Spacetime Anomaly: MHA Fanfic

Chapter 13.4: Introspective Shower

"Oh..." Toga, too embarrassed to say anything else focused on finishing her drink as she thought, 'He's been nothing but nice to me since we met and I just had to insinuate that he was a lecherous pervert. Nice going you f.u.c.k.i.n.g idiot...'

Izuku was quite fl.u.s.tered as well, so he too focused on downing his iced coffee and only after the two finished and got ready to leave did Toga agree to Izuku's offer. Izuku stuck by his word and paid the bill for both of them. But as he no longer had any reason to waste time walking the streets, he succeeded in surprising Toga near the point of fainting as he conjured a Teleportation Gate and waved for her to pass through it as if he hadn't repeated that he was Quirkless several times by now.

Naturally, Toga was curious, but before she could ask, Izuku ran through the whole "I'm Quirkless but still have Esper Powers" spiel as he practically had it memorized by now. After a quick introduction to his powers, Izuku concluded his talk by saying, "...and this is something I've only recently learned to use: Gate Teleportation! Unlike my regular Teleportation, I can use these Gates to both travel long distances and multiple things. However, I need to know the precise coordinates of where I plan on teleporting to or the whole construct will fail and a lot of spatial power will be lost."

"So, we cross this Gate 'thing' and, just like that, we're in your room?" Toga asked, looking quite concerned as Izuku's gates looked like portals into an abyssal void.

"Yep~ Just take my hand if you're not confident and we can cross it together." He assured her.

"Ok..." She complied, taking his hand before the two of them walked right into the portal. One second they were outside the coffee shop and the next they were in Izuku's room, which at the moment was pitch black. Izuku, ignored the lack of light in the room with his keen eyesight, walked over to the light switch, and flipped it on before he offered, "Would you like to take a shower and to relax before we discuss things further in my room? I can set up spatial barriers in the bathroom and guide you to and from to avoid waking up my mom."

"Uh… Sure..." She was going to ask what clothes she would wear after the showered, but before she could start, Izuku had already begun using his powers over gravity to bring a set of his own clean clothes over for her. If there was ever a benefit to being a plain guy who liked plain things, it had to be that all his clothes could be worn by either s.e.x without much controversy. Maybe the sizes would be a bit wrong, but Toga wouldn't look like a tomboy when she wore his plain black t-shirt and barely accentuated green shorts.

However, when the set of clothes Izuku gave her included u.n.d.e.r.g.a.r.m.e.n.ts — female u.n.d.e.r.g.a.r.m.e.n.ts including p.a.n.t.i.e.s and a bra — it prompted questions from Toga. Though, rather conveniently, Izuku had a plausible excuse as he explained, "Oh, the u.n.d.e.r.w.e.a.r? I got them from my pocket dimension installed in this cube, here." He showed her the same cube that was part of his hero costume, adding, "In here I have all kinds of clothes for anyone of any size or age, you know… in case there's a natural disaster or similar emergency."

"..." Left speechless, Toga gestured for him to guide her to the bathroom and thus they left his room. As they passed by the hallways, a dim golden glow covered them to isolate any sound they might make. When Izuku finally brought her over to the bathroom, he locked the space inside such that small noises such as normal conversations or a running shower wouldn't be able to escape.

Toga, now alone in the shower, took time to think over the ridiculousness she had experienced over the last couple of hours. While indulging in a hot shower, she pressed her forehead onto the cool tiles that lined the wall before the showerhead, sighing from the pleasant combination of hot and cold as she thought, 'What am I even doing...'

'After the argument with mom and dad, I was disowned and ran away with nothing but the clothes on my back and my favorite retractable knife. I used what little pocket money I still had to buy a train ticket to get as far away from them as possible and finally search for the opportunity to drink someone's… anyone's blood and then I met him...'

As she undid her hair buns and let her unruly her plop down her face to begin shampooing, she paused to look at her reflection in the water that was collecting on the covered drain; failing as the rain-like shower was still running and the drops rippled the image she attempting to see. She thought her situation to be ironic as the day she let her impulses run wild, she met the first person to keep them in check with nothing but his words and presence. With Izuku around, she no longer felt that ever-familiar subconscious craving for human blood.

Closing her eyes as she finally started to clean her naturally messy hair, Toga continued her thoughts, 'Izuku Midoriya… He really is weird; almost impossible to understand, too. Like a mixed bag of conflicting ideas, he's extreme in so many ways, but somehow those conflicting extremes fit in with his behavior.'

She thought about everything Izuku had told her about himself. He was Quirkless, but had a type of superpower that would easily lead him to becoming a world-class hero. He was part of the ranks of U.A., the greatest hero school in all of Japan, but going by how and where they met, he could easily compare to a bottom-feeding delinquent.

'As a first-year in high school, he should be a year younger than me… To think that out of everyone I've met so far in life, a junior like him would be the most understanding and kind to me.' As she compared her experience with Izuku to everyone else she had met, he was by far the one who had treated her best; this remaining true despite the unfortunate circ.u.mstances behind their meeting.

Izuku had this insane power, one that put him at the very height of the social hierarchy in the current Quirk world, yet unlike every other person with amazing Quirks that she had met, he wasn't arrogant and self-righteous. As she grew up there usually followed a sort of untold rule that the more powerful and flashy the Quirk of the person she was interacting with, the worse she would be treated after the nature of her Quirk was revealed. How easy could it have been for Izuku to tell her off when they had their talk? Even if she hadn't done anything to him, even if he wasn't a student at U.A. all the police would have needed was his word to convict her as a criminal if only by virtue of his awesome power.

'Oh, Izuku… how ever did you manage to grow into such a kind and laidback character?' Toga thought. As she considered their interactions thus far, the only thing he had done was go along with her 'plan' to take her to the nearest station and eventually help her vent emotionally. Then he offered her more help by extending her the opportunity to spend the night over at his home instead of the street and then somehow fix her academic record and help her get into a hero school; something she had to look into after the showered ended.

For a second she became entranced as she recalled the image of his eyes glowing with golden splendor, not unlike her own eyes under the moonlight. Not realizing she was fantasizing over his appearance until far too much time had passed, courtesy of Izuku himself coming to knock on the door and ask if she was fine, she had to respond saying she was almost done before quickly drying off and settling into the clothes he had given her. As she put them on though, some sort of placebo had to have been taking effect as she gulped in the lingering scent off his clothes — which should have been just the laundry detergent — in ecstasy over what she presumed to be his 'mark.' Try as she might, she couldn't help looking a bit psychotic for that pure moment, before she quickly recovered and left to be guided back by Izuku to his room.

When she opened the bathroom door, however, she was met with the sight of Izuku holding a plate of crackers, ch.i.p.s, cured meats, and cheeses. "Since we only drank coffee, I wasn't sure if you were hungry or not, so I arranged this as a nighttime snack."

Once more feeling a joy she felt incomprehensible, Toga looked at Izuku then the plate several times before eventually responding with a smile, "Thank you… for the hospitality..."