~~~Izu's POV~~~

After my whole over-dramatic response, we get Denki, who I might have clung to for ten minutes, and Shin and him talk, and I mean talk and not sign, while I cuddled with Kacchan. I was questioning why this shit had to happen to me when I feel a hand pull me. I look up to see it's Denks.

"Come on bro, let's go eat."

"R-right, sorry." We get off the train, leaving the station, and finding a cafe. We discussed it on the train a bit before my whole zoned out session. We ended up finding one near the pool place, as we walked in we got seated and ended up in a booth. Shortly after sitting, a kind-looking girl walked up, no wait, I've seen her before.

"Mina!"

"Oh hey Kami, Bakugou, Izuku."

"Sup Raccoon eyes."

"Hii Mina."

"Who are you?"

"A-ah I-I'm Hitoshi Shinsou, a friend of Izu's and Thotski."

"Stop with the damn name you coffee addict."

"Aww that's cute, I'm Mina Ashido."

"Is this why you couldn't hang?"

"Y-yeah, before I met Denks I was actually looking for a job and found here, when I did get the job I went to celebrate and met you boys. How are you guys?"

"Some asshole decided to try and pick a fight with us again, like last week."

"W-was it the boys from the pool place?"

"N-no Mina, the dude was an older man. He also pulled the same stuff last week. But honestly I'm fine, how are you?"

"I'm great, sorry to hear that this crap happened. Hope today gets better, anyways what would you guys want to drink?"

"Can I get a hot tea please?"

"Coffee black please."

"Tch, I'll take a cinnamon caramel frappuccino."

"Can I get an Electric Zing?"

"You know that's mango and pineapple, right?"

"Yep."

"Alright it'll be right up, how about food?"

"Katsudon please!"

"Spicy noodles."

"Salad."

"Can I get nachos please Ashido?"

"Yep, so coffee and salad for Shinsou, electric zing and nachos for Denks, frappe and spicy noodles for Bakubabe, and tea with katsudon for the cinnamon roll. That sound right?"

"Yep thanks Mina!" As she left we started conversation.

"So who was that?"

"Oh, that's Mina Ashido. We met her last week. She was the other friend who wasn't able to make it."

"Got it, so are you going to tell me what happened last week? Or are we bringing it up with Aato along with the old man?"

"Toshi..."

"Who's Aato?"

"A-ah, well he's my therapist."

"Okay, do you mind me asking why you go? I can tell you why I go."

"U-um." I look down.

"Hey," Kacchaan's whispering in my ear, "you don't need to tell him if you don't want to, he'll understand."

"I-I started going back in February, after my mom saw something I wish she didn't due to making her sad." Denki tilts his head, a silent question.

"A month before I started going, I had been planning on leaving. But what I wanted hadn't come yet so I was still here, one time I wore loose sleeves and needed to help my mom with something, and my sleeve slipped down." I look down, too ashamed to see his reaction. I already told three people before him.

"Hey it's alright. I go because my quirk is in a way too hard to control, and when I overuse it I go dumb. It created a lot of self-esteem issues and I neglected my quirk, making it even more difficult to control."

"Can I ask what your quirk is?"

"It's electrification, in simple terms I can cover my body with electricity but if I tried to shoot it I can't aim."

"My quirk puts me in too much control." Shinsou stated it as more of a put-off statement, like he couldn't stand the idea of his quirk. And he can't.

"Hey, odd question, but what do you guys wanna go after middle school?"

"Well, you already know Deku but him and I wanna make it to the hero course in UA, we've been sparring often."

"Oh yeah, I remember last week you talked about knowing that Monoma dude wouldn't be able to win. Well I wanna get there too, hopefully I can learn to control my quirk to help others."

"Heh, Bakuhoe you know I've known this but Kaminari didn't. Anyways, I wish to get in the same course, but they are rather biased on mental quirks so I probably won't."

"Hey, why don't we all spar, that way we can all get better at combat and don't need to rely on our quirks?"

"Hey guys, what's up? Here's your drinks and food."

"Oh hi Mina, we're just talking about sparring so all of us can get better physically so we can hopefully maybe get into the hero course."

"Sweet, can I join some time?"

"Yeah of course."
"Well here guys, I've gotta go help the other tables, bye."

"Thanks bye." After that we ate and drank our orders, taking time to relax and not talk so much. I can tell Shinsou's happy because of this, I think he wants to start signing.

Hey Shin, do you need to start signing?

I want to but don't want to disappoint you.

Hey, you'll never disappoint me. I'm proud that you made it this far. If you want to sign then do it. Don't feel forced to talk if you aren't comfortable.

"Hey Shinsou, don't worry about it. We're all okay with signing, I just don't want to make you overexert yourself with your confidence."

Thanks Denki. When we finished eating, we all pitched in to pay, and we left, saying goodbye to Mina and went to the place. We quickly grab a table and our poles. Once again Kacchan sets up the balls and Denki and Shinsou do rock paper scissors. Shinsou won and went to shoot. He aimed and with a hard strike, he hit the cue ball into the group, not making any in but scattering them enough. Kacchan shot next, aiming for a striped ball, the green 14 to be exact, it made it into the hole. Doing this means I was next to shoot, I aimed for a purple one we had; 15, I shot but missed, meaning it was Denki's turn. This continued for about 30 minutes, until my team had 3 balls and the 8, and Denki's had 2 and the 8. It was my turn to shoot and I hit the ball I was aiming for in one of the middle pockets, meaning Kacchan was next to shoot, hitting one of the others and getting it into the end pockets. I went and took my other shot, but missed meaning it was Shinsou's turn, he hit the ball in, Denki went next and he made it so Shinsou took their winning shot and made the black ball into the pocket, meaning they won.

"Good game Toshi and Denks."

"Deku, can I talk to you?"

"Huh? Sure Kacchan." We walk over to the other side of the place.

"So, when are you gonna ask them?"

"Huh?"

"We talked about this Friday, we asked auntie if we could invite these goofs over so we can have like a boys night in or whatever."

"O-oh right. I'll ask them now." As I go to walk away I feel a hand on my waist.

"No kiss?" I break out in a smile and let him pull me back, his other hand on my cheek tilting my head up. My arms wrapped around his neck as I stood on my toes to give him a sweet, short kiss.

"I love you Zuku."

"I love you too Kacchan." We share another kiss and walk back to the other two, who seem to be signing to each other.

"Hey, Toshi, Kami?"

"Yeah Zuku," Denki asked for both of them.

"Would you guys like to spend the night with us? At my house, I already asked my mom and she said yeah."

I'd have to ask my dads, and they might end up picking us up from the station to meet your mom but I'm down if they agree.

"I'm down, my parents aren't all that concerned as long as I'm safe, and might just ask to talk to your mom, even if it's over call."

"Alright, why don't you guys ask now, then we can head out to the station?"

"Okay." They both pulled out their phones, texting their parents. After a few minutes, we went outside and walked around. About three minutes after we started walking, Shinsou got a call.

Sorry, I'll be back. He walked off, I'm assuming so he couldn't influence us by mistake, but he should know not to worry.

"So, why doesn't Shinsou like his quirk," The blond asked.

"You should ask him yourself, I don't really know the full story."

"Alright. I told you my quirk, what's yours?"

"I make explosions with nitroglycerin type sweat on my palms."

"I don't use mine to spar so it doesn't matter, I don't mean to be rude, it's just..."

"Don't worry Zu, I get it. So when you guys spar, how do you do it? I mean, like the rules and you guys are together so how do you spar without worrying you'll hurt each other?"

"Ah, well the rules are simple, no quirks, Kacchan uses his when I flip him only to propel forward but never to inflict injury. Well... unless I make him," I look off and down for a couple seconds before I continue, "We stop when blood draws seeing as it isn't on purpose or when one of us is too exhausted."

"And when we worry about hurting the other, well we know the limits, and we almost always check on each other throughout the sparring," Kacchan continued.

"What do Zu mean when you never inflict injury unless he makes you? Is it something to do with the burn on his cheek?" He looked at Kacchan, but he just tilted his head to me, meaning he wants me to answer and not him. I audibly sigh.

"We were sparring Thursday, before my session with Aato. What would have made me stop was my panic attack, but I kept going, Kacchan didn't want to. But I made him. I got angry every time he wouldn't fight back. I flipped him, he tried to use his quirk to get off the ground but I grabbed his foot and his explosion hit me. I didn't want to stop, it was stupid and the whole reason is because I didn't speak up about the stupid itch coming back."

"Babe, it'll be okay, we're working on it."

"Yeah Zu, there will be bumps in the road but you haven't given up."

"I can't seem to see it like that, I keep reverting and disappointing everyone, so maybe I'm not on my way to recovery."

"Love, get out of that mindset. We're working our way away slowly, but we are going to get there." I let silence fall between us, Toshi will get out of the call any minute now, it's been about five since he left. And sure enough he came back two minutes after.

"Hey, what'd he say?"

"They said yeah, they're just gonna pick us up from the station and meet your mom, and then leave, I asked them to pack my stuff also so it'll be fast."

"Yay, you're talking," Denks said really happily, if his eyes could draw I swear you'd see hearts.

"Heh." Shin rubbed his neck, a slight blush appearing.

"Pikachu, any response from your parents?"

"O-oh, let me check," he pulled out his phone and went into his messages, "they said yeah, we'll get off at my stop to pack then go?"

"Yep. Sounds like a plan." So we started heading to the station, creating little side conversations while we walk. I text mom telling her that they got the okay, that Mr. Aizawa and Mr. Yamada were coming to meet her, along with telling her that I was gonna make dinner since they were my friends and because she had a shift today. Seeing as it's only 1:25, mom was still at work until 5, which would be the time we leave well around 4:25, cause we need to go to Denks house then to my house. Luckily we don't eat until 7:30. So we spent the time walking, and talking which led us to finding out the story.

"Hey, Hitoshi?"

"Yeah, Denki?"

"Why do you hate your quirk? If you don't want to answer you don't have to of course, I'm just wondering."

"My quirk puts me in control of others, meaning that I can force them to do anything. I accidentally used it a few times growing up, once in kindergarten, the kids called me a monster and stopped hanging out with me in fear. The other time was on my parents, I didn't mean to, I had gotten upset and it got out of control and after that they put me in the system. They feared me, and I don't blame them."

"Wait. I thought your parents are meeting Izu's mom?"

"Adoptive parents, Shouta Aizawa and Hizashi Yamada, they took me in when I was about six, I spent two years in the system at that time and had already suppressed my quirk enough to make me lose control of it easily. After they took me in they had me train my quirk a little, Aizawa has a quirk to erase quirks for a short amount of time and that helped. After training it a little they suggested I work for Aato, to help me become more confident in it and to train it more."

"Makes sense, and if you want and your dads agree, you can use it on me. My quirk makes me dumb and out of control that it might feel nice to let someone else take the wheel for a bit."

"Denki, I couldn't. It isn't right."

"Shinsou, I mean it. After I use too much of my quirk I fry my brain and I get so stupid that I'm a laughing stock, at least if I let you take control I know you wouldn't make me a laughing stock."

"Alright, but if my dads agree, you must consent at all times because I never want to do what I did back then."

"Don't worry Hitoshi, I trust you."

"Guys, it's 4:15, let's head to the station." So our small party headed to the station.