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Izuku stood shaking as Kachan rounded the corner of the street, Kachan had just screamed at him that he shouldn’t have tried to help him!
Which was..
huh???!!?
Izuku thought about Kachan's lecture, processing it word for word again in his head before coming to his conclusion..
So Kachan..
-Wanted Izuku to not do something as the pro heroes acted as if this was their first day of hero work and let him suffocate?
Why…
why??!!?!!!
Izuku was both extremely confused as he was frustrated.
He brought his hands up from where they had been grabbing the bottom of his uniform tightly up to his face to rub away the tears forming, “gosh damn it..,” he put the heels of his palms to his eyes and just took a deep breath… one that Kachan wouldn’t be able to do if he just left him there!.. He took another breath and just stared at the empty street, the setting sun blinding him slightly. He should head home, he doesn't want to be walking home in the dark.
This day was awful as is, and is gonna be more down in the dumps when he goes home to an empty dark apartment until his mom gets home from work and all that All Might merch is going to stare at him.. maybe he should sleep in the living room?..
he sighed slowly..he then went the opposite direction of where Kachan had gone.
Yes, the way Kachan was heading led to his apartment. Bbuuttt, that way also had a shortcut that Kachan used to get home that would go on for a bit before he and Kachan would diverge paths, and he’d rather not deal with Kachan screaming at him for ‘stalking him’. He continued on his way home and was only a few different streets away from home but had stopped himself from the underpass that stood before him, he had became uncomfortably familiar with today.
The pass was something he usually used on a day to day basis to get places, Kachan only used the path briefly, he didn’t pay attention to every detail of the area.. but after today.. he doesn’t think he would be able to forget the details OR be able to bring himself to use this way anymore or at least not as often as he usually did..
“You can do this De- Izuku, I-it’s just an underpass.. a traumatizing underpass.. but an underpass nonetheless!! It’s not like the villain can hurt you now.. he’s been caught so.. yeah,” after his pathetic attempt at a pep talk he walked down the street with baited breath, walking (Read: practically back against the wall when near the manhole cover) through the shaded space, after being a comfortable distance from the manhole cover and nearing the edge of the pass that led to open street that was bathed in the warm light of the setting sun.
He let out a relieved breath at the sight and loosened his grip on his backpack.. But as quickly as his relaxed posture had formed it was guarded again at a familiar gross, uncomfortably fast, sound was heard from beside him. He turned to see the ugly green slime heading towards him and then in a flash was once again trapped, “Oh! It’s you! The brat! I could’ve gotten a great skin suit if it weren’t for you! The kid was loade-“ Izuku’s muffled scream interrupts the villain’s monologue, “Shut it! Not like you’ve got a strong quirk to get out!! and guess what kid! I just got out! I’m a slippery fellow and once you're gone I won’t be caught for a while till my next skin suit! Just imagine the crimes I‘d..„ the monologue faded in and out of Izuku’s ear shot.. „..and then..” Izuku continued to struggle and fight back as everything around him faded in and out of his consciousness.
As he started to slow he saw a dark figure with a gray scarf..
‚w.. was.. t-that.. a scarf?…‘
were his last thoughts before he was consumed by unconsciousness.
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Shouta rushed toward the scuffle he heard nearby, his patrol had just begun and was quite surprised something’s already occurring so early in the evening, it all came to a head as he rounded the corner of a street into an underpass.
A kid that had to be in his early teens was struggling for air as the villain that should be held in custody at this moment suffocated the kid, his movements were quick and fluid as he ran towards the two ahead, he shot out his capture weapon in a hope grab the kid out of the villains grasp. “Oh shit!,” the villain yelled as he saw his weapon and tried to tighten his grip in a panic,The kid however, grabbed onto his capture weapon with a tight tug.
‘How the hell is this kid still awake?’
Shouta thought as he pulled with his capture weapon around the kids gripped hand and forearm, the action helping him drag the rest of young teen out of the villain, Shouta braces for impact as the nearly unconscious kid fell onto him. he held the kids head and then very carefully put the kid on his side just incase he had fluids inside of him still, putting a steady hand on the kids shoulder to both steady him and for a weak form of comfort, he went into a crouched position and went to speak into his communicator he had that allowed him contact with any authorities and underground heroes alike in a radio like system. He usually didn't do this, ‚this‘ being asking for help, but he couldn't exactly just leave a injured minor in a underpass as he chased the slime quirked villain,
„This is Eraserhead speaking, I‘ve got an injured civilian minor and an escaped villain..“ as he said his location the kid started murmuring and coughing, he stopped speaking after he finished saying his location and looked at the kids face, he was met with half lidded green eyes that screamed something fearful and wild, freckled cheeks that still had baby fat on them, wild messy hair, slightly red cheeks like someone had slapped the kid, the kids eyes once again concerningly enough were red rimmed.
„Am-„ the young teen coughed, „-Am I-I“ Cough! „Am I safe..?“ The kid rasped,
Shouta looked up towards the villain that still ‚stood‘ at the other side of them,
„Not yet-„ Shouta looks back at the kid briefly before saying, „but, I’ll keep you safe“
Shouta said it with more finality that even he was used to, the kid started to tremble with tears coming to their eyes,
„Who even are ya!!? You know what!? I can kill ya! And when I’m done with you I’ll get you brat!“
The underground pro was about to rise to get in a fighting position but before he could the hand that he had on the kids shoulder was grabbed by a smaller shakier hand.
A bright light fills the underpass the moment their skin touches
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He coughed a few times as he stood up..
He looked around in confusion..
‚W-what is h-happening??‘
He briefly remembers his need for safety, after brushing his messy hair out of his face, he activates Shouta‘s quirk on the slightly blurry villain a few feet from him.
„THE FU- ACK!“
The villain unceremoniously falls over and is unable to move.
He looks on in his own confusion… Shouta‘s quirk doesn't work on mutant types actually.. well.. isn’t supposed to.
He looked around confused.
‚What is happening right now?‘ Is what he asks himself for the second time.
He looks at his now floating black-dark greenish locks that used to be.. not this.. Shouta‘s hair was wavy, medium length an black and Izuku‘s hair was curly, short and green but now..?
He then looks down and sees a slightly odd outfit. He’s mostly wearing Shouta‘s hero costume, in all its all black almost pajama like glory, he also has Shouta‘s Capture weapon but now in a maroon shade. He moved the goggles that layed on his forehead, and they have stayed the same Mustard yellow color they have always been.
Now is where Izuku's influences come in. He is wearing Izuku‘s Maroon sneakers, the same color as the capture weapon, and what used to be Izuku‘s bright yellow bag has now turned into a hip satchel, Shouta’s knife and Communicator lay inside alongside Izuku‘s notebook and phone. He’s also wearing the upper half of Izuku‘s school uniform like a unzipped jacket.
He reaches for Izuku’s phone to enter the camera app to see what he looks like.
The phone doesnt unlock as the facial recognition doesn't work for his face, but it’s not what he’s focused on at the moment , he presses the corner camera icon and holds it for a few moments before he is in the camera app.
He takes a deep breath before pressing selfie mode.
He sees a mix of what he only pieces together is what Shouta looked like in his early twenties and what Izuku might look like His Late teens.
He has softer face then Shouta but a sharper face then Izuku, his eyes take a half lidded look that if he opened them up wider they'd be a lot larger, his nose is definitely Shouta’s but his fuller cheeks are most certainly Izuku.
Two key parts of their own appearances are in his own, Shouta‘s large dark eye bags and Izuku‘s plentiful small freckles, an odd combo that also doesn't seem too outrageous together.
He’s slightly shorter than Shouta but taller then Izuku by a few inches-
He looks at his quirk activated eyes and sees himself make an expression That cuts through his blank vaguely annoyed face with one of dread that is both unfamiliar and not uncommon, he looks up as he clutches Izuku’s phone only to calm down when he sees the villain still on the floor cursing to themselves as they try to move once again, he was about to go back to studying his appearance but then he had a question that quickly turns into several.
How long can he hold this villain? How is he doing that when Shouta can’t? Shouta’s quirk can’t usually work on mutants, so why the change with his? Is this Izuku’s doing? What can Izuku actually do? Does Izuku’s quirk amplify the person he.. combined? Fuses? Fuses, withs quirk? He’s technically his own person with his own separate quirk and consciousness so should he pick a name? Will he become nothing once Izuku and Shouta ‚un-fuse’? Will Shouta or Izuku even remember this once it’s over? Actually, can Izuku fuse with more than 1 person? If so, how many? What is the ‚fusing‘ requirement? What age is he? Izuku‘s age is uncommon for quirk manifestation, this has to be stress manifest-
„Hey? Are you the one that has the villain frozen?“ He jumps slightly as the paramedic asks their question, „oh.. umm“ his voice sounds exactly how Shouta did in High School.. „sorry this is gonna sound really weird,“ he says to the paramedic, he inactivates his quirk as the villain is confined to a secure box prison by a police officer, he grabs Shouta’s hero license and Izuku‘s school ID card to show the paramedic, „Izuku had a stress manifestation and.. um I’m the result?“ he says nervously.
The paramedic‘s jaw goes slack at the IDs and looks from them to Him.
They finally shake their head before saying, „are you like.. permanent?“
He Takes a moment to think about it before answering, „I’m pretty sure I’ll become Sh- sorry- Eraser and Izuku, once Izuku’s energy is completely out?“ His answer came out kinda like a question.
The paramedic stares and then just tells him to sit in the stretcher in the ambulance so that when the quirk is done the two won’t get hurt.
As he laid in the ambulance and nearing the hospital he felt something fraying..
He tells the paramedic sitting beside him that he thinks he's coming apart..
„What’s your name?“ the Paramedic asks, seeing his nervous state..
As he feels the fraying turning into snapping strings he thinks of his name. He looks to the paramedic with grateful dark green eyes,
„Naoki..,“
Naoki says with a small smile as he falls apart.