and adoption by Eraser Head and Mic, Neito’s own family, every time Izuku’s mystery quirk mutated yet again, all the villain attacks, and that oh-so-hard rivalry between class A and class B.
“Let's go home though, the rest of your classes are waiting for you to get back. They have been worried the whole time from what, Aizawa has said.”
“Did you stay out here the whole time?” Monoma’s voice was weak and trembling, almost like he was afraid of the answer.
“You know I wouldn't leave you, you could have come out the minute you went in and we would have headed back home. I wasn't leaving you stranded here.”
Moana Neito came from a long line of Hero Adjacent civilians but his true family, the ones he chose, were waiting in the dorms ready to greet him with smiles and laughs, maybe even a few hugs.