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Shiori Midoriya was confused about how she had ended up in this situation; she took a look around the table at her ‘children’. She… She wasn’t really sure how she was supposed to process all of the changes in her life, after all it wasn’t every day you found yourself sitting at the dinner table (of your new house, she might add) with the number one and two heroes as your guest. One of whom was apparently your daughter-in-law!?!?!? Cussing out Endevawhore had seemed like such a good idea at the time, if only she hadn’t missed the person filming the verbal lashing in the background, then she might have avoided this fiasco. She sighed and looked to the number two hero, her mentor and daughter-in-law Miruko but found no help as she was too busy making goofy lovey dovey eyes at her wife… Shiori’s step daughter Fuyumi.
All of this craziness didn’t even cover the fact that wanted villains were at the table as well! Shigaraki was talking with Kota (who along with Eri had somehow ended up as her kids?!?!) about some new game and the two were adamantly discussing their hatred for spawn camping newbs. Toga was babbling with Hawks about something or rather, while Shoto and Natsuo were bonding with Toya over their shared hatred for Enji. Eri was excitedly talking with Shuichi, the two of them were bonding over looking different, trauma, and talking about how awesome of a hero her mama was. Shiori almost felt bad for the poor villain, who was trying not to die of cuteness overload. So maybe it wasn’t all bad just… overwhelming. Of course that was when Shoto turned and asked, with a completely straight face.
“When is grandpa All Might coming over?”
She felt her soul leave her body as the table burst out in even more chatter, she felt a cool hand press against her and she blushed as she leaned into the touch of Rei… her wife… she blushed even harder as she turned to face her, Rei simply smiled at her and leaned in kissing her softly.
How the hell had this happened!?!
Earlier…
Shoto was browsing the internet,
looking for proof that Shiori was the daughter of All Might
, working on his homework when his phone pinged. He sighed and reached for it, hopefully it wasn’t
the bastard
his father texting him again about how he was duty bound to surpass All Might and that he was disappointed in him. He raised an eyebrow as he realized it was simply the 1-A group chat, that was odd he was pretty sure he had muted that. Against his better judgment he opened the app to see who was pinging him.
Hell class
AlienQueen: holy shit check this out! mido is trending !
AlienQueen: @Shoto GET IN HERE LOOK AT THIS!
AlienQueen: HOLY SHIT THE ABSOLUTE QUEEEEEEEN
Ingenium: Mina! Please refrain from cursing in the group chat!
XPLOSIONMRDR: WHO THE FUCK CARES ABOUT dEKU, WHY THE FUCK WOULD THAT SHITTY NERD BE TRENDING
Gay4Frogs: would you shut up for once in your life?
XPLOSIONMRDR: YOU WANNA FUCKING DIE CHEEKS1 i WILL FUCKIGN KILL YOU
Gay4Gravity: Wow… I dont think I have ever seen midoriya that mad before. Also baka-go shut up.
Ingenium has timed out XPLOSIONMRDR
Ingenium: you have been warned about yoru behavior Bakugo!
Ingenium: your** my apologies.
GoddessOfBass: Damn go midoriya
AlienQueen: @Shoto
AlienQueen: @Shoto
AlienQueen: @Shoto YOU NEED TO SEE THIS
GayGoddess: Oh… oh my….
Shoto: alright I will watch on one condition, you have to listen to my theory about how aizawa and all might are cousins.
AlienQueen: ….. URGH deal whatever just watch the video.
Shoto:👍
Gay4Gravity: …
Gay4Frogs: wha…
Ingenium: huh
Wheeeey: uh who taught shoto how to emote!?!
Shoto: my dead brother
Several people are typing…
Shoto smirked as he clicked the link thus exiting the chat and vowing to not reopen chat, and people said he had no sense of humor. The link led him to a popular social media site, one that he was only familiar with because he used it to post his findings about who was related to who.
He clicked play on the video and after a slight buffer the video began to play, he was greeted to the sight of his father staring at Midoriya and Midoriya meeting the glare unflinching. She was kind of awesome to be able to not only withstand Endeavor’s glare but return it in kind, the video wobbled as the person recording got closer. “Holy shit… they just destroyed a Nomu.” The camera panned over to a nomu that was laying on the ground, then back to the duo who were still having a staredown. “Then Deku fucking snapped at Endevaor…”
Before the person could say anything else Endeavor spoke. “Care to repeat that brat.”
“What are you deaf on top of being a complete piece of shit? No you know what that's rude to pieces of shit… After all shit can be used for fertilizer.” Midoriya turned to face his father, her shoulders squared and her eyes alight with rage. He recognized the look immediately; it was the same look she used when facing down villains, the same look she had when she had saved him and forced him to realize his fire wasn’t his fathers. “I have no idea how you manage to be a hero, you are far too incompetent.” Shoto felt his jaw drop. “You are a danger to everyone around you, I had this handled and you endangered lives needlessly because you are fucking glory hog.”
“How dare you, you aren’t even a Hero, I am the number one. You are beneath me.” He growled as a vein in his neck pulsated in rage, fire flaring around him. Midoriya snapped her fingers and a gust of wind rushed forth putting out Endeavor's flames and pushing the man back a step.
“Listen closely, Endeavor .” Her voice was dripping with venom as she spat out his name. “You are not a hero,” the presence she radiated reminded Shoto of the Hero Killers last stand. “You do not qualify for the title and the only reason you are is the Hero Commission is busy covering up your acts of villainy.”
“You dare I will have your permit revoked! I AM THE NUMBER ONE HERO! You are NOTHING ! You… you insufferable tra …” Deku moved and in an instant had closed the gap between her and the number one hero and punched him right in the face breaking his nose and sending him to the ground.
“You kill more villains than the rest of the top 10 combined, you cause more property damage than the rest of the top 100, you also have the most civilian casualties and injuries.” Midoriya stood over Endeavor, wreathed in lightning, looking like a Goddess about to deliver righteous vengeance. “You bought your wife for a quirk marriage, then abused her and forced her to bear your children all so you could create the ‘perfect’ quirk.” She took a step forward, green lightning illuminating her and adding to her presence. “You beat and drove your oldest child to fake his death causing him to turn towards a life of villainy, then you abused your youngest and called it ‘training’. You are a despicable irredeemable man who did all of this in search of power… How fucking dare you call yourself a hero. You don’t deserve your title or your family, they deserve so much better. ”
And like that the video ended… Shoto leaned back and closed his eyes, his chest swelling with a mixture of emotions. He couldn’t help but realize that Midoriya was a true hero, one who would stand up to anyone no matter their position in society. Shoto’s phone started buzzing like crazy, he sighed and ignored the group chat. However, what he didn’t expect was all the text messages he was getting from his family.
He opened the text from Fuyumi first.
Fu
<I’ma seduce and marry that girl.>
He rolled his eyes and typed a quick reply.
Shoto
<Aren’t you already married?>
Fu
<And?>
He sighed, opening the one from Natsuo next.
Natsuo
<Hey what is Deku’s phone number, im in love.>
He decided to ignore his brother and instead open Touya’s text. He would clearly be the reasonable one.
Dabi
<that green bean is your classmate right? Give me her number, Ima marry her.>
Or not.
Shoto
<aren’t you gay?>
Dabi
<I know what I said.>
He sighed and was about to set his phone down when he got one more text, this one from his mother.
Mom
<Sweetie, do you know if that girl is single?>
He froze part of his room in shock...
Shoto
<Yes she is… also everyone else has been asking about her as well. I think they all want to marry her>
Mom
<Don’t worry, I will take care of them.>
Shoto
<… am I getting a new mother?>
Mom
<I have already divorced your father and if she agrees to it yes.>
Shoto thought about it for a moment and he realized having Shiori as a mom would be nice.
Shoto
<I will ask for you.>
Mom
<Thanks ^.^>
Shoto set down his phone and climbed into the vents, he had a new mom to talk to.
Midoriya Shiori was not just tired, she was fucking exahusted, not only had she had to deal with the flaming pile of fecal matter, she also had to deal with the media, and the HSPCC. The media had originally been on her back about her ripping into Endeavor, then they tried to attack her character by making transphobic remarks, however once public outcry over her words and their actions had reached a crescendo they had started hailing her as a true hero. Somehow that last part was even more exhausting as they had dug into her past and were now airing all of her heroic deeds. All the while the hardcore Endeavor fans had been riddiculing her non stop, the fucking bastards were almost as bad as Endeavor himself. That combined with the fact that the Commission was on her back over basically outing their shitty practices and revealing how horrible their new number one was just was the fucking icing on the cake.
The HSPCC held her for who knows how long, all the while berating her for shitting all over their reputation and questioning her judgment. Honestly if not for Nezu, and the public’s reaction towards the video she might have found herself on a one way trip to Tartarus, or more likely running off to be a villain/vigilante. She rubbed at her forehead, the past several hours had been spent in an interrogation room, where they had ridiculed her for how she had handled the situation and berating her for intervening where she wasn’t supposed to, AKA airing their dirty laundry. However, between Nezu (who was strangely gleeful with her actions) and the public backlash they were eventually forced to do their original job as representatives of the people and hold Endeavor accountable and open a very public investigation against him. Luckily for her, they hadn’t been able to suspend her hero permit, like they originally had planned to, but she had a feeling they would make it damn near impossible for her to obtain her actual license.
Of course that was still not the end of her trouble because several of the soon to be jobless Endeavor Agency representatives were eager to make their displeasure known for ruining their reputation, since their reputation was tied to Endeavor. Still as she had told the commission she was only doing her job as a concerned citizen, and honestly how anyone who interacted with Shoto for more than one week didn’t figure out he was hella traumatized was beyond her. He clearly didn’t know how to navigate social settings, was prone to oversharing in public situations, refused to use half of his quirk, and several other GLARING signs that just screamed he had been abused. It boggled her mind that the guy had got into college before people found out.
She sighed and gave a nod of appreciation to the driver who had picked her up from the commission and headed towards the dorms. The fact that Endeavor was still not in bars just showed how good the Commission were at covering their tracks. She didn’t expect that to last for long though… she might have let slip where to find some of the evidence to take down Endeavor to a reporter or two. So she was pretty sure that he would face actual charges, eventually…
if not she could always take down society and rebuild it better with Nezu’s help.
She sighed, she was just glad to be back home… of course she wasn’t thinking clearly not realizing that her whole class would have known about her day. She entered and overheard some chatter from the living room, as she entered all the conversation fell away and she realized her mistake. She flinched at the explosion of noise, litteral explosions, and general outbursts. Some of her classmates were bitching about her shattering their privileged upbringing worldviews. Katsuki was on her back for just ya know existing period, and then for not being in his general vicinity when she gave him space and ignored him. Fucking Tsundere piece of shit, why couldn’t he take the hint that she was fucking gay? So she did the only logical thing she could think of: she activated Full Cowling and ran up the stairs to her room.
Shiori entered her room and quickly locked the door leaning against it and just sighing in relief.
She felt like she was worn down to her very core, but this exhaustion wasn’t just about this week or hell even the past year. No, this was an old burden and something deeply ingrained within her, she was only just realizing how long she had been carrying these feelings. This beast that had crawled onto her back and had been living rent free in the back of her brain for years now. She had just ignored it with a (un)healthy dose of endless optimism, a touch of mania, massive amounts of hero obsession, a pinch of denial, and a metric fuck ton of desperation. Which had worked… for a while at least.
It all stemmed from her childhood: she never had what she would call a ‘healthy’ relationship with her mother. From the moment she was diagnosed quirkless, her mom had become obsessed with keeping her ‘safe’, insisting that she couldn’t do anything on her own. This only worsened when she was ‘held’ back in school; because there was no way a quirkless worthless Deku could outperform others. She hadn’t thought things could actually get worse of course, hell at the time she didn't even know it was abnormal for a parent to be like this.
Of course fate loved to prove her wrong and things eventually got a lot worse after she attended a Hero-con her Junior year (she had been held back 4 times at this point), she would never regret going to that convention no matter how much her life changed. She had gone to a panel with the Wild Wild Pussycats at the con and she had listened to Tiger talk about gender. Well one wiki-dive later she realized that she wasn’t exactly… ‘ comfortable ’ with her birth gender. So she decided to explore her gender and over time realized she was trans and preferred she/her.
Of course telling her mom had not gone well, in fact it had resulted in her being kicked out of the house pretty much instantly! Inko had berated her the entire time she had been packing her meager belongings, for ‘being ungrateful’ or ‘taking advantage of her’ or ‘how she was nothing but a parasite’. From then on she had been forced to fend for herself, and honestly she was happier than she had ever been. Sure she had to pick up a few odd jobs where she could, and living on the streets wasn’t easy, but that just made her self sufficient. She had also been forced to learn how to take care of herself, she also got a GED and started to prepare herself for Hero School after all it was a College thing so she could take a year or two to prepare. Luckily she eventually found a steady job, and an apartment so it was easier for her to start on her path of being a hero. She took this time to build up some muscle mass, run into all might and get a quirk, HIS quirk: though that's another story entirely. Overall she had made more of herself in the two years she had off than she had during the rest of her highschool time.
Still doing all of that had left her well… exhausted and feeling close to burning out. Like she was on the verge of facing the monster of
apathy
and
how it would just be so easy to drop and never move again, right?
She sighed and rubbed at her eyes, even when she had saved Katsuki (a first class jackass that got away with so much in highschool) she had been mostly working on autopilot. Everytime she wondered about what she had truly been wanting to do earlier that day,
All Might had just shut the door and she was staring over the edge of the roof.
Everytime that memory surfaced she had to slam that train of thought shut, or, like, organize a surprise hang out, or drown herself in music, or hyper-analyze a hero fight at 3am. Anything to not think about what she almost did…
What she still wanted to do some days.
During the time that All Might trained her, everything had started to feel right! She had a quirk! She had mentors! She had people that cared about her without being overbearing! She had started to get enough cash to actually consider attending UA and eating at the same time! She had Uraraka as a roommate! She was on hormones consistently! She was treated decently by people... She had made the mistake of thinking that the beast had gone. So of course the beast came back with a bloody vengeance.
At first it was just struggling to sleep, then a lack of hunger and refusing to eat, she had refused to acknowledge that it was back. However, as it continued to show its ugly mug, every disappointed frown from All Might, the man to whom she owed everything , Recovery Girl berating her for hurting herself again, Aizawa’s disappointed glares, Katsuki’s berating of her being a dumb useless Deku. The beast made its presence known, trying to drag her down. She just felt its presence everywhere, she felt like a fraud, everything from her quirk to her spot in the hero course felt like she didn’t deserve it. She almost felt like she was back to living in Dagobah beach, just a piece of trash that everyone hated. So all that combined with her d ysphoria, to make her feel truly horrible and like she didn’t deserve anything, because misery loves Nezu forsaken company.
So yeah, she felt fucking exahusted.
She felt like she had gotten a second wind (third wind?) when she got the internship with Miruko. Gran Torino had already trained her for her work study (after the sports festival) and said he was so busy that he couldn’t take her on for an internship plus spouting nonsense about how it would be redundant for her to go back to him. So she had been pretty stressed about finding someone to mentor with when she had somehow bumped into Miruko at an LGBTQ meet up group and well… turned out she did have something in common with the number 3 hero, number two soon. Who had decided to take her under her wing... leg? Either way she had offered Shiori an internship to help her because, "always need more badass trans representation." Of course she had eagerly accepted.
Another long story short Rumi had a way of seeing through people’s bullshit, and making you work on bettering yourself. Shiori wouldn’t recommend this method to most people, as it involves lots of sparring/getting beat up but in like a cool, healthy, and cathartic kind of way? Like instead of beating you up because you were a ‘worthless pebble’ and didn’t deserve the ‘oxygen you breathed’, cough Katsuki cough, it was more she was trying to beat self worth and self care into you. Rumi got her to face her demons, instead of cowering from them and to kick the doors of her closet down, turned out she was gay as well as trans who knew, come out to the world with a big baddass fuck you that had involved punting a yakuza into the sun.
Rumi also got her on that drug called therapy. That wasn’t to say she didn't still deal with the stress gremlin on her back, just that she had better coping mechanisms. Still facing her demons was exhausting… huh, maybe Rumi’s teachings are why I yelled at Asshat?
So needless to say Shiori Midoriya was tired and she didn't want to deal with her classmates because she already had a Huge Ass Migraine™. Since she could easily explain things to them tomorrow when she felt better, she decided that it was perfectly reasonable to Full Cowl into her room and throw her phone out the window of her room… she stopped seconds before throwing it and sighed and just stuffed it under her bed with a pillow instead, because you know, she’s poor and phones cost way too much. She was just starting to relax and on her bed when something came tumbling from the ceiling.
“What the fuck!?!” She exclaimed, leaping up ready to take action until she realized it was just one heterochromatic boi.
“Sorry about that mom.” He said standing up to dust himself off. Her brain broke for a moment and she felt an eye twitch.
“I am not your mom, especially if that means marrying your shitstain of a sperm donor, Shouto.” She slurred, way too tired to be awake right now. She sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. “Besides I’m gay as fudge. A very very gay fudge.” She felt she had to spell it out for the poor boy. She loved him like a little bro, a bit on the protective side since she had learned his backstory, but he could still be annoying sometimes.
“Oh so would you marry my mom? Two mom’s sounds way better than having a dad.”
She felt her eye twitch and realized she had run out of fucks to give so she stared him dead in the eye and dead panned. “Sure why not.”
“Sounds good I will let mother know… thanks!” And like that he descended back into the ceiling like some sort of vent gobblin.
“... What the fuck?” She sighed and collapsed on her bed, whatever Shoto was just being Shoto…. either that or she was having a fever dream… So she just decided to close her eyes, maybe things would make more sense in the morning. She quickly fell asleep.
“Aizawa, pack your bags, we’re going on a vacation to the beautiful frozen plains of Siberia.”
Aizawa sighed and tried to ignore the blond oaf. “Why in the Fuck would I-”
All Might didn’t have the habit of cutting people off. Scared Toshinori on the other hand had no such qualms. “Nezu has a plan for Midoriya and was cackling with Shoto while muttering something about I don't know what, but I opened the door and they stared at me with their little beady eyes and I know in my guts we don't want to be here whatever is starts happening. ”
Aizawa already had a backpack at his side he was stuffing with jelly pouches by the time the blond was finished. “I’ll meet you at the airport in an hour.”
Shiori already had a massive headache. Why she thought that it would be a smart idea to ignore her class and let them stew on everything till this morning was beyond her. She was smarter than this, dammit! She had spent the last hour fending off questions and justifying her actions to everyone so she was already exhausted and that didn’t even take into consideration that Aizawa wanted to talk to her before class.
“Midoriya.” Oh good Shoto was back to using her name and not calling her mom… or maybe that part had been a fever dream?
“Hi To… Shoto.” She wouldn’t call him Todoroki, fuck Enji. “What can I help you with?”
“You need to sign this.” He held out paperwork for her and before she got a chance to read she heard an explosion in the distance.
“NERD!”
She signed without a second thought and ran away.
“Bye mom!” Came Shoto’s voice from behind her.
Oh joy it hadn’t been a fever dream.
She had been running through the halls for a while now unable to find Aizawa and was about to head to class when
“Midoriya Shiori please report to Nezu’s office.”
She sighed and altered her course to go visit Nezu, an hour later she sat wide-eyed in a car on her way towards the Todoroki Midoriya estate.
“Toshinori.”
Said blond skeleton opened an eye to his colleague, seated next to him and reading what was definitely not young Jirou’s fanfiction series. Aizawa had looked relaxed for the first part of the journey, but now he looked as much as a deer in the headlight as a man who preached constant awareness could look.
“Yes Shouta?”
“You said that the rat and the child were talking about Midoriya right?”
“Yes?”
“Did we forget to take her with us?”
“...” Toshinori looked at the third seat of his special All Might brand jet plane. It was glaringly empty.
“...”
“ Fuck .”
Back to the present…
Now that she thought about it maybe it wasn’t so unbelievable of a situation she found herself in. She glared at Shoto and vowed to never sign something without reading it ever again. Unless it was really long… She glanced around the table at all her new ‘children’ and sighed, no, not even then .
“Last I heard Grandpa Might was seen at the airport with Eraserhead heading for Siberia? Must have some sort of mission there.” Shuichi said, of course he was an All Might fanboy that should have been obvious to Shiori. He also had taken very well to Shoto’s relationship theories.
"Makes sense, they are cousins." Shoto declared with a straight face.
"What?" Toga asked bewildered, and just like that Shoto began to explain his All Might and Eraser are cousins theory.
So all in all those were the steps that had led to this moment… well there were a few extra steps like Dabi being legally brought back from the dead by Nezu, him bringing along most of the League of Villains, learning that they just all had fucked up childhoods, and how she was now their mother… Ok maybe she should explain a little bit.
Dabi had brought them over for the event because he was the relative voice of reason, since Kurogiri had decided to stay on vacation at Tartarus, and when Himiko had been informed of the situation she had asked if Shiori could be her mom, well of course Eri had chosen that exact moment to hear that and she had turned to look at Shiori with her the large pleading sad eyes and all but demanded that she save them as well before asking if she could have more siblings… It wasn’t like she could actually say no to her, after all Eri was weaponized cuteness. Then once the rest of the League found out well some of them latched onto the idea of having decent mother figures and one thing led to another. So she might have ended up adopting most of the league.
She wasn’t entirely sure the exact details of everything, she was pretty sure at one point she had made a deal with Nezu to secure the safety of her children in exchange for becoming his pupil, or helping him take over the world or something. Either way she was having a hard time recalling the past few hours, between finding out she was married to the total bombshell that was Rei Todoroki Midoriya and being flirted with, her gay brain had pretty much shut down and stopped functioning. She also hadn’t realized just how young Rei must have been when Endevawhore had purchased her, forced her into a loveless marriage, and then used her as a broodmare. Honestly she wanted to punch him in the face, repeatedly… until he stopped moving. He better pray he never gets out of Tartarus… maybe Hound Dog had a point when he said I have anger issues .
“Are you ok?” Rei’s voice was so soft and full of concern, she found herself blushing hard as she turned to look at the woman at her side.
“I yeah, I think I am? Just… surprised? Overwhelmed? There has been a lot going on/happening really quickly and like.” She looked around the table and found herself smiling in spite of everything. “I will be ok, just a big change.”
“Well I know you don’t know me very well, but I feel like I know you very well. Our little Sho talks about you all the time,” Rei smiled as she glanced at the table so full of laughter and joy. “He talks about how you helped him come to terms with how his quirk and existence is his own and not that bastard’s . About how you are a good friend and person, constantly taking care of others and putting them before yourself. So I have already fallen in love with you,” a sly smile and blush touched her features. “Especially after watching you take down Enji. It was pretty hot. ” She shook her head and looked to Shiori, whose breath caught in her throat at the intensity and love she felt in that gaze.
“I just ask that you give us a chance. Everyone here knows you are a true hero and we will all support you no matter what Shiori.” Rei took her hand and she felt her face go bright red. She hadn’t noticed the table going silent as Rei spoke.
“Yeah you are my player two.” Shigaraki said with a shrug, “Also it’s nice with the old man in prison. I don't feel pressured to live up to his expectations and destroy things anymore.” She felt a surge of protectiveness and anger towards AFO the manipulative bastard also better pray he stayed in prison, otherwise she was going to get Ocha to help her punt him into the sun.
“Yeah you are like the bestest hero ever mom!” Eri said her smile was blinding as always.
“Anyone who gets the Hero Commision to back off is good in my book.” Hawks said with a smirk as he leaned against his boyfriend.
“You… you can’t go dying on me!” Kota said, trying to put on a brave front but she could tell how much he cared.
“You ain’t bad Kit and you make a great Mother in law!” Miruko teased her.
“Hell yeah you beat our old man, got nothing against ya, glad to be a part of the family!” Natsuo said with a wide smile.
Shiori felt her face burn and tears sting her eyes, “I… I will do my best, besides I always did want a big loving family.” she said with a wide smile.
Maybe this wouldn’t be so bad. Rei hugged her and placed a kiss on her jaw before smirking and leaning in and whispering something to her.
“Besides, if you ever get too overwhelmed, mommy can take care of you.”
She felt her face burn, maybe this wouldn’t be too bad at all.