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Today, Tuesday, 14th of July

23:01

Kaachaneko:

> We still doing tomorrow

Me:

Kaachan?? Why are you still up?  <

And is that a question or a statement  <

Kaachaneko:

> Izuku?? Why are you still up?

Me:

Asshole :((  <

Kaachaneko:

> Answer

> Both questions

Me:

Yes we are apparently, there has been no change of plans for tomorrow, according to my knowledge at least!  <

We can still go out to eat together after my unfortunate half-day!!  <

Right?  <

Kaachaneko:

> stupis

> stupis

> stupid

Me:

You reacted ‘❤’ to one attachment  <

You reacted ‘❤’ to one attachment  <

Kaachaneko:

> Go to sleep nerd

> It’s late and you and I both have work tomorrow

Me:

Barely :((  <

I can’t believe the schools making me take my birthday off!  <

I had to bribe them only for them to give me JUST a half-day  <

‘wow thats so out of character’ I know <(￣︶￣)>  <

Kaachaneko:

 > Not really

Me:

What?? What are you  <

Never mind Kaachan <

Goodnight! ◜▿◝  <

Today, Wednesday, 15th of July

00:00

Kaachaneko:

>  Happy birthday, shitnerd

05:14

Me:

You reacted ‘❤’ to one attachment  <

Aww, thank you and I love you too Kacchan Bakugou (⇀ 3 ↼)  <

This was not new for Kaachan to do.

For every year now after their third-year, Kaachan would make sure he was the first one to wish Izuku a happy birthday. Whether via text or in person. It was sweet, who would care enough(other than Izuku himself) enough to wish someone a happy birthday at exactly 12 on the dot? Especially when it’s someone like Kaachan——or any of Izuku’s other friends if we’re all being honest——someone who’s a top pro hero, as busy, as arrogant, and as Kaachan as him? It just never really made sense to Izuku.

But that’s definitely, especially, positively, absolutely not to say he does not enjoy it.

After pondering for a bit while looking at his phone and responding to his very wonderful wishes of him having a very happy birthday at butt-o’-clock in the morning(one had just come in from Eijirou, very creative may Izuku say), he finally decides to starts his, to what he hopes is a very calm and content day. He hasn't really ever had once since the war. Except for that one birthday three years after the war, but that one was right around the time he had, after a prolonged time, started going to therapy. 

When he told Ochaco she'd revealed that she had prayed for times like these. Kaachan, well, acted like he didn't care when he had actually very much cared.

If anyone was wondering.

Moving on, Izuku's mind quickly supplied after glancing at the clock on his [AllMight + Kaachan decorated] nightstand and seeing that it was almost 05:40, and that he really needed to get ready. Izuku padded into his bathroom with his shirt half way off already and quickly turned on the shower in a swift move. Taking the bunch of his sleep clothing off he also grabbed his toothbrush(with toothpaste on, ofcourse) to take with him as he hopped in the shower. Juustt right temperature too, no tweaking needed today!  He took his quick shower and hopped out, having brushed his teeth and scrubbing his face with some face soap Kaachan lent him (god, does Kaachan have many) in there too.

Is what would happen if Izuku were not Izuku Midoriya.

Instead, Izuku did not just pad into the bathroom with his shirt halfway off already whilst turning on the shower in a swift move. When has something like that ever happened? Seriously? That's something someone like Kaachan would accomplish day in and day out. So, instead, Izuku had hopped into his [much needed of organization] bathroom on one foot, and simply put, he had thought it'd be an amazing idea to pull his boxers over half way down first; and one would probably know how that went. 

If one did not know: He had ended up tripping over his own briefs and successfully managed to catch himself on the ball of his foot, but only with the poor encouragement of the wall that was right next to him. 

He had then turned on the shower, not 'swiftly' of course, and grabbed his toothbrush to apply toothpaste to it. He then haphazardly got in the shower to accomplish, showering (obviously), brushing his teeth, and scrubbing his face in a rapid manner with the face soap Kaachan gave him once; it's pretty good if you were to ask Izuku, it makes his face glow.  The rest had happened in a blur, as it usually does when he gets too distracted. 

Izuku had found himself grabbing his phone from off the charger, his house keys, an umbrella for good measure, and—well, that's it. Everything else should be in or on his little desk at work.  He knew Kaachan was picking him up after work so he didn't have to worry about transportation today. And he'll just walk to school. He lives at the most a three minute drive away, so it wouldn't be much for him. 

He had to be at the school by six, so he definitely put some pep into his step; his bookbag bouncing a bit as he speed-walked away from his (safe guarded, you can thank All Might and Izuku's mother) apartment complex.

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So after the school day, for him, had ended, he walked out of UA's gate baring balloons and gifts from his students (some not even his and some not his anymore), his co-workers, and some support course kids. It was kind of a handful to carry, he had to pause walking at times in fear he would drop something fragile. Balloons were tied together and then tied to his wrist to make extra room. He didn't think this many people would go all out for his birthday, in fact, he didn't even think this many people knew when his birthday was.

"Must've been Kota.." he mumbled in thought. 

He was so lost in thought, he didn't see the black sports car sitting right in front of him. Engine revving and all. The whole outside of the car sleek, as if it was just bought and Kaachan didn't actually buy it only a few months ago, and hasn't been riding it ever since. He has always done a good job cleaning, and keeping things nice and neat. He ended up naming her 'Ground Zero', and when Izuku had asked why, Kaachan shared that one of his quote unquote 'idiots' had shared it on a drunken occasion, and the rest had all chimed in on it. Kaachan then—to avoid any misconception of the fact that there'd be a possibility he liked anything his friends said, drunk or not—had revealed that he thought it wasn't a half bad idea his self, and had thought about it himself before he mentioned it to what his fans call 'The BakuSquad'.

"Hey!" 

Izuku snapped his head up at the gruff shout, immediately looking towards the source. Oh, right. He was just standing in front of Kaachan's car. Not moving, or saying anything, not even making a move to put the gifts and balloons that currently have his arms full in the squishy back seats. 

Izuku immediately gave Kaachan a sheepish look after seeing the bored expression on Kaachan's face. "Sorry Kaachan. And before you ask I'm not thinking about anything important!". He went to wave his hand in a dismissive way before remembering he's carrying a baggage. They had made up for the weight(s) he forgot to lift earlier this morning in a rush to get ready.

"Yeah, alright. Just put those in the back and get yer ass in here." Kaachan responded with, gesturing to his back seat.

"Yes sir!" He stood straighter and stiff in an immediate action, attempting to mimic a military salute without his hands and arms available, before walking 2 steps to the back seats of Kaachans car.

Izuku had only then, realized he couldn't open the door. He let out a sigh.

"Uhm, Kaachan?"

Kaachan had been on his phone, so he'd raised his eyebrows and tilted his head towards Izuku to give a signal that he was listening.

"I can't, err, really open the door. So, if it wouldn't be a trouble..." Izuku began to tell him. But before he could even finish Kaachan was already setting his phone down and lifting up out of his seat over the console to crack open the back door for Izuku. 

"There you go." Kaachan responded with quickly, giving Izuku an almost unnoticable glance up at him. He then retreated back to his driver's seat and buckled back up. "Now hurry up, we've been here for 7 minutes too long, and we have places to be." Kaachan complained. Then quickly followed it up with a reassurance for Izuku—disguised as annoyance(?), who really knows with Kaachan. "But, I had a feeling something similar to this might happen so I made sure that from the time stamps of when I pick you up from work, and when we're supposed to be there was exactly 25 minutes apart. It'll take about 15 minutes to get from UA to the damned restaurant anyway." Kaachan grumbled out, with a heady sigh.

"Wow, Kaachan." Izuku said. Because what else was there to say? Yeah sure a 'thank you' or 'that's amazing Kaachan!' would definitely satisfy anyone, in Kaachan's case the latter of the two. But Kaachan had just been so prepared; and even though the concept definitely wasn't new to Izuku, it still amazes him sometimes.

Izuku pulled open the door with his foot, put all his gifts in the back seat; then tried to smuggle his round, star, heart, and 'Happy Birthday' balloons in the back seat appropriately, without having to worry about them slithering up to bother him and Kaachan in front. His variety of gifts, too.

When Izuku walked around and got to the passenger seat door, he found it was already opened for him. "Thank you Kaachan!" Izuku exclaimed to then hop into the passenger seat. Shutting the door and buckling his seat belt soon after.

Kacchan either gave a growl, grumble, or clearing of his throat in response to Izuku's grace.

"Let's get going. We don't have a lot of time thanks to your ignorant ass." Kacchan reminded. He then revved up the engine (for show, of course, the car was already up and running) and took off.

"We've been at this god damned place long enough." Kaachan gave a half hearted scowl. He had only one hand on the wheel with the other adjusting his AC and radio to Izuku's liking. He's always done that, it's sweet. When Kirishima attempted to not so subtly mention it one time, Kaachan had quickly shut that thought process down.

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After chatting and bickering for a while, they finally arrived at the restaurant.

Kaachan parked in a secluded area a half mile walk away from said restaurant, Kaachan had said it was called 'Maefuji', and that it would ring one of those many bells in Izuku's head. Whatever that meant. Kaachan had also mentioned that they just opened not too long ago, in fact, eleven on the dot.

The restaurant wasn't high end, instead it was the one where him and Kaachan's mothers would go to catch up sometimes, even though they disguised it as 'a playdate for Izuku and Kaachan', knowing damn well their sons didn't get along well as they used to at that point anymore. Only their mothers had ended up having a good time there.

"Kaachan?" Izuku questioned with big, fat tears welling up within his tear ducts, as he looked towards Katsuki.

Katsuki was looking at—and facing—him as Izuku's tears threatened to spill. 

Only then did Katsuki open his arms, for Izuku to come and smash his face in his Kaachan's collar. Tears pouring and all. Even some mucus. 'Ew', Katsuki thought. He still wrapped his arms around the nerd though.

"K-kaach-" Izuku babbled continuously. 

"Yeah, yeah. Hurry up, people are looking at us weird." Kaachan murmured with a tiny smile.

Izuku began chuckling. "I thought you 'don't give a crap about what any of those extras' think or say?" He reminded Kaachan and then looked up at him, sniffling.

"Damn right. I just—" he paused, trying to find the appropriate wording. "—just... feel only some sort of dismay at times for you and your image. Sometimes." Kaachan ended with a low grumble.

Izuku could still hear it almost precisely though, if their proximity is anything to go by.

"I care about you too Kaachan, thank you." Izuku breathed, looking up at him before also busting his nose with the help of Kaachan's collarbone.

They finally ended up walking inside, like normal people instead just continuing to bask in their own world outside of a restaurant people were coming in and out of. Not to mention the throwing the two of them a mix of weird, and in awe looks, as well.

They'd walked in and caught the lady at the front just about to dial a number, probably Katsuki's. 

"We're here." Katsuki growled. 

"Oh, wonderful!" the older woman, maybe in her 40's, exclaimed, putting her hands together as she did so. 

"It's you two! Uhm, Pro Hero Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight, had ended up calling us to ask if we could save a seat for Mr. Deku and him, around this time. But we didn't know if it was just a prank or not, haha. " The woman said, and when Katsuki gave her a deadpan look, she lowered in on herself a bit. "I'm guessing not. Someone like you wouldn't do that anyway's." she concluded sheepishly.

Izuku sent Kaachan a look from the side.

"Our apologies!" Izuku bowed as he put the fault all on them, as if wasn't to begin with. It's not usual for big pro heroes like Kaachan to call and ask if a seat could be saved for him and Izuku, especially at small places like these. Still, Izuku appreciated what Kaachan did. He's not necessarily someone who'd something like this, if you couldn't already tell.

The woman smiled at the two pro-heroes. "Moving on, let's get you two to your seats you've technically reserved!" She clapped her hands together once more before making a move for Izuku and Katsuki to follow her to their seats.

As they walked towards the back of the establishment, the older woman attempted to make small talk. "You know, it's such an honor you two, some big figures in the world and especially here in Japan, decided to come a restaurant like this." she proclaimed, almost excited. 

"Mhm." Izuku mumbled quickly in response, having heard something like this when he or his friends go somewhere and the hostesses are very amazed by their presence, for the umpteenth time. He was too busy looking around the restaurant, seeing as how very little changed, anyway.

The older woman spoke up again, "My daughter, she's very extravagant, loves the two of you. Especially in a pair! She should be running around here somewhere," She told them before doing a quick scanning of the area. She couldn't find her as of right now. "Anyways, it's always been a dream to meet you guys, together." she hinted.

And while Izuku loved to meet his fans, Katsuki maybe not so much, they were here to eat, and have a good time for themselves.

But neither of them said anything, Which was a bit surprising for Katsuki to do.

Ultimately, they got to their seats. The older woman gave them a menu, left, but not without advising them that their waitress would be at their service soon.

It was just them now.

Kaachan had pulled out his phone, texting someone, or multiple people (What? it's not really Izuku's business of who Kaachan messages. Even if it has been for a few days now.) aggressively. Uh oh, that's not good.

Eventually he put it down to focus on the birthday boy in front of him. 

Izuku beamed at him. "Are you done?" Izuku queried, leaning forward from where he was sitting in the booth across from Katsuki.

Apparently Kaachan didn't know Izuku was waiting on him, he then had the gall not let at the least a bit of remorse show on his face. Just a deadpan look. Izuku knew it was just to get on his nerves though.

"No, actually." He pulled his phone back out and messaged someone one last thing. Probably a 'Fuck You'.

Then he put his device up.

"Happy?" Izuku quipped with a smile.

"Only if you are." Katsuki quipped back with an equal, a trademarked (not actually, Kaachan isn't that peddy) smirk. He then sat back and grabbed his menu to start browsing.

Their short waiter, probably the hostesses daughter, had come to ask for their drinks and meals; with an appetizer if they had wanted one, but they declined.

She was, interesting, at the very least. When are people in this world full of quirks ever not, though?

She looked around Eri and Kota's age and had had green sneakers on with beige leg warmers, transparent galaxy leggings with mid thigh leg jean shorts. Oh, and a long sleeved black and grey shirt on too. She had a big brushed out afro framing her sharp features. On top were two cat ears. Had Izuku mentioned the cat nose? As well as the tail swaying back and forth? He wondered what her quirk was; as per usual. She said her name was Icarus, foreign, then even when she absolutely didn't need to, said she'd moved from Latin America—Brazil—because her mother had gotten new and better opportunity's here.

Boy was she a talkative one, just like Izuku. He'd ended up wondering if she had any other tables to attend to, but that thought was trashed immediately when he saw other waiters and waitresses walking around. Izuku had also ended up wondering if Icarus' mother had sent her over here on purpose.

She probably had, but it's fine, I guess. Izuku thought.

And whenever Kaachan gave attitude (because yes, they both were somewhat intrigued, even Kaachan had dared to show it), she gave it right back. Interesting, yes indeed. Kaachan didn't take any shit and neither did she, so they'd ended up going back and forth for some time, with Izuku on the side giggling like some maniac.

She get's nervous fast, so when she'd revealed that on her way from her home she saw a bunch of [mainly] pro heroes huddling outside this really nice house, and then had got super nervous so in response her quirk had ended up emitting near them on accident—it wasn't much of a surprise. No immediate effect happened, thankfully, because when she uses her quirk on other people, intended or not, it takes a while. They do instantly end up getting drowsy when it's used on them before the actual quirk takes effect, though. 

Izuku had an idea of what her quirk may be [exactly] regarding her appearance, so he didn't question.

Icarus had left for a moment to go give them their drinks and put their entrée orders in. 

"Wow, she sure is facisnating. You know, we've never really stayed around for fans to tell us their stories." Izuku commented.

"That's because we're busy saving the fuckers lives and we don't harass fans into having a conversation with us. " Kaachan snarled.

"Well in a general sense, you'd be right—"

"I'm always right."

Izuku's eyes narrowed a little. "If you'd let me finish,"  he uttered passive aggressively. "I won't deny that Icarus, in a sense, trapped us. She didn't harass us. We had plenty of right to tell her we would not like to have a conversation right now. She also just got excited, like I did when I was her age. And don't act like you didn't enjoy her company at least a little too!" Izuku exclaimed, exasperated.

"Tch, whatever. Annoying brat. Damn right she reminds you of yourself. Where's our drinks?" Kaachan steamed, begrudgingly. He then gave a pout. Kaachan's original plan was probably to not respond at all.

"Right here! Actually." Icarus remarked, ableit loudly. She looked around sheepishly. "Sorry.." she whispered. As if she were the cat who was caught with the cream. No pun intended. 

She then handed over the drinks and straws to the two pro heroes.

"I'm back." She said staring at them with an almost deadpan expression, only thing preventing it from not being a deadpan is the subtle smile she has on.

"Ugh, obviously." Kaachan retorted whilst opening his straw to stick it into his drink. 

"I've always wondered what your problem was. Hero Deku, would you mind telling me?" Icarus asked, with the sweetest smile. Her hands in her aprons pockets while tilting her head only a smidge.

"My problem?! What the hell? Listen here you fuc—" 

Izuku was quick to almost jump across the table to cover Kaachan's mouth.

"Uhm, he usually would not be this loose with his words. I promise you he's media trained to some extent. This just probably means he likes you." Izuku insisted.

Icarus only giggled and then left. Probably to go get their food.

He'd been managing so far until he felt a sharp pain on his palm.

"Ouch!" He quickly removed his hands from covering Katsuki's mouth. 

"Why'd you bite me?"

"I bit you before, dumbass, I had just forgot that you have no feeling in your fingers so I had to resort to an alternate plan." Swore Kaachan. "Maybe get yer grimy hands off my mouth hole next time. You're acting like that brat didn't deserve it." Kaachan argued with a roll of his eyes.

"She didn't." Izuku mumbled, it was really the only thing he could respond with. He continued to rub his palm on his thigh rapidly, as if it really hurt all that much.

"Dramatic."

"Like you're one to talk."

"Here is your food!" 

Katsuki and Izuku immediately turned their head to the source. Icarus, of course. With their orders of Katsudon and Mapo tofu in both hands. They weren't expecting Icarus back so soon, must've been a quick fix. Also the fact that the establishment was pretty loud (as is a lot of small, downtown areas), so Izuku had subconsciously tuned everyone but Kaachan—at the moment—out.

"Oh! Well that was quick" 

"That was quick." 

They both said it at the same time. Izuku and Katsuki immediately turning to look at the other.

Icarus put both of their plates down in front of them, automatically remembering which order belonged to who. 

"So, if you don't want any sweets, just let me know when you're ready for the bill!" Icarus croaked in a rush. As if she had just found out some not so good news.

"Are you okay?" Izuku offered. "You don't really seem as well as you just were not too long ago.." 

"Er, yeah! I am, don't worry about me.. Eat! That's what you came here to do right?" Icarus sputtered out.  Then quickly gave a bow and went to another table to serve them, pulling out her pen and paper as if it was second nature. She still had her jitters, though.

"What's up with her?" Kaachan wondered non-committedly before digging in.

Izuku kept looking in her direction momentarily. Then he let out a breath he didn't know he was holding. "She..seems fine for the most part. She probably just got a little nervous?" Izuku tried. Even he didn't didn't believe that himself.

Kaachan looked up from where he was focused on his food, seeing Izuku's expression. "Look, the brat's fine. Don't worry your big ass head about her either, this is your birthday lunch." scolded Kaachan towards Izuku. Only after he finished chewing, though, the man may disrespect a wide variety of mannerism's, but table mannerism's is where he draws the line. Weird, right?

"Plus, 'member what I told ya a while back." he murmured, quickly stuffing his face with food after. It wasn't a question. Obviously Izuku knew what he was talking about, and he had tried to take it to heart with Uraraka. Didn't end up working out though. When he told Kaachan all he said was 'try harder'. Izuku is still trying to figure out what that meant.

Izuku let out a sigh, and decided to drop the topic(s) for now. "Yeah, I guess you're right-"

"As always."

Izuku paused. 

"Anyways, I should eat. We've been here for a while" Izuku says before beginning to eat his Katsudon. Must he say they did an amazing job, it 's just like he remembers it. Around 15 years ago.

"Shaddup, your muttering in addition to your mumbling is ruining my Mapo Tofu." Kaachan groaned with his mouth full of chewed food, showcasing the current contents of his mouth for the world to see. Scratch 'Table Mannerisms' off the list, please.

Izuku grimaced. "Well you're ruining my appetite." he remarked.

Kaachan sneered.

With their momentary silence, a topic that Izuku would admit he's been avoiding for a bit came up like bile.

Izuku cleared his throat after a swallow of food.

Katsuki glanced up to give a sign as to he was listening.

"Kaachan," Izuku started, earnestly. "Why did you bring me here? Of all places?" Izuku asked. Before Kaachan could say something to deflect, Izuku rapidly stuttered out, "L-like, I know you don't like high end places anyway, but this place is pretty close to our parent's...houses. We also had a rough situationship, if anyone were to say so themselves." he finished quietly.

"I didn't want your last memories here to be full of shit. Plus this place wasn't half bad so." Kaachan mumbled.

Izuku lit up. "What was that?" he teased, having clearly heard Katsuki, but just wanted to hear it again. Kaachan had told him to be more selfish, right?

"Don't start. You know what I said damned loser." He said with a glare while puncturing his fork into the last bit of his Mapo Tofu.

Izuku only giggled and finished his food. 

Katsuki still hadn't heard anything from the idiot group chat he'd been forced in after he asked Cheeks to help him plan a surprise party at Ponytail and Ears' house for the nerd.

It was eerie, a little. He was supposed to be transporting Izuku after they went out to eat together, but he hasn't had the 'all clear' signal yet. And yeah, any idiot would be like 'well maybe they aren't finished yet', but it's not like them at all to not message Katsuki every 10 minutes, especially on today of all days.

In fact, the last text message in that group chat, was Katsuki's 'Fuck You', towards something dumb that imbecile Kaminari said.

It was almost 2, they told Katsuki him and Izuku should be there a little after 2:45, so that'd meant they had to bounce. 

Luckily Icarus had come back asking if they were ready for their bill or wanted more to eat, Izuku spoke up and asked for the bill. 

"This was amazing Kaachan thank you for bringing me here" Izuku shined his brightest smile.

"Whatever."

Katsuki paid for the bill and they both left waving their goodbyes.

When they got in the car Izuku felt full. So it didn't seem like a bad idea to take a nap, but just before he did he had to ask.

"Where are we are going next? Home?" 

"Nah." 

"Oh. Well then, can I sleep?" Izuku asked turning his head towards Katsuki.

"What do you think, dipshit." Kaachan growled in answer.

"Haha, sorry." Izuku apologized before dozing off.

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Izuku was shaken, literally. 

"Wake up, Izuku. We're at the—place." Katsuki said, trying not to give away the idea of a surprise party.

When Izuku opened his eyes Kaachan was hovering over him, Izuku's seat belt already unbuckled. Kaachan must have done it.

"Where are we?" Izuku sat up from his reclined seat. Once he was thinking straight, he immediately got the idea "Is this for my birthday? Not to make it all about me or anything." Izuku observed.

"Shut up. now come on, let's go in." Kaachan replied with.

They were at Yaoyorozu and Kyoka's shared home, and a bunch of cars were parked outside, recognizing one of them to be All Might's. 

His tears were already welling up, because if this was for his birthday, they definitely didn't need to do all of this.

When they finally got to the front door of the ginormous house, Katsuki knocked. He also rung the doorbell too.

No answer.

Katsuki would have thought it was just apart of the surprise, if any of the idiots in this had responded previously. But since they didn't, he rapped his knuckles against the door and smashed the door bell again.

"Kaachan? Why is no one answering?" Izuku asked and then went to move from where he was holding Kaachan's hand towards to side of the house.

"Where are you going?" Katsuki asked, completely ignoring Izuku's question.

"Well Kaachan, i'm busy but i'm not that busy to not remember where Yaomomo and Kyoka told us one of her many spare keys were." Izuku told Kaachan. Yaoyorozu is not surprisingly, one of Izuku's many close friends. The class also tends to have parties at her house a good amount so just in case one day her or Kyoka are not at the house they could get in if they'd like. With their say so, of course. 

"They shared it with the whole class? You know?" Izuku teased before bringing it back to Kaachan.

Kaachan had an annoyed look on his face, he did not like being teased; especially the most teasable person he knows. 

He then snatched it out of Izuku's hand. "Whatever, so what if I don't want to indulge in whatever the hell you and all those losers have to say." Kaachan scoffed while unlocking the door.

"They were telling us where their spare key was?"

"Can you shut up and just close your eyes?"

Izuku laughed. "Okay Kaachan." he said before closing his eyes and putting his scarred as well as crooked hands over them.

"Er, stay there. I'll come get you in a moment." Kaachan said before quickly running in and shutting the door behind him. Leaving Izuku there with his eyes shut, giggling from excitement.

When Katsuki walked in, the lights were off. decorations in place, just like it should be, now all they needed was the man his self.

"Great." Katsuki sighed before going back outside.

Izuku was still standing there but with his back turned towards Katsuki and his eyes open. Katsuki wasn't mad, of course, he had to watch his surroundings after all.

"Yo, we're good. Come on."

Izuku turned back towards Katsuki and his face lit up. "Okay!" he practically screeched from excitement.

Katsuki instead, came up behind him and covered Izuku's eyes himself. Just so he doesn't peek on 'accident' .

"Hehe, Kaachann." Izuku drawled, with a cheesy smile. Absolutely loving what Kaachan and the others were doing for him.

As they walked towards the already unlocked front door, Izuku could feel the anticipation growing. When they finally got there, Kaachan side stepped for a moment to kick the door open, wider(Katsuki didn't remember it being only cracked open that little), but didn't take his large hands off of Izuku's eyes.

They walked in the house through the front door and stood. 

Izuku [and Katsuki] was waiting for something like a 'Surprise!!' or 'Happy Birthday Izuku!!' but no. Kaachan had also not taken his hands off of Izuku's eyes, just yet.

"What. The. Fuck?!" Kaachan shouted.

Izuku was so alarmed, his quickly got the palms of Kaachan's rough hands out of his sight(his eyes were not open, thank you very much!). "Kaachan what is-" Izuku paused.

There were a bunch of damned animals standing before the two of them. 

"What happened?!" Izuku shrieked, because where are the actual persons that are supposed to be occupying a home?

They had to be their Class 1-A. Who or what else would've gotten into Yaoyorozu and Jirou's house? And sure, the key was hiding deep in a bush on the side of their house, but Izuku will have you know that the key was well hidden in that bush. Why do you think it took him so long?

Back to the actual topic at hand, there were just a bunch of animals staring at him and Kaachan.

Even Kaachan had no words, but to be honest, who would? 

There was a large, crimson, (saltwater?) crocodile with a blackish stomach area as well as blackish little spikes on top. That had to be Kirishima. 

Then, there was a medium sized Goat with massive horns that stuck out outwards in opposite direction and then curved back in only slightly in the middle. Bright blue eyes and fur a sun yellow. The horns had been a slightly lighter yellow. It wasn't hard who to guess this was. But, sitting in the middle of All Might's head—between his horns—was a viridian, mixing into a dark green and darker turquoise, Eastern Fox Squirrel. Her little paws up and all. Judging of how the fur color matches Izuku's hair, it wasn't hard to guess it was probably his own mother.

Of course they couldn't miss the elephant in the room, right away (that'd be an amazing pun if there was an actual elephant in the room). It just had to be Iida Tenya himself. The great Stallion with glasses on, don't forget the some how very stylized mane and tail. Not to mention the Persian and Bombay cats laying on Tenya's back as well. One cat with a scar that takes up most of the area around his right eye, as well as the heterochromatic eyes. The other one with huge cocoa brown eyes, and two little pink balls near her paws. And on top of the Bombay cat's head, Ochako, was a little green frog. That ones pretty self explanatory.

By then, Izuku and Kaachan had realized that per animal their fur or hair (if they have any) had correlated to their human hair colors. Thank goodness for their class basically being a rainbow. Figuratively and literally. 

With a large sigh, Izuku began to walk up to them. He didn't know whether they were themselves trapped inside an animals body or full blown animal; maybe even themselves with a few animalistic traits.

Izuku stopped at the goat, apparently All Might. "Is that you? In there, I mean." he asked the Squirrel and Goat.

When the Goat—All Might—nodded, he let out a breath he didn't know he was holding. 

"What happened to you dumb fucks? It had to something y'all provoked." Izuku could hear Kaachan asking the large Saltwater croc and little Fennec fox with a black lighting streak on his right ear. A predominantly bubblegum pink Raccoon that ended up on his shoulder in which he was trying to shake off of him. "Get off Raccoon Eyes!" Kaachan hollered before pausing abruptly when a black Maned wolf ran in between his open legs. Kaachan growled, and he wasn't even one of the animals here! "Are these—the idiots?!" Kaachan hissed in realization.

Izuku looks over to where Katsuki is. "Yep, pretty sure. And the black Swan and dark purple Bat sitting on the other has to be Kyoka and Yaomomo." He says, before cooing at how cute they look as animals together. "Aw," Izuku clasps his hands together. "They'd definitely want a photo of the two of them like this together. It would be an asset to their future wedding." Izuku insisted, letting all that time spent with Ochako a few months ago get to him. Izuku took out his phone quickly to snap a photo of them together and then quickly put it away, refocusing on the situation at hand.

"I am surrounded by dork."

"Sorry, I guess."

"Kaachan, would you be a dear and watch the animals while I go check around the house to see if there are any more of them, like this? There's no telling if this all of them at all." Asked Izuku.

"Ugh, 's not like I have a choice anyway." Kaachan replies, currently occupied with shoving the Maned wolf and Fennec fox down off of him. With the bubblegum pink Raccoon on his fluffy but sharp head of hair, and Ochako cat slinging around the back of his neck. "How am I supposed to go anywhere or do anything with these guys all over me." He says before trying to shake off the dark purple Honduran White bat that landed on his forearm. "Fuck off, Ears!" he shouts. "And do not try to even lay a tooth on me with those sharp ass teeth, Shitty Hair!" he threatens, and so forth.

He's good, Izuku thinks. Before walking off into the classy but punk kitchen with his mother on his shoulder. 

He then finds that Tsu, Tenya, and Shotou were following him. While All Might stayed behind with Kaachan. "Why are you guys coming along? I thought Kaachan was supposed to watch you all." He turns around and puts his hands on his hips to give them a reprimanding look. But with just one glance into Todo-kitty and Tsu's eyes, you can tell they hold absolutely no remorse. 

Izuku gives a sigh before taking time to admire the beautiful Stallion Tenya is. Izuku does think all of this is just a quirk-accident, they're still acting themselves, kind of, and there'd really be no other logical explanation. Come to think of it, Icarus (the waitress from earlier) did mention she ran into a group consisting of mainly pro-heroes outside of a big house. Then she had accidently used her quirk on them because she got nervous. Light bulb!

Izuku quickly picked up Todo-kitty and Tsuyu to run into the large foyer where Kaachan should've been.

So when he didn't see him and the others, and instead, a black barn owl in the corner staring into him. His soul nearly left his body. "Waah-chan!" he screamed. "Oh, I don't think i've seen you?" Izuku says, before motioning the black barn owl to follow him to find Kaachan and the others.

Izuku walks around the, practically mansion, house in search of Kaachan. He passes by a small living space, in where he finds Sero and Ashido making little noises of sound to each other. As if they're talking. The sun shines through the baby blue curtains casting a bluish hue on the two animals lying down together. As if it was just a casual day and they're relaxing. When they see Izuku with Tenya, Shotou, Tsu, his mom, and Tokoyami, they jump up and come to him as if to follow him wherever he's going. He gives the two of them a genuine smile before Ashido jumps onto Izuku's right shoulder along with Izuku's mother, Inko.

Continuing their trek to find Kaachan, Izuku then spots Yaomomo coming out of a half-bathroom with a tortoise (Koda? In Izuku's defense he didn't even know Koda was here.). "Woah," he says, not being able to find the right words to say, at the moment. Not sure why.

They both do look kind of tired, if a Swan and Tortoise can, Izuku thinks. They both then spot him with the others and act as if they're making a move to follow him to where ever he's going. 

Did any of them know if today was his birthday? Or why they're all here together? Izuku wonders.

Just by walking for a minute longer (Yaomomo and Jirou sure live in a massive space), they found the large red saltwater crocodile, immediately coming up towards the group. 

Izuku could hear all of them behind him making different kinds of noises depending on the ani mal. He seriously didn't know how their natural animalistic instincts hadn't kicked in yet, or if they ever existed with previously humans turned into animals. Izuku then wondered if they were ever going to turn back; and if he didn't have a bunch of variety of animals to currently look after while they follow him, he'd definitely stress himself out over that thought. This quirk was truly fascinating, all quirks are actually. Imagine what our ancestors would think when you told them that you can change a persons species with a flick of your finger, Izuku thought. 

They then found Kaminari and Jirou speaking to each other, really loudly apparently. Judging of how when Izuku heard them from a distance they immediately rerouted to go collect them. Izuku peeked his head around the corner—Tenya, Sero, Mina, Yaomomo, and Tokoyami did too—he saw them making cute little noises towards each other. The black Swan, Yaoyorozu, spotted Jirou and ran towards her picking her up off her little paws and onto her back. Kyoka then nuzzled into Yaomomo's feathers. Izuku cooed, once again.

Kaminari made a move towards Hanta and Kirishima. Then they resumed their trek, but not before Izuku did a head count of everyone. They had Tokoyami, Shotou (currently purring in his arms), Izuku's mom, Sero, Kirishima, Jirou, Yaoyorozu, Kaminari, Tsu, Ashido, Iida, and Koda. Izuku could've sworn he saw Ochaco and All Might when he and Kaachan first walked in together. In fact, he spoke to All Might. So he was definitely here. Now all they needed to find was Ochako, All Might, and Kaachan!

They walked for another three minutes at a normal pace, the animals behind and on him were currently conversing, even more now that they've found Jirou and Kaminari. Isn't that a shock. 

Ultimately getting to a medium sized longue room, it had the sun shining through the now beige and pink drapes, with some blue. It had one large sofa that curved around the right side a little, and two love seats on both sides of it facing the opposite direction of the other. All of that was on the left side of the room, on the other hand—the right side— had a whole bar, consisting of stools and different types of alcohol.

But, aside from all of that, there was Kaachan. Finally, Izuku thought. He started to walk towards him until he paused, taking in the scene before him. 

Kaachan was completing a man spread with Ochako in his lap, asleep, and then there was All Might, resting near his left foot. 

"Kaachan," Izuku made himself known to Kaachan. Who immediately jerked his head up from it's thrown back behind the couch state. 

"Hey, where have ya been, nerd?" Kaachan snarled, seeing him and everyone else behind Izuku, on Izuku, and next to Izuku. "I had tried to get away from most of them but these two fuckers just had to find me in here." he says, fighting off Kaminari who tried to jump on his face, and in Kaminari's wake, he had almost ran into Ochako so Kaachan had quickly scooped her up into his chest.

"Looking for you." Izuku replies with. Izuku walks over to where Kaachan is and plops down right next to him. Everyone else following. 

"Were you napping?" Izuku asks. 

"Tch, yeah, so what if I was. Got a problem with it?" 

"Nah, I was hoping to join you, in fact." Izuku murmured, finally allowing himself a yawn before looking at his phone and checking the time. It was 4 pm. 

"As if I'd want you slobbering all over me." Kaachan says.

Izuku leans his head on Katsuki's shoulder and allows for Todoroki, his mom and Ochako to lie in his lap while other animals rest against the two of them. 

Katsuki subconsciously leans his head against Izuku's. Kirishima crawls between Katsuki's legs while Ashido lays against his tail. 

They all doze off huddled together. If Izuku was awake he would've gotten a picture of all of them.

Izuku only then, remembers that he was supposed to tell Kaachan about who could've created a situation like this. And that some animal ate the missing cake. But who could care right now? Certainly not them.

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When they all wake up only hours later, everyone has changed back.

They all apologize to Izuku profusely accusing themselves of ruining Izuku's birthday. 

Izuku himself certainly wouldn't say it got even better, but he was wouldn't say it was completely ruined. They looked too cute for all of that.

They do, however, decide to 'continue the party' (as if there ever was one), by drinking and making a new cake. Kaminari shares that him and Ashido had been the one's to eat it, surprise surprise.

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After they all have had their fun gauge filled for the day, or should Izuku say, night, Kaachan offers to take him and his mother home. They say yes of course.

Izuku ends up being so tired from the whirl wind of a day him and Kaachan has had, that the next thing he knows is that he was knocked out in his childhood room.

Having Katsuki bring him up from down stairs and place him in his bed. 

His mom tucked him in and gave him the sweetest kiss he could ever receive. 

"Good night, Izuku." whispers Inko.

Today, Thursday, 16th of July

00:04

Kaachaneko:

> Hope you enjoyed your birthday ugly

> Put your gifts from your brats, your mom, me, and the other losers who tolerate you in your room.