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Hitoshi grumbled as he dragged himself into the living room and face planted onto the couch. After he'd come home from the mall yesterday, it had taken less than five minutes to shower, put on the comfiest pajamas he owned and collapse into bed from emotional and physical exhaustion. He'd gotten up only once, and that was because Aizawa had shaken him awake and forcibly shoved a plate of fried rice in his face. Beyond that, he'd been dead to the word and honestly, he kinda wished he still was.
Mic looked up from his laptop and grimaced when he saw Hitoshi come in, "I'm guessing you're not actually feeling any better."
"I'll get back to you on that after I finish dying of mortification." Hitoshi lifted up his head and looked at Mic piteously. "I called Aizawa dad."
Mic's face lit up, "Yeah, you did."
Hitoshi's pout deepened, "And I told Ochako I like her."
Mic's eyes widened and he hurriedly shoved his laptop onto the coffee table so he could give hitoshi his full attention, "And what did she say?"
"Nothing." Hitoshi whined. "The fire alarms went off pretty much immediately after that and we had to jump straight into a villain attack."
"Oof." Mic winced. "That's...wow…"
Hitoshi flopped over so he was on his side, "Yeah, and to make it even worse, we were playing around with my quirk and I pretty much forced her to tell me she has a crush on me."
Mic froze, "What?"
"It was an accident." Hitoshi groaned. "I know what you're thinking, I feel like a villain for doing it too, but like I said, we were just playing around with my quirk and I asked what I thought was a totally innocent question about Mina, but apparently Mina knows about her crush and it just came tumbling out. I didn't think I'd even be able to get her to answer!"
"Oh, Hitoshi." Mic came and sat on the couch beside him, carding his fingers through Hitoshi's hair and letting him put his head in his lap. "Quirk accidents suck."
Hitoshi nodded and rubbed his eyes, "Sorry. I was hoping I'd feel better after sleeping, but…"
"Yesterday was a lot." Mic pointed out. "It's ok to feel a little overwhelmed."
Hitoshi sighed, "Where's Aizawa?"
"He had another meeting with Nedzu." Mic said. "Their one yesterday got interuppted."
"Oh. right." HItoshi said numbly. "What's going to happen to Todoroki?"
"We're not sure yet." Mic said. "On the one hand, he's dangerous to have around, but on the other, knowing who the traitor is can give us a huge advantage if we can use that knowledge against the league. Honestly, we were hoping to get Cheat Code's opinion on this, so...well, your dad's gonna be home soon, so why don't we invite your friends over? We can bring them up to date on the Todoroki situation and you can test the waters with Uraraka and see how she's feeling about the whole thing. How does that sound?"
Hitoshi's face scrunched up, "Do I have to?"
Mic shrugged, "No."
"Ugh." Hitoshi groaned. "Fine, but if this goes south I'm volunteering to be a test subject for one of Mei's explosions."
Izuku bit his lip as he looked through the security footage again, "Mei-chan, you didn't see anyone fitting Trapper's description at the mall, did you?"
"What description, Izuk-kun?" Mei asked. "Nobody's ever seen him."
"Well yeah, but his quirk…" Izuku tried.
"Wasn't used during the attack." Mei finished. "The police and the heroes are looking for him too, you know. You don't have to find him all by yourself."
"I know." Izuku frowned. "But if I'd just noticed Shigaraki earlier or pushed Nedzu to let the students fight…"
"Izu-kun, this isn't healthy." Mei sighed. "You helped keep people safe, you don't have anything to make up for."
"But…"
"No buts." Mei slammed his computer closed. "Did you eat breakfast?"
Izuku blinked, "Uh…"
Mei rolled her eyes, "If you can't remember, then we're gonna assume it's a no. Come on, let's get a snack. I promise I'll try not to explode your kitchen."
Izuku swallowed and let Mei drag him by the arm into the kitchen. He supposed breakfast wasn't a terrible idea…
Ochako was nervous. It had only been a day since their class's nice normal trip to the mall had gone completely south, and that meant that the last twenty-four hours had been a whirlwind of police interviews, reassuring her parents, and teleporting away from the media. In the end, her anxiety basically came down to the fact that she hadn't talked to Hitoshi since the attack, which was understandable considering that he hadn't been doing that well when his adults had arrived to shuffle him off, but she still felt weird because maybe the fact that she'd accidently confessed she liked him and he confessed back wasn't that important considering that an actual villain attack had happened less than a minute later, but it still kinda felt like something they should address eventually? Maybe she was just making a big deal out of it and it didn't even matter at all…
She groaned and flopped back into bed. Her bags for the training camp were half packed on the floor by her closet, but she didn't feel like doing that right now. Honestly, she didn't feel like doing a lot right now. How was she supposed to focus on anything with literally everything else that was going on?! Their class had just gotten attacked by villains and her crush was ghosting her! Even if he had an incredibly valid reason to do so, it was still ridiculously stressful! Why did this have to be her life?
Her phone vibrated beside her head and Ochako groaned and rolled over to see Mei calling her, "Hey Mei-chan. What's up?"
"Hitoshi's adults invited us to lunch!" Mei said. "Are you coming?"
Ochako shot up, "What? Uh, am I invited?"
"I think so." Mei replied absently. "Pretty sure Present Mic said he texted you too."
Ochako scrolled through her texts and groaned, "Yep. I was just too busy being depr...ok, yeah, uh, I'll text him back and say I'm coming. It's in...like ten minutes. Great. Wonderful."
"Well, It's not like you have to worry about driving time." Mei laughed.
Ochako looked down at her comfy pajamas with holes in the knee, "Yeah. That's not what I'm worried about."
Izuku was trapped in kind of a surreal situation. On the one hand, this was just Hitoshi's house and he knew, logically, that Hitoshi's parents were just normal people. Sure, they were pro heroes, but he talked to pro heroes all the time at school and it was no big deal! On the other hand, he was in Eraserhead and Present Mic's living room and they were offering him cookies. His inner fanboy was dying right now.
"Ochako said she was coming, right?" Hitoshi asked under his breath. "I really hope I didn't scare her off…"
"How would you have scared her off?" Mei asked, grabbing a cookie. "She's used to me and Izu-kun, so I'm pretty sure she's got nerves of steel at this point!"
Htisohi blushed, but didn't say anything as Mic and Aizawa sent him sympathetic looks. Izuku frowned and grabbed a cookie. He'd figure out what was going on when Ochako got here.
Speaking of Ochako, she popped into existence less than a minute later by the side of the couch, "Hi guys, sorry I'm late!"
Hitoshi's face lit up briefly before he cleared his throat and looked away, "Uh, hey. Glad you could make it."
"Perfect!" Mic grinned. "Everybody's here! Lunch is already ready, so let's eat!"
There was still an odd tenseness as they followed him into the kitchen, but then again, they had just been through a huge villain attack yesterday, so that might just be normal. The dishes at the table were all mismatched, like most of them had been bought as gag-gifts at the thrift store at some point, but Izuku supposed that Eraserhead and Present Mic were kind of mismatched too and they somehow made it work, so it was fitting that their house was the same way.
"Um, so are you feeling any better, Shindig?" Ochako asked as they sat down. "I was kinda worried about you after, you know, that whole thing at the mall?"
"Yeah...sorry." Hitoshi grimaced. "I didn't mean to fall off the face of the earth, but I came home and basically just crashed into bed. It'd already been a really long day before we even got to the mall."
"That's actually part of why we invited you kids over." Aizawa cut in. "You're all in on a few school secrets already, not to mention that you're Hitoshi's friends, so it's only logical for us to inform you, especially you Midoriya, since you're so skilled in analysis."
Izuku and Mei exchanged a confused look and Izuku caught Ochako looking at Hitoshi with rapt curiosity until he sighed, "There's a traitor in class 1A and I figured out who it is."
Tomura was pissed. He was supposed to be the leader of the league! How had an attack, a major attack, happened without his approval? Not only that, but without him even knowing about it?! Kurogiri had given some bullshit answer about their fearsome reputation and made the whole thing sound like it was Tomura's fault in the first place. How was he supposed to know he was gonna get spotted? He didn't even know 1A was going to be there in the first place! If this was anybody's fault, it was that good-for-nothing spy's for not informing them of 1A's location.
But no, as soon as word got to the league that he'd been spotted by the heroes, they were simply following his lead. It was ridiculous! If he was really the league's leader, he wouldn't be under All for One's thumb right now. He'd be free to do what he liked and actually make something of himself rather than obsess over destroying society in Sensei's name.
He wasn't the leader of the league, though. Not really. He was just some kid that All for One had picked up on the side of the road one day and decided would make a perfect puppet. And to make it worse, he didn't even have a main role anymore. He was constantly getting pushed to the sidelines by everyone and wasn't even the main character anymore. No, he was just some side character that everyone had apparently decided didn't have enough strength of character to win the game, but couldn't get rid of because their face was on the box. He hated the way the rest of the league was treating him!
And he hated that they were right.
A few days ago he would have argued that at least he still had his stream and Icy Cat, but there was no way Todoroki would ever talk to him again. Why would he want to when, from his perspective, Tomura had just betrayed him and then lied about it. Maybe if he hadn't assured Todoroki there wouldn't be an attack, then they'd be able to get through it, considering that he and Todoroki had a sort of silent understanding that he was a villain, and attacking heroes was just what villains did, but that wasn't what happened. No, he'd just had to open his big mouth and let Todoroki think everything was going to be fine before stabbing him in the back.
He hadn't been surprised when Todoroki had put out a message on their socials saying that he was going out of town for a bit and would miss the next few streams. Sure, he could have just been talking about the training camp, but at the same time...he hadn't said when he'd be back, or even if he was coming back at all. And the worst part was that Tomura couldn't blame him. He wouldn't want to come back either.
Izuku's frown got deeper and deeper as he listened to Hitoshi describe Todoroki's odd friendship with Shigaraki, "I'm sorry, but that makes absolutely zero sense."
"I mean, it kinda does?" Ochako said. "Kurogiri knew how my quirk worked, so he was obviously given inside information from someone."
Hitoshi shrugged, "I can show you some of the streams. It's definitely them, and I'm sure you saw them together in the security footage."
"Well, yeah, but it just seemed like he was trying to deescalate because he wasn't allowed to use his quirk." Mei argued. "Why in the world would he start gaming with a villain anyway?"
"The simple answer is teenage rebellion." Aizawa sighed. "He has good reason to hate his father and, quite honestly, if he's trying to piss off his dad, this would be a great way to do it."
"No, I got that, it's just…" Izuku groaned. "It doesn't make any sense for him to be the traitor...or at least, not the only one."
Mic blinked and Aizawa heaved a heavy sigh, "Do I even want to know what you're getting at?"
"Well, Mei, you know how I couldn't find any evidence of Trapper during the attack?"
"Yeah…?" Mei's eyes widened. "You think..."
Izuku nodded, "Every other known member of the league was there, but Trapper didn't even show his face? Why? Because he'd be recognized."
"You think Trapper is one of our students?" Mic asked. "Well, I mean, if it's Todoroki, then everything comes back full circle."
"But the quirks don't match." Izuku said. "Todoroki has ice and fire, but the evidence Trapper's left behind points to some sort of like an almost synthetic moss?"
"Which doesn't fit any of our classmates' quirks either." Uraraka huffed. "So now what?"
"Well, just because it doesn't match our class doesn't mean that it doesn't' match someone they know." Hitoshi said. "A parent, sibling, uncle, anyone they trust enough to tell about their day pretty much, could be a potential information leak."
"Or they could be intentionally doing something to hide their quirk." Mei said. "There are tons of inventions that can change things, chemical reactions, all sorts of options if you're desperate to hide who you are."
"So...we've got a lead, but it's thin." Aizawa said. "So what if looking into their families dosn't work out?"
"Well, then we've got a plan b." Izuku smiled. "If all else fails, we already know one of the traitors. If we play our cards right, He'll lead us
straight to the Trapper without even knowing we're onto him."
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