Chapter 8

hitoshi's pov( short)
i pulled my phonie from my pocket and i handed it to him he typed his number in and he handed it back to me, i'll text you later, i said.
i  walk away and i started the walk home, i sent dad a text saying i was going to be home late but that we needed to talk.
the walk home was long so i took my time, i stopped at a coffee shop and i got myself a latte. 45 minutes later i was walking up to my house, i put my key in the door and i opened it i walked in and i shut and locked the door back behind me.
i went into the living room and i saw both my dads waiting for me.
we need to talk, i said.
yeah we do you ran out of school no one knew where you were where the hell were you? dad asked.
i ran after my best friend who felt he wasnt good enough to be there because of you you never cared about him when you guys rescued us, you never cared about him in the hospital and you never cared after why, why was he the only one you never checked in on you could have saved him so much trauma because of you he doesnt have a home, because of you he constantly feels like a failure, because of you he doesnt even want to be a hero anymore why is he the only you dont remember? i questioned him
i never delt with him personally hizashi did he had more of a connection with hizashi, he said.
okay but you didnt deal with all of the other kids but you still checked in on them why was he different?
i cant give you a reason except i had a feeling he was safe with his caseworker, he said.
HIS CASEWORKER WAS THE ONE WHO SOLD HIM BACK INTO THE TRAFFICKING RING THEN ALL OF HIS OTHER FOSTER FAMILIES DID TOO HIM BEING FUCKED UP THE WAY HE IS IS ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT, i screamed.
i ran up to my room and i shut the door and i locked it.
there was a gentle knock that came from my door just mere seconds after i locked it.
i sat down and i looked through the key hole and i saw papa standing there.
what do you want? i asked coldly.
its me toshi i want to talk to you i promise i wont cause anymore issues i just want to get a better understanding about everything, he said gently.
i unlocked the door and i went over and i sat on my bed and i grabbed my stuffed cat and i hugged it.
how did you find out all of that? he asked.
i could hear denki screaming from my class room so i left my class and i caught up with him and he told me something then we left the school he told me everything that happened to him after the first time he was rescued by you he told me that when he was younger before getting sold he idiolized dad and wanted to be a hero just like him but when you guys busted into the room and you went to him instead of dad he didnt think much of it it was all spur of the moment grab the kids and go kind of thing but when dad completely ignored him at the hospital and when he found out he was doing check ins with all the kids and when he found out you guys adopted me he broke he started drinking and he got mixed up with some villains cause he wanted revenge papa denki was the traitor and it was all because dad forgot about him if dad didnt forget about him he might not have been solf into the ring the 2nd time and he could have had a good life like what i have here if denki finds out i told you this part he'll get so mad at me but he told me that he was the traitor cause he felt like there was no other reason for him to live besides revenge dad literally turned him into a villain, i explained
i cant believe it i mean i had thought about him a lot over the last few years and i wanted to see how he was doing but i could never find the contact infomation for his case worker and the foster agency didnt have his number anymore cause he had quit but if he ever wants to talk to me i promise i wont turn him in i promise i wont do anything but talk but i really do want to catch up with him see if theres anything i can do to help him, he said.
i dont know if he will be up to it but i can message him but please please please dont tell dad that im talking to denki i dont want anymore bad blood dont get me wrong im absolutley livid at what he did to denks but i want to take responsibitly for his actions and at least apology to him for abandoning him thats all i want from him, i said as i started to feel overwhelmed with emotions all my feelings and emotions from everything that happened started bubbling up i looked up at him knowing i will need help regulating, he came over and he sat on my bed and i laid myself down and i rested my head on his lap as he ran his fingers through my hair knowing its a soothing technique for me, i just cried for an hour and a half still hating that i need this kind of help. i know everything that happened overwhelmed you a  lot i know you dont like the idea of needing this level of support but im here to help not make you feel worse, he said softly.
after a while i felt myself calming down so i sat back up and i wiped my eyes.
i'll talk to him but he probably wont be the easiest to talk to hes a hard person to get to open up, i said.
and yes i promise i wont say a word about this to shota, he said.
thanks papa, i said softly.
he hugged me tightly and he got up glad i could be of some assistance kiddo, now get ready for bed, do your homework and i know you probably dont want to see your dad right now so i'll bring your dinner up here for you, he said.
he walked out so i just texted denki.
( denki's pov)
i was laying on the couch wile dabi sat on the floor braiding toga's hair for bedtime.
my phone suddenly buzzed startling me i grabbed it and i saw it was a text from an unknown number.
H- hey its hitoshi i got into a bit of an altercation with dad but papa said that he wants to talk to you he feels really bad for everything that happened and that he tried to find you to check on you but he couldnt find your original caseworker and all the leads he had that lead to you went cold he wants to make up for what happened and apologize and offer to help you in any way he can he doesnt know everything i only told him that you felt like you couldnt be a hero because of your trauma and it was starting to heavily weigh you down and thats what hes going to tell dad, he genuinely wants to help you he didnt realize you were the same kids that he rescued that was sitting in his classroom, all he wants to do is sit down and talk i can be there if you want me to be i think this is something that would be good for both of you.
D- i'll think about it i dont want to say yes and have both of them show up and how do i know thats all you told him how do i know you didnt tell him im with the villains?
H- you cant know for sure you will just have to trust me till you talk with papa and he can tell you the truth i promise all i said was that you felt a villain because of the way you have been treated i never said the words you are a villain please trust me on this i made a promise to you that i wouldnt tell anyone where you were till you did it on your own terms.
D- okay im trusting you hitoshi tell him the coffee shop 3 blocks from the base, i thinks its called lucky lu's coffee and bakery meet me there at 3 pm  tomorrow
H- thank you for trusting me denki i promise you wont regret this i have to go but i'll message you later.
i put my phone back down and i turned back to what ever show toga had picked.
we chilled here for an hour till the door to the meeting room opened and shigiraki and a few others came out.
hey shigiraki come here, i said.
he came over and the others sat down as well. so as you heard earlier there was a fire and my parents were involved, the part you didnt hear cause i covered the mic, but the officers told me that i wanted anything from the house, their entire savings, im welcome to it im pretty sure if i asked i could probably get the house since everyone thinks im homeless and we could convert it to a secondary emergency base a villain rehad center if one of us gets hurt, or a suppy shelter though its a bit big for that, but the only problem would be i have to go through the cops in charge of the case what would you think about me doing this but i promise i wont let anything slip about the league but it would be good for us to have the money, and i know this base is starting to get cramped keeping all of us here and all the equipment but theres also another solution, toga how much have we gotten done with our project? i asked her.
we are about half way down the last few things should be really easy though, she said.
so its good enough for a tour then? i questioned.
um maybe tomorrow we need to clean it up a bit first, she told me.
what are you two talking about? dabi asked.
well when i first arrived here i found something and i explored it then i showed toga and we agreed that it would be very beneficial to have this incase hero's raid us its always safe to have multiple bases that you can jump between so it makes it harder for hero's or police to track you down to one location haveing several of us at different locations is also a really good idea the more people that live in those places the harder it will be for them to keep track of each person, i explained.
wow your a lot smarter then i give you credit for, shigiraki said.
but if this place is here how come i've never seen it i've searched this place high and low making sure it was a safe place? he asked.
cause the enterances to it are hidden, i said
enterances like more then 1? spinner asked
yeah 3 actually my room toga's room and katsuki's room, we havent seen anymore enterances but there could be more we can check all over the base and see if we can find more, i suggested.
they all nodded and couple laughed a bit.
well i feel like i have too much energy right now so i probably wont go to bed anytime soon i think i might go work on cleaning it up a bit so we can show you guys tomorrow, i said
they all nodded and toga turned off the tv. i went to my room and i grabbed the face maks i like it cause it looks like ones people wear in apocolypse movies i got changed into some shorts and a tee shirt and i grabbed my flash light and i went to my closet and i opened the door i climbed onto the ladder and i pulled the door close and i made my way down.
i went to the end of the hall and i went down the second set of ladders and i grabbed the broom and i went back up and i started cleaning the main hall after 2 hours of sweeping and dumping all the dust and trash into a trash bag i grabbed the bottle of hydrochloric acid and i went over to the ladder and i put on the face mask and i poured some on a rag and i started cleaning the ladders of all the rust i dont even know how long i was at this till i stopped and i saw it was 3am but i dont feel tired at all.
i got all the ladders cleaned even finding a few new ones i hadnt seen before,
i went up and i slowly opened each one and i saw one went to kitchen pantry and one was in kurogiri's room and the other was in shigiraki's room, and there was even a drop down ceiling hatch that looked like it came down from behind the bar i'll have to put something up to make it more accessible.
i went down and i looked around and i saw we still had a bunch of stuff we stole that we had to get set up and filled mostly just big sets of plastic drawers in each room some clothes in each set for each person clean bedding on the freshly cleaned mattresses and a lamp next to each bed for light since we havent figured out the lightbulbs in each  room the lights in the rooms wont turn on but the outlets work and all the lights everywhere else we got working but the bedrooms.
i went back up and i went to the far end ladder and i climbed up and i was now behind the coffee shop, i walked to a hardware store and i picked the lock on the back door and i went in i pulled my hood up and i covered my face and i walked around till i found the isle that had like playgrounds and slides and stuff.
i grabbed the box and i looked at the size of it and it was perfect i picked up the slide and i carried it back it was pretty heavy but i got it back i opened the hatch on the ground and i started to climb in as i used one hand to balance it on my head as i climbed down i got to the bottom and i i looked around and i took a deep breath and i started setting it up i grabbed a moveable ladder and put it up to the ceiling where the door is and i pushed it open and i propped it open and i got started assembling the slide.
i worked for the longest time and the next time i checked my phone and i saw it was now 5am.
i heard one of the hatches opening so i just sat on the bottom of the side and soon i saw toga coming down her ladder.
hey whats going on i've been hearing you banging around down here for an hour? she asked
i got all the ladders de-rusted, i got all the drawers filled in all the rooms, all the beds made, and all the lamps set up, i completely swept and scubbed the entire floor on both levels with chemicals to disinfect everything and i found 4 more doors one is in the kitchen pantry, one in kurogiri's room and one in shigiraki's room then there is a trap door behind the bar under a bar mat, so i attached a slide to it so it could be easier to get down safely. i explained.
have you gone to bed at all? she asked.
nope i have no idea whats going on i just feel completely wired right now, i said with a small laugh.
well i guess i'll go get changed then i can help you finish seeing as there only a small amount of cleaning left i'll go get changed and i'll meet you downstairs since your finished up here. she said.
i nodded and i went down stairs while she went back up, i got to the new hide out and i went to the kitchen and i put my gas mask back on and i grabbed some foaming cleaning spray and one of steel wool pads and a green pad and some rubber gloves.
i pulled the gloves in and i sprayed the stove and i opened the oven and i spayed a shit ton of it inside the oven cause it was so bad in there. i grabbed the green pad and i started to scrub the stove top.
15 minutes later shes coming down the ladder and she grabs her gas mask and some bottles of chemicals, ill go start on the bathrooms you have your hands full with the kitchen, she said.
i gave her a thumbs up and she walked off.
the time was now nearing 9 am i gotta go i got to try to get at least an hour of sleep before i do the things i need to do today, i told her.
she nodded and i went back up to my room and shut my door and i grabbed a clean pair of shorts and i changed.
i went to the bathroom and i washed my face and hair to make sure no chemicals  had gotten on me.
i went back and i laid on my bed but i still feel wired.

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