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Izuku isn't dumb, he might not be in. school anymore. But one thing he is not, is dumb. So after being able to catch glimpses of the sports festival he shouldn't be surprised why Hitoshis' stopped visiting.
Don't get Izuku wrong. Hes so proud of Hitoshi. Really he is! He's very proud of Hitoshi making it to the top 3! He also understood that Hitoshi wouldn't be around much anymore. Because the hero course must be exhausting.
But the sports festival wasn't even that long ago. Barely five weeks. But yet it feels like the last time Izuku saw his best friend was a lifetime ago.
And Izuku hasn't felt this lonely in a long long time.
So on no other circumstance would Izuku do this....but his morals were already screwed up sooo.
He goes to Hitoshis' house
Izuku has been here plenty of times.
Mostly when Hitoshi's fosters were out of the house granted, but still a lot.
He's able to catch his feet on the ledge of Hitoshis window, (its muscle memory with the amount of times he's done this) and he crouches down only to find.....
Nothing. The rooms barren... There's nothing in the empty shell of a room that has a hint of Hitoshi.
Now, Hitshi didn't have much in the first place, but he had a few things.
Like the cat stuff animal Izuku was able to win him at a claw machine, or the Eraserhead poster Hitshi found at a vendor during a flee market, or any of the tiny little rocks Hitoshi and Izuku collected and gave to each other. Just anything, any little thing that could give even the tiniest of hints that Hitoshi Shinsou had once lived in this room.
Izuku knows that Hitoshi hasn't been here in a while. It's prominent with the way Izuku can see dust on the dresser.
But yet....Izuku sits there, on the tiny ledge of the window of the room that once held Izukus best friend. He sits there until his legs are far past numb.
"He's not just going to show up." Izuku mumbles to himself with self disdain dripping from his words.
So with those last words to himself.
Izuku walks away.
After leaving Hitoshi's wi- old window.
Izuku walks away, and just keeps walking.
As he's walking though, he can't help but think about what happened to his best friend. It's obvious UA must have found out about Hitoshi's neglectful foster parents. So, he's not worried about weather Hitoshi is in a stable living place at the moment.
So thought in his thoughts Izuku doesn't see the personification of electricity running right into him.
Ughh....what the hell..?
"Oh my god! Oh my god! I am so Sorry!! Denki you are supposed to a hero student, you can't just not be paying attention to where you're going you dumbass!" The blonde- Denki is talking to himself muttering so quickly that Izuku wonders if this is what he's like
"Um its fine...really I wasn't looking where I was going either, so...just don't worry about it...Denki...?" Izuku says to the blonde who stopped mumbling once the curly haired boy started talking.
"Yeah, but I'm a hero student dude, paying attention to my surroundings is like 101 of hero training. Also, yeah my name in Denki Kaminari aka Charge bolt aka The hero who will save you the next time your pretty self gets caught in any trouble!"
"W-What? I- um" Izuku mutters after a good few seconds of silence. He doesn't know what's worse, the terrible flirting or the amount of aka's in that sentence.
"Ahhahahh D- Hahahah dude I'm so sorry, I-I did not mean to just start flirting with you, I just do that when I get nervous. And this is the first time the new kid in our class has agreed to hangout with me, after multiple attempts, and I realized I was already late, so that's why I started running and then I run into you and- OH MY GOD!
I'm so late shinsous' going to think it was a prank! Anyways it was nice to meet you! So um- yeah Bye!"
Then Izuku is alone again. After that....interesting one sided conversation.
"What the fuck even was that" Izuku says to no one as he slowly starts to walk again, and that's when he realizes.
"Wait- did...did he say Shinsou!?"
Izuku quickly hops into the alley way, and starts to climb up the fire post. Which is child's play at this point. Once he makes his way to the top he starts jumping from roof top to roof top looking for any sight of the blonde kid.
"Shinsou! My Man! I'm so sorry I'm late!"
As soon as Izuku hears that voice, he starts to go twice as fast, which again isn't hard (months of being a popular vigilante will do that for you)
He skids to a stop of a corner office and sees that Kaminari and....Hitoshi
And Hitoshi is....different, not a bad difference. You can see that hes not as skinny as he once was, and the slight muscles forming on his arms.
Izuku is happy to see Hitoshi, even though he's not actually the one seeing him.
And Once again Izukus morals stand No chance to his need to see the only person he has felt a sense of comfort with, since his mother.
So he listens
And that was the worst thing he's done in a while.
Izukus shaking. He doesn't notice, but he is. Same way with the way he doesn't notice that his finger nails digging into his palm that blood starts bubbling up.
Adopted by Eraserhead and Present Mic Over A month ago
Hitoshi didn't say their hero names, but Izuku knows their legal names, of course he has. He's a god damn vigilante for kami sakes, He knows this, and he's happy for his best friend, cause he knows that Aizawa and Yamada will be good for him.He just wished he could've been there with him.
Denki and Hitoshi seemed to go well together, never once was there a moment of silence between the two. Twenty minutes after learning about Hitoshi's new foster parents Izuku realizes
that they would be there awhile, so he wouldn't be able to talk to Hitoshi by himself.
So he starts to stand to leave until he hears.
"Sooo, before joining our class did you have any friends in general?" Kaminari asks without realizing it might be personal.
"No, not really. I mean it's not like I wanted to be their friends anyway" Hitoshi replies lightly.
"OK, fine none at UA. But what about outside the school? Any old middle school friends, or just any friends in general?"
Kaminari with only a tiny bit of pity coating his words.
Izuku holds his breath, thinking maybe Kaminari will realize that if Hitoshi describes Izukus physical appearance, he'll remember him from just thirty minutes earlier and maybe Hitoshi will want to go to check If he's still there and maybe-
"God no, I had no friends, since my quirk manifested, I mean I had one, but it wasn't that important of a friendship to me. Like the guy was fine, but one of the main reasons I went back to hangout was because they taught me how to fight. But that was it. I mean class 1A- well you guys have been the closest thing I've had to a friend in almost a decade" Hitoshi says with a perfectly calm voice, almost too calm.
Well not that Izuku could tell the difference in Hitoshi's voice, not with the static in his ears and all throughout his body.
Cut back to where he is now.
Which is he has no idea. His nails are still ingrained in his palms.
Izukus' head is a mess of thoughts that hasn't been this bad since his mother's death.
So caught in his head that he doesn't realize the eyes following him.