1A's rescued kitten ✔️

There is power in a name - 8

    The sound of the front door unlocking wakes Izuku up from his nice nap in the best sun spot of the house. He lazily stretches on the floor and extends his arms and legs as far out as they will go as he yawns. With a little flex of his claws to stretch his hands and feet too, Izuku rolls off his back and onto his belly to stand up. Walking through the doorway are his favorite people and the toddler runs to them to give them the best hugs! He happily rambles on about how awesome they all did in the festival, even dadzawa who was a grump the whole time! In his excitement, Izuku fails to realize he let the nickname slip but freezes when he hears the man's quiet gasp.

   The three year old feels his ears fall to the back of his head in nervousness. He had been running in circles around the three family members as he rambled but has now come to a stop in front of them. Izuku begins to tear up as Zawa stays quiet and keeps his eyes stubbornly towards the floor as he hears Zashi's leather pants squeak as the man bends down to his eye level. "Can you look at me kit? I promise we aren't mad..." Lady gently side bumps Izuku's side and purrs to let him know it is okay. No one's scent screams anger but it is still something he hasn't smelt before.

With his hair slightly covering his face, Izuku slightly tips his head up and sees tears in Zashi's eyes too but he is smiling. The boy tilts his head to the side in confusion as he doesn't understand. "There he is," Zashi says happily as they make eye contact. "Baby no one is mad about you calling Sho dadzawa, especially your Zawa. We just weren't expecting to hear you say that, that's all." Izuku glances over to his Zawa and sees a tiny smile and blush on his face. "Come here kit." His dad says and that's all Izuku needs for permission before giving the man an even bigger hug than he did earlier. "Group hug!" Papa Zashi yells and two more pairs of arms join in causing Izuku to purr loudly.

A throat is cleared to grab the family's attention as Tensei awkwardly stands in the hall, having witnessed the entire thing. "Sorry to break this up but something came up at work and I really got to go..." Shouta gives his friend a look, silently questioning if everything is okay and receives a shake and look saying Tensei will inform him of it all later. The family says goodbye to the man and Hizashi thanks him for the help as he walks him to the door. Izuku gives his new friend a quick hug too as the man seems worried and wants to help. He receives a hair ruffling in thanks before the man rushes off.

    After a such an emotional moment, despite how quickly it was resolved, left Izuku feeling a bit tired. Dinner goes by quickly as Hitoshi is exhausted as well and the two heroes know better from years of experience to never say no to an extra few hours of sleep. Everyone gets ready for bed quickly and Izuku is fighting to stay awake for he doesn't want to miss story time. He fights valiantly but loses only a few lines into his book, "If you give a cat a cupcake". And if Shouta and Hizashi shed a few happy tears before going to sleep, no one can really blame them.

In the morning Hizashi cries happy tears again when Izuku nervously calls him Papa and grins proudly all the way to UA where he gushes to Nemuri about his new title. Naturally, this means Nezu knows now too but the rat will keep the information close to his chest for Izuku's safety. Shouta ended being the one to remind Izuku that he has to keep who his papa and dad are a secret to keep the bad guys away. He reassures Izuku that they love him and their new names but that some people are very mean and might use that knowledge to hurt him or them for being heroes. Shouta hates having to scare Izuku by telling him this but he has heard horror stories about villains and heroes kids that he doesn't want happening to his family.

Izuku hangs out in the teacher's lounge cuddling with his dadzawa as he quietly processes everything until it's class time. He gently sinks his claws into his dad's shirt as Shouta walks the two of them to 1A's door with a large stack of papers in his arms. "Alright demon spawns, you all did well in the festival and most of you got offered internships." Aizawa sensei explains that anyone without any offers still have a few options for hero agencies as he passes out the papers and goes to write the agencies open for everyone on the board. Izuku gets to help pass out the papers too and leaves his dad's side to look at the hero offers as the man writes on the whiteboard.

Izuku goes to blasty Kacchan first as he is the future number one hero and has a super big and heavy stack of papers! The little boy gasps at Mirko's name is up on top of the list as she is one of his favorites because she is sort of like him! Kacchan doesn't seem as impressed so Izuku does what any proper fan boy would do and starts rattling off all her stats to sway the hero to Mirko's side. And he clearly does a good job because Kacchan scratches his ears and tells him he is convinced before writing the heroine's name on his internship paper. "Alright fuzzy ball, go run off and help the other extras. They clearly need it." Bakugo states loudly for the others to hear and smirks at them knowingly.

Aizawa speaks up as Izuku struggles to decide who to go to next. "Hold on kit," he says to Izuku before addressing the class. "Before you all fight for Izuku's help, every hero needs a good name. One that the people can trust to call on for help and you won't be going to the internship without one. However it's been decided for me that I am not the one to be trusted with approving names so..."

Hearing her signal, Midnight makes her dramatic entrance. She swinging the overly large door open and sashays her way into the room. With a snap of her whip she announces, "Old 'raserhead over there doesn't know how to properly name anything so it's my job to help you young heroes in training chose the perfect name! You may change it if you want later on but your old name could stick better than the new one so think carefully or you'll end up with a name like Eraserhead."

She passes out small whiteboards to the class and Izuku trails behind her, helping out by handing out the markers. He gasps in excitement when Uraraka takes her marker and sees the small pink pads on her fingers. "We match!" The boy squeals and drops the remaining markets in his hands so he can show off his finger pads. He hears the girls and even some of the guys talking but is too absorbed in the moment with Chako to pay attention to them. Izuku giggles as she gently presses on each of his finger pads and watches as each nail turns into a claw. He is happy she is being so careful as he doesn't want to accidentally scratch his friend and tries to hold still as his nails go back and forth between clipped and sharp.

    Eventually robo Iida does his choppy hands and tells Chako to work on her hero name and Izuku runs over to help the others as his finger pad buddie already has her name picked out, Uravity! Auntie Nem tells Mina she can't be Alien Queen for some reason and Kacchan got all blasty and grumpy when his names were rejected. He runs over to help the future hero and whispers the idea to him and gets another hair ruffle as thanks. Tsu chooses Froppy, the rainy season hero which is cool although Izuku doesn't like how cold the rainy season can get! Auntie Nem tells Mina that Pinky is a good name along with Jiro going as earphone jack. As the number of students picking their names grows smaller, Izuku grows sleepy and cuddles with dadzawa in his sleeping bag. Iida's loud announcement of his name joining his family as Nitroburst, the speed hero is the last thing the toddler hears before fully falling asleep for the rest of the afternoon.