Little Acts Of Kindness

2. The Important Conversations

Shota sat on a chair, waiting for Midoriya to wake up. He was reading over the files Nezu had sent him, and he was really displeased over what he had seen so far.

It wasn’t often that the teachers of UA actually looked at the notes previous teachers had made on a student, preferring to make their own judgments on how the students act in their classes. But, there were times it was necessary, such as if violent behavior was shown and they needed to know if it was typical of the student.

Shota wanted to know if Bakugo’s behavior towards Midoriya was normal. Yet, according to the file Bakugo was a perfectly behaved upstanding citizen. No records of any misbehavior what-so-ever. That of course raised some red flags. So he requested Midoriya’s file as well.

What he read made him pissed on behalf of his student. There were a ton of remarks on it, calling Midoriya a trouble maker. An unruly student. A liar. An attention seeker. All of these comments were the complete opposite of what he had seen from Midoriya in the past couple of days.

If anything, Midoriya avoided attention. Avoided people and stammered his way out of conversations. Then there was the note from the English teacher, ‘Midoriya has tried on multiple occasions to bribe me with food and such to bump up his horrible grade. Such behavior is unbecoming and I have seen fit to give him detention for it.’

Shota frowned at his phone and blinked when the door was thrown open and Hizashi came in. “There you are! I’ve been looking for you!”

“Quiet, Midoriya is recovering,” Shota replied, gesturing to the child.

Hizashi nodded, his green eyes looking over the child. “I wanted to speak with you about Midoriya actually.”

Shota glanced up from his phone, “So you noticed it too?”

“I noticed something, not sure if it’s what you noticed.”

Shota raised an eyebrow at his husband, “What did you notice?”

“The little listener seemed absolutely terrified in my class, I spoke with Nemuri, she said that he only acted a bit nervous in her class. For me though I noticed that he kept tracking my movements, that he could barely be within a few feet of me without looking like he wanted to bolt.”

Shota stared at his phone for a moment before replying, “I don’t think it’s you necessarily. But that you teach English.”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

He turned his phone towards Hizashi, letting his husband read the note the previous English teacher left. “Sho… this… I don’t like this…”

Shota grimaced, “Me neither, I think this needs to be delved into further.”

Hizashi nodded, “Alright, what’s the plan?”

“I’m going to go to Alderan and ask them directly for their thoughts on both Bakugo and Midoriya. Hizashi, if you don’t mind I want you to go ask Midoriya’s parents for their thoughts and such, also ask All Might about Midoriya.”

Hizashi nodded and was about to leave when Shuzenji came out of her office, holding onto a printed picture. “I have the results,” she spoke.

“Let me guess, it’s as we thought?”

She nodded, “I don’t know why that doctor of his told him he was quirkless, he clearly doesn’t have the extra toe joint. Why didn’t the doctor just explain that the child needed to meet some requirement for his quirk to work?”

“Perhaps you should ask the doctor,” Shota responded.

“I tried to call the number, it’s been disconnected. Searching up the doctor’s name reveals that he has been missing for the past 8 years.”