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Shouta sighs, leaning back on the sofa he’s slumped down on. He’s drags his hands down his face, dragging the skin with them. Time to go deal with this current problem child he seems to have acquired so UA doesn’t get sued. He leans forward and grabs his laptop off the coffee table and pulls it onto his knee. He honestly thought All Might had sent that stupid ‘Your child has left campus!’ text… although maybe that would have been assuming too much from him. Assuming he remembered to breath might also be assuming too much of him when he really thinks about it.
“What’s up Sho?” Hizashi asks, coming out of the kitchen with a mug of coffee for him, Aizawa takes it and holds it in one hand as he boots up the laptop, it screams to life, the screen lighting up.
“Midoriya never arrived home after the sports festival.” Shouta says, logging into the laptop with a few button presses.
“He what!” Hizashi says, sitting down next to him on the sofa, concern on his face. Aizawa sighs internally, he’s the worrier out of the two of them. Issuing discreet home and family checks that usually amounted to nothing or something minor. He was just hyper vigilant. Yea… he was definitely the bleeding heart in this relationship.
“He never arrived home after the sports festival. He’s probably just out with friends or something. You know what teenagers are like.” Aizawa says, teenagers were fickle creatures who often didn’t consider the thoughts or feelings of their legal guardians. They did what they want when they want and cause their guardians a heart attack when they don’t come home when they should or be missing from their rooms.
Of course, it was good when they noticed… his own parents never did.
“Aizawa Shouta!” His husband snaps. Shouta blinks as he’s dragged from his thoughts, Zashi never snaps. He turns to face him, Zashi looks downright furious at him.
“What?” Shouta asks, rising an eyebrow. He was just being logical about this, teenagers are assholes.
“Don’t you think that. That’s how we find his body and not him!” Zashi snaps. Shouta sighs.
“He’s a hero student, he can also handle himself Zashi.” Shouta says, with a small eyeroll.
“… Not every time Sho.” Hizashi says, looking out the window, eyes misting over. Shouta sighs. He’s right… not every hero student makes it out of training… but he should be able to defend against any assailants even with his limited training… right? RIGHT?!
“Yea… you’re right.” He pulls up the security footage as he sips his coffee. Zashi gives him a small sharp nod.
“I always am dear.” Zashi says, tapping Shouta’s nose with a smirk.
“Yes dear.” Shouta says, smiling at him. “So, he was in the infirm-” Shouta presses the temporary infirmary footage feed and the image pulls up big. It shows All Might chastising Izuku, who’s literally just woken up from surgery and still clearly out of it. Izuku is barely speaking, eyes locked down. Then he says something, and his eyes go wide in fear as All Might slaps Izuku across the cheek. Izuku’s body sags after but he doesn’t say anything, tears beading in his eyes. Aizawa has to actually rewind to make sure he saw it right.
He feels Zashi grab his hand as the footage plays again.
He did.
“Sho?” Zashi says confused, his eyes shaking from side to side as he watches the footage again. “He hit him.” Zashi whispers, sounding horrified. “HE FUCKING HIT HIM!” Zashi shouts, standing. Luckily Shouta managed to activate his quirk just in time to stop his husband from destroying yet another apartment… they cannot afford to pay another one off. Zashi slowly falls back down into the seat.
“I just needed to make sure it was real and not some hallucination.” Shouta says. The two-keep watching as they see Izuku just shut down, it feels wrong. He’s usually chatting with friends or writing in his notebook or trying to not fall asleep in class. Which was concerning but he assured everyone he was fine, and the house check they preformed showed Inko to be a loving mother so they had tried to get medical intervention but Recovery Girl insisted physically he was fine and he assured them all he was getting enough sleep.
Recovery Girl enters the room and asks a question which All Might answers. Izuku cannot get a word in despite trying. Was that the case during Izuku’s previous meetings with her? How did they all miss this?
Hizashi and Shouta share a look. This isn’t good. Not good at all.
Izuku then gets up and leaves. Barely able to stand, swaying on his feet a little bit. Recovery Girl has a frown on her face, and All Might looks… annoyed? Why was he annoyed at Izuku? Sure, breaking his bones wasn’t ideal but he did his best!
“I’m going to kill him.” Hizashi says, simply. Glaring at All Might.
“Wait. Look.” Shouta says, pointing to the screen. Recovery Girl and All Might are talking, well she’s chastising him over something and whacks him over the head with her cane. All Might rubs his head as he argues with her before storming out of the room and disappearing out the door. Recovery Girl stands there, shaking her head with a stony look on her face. She takes a breath and flips All Might off through the door before composing herself and sitting down at her seat.
“Okay… so she knows something is up…” Shouta mutters, more for himself than for anyone else.
“So why isn’t she doing anything?!” Zashi snaps, gesturing to the screen as Recovery Girl spins around in her seat in boredom.
“I have no idea.” Aizawa says, flicking to the next camera, pointed at the door of the infirmary. Izuku walks out, his hand seems to be twitching as he gets his phone out, he looks at it, sighs and puts it back in his pocket. Who was he going to text? His mother? Friends? Aizawa grinds his teeth a little in frustration, what was he doing? Izuku walks out of shot. All Might comes out of the room, face thunderous, a few moments later and goes in the opposite direction. Looking for Izuku presumably. Aizawa flicks camera to the next one, going towards the way Izuku went and Izuku walks into shot, he goes to the stairs and bumps face first into Endeavour.
Izuku seems terrified of the flaming man before him as he takes a small step back. He and Endeavour seem to talk, but it’s more like Endeavour talks at Izuku. Izuku seems sort of out of it the whole time and when Endeavour gripped his shoulder Izuku tensed. It was subtle but it was there.
Then Endeavour reaches out.
Izuku’s zoned outlook snaps away and melts into fear. Pure fear.
“What the fu-” Zashi says at that abnormal reaction, but his sentence stops dead as Izuku kicks Endeavour in the balls and books it in the opposite direction. A mix of out of it and fear as he runs towards the exit.
“I think we should sell this part of the footage to the news.” Zashi says, looking at Shouta out of the side of his eye.
“Zashi-” Shouta says with a deadpan look.
“Or at least play it in class?” Zashi suggests.
“No.” Shouta says, still concerned about the way Izuku is acting. It’s in line with an abuse victim and it clearly didn’t come Inko… so where? And why would anyone bully Izuku at school because even if his quirk broke his bones, it was still extremely powerful. He would expect Izuku to be a bully rather than a victim. There’s something he’s missing and it’s pissing him off.
“Fine.” Zashi says, with a small huff. Honestly, he would also have loved to play the footage of Endeavour being punted in the balls in class, but the mental health of his student come first.
Izuku is in what looks like the midst of a panic attack as he heads towards the exit, eyes wide and sweating slightly. As he breaks out of the exit a bag goes over his head and the figure, who is off screen, injects someone into his neck and his body goes limp, falling into the figure’s arms.
“Did… did he just… get kidnapped?” Zashi whispers, pointing to the screen. Shouta was wondering that himself.
“Maybe.” Shouta says, changing camera angles but the figure is off screen in all of them, just a shadow or one of Izuku’s body parts is visible. Was this planned? Why Midoriya? Why anyone from his class? Why couldn’t they take someone from Vlad’s class? This is so much paperwork… he keeps flicking from camera to camera trying to see any-
Is that a Red Helmet?
“Sho…” Zashi says, eyes widening as he grabs his arm.
“I see it!” Aizawa says. When did Red Hood get here? The reports said he was in Gotham! He should still be in Gotham?! He’s violent and unstable and should be kept well away from any children. Especially his kids. So why did he take Izuku?! Did he see something they didn’t?!
Shouta groans.
This is gonna be an awful lotta paperwork…