Not as planned 1.5 - Katsuki and Eijiro   von Puraido
                                 (A/B/O Verse)
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                 Kapitel 13: Katsuki Bakugo: +5 Years (+Izuku)
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January was very busy, so many villains made their way up to the surface, most
of them were petty criminals, nothing Katsuki couldn’t handle. Some of the
modified Trigger appeared again, it was really a grim sight.

He sometimes visited the orphaned omega children, when he had time. It pained
him to see them scared like this. Some of them were highly confused and asked if
he was alpha or omega, to his answer that he was both they were baffled, they
had never seen someone like him.

Especially one kid he felt sad for. She was such a sweet girl and she really
wanted to see her mommies again, but they hadn’t found them yet. He really
hoped that the parents were still somewhere alive.

He was emotional every time when he came back, goddammit he wished he could have
a pup on his own right now. But no, it was not the time for pups, he wanted to
be Number 1 first.

 

Katsuki was very surprised when Eijiro told him about Mae’s pregnancy. So,
Eijiro was going to be a father. He was happy for him, even though Eijiro
himself wasn’t so sure about it.

It was funny, back in the days Katsuki was so sure, that he would have
Eijiro’s pups one day. But apparently not, he would have neither, Eijiro’s
nor Izuku’s and that was okay. Even more, he didn’t want pups with them
anymore, he had moved on. His focus was now on Hiroto.

They hadn’t really talked about mating or marrying, but slowly Katsuki felt
the wish to mate with Hiroto, he was so head over heels for this guy, and not
just for a few months by now. It was over a year now that they were a couple. It
was crazy how fast the time passed if you spent it with someone you really
liked.

But Katsuki didn’t really know how to bring it up to Hiroto, that he wanted to
mate. And his hero work required his full attention most of the time anyway. He
would ask him eventually but now was not the time for it.

 

Toya, Katsuki, and Michiko were in the office, while the other three were out
patrolling the area. They currently ate spicy curry from the Indian Place next
door, Michiko always had to season the food with her peppers, it was never too
hot for her.

They were chatting about the upcoming concert of Kaoru, the currently biggest
idol in Japan. He remembered that Eijiro had been a bodyguard for this guy one
time and it wasn’t a very pleasant experience from what he had told him.

“So, you’re not a fan?” Toya asked Michiko at the moment.

“Hell nah, I don’t know, his music gives me the creeps. Something’s wrong
with the sound and the lyrics and all, I got nothing against violent music, but
he overdoes it a little bit” she murmured around two bites of her curry.

“Yeah, his style is a bit over the top” Katsuki agreed. “But then again,
it’s absolutely not my type of music in the first place.” He shrugs.

There was a knock on the door and they looked up, the door opened and Toya’s
expression turned annoyed. Hawks entered the room he had a happy expression on
his face. “Hey!” he called. Michiko covered her nose when she smelled the
pregnant omega. It was a bit irritating for her.

“What the fuck do you want?” Toya commented.

“Oh, I just wanted to check up on you, we haven’t seen each other in a
while.” Hawks mentioned.

“Well, duh, I don’t want to see you.” Toya hissed.

“Aw, c’mon! Don’t be like that! I helped you too while you were
pregnant!” he came closer to Toya.

Toya’s fist crashed onto his desk. “Yeah, but the tiny little difference is,
I didn’t want to get pregnant and needed help to get away from Shigaraki, but
you, you had all the possibilities to not get knocked up by my father! I still
hate him with all my passion, and you knew that, and you did it anyway. Don’t
you think my anger is somewhat reasonable?” he growled.

Hawks gritted his teeth a little. “But you know how much I love Enji, can’t
you be happy for me? But I also like you as a friend, I always thought we had
this connection between us! You want to throw it away?”

“Yeah, you told me multiple times how much you loved Endeavor! I was well
aware of that fact and I told you over and over again that I don’t like that!
I can’t change your feelings, and I stopped trying to. I also told you what
would happen if you try something on him. I told you I would not stand for that
and it’s either me or him. You chose him and lost me. Is that so hard to get?
Is your bird brain too small to comprehend that? You made your decision, now
live with the consequences.”

“So … you don’t even want to see your siblings later?”

“Hell, no?! What makes you think that? I don’t want to see it! And I don’t
want to see Endeavor, and I don’t want to see you, Hawks. It is over! It was
over the moment you choose to still stay with Endeavor, even though you learned
that he was my abusive father.”

“But he changed so much! He really tries his best!”

“Fucking hell, I don’t give a fuck! He can beg for forgiveness as much as he
wants, I don’t want to ever give it to him! Some things he can’t change!
There is nothing he can ever do to make me forgive him. I literally planned to
kill the guy, and just because I got saved by so many people, doesn’t mean
everything is peachy between us all of a sudden. I am not like my siblings and
even if, there was a slight chance of forgiveness or redemption or whatever, he
lost it the moment he decided to sleep with you. Get that in your stupid,
love-struck bird brain!”

Hawks let his wings hang down. Katsuki couldn’t really believe it. Was it real
love or just an unhealthy amount of admiration for the number 1 hero? An
uncomfortable thought crossed his mind, he always admired All Might, but the
thought of getting pregnant by All Might was so deeply disturbing to him. He
couldn’t even comprehend how Hawks could do it with Endeavor and feel totally
okay with it.

Michiko got up now. “Okay, well, Hawks, it was nice to have you here, but you
are upsetting Toya, besides, we have to work, so could you please go? He told
you everything that you need to know.”

She carefully guided Hawks to the door. “Yeah but …”

“No buts, please go now” she pushed him out of the office without ever
touching him and she closed the door in Hawks’ face. She exhaled and looked
over to Toya. “Are you okay?”

Toya exhaled and slowly shook his head. “I don’t know … it’s weird. We
were friends for so long now and he just throws it away … Or was I in the
wrong here?”

“No, absolutely not! You have any right to be upset. I would be too. While I
respect Endeavor as a fellow hero, and one of my lifesavers, I can’t condone
his past actions against you and your siblings. If you don’t feel comfortable
with the whole situation then you don’t have to put yourself into that. It is
completely okay if you never, ever forgive him. And you don’t have to forgive
Hawks either. You gave him the options and he chose one of them, and as you
said, he now has to live with the consequences.”

Toya sank back down on his chair. He ran his hand through his hair. “How
about, the three of us go out for a little bit of screaming? I don’t know what
you think of Katsuki, but you look like you need a good scream too.” Michiko
chuckled.

“That sounds wonderful” Toya murmured.

“Yeah, agreed.” He also mentioned what was on his mind and Toya and Michiko
cringed so hard because of that.

“That’s disturbing …”

“Pff, did you know that Shoto thought for a while, that Izuku was All
Might’s secret love child?” Katsuki questioned.

“Really? Did he think that? Oh god, my brother …” Toya rolled his eyes
really hard.

After that Michiko closed the office and radioed Sougo before she headed off to
her car. They all entered and she drove up to the foot of the mountain.

They climbed up to the plateau and Toya screamed until his throat hurt, Katsuki
joined him, since he wanted to get the images of him and All Might out of his
head.

After that, they went to a bar and got drunk.

 

Hiroto and Katsuki went out for a date for Katsuki’s birthday. They went to an
amusement park. Katsuki loved the roller coaster and the haunted house. It even
managed to scare him a little bit.

While Hiroto wasn’t a big fan of the roller coaster he loved the haunted
house. He mentioned sarcastically that it reminded him of home.

“Yikes, that is depressing” Katsuki hugged him and gave him a kiss. They
moved further along and sat in a café, Katsuki suddenly had to grin, when he
saw a group of kids, that had Dynamight masks on. He was undercover, because he
wanted to enjoy the day, and not be approached by people.

“Oh, they make merchandise now?” Hiroto asked.

“Yep, I recently had to sign some stuff for my likeliness.” Katsuki sipped
at his soft drink.

“Nice! Do you know what they want to do?”

“Hm, they want to make an action figure and some pictures for t-shirts and
stuff. Oh, and they plan to include me in ‘Hero Battle Royale 4’.”

“Damn, forever in a video game! Look at you, babe, that’s amazing!” Hiroto
grinned and leaned over to pat Katsuki’s shoulder.

“Yeah, as far as I’m aware, Shoto will be included too, the same goes for
Tenya, Eijiro, and Ochako. Don’t know about the others though, and if they
sign the contracts in the first place.”

“Your old class is going places, not bad, definitely not bad.”

“Yuga starred in theatre lately, I mean, I totally get that somehow, the guy
loves the spotlight,” Katsuki mentioned.

“Oh, I think my students talked about that, I haven’t seen it, however”
Hiroto murmured.

“I have to go to one of his plays eventually. I’m curious what he does, next
to hero work.” Katsuki said.

He didn’t exactly know what some of his classmates did, but he learned that
Yuga and Neito were still a couple, he was happy for them, even though he
didn’t particularly like Neito.

They continued to walk through the park until it was late at night.

 

The next day they had lunch with his parents, Mitsuki and Masaru were both very
proud of Katsuki. His mother would have never thought that Katsuki would really
be that successful when he started out at UA. She of course always hoped it, but
she saw how his personality was and she was concerned about that.

She was glad that he turned himself around and that he was now in a much better
place. His father supported him as well as he could.

 

The Moruga Agency as well as The Ingenium Agency were invited to various Middle
schools in the Kanto Region to present them the lives and duties of heroes.
Especially Sougo as one of the very few quirkless heroes had to talk a lot.

As for Katsuki, many asked him about his transition again and he was happy to
explain it to them. Most were very curious and not judgmental.

Tenya gave it his all, and so did the rest of the group. Ochako went plus ultra
too. The kids loved Froppy. And Hanta did some tricks with his tape.

Satsuki was very friendly to the kids and after the lectures she let them
experience some of her virtual reality.

Kuroko didn’t say much, she was never good with kids and initially didn’t
want to come. And Michiko got asked what happened to her arm, she explained that
sometimes hero life wasn’t easy and one had to make sacrifices. Katsuki
gritted his teeth when he remembered, how he had to cut her arm off. It still
sometimes flashed back into his mind.

Sougo explained the function of his greaves, they weren’t just support items,
he had shattered his legs while jumping off a building one time and they
functioned now as his new legs.

The students were so surprised that heroes could get injured so badly, most of
them didn’t expect this.

 

After one of those presentations Katsuki decided to go with the Ingenium group,
they wanted to catch up, Michiko and the others made their way back to their
agency.

Tenya explained some of their recent missions to him, and the others chimed in,
they were all super excited to talk about their jobs.

 

He met up with Denki sometimes too, they were on many T.V. interviews about
their transitions, Katsuki never liked to be interviewed about that, especially
since it was always the same, just for different shows. But it really depended
on the host. If they were transphobic assholes – which had happened a few
times – he really hated it.

Denki had been absent as a hero for quite some time now, he was still recovering
from his surgeries. He got some questions about it and he answered them to the
best of his abilities.

Unfortunately, there were still camps that protested against them.
“‘Transgenderism’ was not right” they screamed. And those camps were
loud. Louder than even five years ago. When Katsuki still had looked like more
omega than alpha.

By now Katsuki didn’t even resemble his omega-self anymore, and most of the
time his omega only came out when he was in heat, so he was quite pissed off at
this one moderator who constantly called him omega. He made it his mission to
purposefully misgender him. He was liked by the people who hated transitions,
but most of the other people made fun of him because he was so incompetent,
transphobic and he still supported alpha supremacy.

 

Denki and Katsuki were in the break room and Katsuki dreaded the upcoming
interview with this one beta female moderator. She was also a nuisance to him.
She was quite a nasty reporter too. He couldn’t help but wonder if she was
secretly related to the other reporter.

They got called out and both went to the stage and they sat down in the chairs.
Katsuki wore scent blockers most of the time, while Denki had switched to
collars when his scent became really strong.

The host came onto the stage, she had her big fake T.V. smile plastered on her
face. It made Katsuki so angry, he knew that she wouldn’t be open for a
discussion, she just wanted to hurt them.

They waited until the intro and everything were over and she turned her
attention towards the two.

“Welcome, to the Today Show” she blinked with her ultra-long fake lashes,
and Katsuki was so done already. “My name is Teiko Okobore, nice that you have
time to be here on the show.”

“Yeah, nice to be here” Denki smiled, Katsuki just nodded.

“So, I am sure many people know you, but don’t you want to introduce
yourself quickly?” Everything on her pissed Katsuki off, she had a nasty
nasally voice and it made his skin crawl.

“Oh, I’m the Stun Gun Hero: Chargebolt” Denki introduced himself.

“And I am the Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight” Katsuki murmured. He
hated it when she suppressed a laugh by the mention of his hero name.

“I hope it is enough to just call you Dynamight? The entire ‘hero’ name is
really a mouthful” she tried to keep herself from laughing and Katsuki was so
close to just saying no, that she had to use his full name. Oh well, fuck it.

“Actually, I’d prefer to be called by my full name” he mentioned
straight-faced. He could see how her fake smile dropped a little bit.

“Oh, really? Okay, how was it again, just so I get it right” she
fake-laughed again.

“Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight, you should have informed yourself
before the show, Ms. Okobore, it’s really not that hard.” He deadpanned.

“Great Murder Explosion God Dynamight …” She repeated.

“No, Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight …”

“That’s what I said!” she looked at him irritated.

“Nope, you switched the Explosion and Murder part …”

She scoffed. “Ahem, well, anyway, we should move on to the topic.” She was
visibly uncomfortable, Katsuki chuckled a bit.

“Sure,” he said in a mocking tone.

Teiko turned demonstratively to Denki. “Well, Chargebolt, do you want to talk
about your transition? I heard that you changed from Beta to Omega? How did this
work?”

“Oh, it basically works like primary transitions. You have to get examinations
first, and when your therapist gives the okay, you can start with the hormone
treatment, in my case I started with testosterone blockers before I switched
over to estrogen to prepare my body for the Omega hormones.”

“Why did you have to change to estrogen? Wouldn’t that transition your
primary gender too?

“Well, yes and no, I mean, even if I take estrogen I don’t magically switch
genders. It takes some time. My main priority was to get my testosterone down
and my estrogen levels up so my body would accept the omega hormones. And yes,
my physique changed quite a bit because of the estrogen, but it is not that
drastic that I would ever pass as female. Male omegas produce higher amounts of
estrogen too, and most of them look like normal males.”

“And why would your body reject omega hormones otherwise?” She tilted her
head.

“Omega hormones are really heavy stuff, they change the body massively, even
more so than estrogen, but only if all the other hormones in the body are in
between the more or less normal levels, otherwise it could come to heavy
reactions to the hormones.” He explained.

“What for reactions?”

“Hm, it can have physical effects, like bloating, cramps, headaches or
migraines, swelling in certain parts of the body, bleeding from certain parts,
back pain, abdominal pain, even heavy mood swings or depression can occur” he
listed.

“My, why would anyone want to do that then?” She looked totally confused.

“Because I didn’t feel right as a beta. It made me unhappy and I was always
kinda jealous of omegas.” Denki explained.

“So, you think that betas are not valid?”  Her voice was suddenly very
snappy and she pierced Denki with her cold eyes.

“What?” Denki raised his eyebrows. “That’s not true, everyone is valid.
I just said that it wasn’t right for me, I always wished to be an omega and I
was very sad when I turned out beta. Nothing more, nothing less. The most
important thing is, that you feel comfortable in your own body and dynamic.”

“Do you think anyone should have the chance to change their secondary
gender?” She raised one perfectly trimmed eyebrow.

“I mean, yeah! It can improve the life and health of so many people, everyone
should get the chance to transition their secondary gender if they feel
uncomfortable. It’s the same with their primary gender.”

“Did you change your pronouns too? Isn’t that something you people do?”

“No? I’m still male and go by he/him? I just transitioned my secondary
gender to omega.”

“Do you had like … surgery? I mean, how else could you get pregnant?”

Katsuki cringed at that. Denki frowned. “Uh, yeah, there are surgeries out
there, that can grant male beta-to-omegas an artificial uterus. But you are not
required to have a uterus to be an omega, not every omega needs to have pups.
It’s more about the general feeling.” He explained. He of course knew what
she was trying to do.

“But isn’t it the main reason why anyone wants to change to omega in the
first place?”

“Uh, well, some might have this as a reason, I can’t speak for everyone. I
want to have a family later, but that doesn’t mean that every beta-to-omega
has to have that too. Even if you never get the surgery, you are still a valid
omega, and even if you don’t start with hormones at all, you are still an
omega if you feel like one!”

Teiko looked really annoyed. “Right … since that’s so easy … Everyone
can transition and can be whatever dynamic they want …”

“They definitely should have the option to do so” Denki murmured.

“Thanks, Chargebolt,” she fake smiled and cleared her throat, “Murder God
Dynamight, you changed from omega to alpha, right?”

“Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight” he corrected her.

“Yeah, whatever.”

He scoffed, he really wanted to act upon the Murder part in his title. She was
such a dumb bitch. “Yes, I transitioned from Omega to Alpha.”

“I mean, I kinda get the beta to omega, since betas don’t have like an inner
beast like Alphas and Omegas do, or at least not such a strong one. But how is
that with you people?”

He clicked his tongue. “It’s basically the same, first an evaluation, then
hormone treatment, and if one wishes surgeries” he quickly explained. “I got
some testosterone treatments during my school time, but since I am male it
wasn’t such a drastic change, as with Chargebolt. I had no side effects, from
the treatment, I had to get my testosterone levels up so I could start using
Alpha hormones” he explained. “My inner omega heavily clashed with my inner
alpha, which was freaky in the beginning, but by now it only comes out during my
heats” he had crossed his arms in front of his chest.

“You have still heats?”

“Yes. They won’t go away, no matter how much alpha hormones I take.”

“What about you, do you have heats, Chargebolt?”

“Yep, in the beginning, I had to induce heats via medication but by now I get
them around six times a year,” Denki answered.

“And your heats?”

“In the beginning every month, but it becomes less and less, I am down to nine
heats per year by now,” Katsuki murmured.

“But doesn’t this prove that you are still omega, no matter how hard you try
to mask it?”

“Well, duh, that’s why I am an alpha-omega! I know that I am never going to
be to a hundred percent an alpha.”

“Alpha-Omega? What does that mean, haven’t heard of that term yet.”

“It just means that I am an Alpha that used to be an omega.”

“And what about Omega-Alphas then? Are those ‘a thing too’?”

“Yes, that are alphas that transitioned to omegas. I have met one and it was
quite impressive to see.” Katsuki thought about Stella for a few seconds.
“She took it even one step further and transitioned from male alpha to female
omega.”

“That’s complicated” she commented.

“No, not really …” Katsuki said in a monotone voice.

Teiko shot him a nasty glare but caught herself. “What about you? Can you
still have pups? And what about a knot? Did you get a fertility boost? Omega
semen is pretty infertile, how would you ever impregnate anyone?”

“What are those questions?” Katsuki growled.

“Important ones, for all the people out there, they deserve to know!”

He scoffed. “Yeah sure. Yes, no, no, and I don’t intend to impregnate
anyone” he grumbled.

“So you are not really an alpha, I mean, alphas definitely have knots and
super high fertility, plus males can’t carry pups, only females can.”

Denki and Katsuki cringed at that. “I am an alpha, lady. As Chargebolt said,
it’s all about the feeling. Not just the body!” he bared his teeth a
little.

He would love to knock her out with his scent, but he had to stay strong, this
would be bad publicity if he just knocked her out and left.

“But you don’t have the necessary means to be an alpha, you’re even
smaller than the average alpha!”

“What the hell? I’m 6’3”, that’s not that much smaller than
natural-born male alphas” he growled.

“But most adult male alphas start at 6’5” so it is smaller.”

“Lady, I used to be 5’8” give me a break here.” He scoffed. Denki looked
over to Katsuki.

“Besides, isn’t it bad for all male omegas, if such a well-known omega like
you just decides he’s an alpha from one day to the other?”

“I am not an omega! And this didn’t come overnight, I am transitioning for
the past six years!” he growled a little. “And why should it be bad? I
don’t say every male omega should transition to alpha! I mean, Chargebolt is a
male beta-to-omega, he clearly wants to be an omega, and I know many male omegas
who don’t have a problem with being omegas. It’s just nothing for me. And
hell, what Chargebolt earlier said that there should be much more information
about transitioning out there is totally true. It took me an outsider from
another country to tell me, that omega-to-alpha transitions are even
possible.”

“So this person coerced you into thinking you could ever be an alpha?”

“I … wha-? Seriously how do you pull so much shit out of your ass? That’s
not what I said! She just informed me, that it is possible for omegas to
transition to alphas. I thought I would be forever stuck in my omega body.”

Denki reached over to him to calm him down, he was getting very aggressive. But
he could understand how he felt, he was annoyed too.

“Please, don’t use such language! That is not suited for younger
children.” She advised him.

“Then don’t do such crap.” He countered. “Anyway, my final message for
everyone out there, from any dynamic, you can transition and if you feel
that’s the right thing for you, you should go through with it, it helps! And
now, would you excuse me, I’ll go now, I have a hero job to do …” With
that Katsuki stood up and left.

“Uh, yeah, he’s right, uh, I need to head off too. I got also hero work to
do. See you!” With that, he followed Katsuki quickly.

They headed back to the break room. “One moment longer and I would have ripped
her head off,” Katsuki growled.

“I get you, she’s terrible.”

 

Many people really liked the interview, it helped them a lot, not Okobore’s
commentary, but what Katsuki and Denki had said. But many criticized them too.
The extremists cursed at them, that they wanted to corrupt the youth.

Alphas should stay alphas and Omegas should stay omegas. Katsuki grimaced at
that. Yeah, and better Omegas went back into the kitchen and gave up all their
rights and became little pets for the alphas, right …

 

July came around and Katsuki headed off to help with the flood in Niigata. It
was absolutely terrible, and the person who did this had escaped into the ocean.
He felt really bad for the people that had lost their homes or their lives.

When he came back, he heard that Hawks had given birth to twins, Shoto was so
not happy, and neither was Toya. He sat with the family in their home, Hotaru
was on his lap. Rei seemed really nonchalant about it. She would always comment,
that they were both adults and could do whatever they wanted. She didn’t care
about it.

Natsuo openly hated on Hawks and Endeavor, and even Fuyumi didn’t know how to
feel about that, she tried her best, and she had contact with her father, but
the whole situation was heavy for her too.

Hotaru didn’t really get what the problem was, she drew a picture that
depicted Toya, Sougo, and herself.

Later that evening, Toya and Katsuki sat outside, they drank beer together.
“How is it going with you and Sougo? I saw that Hotaru is drawing pictures of
you three?”

“Hm, yeah, she basically sees Sougo as her dad now” he explained.

“Does she know?” Katsuki tilted his head.

“No, I haven’t told her about Shigaraki, with luck she will never have to
meet him. I mean, if she wants to know I will tell her, but I hope this never
comes up.”

“Understandable.”

“And well, with Sougo, it’s going great, I mean … I think I … I want to
mate with him.”

“Really? You would do that again?”

“Hm, yeah, I had a lot of talks with my therapist about re-mating, and I
don’t know, they told me that it could sometimes help, but I shouldn’t do it
if I am not a hundred percent sure. You see, Sougo gave me time and all, he
treats me really well and this is something I never had before. Hiko was cruel,
I was lucky she didn’t forcefully mate me, Shigaraki was an asshole too so
that some fucked up guy like me, who had never a good relationship in his life,
could end up with someone so good … it sometimes feels like a fever dream, and
I am afraid that I wake up one day and I am still in Hiko’s claws or next to
Shigaraki somehow.”

Katsuki nodded. “Yeah, I totally get that.”

“But I am also scared to ask him, what if he doesn’t want to mate with me?
What if I am not good enough? I mean, I clearly never was good enough!” he
gritted his teeth.

“That’s bullshit! You are most definitely good enough!” he grabbed
Toya’s hand and squeezed it.

Toya leaned his head on Katsuki’s shoulder. “I wish this stuff were easier
for me … That’s why I hate him too, he ruined my chance of a normal life
…” Toya grabbed his arm, and his fingers traced over the burned skin.

Katsuki wrapped his arm around Toya and pulled him closer.

 

Katsuki was kinda shocked when he sat with Eijiro, Tetsutetsu, and Shoto on
Eijiro’s porch and he learned that Deku had mated again. He couldn’t really
believe that he should talk to the guy from time to time. He had so much in his
head, that he completely forgot to check up on Deku.

He felt really bad, but … then again, Deku could have called too, right?

When he got home he called Deku, it took some time, but he eventually answered.

«Hm?» his voice was monotone.

“Uh, hey, Deku, how are you doing?”

«Hm, doing okay» he murmured. It definitely didn’t sound like he was okay.

“Really? You don’t sound like it.”

«What do you want, Kacchan?» he sounded a bit annoyed.

“I … I just wanted to check up on you … I realized we haven’t spoken all
year and Eijiro mentioned, you are married now” Katsuki explained.

«Yes, I am» he answered.

“That’s great to hear” Katsuki really didn’t know what to say, was he
mad that he hadn’t called him more regularly? “Congratulations.”

«Thanks … Was that all?» His voice sounded so tired.

“Hm … y-yeah I-” before he could even end his sentence, Izuku had hung up.
Katsuki felt a lump in his throat. He bit down on his lip, what was Deku’s
damn problem? He threw his phone on the couch and he crossed his arms in front
of his chest.

“What’s wrong?” Hiroto asked, he came out of the shower.

“Deku was kinda weird on the phone, and he hung up on me …” He stood up
and walked over to his boyfriend, he wrapped his arms around him.

“Maybe he’s going through something? You said the city he lives in is quite
dangerous?”

“Hm, yeah, that’s true … I don’t know” Katsuki sighed and gave Hiroto
a kiss.

 

At the end of September they visited Eijiro and Mae to see the new pup, Katsuki
was so delighted to hold the little one. Both his alpha and omega chirped in
joy. Mae was close to him, to make sure her baby was secure.

Holding the pup hit him hard, it was one thing to be around toddlers and younger
children all the time – he still visited the orphaned children – but a
newborn, that was on a whole different level.

He was still fawning over the pup several days later. Hiroto chuckled, Katsuki
was so much in baby fever.

 

His heat came up at the end of September and he begged Hiroto to pup him – he
couldn’t get pregnant, because he was on birth control, but his heat-ridden
brain ignored that.

He grabbed the frame of the headrest of his bed, he was on his stomach and
Hiroto pounded into him. It was one of the rare times, that Katsuki completely
bottomed for Hiroto, he wanted to have pups so bad that he even presented for
him.

Hiroto played along, he knew that he would upset the blonde otherwise.

They were cuddling, while they regained their stamina, they shared more and more
kisses, Katsuki looked to Hiroto. “Do you want to mate me?”

Hiroto’s eyes widened a little. “Is this really something you want?”

“Yes, I wanted to do it for so long now! I want to stay with you!”

Hiroto looked at him with a huge grin. He rolled over and covered Katsuki’s
body with his own. “Then it would be an honor” his rough tongue licked over
the junction of Katsuki’s neck and shoulder where his scent gland was. His
teeth got sharper when he bit down into the skin. Katsuki under him moaned
louder when he could feel the bond that he created.

The alpha stopped and turned them over so that Katsuki was now on top of him.
Katsuki pulled him up into a sitting position and he mounted Hiroto’s dick,
while he licked over the scent gland before he also bit down.

Hiroto started to move a little and Katsuki moved his hips to his tact. They
worked wonderfully together, like cogs in a machine.

It was the best heat that Katsuki had so far. The intensity after they mated was
tenfold. Damn, but he really wished now he could get pregnant …

 

When Katsuki woke up after his heat, he felt Hiroto next to him. He looked over
and he still couldn’t believe it, that this man belonged to him now.

He wondered if he should propose to him now, or if he should wait for Hiroto to
propose? Did he want to get married officially? He snuggled up to his mate and
he stayed in bed with him much longer.

 

When he returned to work in October, the others perked up to his changed smell.
“Oh my god, you finally mated!” Toya grinned.

“Yeah, we finally did it!” The others congratulated him. He could see, how
Toya stared longingly at Sougo. When they were alone he nudged the omegas arm.

“Why don’t you just ask him? I’m sure he wants it too.”

“It’s still kinda scary.” Toya sighed. “What if he says no?”

“I could ask him.”

“What?”

“Yeah, I could ask him if he’s interested in mating you.”

“Hmmm, I don’t know …” He thought for a while. “No, I will ask him in
my upcoming heat. I want to do this myself, it would feel strange if someone
else had to ask for me.”

“Then I wish you the best of luck!”

 

The hero rankings were great, Katsuki was so happy to be almost in the top ten.
He could feel Endeavor's disappointment that he had lost the Number 1 title.

He saw Hawks around too, he looked rather sad that Endeavor still hadn’t
claimed him, well, too bad for him, Katsuki thought, but he didn’t really
care.

 

At the end of November it finally happened for Toya too, everyone was happy for
him, he definitely deserved the happiness!

 

Christmas was very special this year, they met Katsuki’s parents for the first
time after they had mated. Mitsuki was so excited. They had a wonderful
Christmas Eve.

 

Briefly, Katsuki thought of calling Izuku again, but then he remembered the last
time they had spoken, and he decided against it. He really wanted to tell him,
that he was married too, but he figured Izuku would not be interested in it
anyways.

Katsuki raised his eyebrows when Michiko told them, they had an invitation from
the Koka Tanso Agency, they asked for cooperation.

New Year was great again, the fireworks illuminated the night sky over the city,
while loud screams echoed from the mountain.

 

+++

 

Following the incident, life became only harder for Izuku, he had massive
flashbacks almost every night of sharp claws ripping through his flesh, sharp
teeth, and a sickly sweet scent. He had very strong and vivid nightmares, and it
wouldn’t get better, no matter what he did.

Lucia stayed close to him as much as she could. She knew the feelings he was
going through way too good. She went through them too. And even though her
near-death experience was years ago, she was still plagued by it.

Izuku talked with Kairi a few times about it, but this was probably a mistake.
She was constantly seeking death and she couldn’t probably grasp how it felt
for him. She tried to, but just couldn’t.

After a few days of sulking in his bed, next to Lucia, he got up again, he
couldn’t stay in there forever. Even though he wished he could. He returned to
his usual routine, he worked, he ate normally, he sometimes even followed Kairi
to the meetings, he faked it pretty good, he thought. The appearance of a normal
life. But it felt so dull for most of it, he was numb inside.

Lucia was the only one who could bring joy in the strict gray of his mental
world.

He had episodes where it was better, he could do more stuff then, but he slipped
every so often into total darkness in which he couldn’t move out of his bed.
Even going to the toilet was a task almost too heavy for him.

The more violence he witnessed, the deeper he seemed to fall. But it was routine
by now. He walked through the streets of the red light district one night when
he heard how one of the omegas was being molested.

“Hey, please stop! You can’t do that!” the woman tried to push the alpha
away, but he grabbed her hand.

“Oh, c’mon babe, that’s your job, isn’t it?”

“Yeah, but you won’t pay, so I won’t go with you! Now leave me alone!”
She tried again.

“No, fucking way!” He came even closer to her.

“Oi, fucker, stay away from her” Izuku growled, his head was suddenly very
empty, he was in a bad episode and he was annoyed.

“Huh? What are you saying asshole?” The alpha let her go – the woman used
that to run away – and he fixated on Izuku.

With a blank stare, he looked at the man. “That’s shameful behavior if you
don’t have money then don’t bother these hard-working people” Izuku
commented.

“The fuck is wrong with you? Because of you, the girl escaped!” The alpha
tried to intimidate Izuku, but it had no effect.

Annoyed by this guy, Izuku used blackwhip to shove him into a back alley. He
walked after him, hands in his pockets. “Yeah, good. She doesn’t need to be
assaulted by a fucker like you” Izuku growled. His eyes started to glow.
“People like you piss me off. You think you can take everything just because
you’re an alpha, don’t you?”

“Yeah, what the fuck’s wrong with that? I deserve it!”

“Hell no, you don’t, you’re just scum.”

“Oh, and you’re a saint then?”

“Never said that, but at least I don’t prey on omegas.”

“Pah, dickhead, you’ll pay for that!”

The man charged at Izuku but the prime caught the fist. He gave him a strong
right hook and with the guy stumbled back.

Agitated he caught himself before he charged again at Izuku.

 

Izuku walked through the streets, the people avoided him when they saw his empty
eyes and the blood splattered on his face. He hadn’t killed the guy, but he
had beaten him up. Blood was on his knuckles too.

He could see and feel the angst in them but he just didn’t care.

 

He came home, Kairi raised an eyebrow at him. “Did ya beat someone up?” She
asked.

“Yeah, he molested an omega.”

“Ah” she nodded. That was it, she didn’t even ask what the hell happened
to him.

His own mother on the other hand was mortified when she saw him all bloody.
“Oh, Izuku, what happened to you? Are you feeling alright? I-Is that your
blood?” She didn’t know if she wanted the answer to that. Was it better or
worse if it wasn’t his blood?

“Just got into a fight” he moved past her. She tried to stop him but he
moved quickly up into his room. He didn’t have the strength to discuss this
now.

He walked into the bathroom and undressed his jacket and shirt. He looked at
himself in the mirror. It was a devastating sight, he had dark rings under his
eyes, his skin had a tan from all the sun he was exposed to, but at the same
time, it looked weirdly pale. The smudged blood on his face was a stark contrast
to his skin tone.

His eyes were dead at the moment. Sometimes the shine came back, but he felt
himself slipping more and more. He realized that his eyes looked more and more
like Kairi’s. Dead. Did he slowly turn into one of the ‘living dead’, as
she called them all the time?

Izuku opened the faucet and he let the water run over his bloodied knuckles,
they washed the blood away, but the strange feelings were still in his head. He
felt his vision become dizzy, he quickly cleaned himself, before he walked over
to his bed.

He crawled into it and pulled the blankets over him, he could feel it coming, a
heavy dark episode. He wished that Lucia was here with him, but she was not at
the moment.

 

When Katsuki called him, he was in a very bad mood. He was alone in his dark
room, Lucia was downstairs, taking care of her son, she couldn’t always stay
with him. even though he wished it.

He contemplated if he should even answer the phone, but the ringing was so damn
annoying … He grabbed it and answered when he saw that it was Katsuki.

“Hm?” he murmured, he just couldn’t bring himself to sound excited. He was
kind of happy to hear Katsuki’s voice, or he would be any other time, but
right now he was deep in.

«Uh, hey Deku, how are you doing?» Bad, absolutely not good, he thought, I got
nightmares, I feel myself losing it. Not even Lucia can help me. Am I turning
into a monster now? A monster covered in blood? Oh, I was attacked by a child
and a teenage girl and they almost killed me, I still have massive nightmares
about it. Can you believe it? I can’t get my mind off of it.

“Hm, doing okay” he answered instead. Katsuki didn’t need to be bothered
by all of this, it wasn’t right to burden him with his near-death experience,
his slipping of humanity, and overall doubts.

«Really? You don’t sound like it.» Because I feel absolutely not okay! I’m
losing my mind right now while we’re talking! But I still want no one to know.
I don’t want to stress you with my negativity. It’s my problem, not yours.

“What do you want, Kacchan?” A slight tone of annoyance was in his voice. He
didn’t mean to sound annoyed by Katsuki, but he was just so irritated at the
moment, his mind went haywire and he couldn’t focus on something.

«I … I just wanted to check up on you … I realized we haven’t spoken all
year and Eijiro mentioned, you are married now» Katsuki explained himself.

Too many words, way too fast, he couldn’t concentrate on so much stuff while
his mind was racing and throwing loops and gave him whiplash. “Yes, I am” he
just murmured. He only got the married part out of it.

«That’s great to hear … Congratulations.» He thought he could hear some
uncertainty in Katsuki’s voice, did he startled him by being so cold?
Honestly, at the moment he couldn’t be bothered. He wanted to go back to
sleep. His headache was killing him.

“Thanks … Was that all?” he was so damn tired. Sleep, he wanted to go
back. His eyes were already closing.

«Hm … y-yeah, I-” He didn’t even care that Katsuki was about to say
something before he hung up. He threw his phone across the room, not caring that
it got destroyed from that, he turned around in his bed and he pulled the
blanket over him.

 

Sleep wasn’t easy, his mind was racing and he couldn’t find rest, he was so
sleep deprived even though he was in bed for almost 48 hours now, but he was
awake for most of it.

Lucia was next to him, she was sleeping, he looked at her, while silent tears
spilled over, she was really the best thing that had happened to him, yet he
couldn’t fully appreciate her, not in the way she deserved it anyway. He was
failing as a mate, would she leave him, because he couldn’t keep it together?

He bit down on his bottom lip until he tasted blood in his mouth. He pressed his
hand on his mouth, to stifle his sobbing, he didn’t want to wake her.

But Lucia felt it over their bond. She woke up to see her distressed mate. She
turned around and placed a hand on his cheek. “Hey, what upsets you so
greatly?”

“I … I am afraid” Izuku confessed.

“About what?” she moved closer to him.

“That you’ll leave me, because I’m a bad mate, that I’m losing it all,
that I’m losing my mind.”

It pained Lucia to see him like that, she knew the state he was in. She shook
her head. “No, baby, you will never gonna lose me. We will stick together! You
go through a very rough time, but you didn’t give up on me when I was in
anguish and neither will I! Look, everyone is going through hardships.
Especially in a city like this. It’s eating you up from the inside. I can see
it, you are suffering so much …”

More tears were streaming out of Izuku’s eyes, she held him in her arms.
“You can always count on me, Izuku, when something’s bothering you, you can
talk to me, you don’t need to carry all of this alone.”

“But how can I talk about this when you had it so much worse?”

“That’s bullshit, my suffering is not worse than yours. I went to hell and
back, and you are currently in hell and you have to find your way back. You
listened to me all the time when I just wanted to talk about stuff, and when I
didn’t want to talk, you just sat with me for hours! Let me do the same for
you too.”

Izuku started to sob louder, he pressed his face against her chest, she wrapped
her arms around him, to soothe him. She was aware that her arms couldn’t give
him much warmth, they were just cold metal, it saddened her. She let him cry as
long as he needed to.

“I just feel like everything is slipping from me, this city, it takes
everything from me. I feel like I’m losing my empathy. Just the other day I
beat someone into a bloody pulp. I fear that I will become just like them
…”

“Living in places like this hardens people emotionally, that is true,” she
whispered in his ear, “but you won’t lose your empathy completely. Izuku,
you’re a very nice and empathetic person, but everyone has their breaking
point. This is a defense mechanism, you turn yourself into a robot to protect
yourself from the world outside. That’s what they do too, but the difference
is, they never put the robot façade down, they keep it up that’s why they
seem so cold. That’s why they have so many antisocial tendencies. If you were
to leave the city, you may find yourself opening up again.”

Izuku looked up at her. “Do you really think that?”

“Of course, I mean, I was emotionally unstable too, and I only warmed up
because of your warmth. You offered me a hand and I took it, I let myself fall
into all these new emotions that I rarely experienced before and you caught me,
when I ran the risk of getting lost in it. Getting out of Africa was the best
thing that could have happened to me. And who knows, maybe it’ll help you too
if you get out of Thailand?”

“But where could we go? I’m not sure if I want to go back to Japan, I’d
feel so out of it …”

“Hm, maybe we should choose a save country, we could ask the others, I heard
Jay and Sam are from Australia, which is a very safe country, and Joseph and
Leigh are from Ireland, which is also very secure.”

He thought about it for a while. “Yeah, maybe this could help me …”

 

Izuku and Lucia walked down a while later, most of them were relaxing in the
living room, they were drinking. “Hey” he murmured.

“Yo, Izuku, how’s it going?” Jay asked.

“Not good, actually” he murmured. They looked towards him and Lucia.

“Oh, what’s the matter?” Kairi asked.

“I think the city is destroying me. Ever since I got attacked … I feel like
I’m slipping more and more. And I can’t do this anymore.” He exhaled
deeply.

“Hm, seems about right” Miles murmured. “You ain’t cut to survive here
on the long run.”

“Yes, that’s why I wanted to ask, which country is safer? Ireland or
Australia? I don’t want to go back to Japan, but I don’t want to continue
living here.” He looked around

“Aye, Ireland is pretty secure, they have a good hero system too,” Joseph
said.

“Australia is not too bad either, but we still have giant dangerous creatures
that are definitely out there to kill you …” Sam murmured. “I mean like
spiders, crocodiles … snakes, snakes that eat crocodiles, more spiders,
lizards, frogs that eat snakes, spiders as big as cats” he counted.

“Okay, okay, stop! That’s just creepy!” Izuku cringed. Lucia chuckled next
to him.

“Oh well, I had a snake in my toilet once, I smashed the toilet,” Jay said.
Ian cringed when he heard that.

“Honestly, I’d do the same.” He shuddered.

“There is nothing better when you walk into your kitchen and want to make
yourself a nice coffee before work and there is this massive spider on your
coffee maker. I was like, nope! Not dealing with that today.”

“Okay, Ireland it is!”

“Hahahaha, don’t worry, we have cute sheep” Leigh murmured.

“You could even stay on our sheep farm. Pa’s getting old and I’m sure
he’d let you live there for free if ya help him with the sheep. And don’t
know it has something therapeutic to work with sheep. We sometimes go back and
stay with Pa for a while. It helps to calm down and relax.” Joseph added.

“That’s true! I lived there for like two years or so and it was honestly the
best time” Kairi murmured. “No killing, no people that were out to get me,
just peace and quiet, and sheep, lots of sheep … maybe a few cows, and a horse
or two,” she thought about that.

“You were on a sheep farm?” Izuku asked.

“Yeah? Am I not allowed to?” She raised her eyebrows.

“Oh, no, of course, you are, it was just never on my mind that you could do
anything else like this here” Izuku pointed around him.

“Well, I was much younger then, t’was a time before I even had Malka.”

“So, should we call Pa, that you are coming?” Joseph asked.

“Yeah, but I have to ask my mom if she wants to come with us too, or if she
wants to stay here, or go back to Japan or whatever.”

“PAM, please, inform Inko that she should come over to this room,” Kairi
said.

“Yes, ma’am.”

A few minutes later Inko arrived. She had a worried look on her face. “Izuku,
is everything okay?”

“No, not really. That’s why I wanted to talk to you. I’m leaving Thailand.
Lucia, Kieran and me will move to Joseph’s and Leigh’s sheep farm in
Ireland, I wanted to ask you, what you’re going to do. Do you want to come
with us, do you want to stay here, or go back to Japan?”

Inko sat down next to Izuku, she thought about it for a while. “Would you want
me to come with you?”

“Of course, you would be very welcome to come with us. But you already started
new once, I don’t want to force you to something” Izuku said.

“How would be the living situation?” Inko asked.

“Oh, the cottage he’s living in is very small. Pa lives high up far from
most technology, only he and his sheep. But Pa’s over 85 by now, so I don’t
know how long this will go good.” Leigh explained. “The next village is a
few kilometers away.”

“Maybe I could move to the village then? I’m sure this would be possible? I
would still be close but not too close?” Inko tilted her head.

“Yeah, that would be good.” Izuku smiled.

“Maybe, you can convince Pa to move into the city too, Ma tries for years to
get him off his mountain, he has some heart problems and if he really needs
help, the doctors wouldn’t arrive in time probably,” Leigh said.

“Well, maybe over time we can convince him, I don’t want to come off as
overly pushy, like now we’re here, so move out old man,” Izuku said. “But
what do you think? Or is that too far out for your liking? You have sometimes
heart problems too, right?”

“Hm, yes, but the difference is, you could probably bring me back into the
city in no time. You got so fast. So I wouldn’t be too concerned.” She
looked at him.

“Okay, then, I’ll go ask Pa” Leigh left the room.

It took a while to arrange everything, the September almost ended when they sat
foot on Irelands grounds. Joseph, Leigh, and Kairi were with them. Kieran was in
awe when he saw the new surroundings. They left the city of Galway and they made
their way deeper into the country. They left the last city and they drove higher
up it became more remote the further they drove.

They eventually came to the Cullys’ Sheep Farm. “Hey, Pa!” Leigh called
out.

An old man appeared out of the shed, he wore farmer’s clothing and he made his
way over to them. Shortly they talked in Irish and Izuku didn’t understand
them. Kairi hugged John Cullys briefly, she seemed happy to meet him again.

“Well, John, those are Izuku Midoriya, with his wife Lucia and his step-son
Kieran,” Kairi introduced them, “and that is his mother, Inko.”

“Aye, nice ta meet ya. I’m John Cullys” he said in broken English. “Ya
lot want ta stay on me sheep farm?”

“Yes, if that’s not a problem for you, sir” Izuku answered.

“Not at all, I looked for someone who can take care of everything here.” He
gestured to his farm. “C’mon in.” he walked them over to his cottage. It
was really small and it would need a bit of fixing but it was really cozy, it
had two bedrooms, one for Izuku and Lucia and one for Kieran. Well, Kieran would
stay with his parents as long as John was around, but he planned on leaving for
the city when Izuku and Lucia knew the drills. He would probably stay the winter
with them to help them with the sheep.

While they got used to everything, Kairi and Inko made their way back to the
next village, where she had bought Inko a house. It was big enough that Izuku,
Lucia, and Kieran could comfortably live with her if the sheep farmer's life was
nothing for them.

 

The beginning was hard, especially since they started in the fall and winter
months, the house definitely needed some fixing, Izuku focused on that.

John was a nice person, but very stubborn at times, he taught them everything
about sheep, it was a lot but it was actually kinda fun. Izuku and Lucia were
impressed by how much he could still do at his age.

Next to his sheep, he had two horses, four cows, two dogs, and some chickens, he
rarely went down to the city to get supplies, mostly for bread, but vegetables
and fruit he had in his garden too. He usually made money by selling the wool of
his sheep.

Izuku and Lucia had sometimes trouble handling everything in one day with two
people, so it was astounding how he managed this on his own.

It was hard for them, and it would only get harder next year when Kieran would
join the school in the village. Izuku would have to fly him out in the morning.
That shouldn’t be a problem since he wouldn’t leave the farm much
otherwise.

They invited Inko over at Christmas, she brought some things to eat with her.
John was happy to have some company.

Izuku felt better already, the fresh air was so much different from the polluted
air in Batoh. Tending to the sheep was so much better than dealing with all the
thugs or going to war.

He still wished he could help more people, but he was so burned out from his
experiences that he just couldn’t. If someone had asked him a couple of years
ago, if he ever did not want to help someone, he would have said no, he would
always want to save people.

But now he just couldn’t. He hoped it would go away, the feeling of repulsion.
He felt ashamed to admit this to himself but how could he help someone when he
was not even able to help himself? No, he needed just a little time for himself
and his wife and his son. And a lot of sheep.

Sometimes he would go into the sheep shed and cuddle with the big fluffy sheep.
Yes, the smell of dozens of sheep was so much more relaxing than the smell of
blood and gore.

Izuku sincerely hoped, the next year would be better. He couldn’t take more of
that bullshit anymore.

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