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Some were more mundane than others but everyone could appreciate going to the mall for groceries or to pick up any items that they needed for the week. Hitoshi liked going to the mall as well, because it had the best thing in the world (apart from his dads), the pet store. There everyone could go in and see the animals espically the cats and kittens. Aizawa looked over at Hitoshi who had sat down in front of the kitten room watching a few being groomed laughing Aizawa had been mulling over an idea for a few months. Hitoshi was doing amazing with his quirk for a kid but still having problems in class because people looked at the quirk and not the kid. He sighs and pushes the thought to the back of his mind, he waves to Hitoshi and sees no response the kid was glued to the kittens. He had a few moments, he taps Hizashi on the shoulder who breaks away from looking at the cats he sees Aizawa shushing him and mouths back, "I haven't even used my quirk let alone talk."
Aizawa gives Hizashi a deadpanned stare and motions for him to follow. They both head to the counter of the store hopefully out of earshot of Hitoshi. Aizawa leans and looks to see that nothing changed and whispers to Hizashi, "I have been thinking about getting him a kitten."
"That sounds amazing. He'll love it but why are you pulling me up here for?" Hizashi asks. His eyes widen, "You want to get the kitten soon and say its an early fifth birthday present?"
Aizawa shrugs and nods. That was his plan, "I need you to distract him so this way I can walk around and get supplies for the kitten, we have most from mr.fluffles but that was eight years ago and things need to be updated. Try to get an answer on which kitten or cat is his favorite please."
Hizashi smiled, "Getting people to talk is something I can do. Getting him to talk about cats is going to be a cakewalk."
Aizawa shook his head at another random english idoim and looks at the store clerk who was looking at the both of them, "Are you guys heroes?"
Hizashi playfully hip checked Aizawa hinting for him to go and start getting things for a cat but looks back over his shoulder to Aizawa as he walks away, "I now know why we didn't get much for groceries. You could have told me though."
Present Mic answers all the questions the girl had with a wave he walks back to the pet isle and grins that suddenly disappears. Hitoshi wasn't in the isle, he sprints through the isle and checks the small fish alcove behind it, Hitoshi could have wanted to see the brightly colored fish, it wouldn't be unusual for him. No he wasn't there. Aizawa he could be with Aizawa! Hizashi quickly sprints through the store looking up and down all the isles trying to spot either the tuft of purple hair or someone trying to carry too many things for a cat or a combination of the two.
Hitoshi saw the worker leave the room for a second and as the door was closing he saw that no one not even his dads were watching. He gave an evil grin and walked into the cat room, he makes sure the door is left open a bit not knowing if he could open it again if he had to. He didn't want to get caught in here again, his dads both warned him that if he got caught again they wouldn't come back here for a month. With his escape route ready he turns to the wall of pets waiting to be groomed and taken care of and he spots the fluffiest looking tabby cat that had tempted him to come here in the first place. He moves closer to the cage and waves to the cat intimating some of the other cats in the room and meowing. The cat wakes up from their nap and looks at Hitoshi with big green eyes. That broke him he had to touch them, bringing his hands to the bars of the cage he sees the cat move back a bit, "Please let me pet you. I know to be gentle."
The cat not understanding the English language keeps back even at Hitoshi pouting. He was determined to see this down even if he got in trouble and opens the small door, "Just one pat then."
The tabby bolted out of the cage and out of the door quietly escaping. Hitoshi eyes wide with panic follows, the cat could get hurt on their own. He had to get to them first. He runs as quickly and as quietly as he can after the cat out of the store and into the main mall. The cat causes a bit of a commotion but people saw the child running after and then looked for a parent. The tabby was fast and made it to the mall exit within a few minutes, Hitoshi had almost lost them twice because people were trying to stop him. He asked people to let go of him nicely and a lot of people did, with his tongue sticking out of his mouth he was a few feet away from the cat until he sees that they were about to run outside. He tries to go a bit faster if he lost them out there then he would never find them again.
"Aizawa is Hitoshi with you?" Hizashi asks having seen Aizawa in the second last isle.
Aizawa looks at him, "No I told you to go and look after-"
Aizawa leaves the shopping cart and both of them run to the front of the store, "Can we check security-"
"Sir this will have to wait. An animal had just escaped the store." A security officer says cutting Aizawa off.
Hizashi looks at the officer and speaks up before Aizawa could, "Was a kid following them? Looked to be about five and had purple hair?"
"Yes but-" The officer starts and both start to run off into the mall and follow the tracks of people giggling about a cat often asking for where they saw the chase happen with Aizawa being the one allowed to yell out for Hitoshi. Losing a child wasnt a crime that could let Hizashi use his quirk in such a crowded area.
"I'm sorry for this!" Hitoshi yelled as he jumped and grabbed the cat both of them going down. The tabby squirmed in his hands but he wraps them in a tight hug, "I got to bring you back."
Hitoshi looks up and sees a few people following him and some other people staring at him blankly, "Please don't tell my dads."
A younger hero in costume smiles and emerges from the crowd, "We- well at least I wont as long as you promise to return the cat so you don't get in trouble for stealing."
They could both agree in that. The hero helps Hitoshi up onto his feet and looks closly at him, "Got a bruise there are you okay?"
Hitoshi didn't feel the sting where the hero was pointing to a bruise, he only felt a bit out of breath. He shakes his head, "I'm okay and so is the kitty."
The hero extends their hand silently asking permission to enter his personal space and Hitoshi nods, the hero picks him up and starts to bring him inside. They are about to enter the mall when they both go flying as the wall explodes. The hero tightly wraps his arms around Hitoshi as they soar through the air but lands painfully on his back. Hitoshi screamed along with many bystanders. The bank was being robbed, three figures emerge from the smoking crater in the wall carrying large sacks of money and the biggest of the trio holding a small safe.
"Lets just go!"
The hero gently rolls Hitoshi onto the ground and tells him to stay safe, "Stop right there!"
The trio hear the sound of a hero and turn. The ringleader takes a step forwards, "Looky looky we have a hero here."
They laugh and Hitoshi shakes his head. Now he felt hurt but was still holding onto the cat. He sees the person who wanted to help him shaking and he remembers why he has all these saturday mornings. It's because his dads are heroes, and heroes always help. He still cant help but shake as much as the hero standing up to them. They shared a few small lines of banter and then the small scragly looking figure pulls something put of his belt and shreiks at the top of his lungs, "You are not going to take on three of us all by yourself. Not if you have to take care of the people around you!"
They throw something far back into the crowd and people scatter half a second before the area explodes. The entrance to the malls pillars start falling and seals the door shut.
Aizawa and Hizashi were already running when they nearly lost their balance as the place shook. They were heroes and had a duty to the people as well. Hizashi nods and jumps onto a set of benches shouting easiy above the noise and starts directing people to act calm and safely while more heroes arrive on the case. Aizawa saw the smoke rising from the ruined entrance and hears theta the this was all from a bank robbery some villain was blowing up the place. Aizawa rushes to the bank they would have a secondary exit he could use to get outside. They had to. Another explosion rocks the building and another.
Hitoshi was outside and looking at the three villains the big one was waiting for instructions. He answered a question, "Help get them. And keep people safe!"
The ring leader looks at the big guy and starts back tracking into the scraggly one, "Do something!"
An impish grin comes over the scraggly looking one, "Kid you said keep people safe! What about kitties?" They drop the sack of money from the bank pulling a large sticky bomb out, "Good luck dodging this kid!"
The hero saw the throw and ripped off part of their costume tossing it into the air to intercept it. The piece of cloak wraps around it and as soon as it hits the ground a foot in front of Hitoshi the young hero kicks the bomb away. It makes it a split second before exploding sending cement and shrapnel flying everywhere. Aizawa had made it outside and turns to see a few bodies flying smoking and some even still on fire. He glares at the trio he didn't have his costume with him, but he was here for everyone. He closes the distance and goes for the scraggly one first guessing by them smiling at the smoking bodies that they held a part in that. The bombs were made but couldn't be used as efficently if he was knocked out. Not having his capture weapon made a small difference. He feints for a low attack they guessed and raised to properly block a punch. Only for them it was a kick to the side of the head. Aizawa turns not bothering to check to see if the kick had knocked his opponent out and heard faintly in the back, "Kid! KID!" He had to focus on the fight. He easily dispatches the ringleader who was appearing to have cybernitacally upgraded himself. The third stood still for a split second shaking away the look in his eyes, "Where the hell is that kid! I'm gonna kill them! Fucking mental brainwashers!"
Aizawa froze and looked over at the wreckage to his side the sounds of all the screams and the sounds of emergency service cars were getting louder. The slipt second look was all it took fro him to lose the advantage, Aizawa feels the breath being knocked out of him in a punch that sent him to the ground. He looks up to quickly be grabbed and lifted, "Stupid civilian should leave hero work to the heros." They say as they start to squeeze Aizawas head in his hands. Aizawa feels like his head is about to implode and tries to use his quirk against them his hair rising and the presser lessens. He sees them smile, "So get the eyes then." They move their hands and one covers Aizawa eyes and the squeezing begins again the thumb gouges into Aizawa eye socket and he screams! He tries to focus on anything licking out with his legs and trying to rip his way out with his own arms focusing on anything else. He stops and his heart drops when he sees a tuft of purple hair sticking out from under a cement slab. Hitoshi.
Aizawa arches his back up and sticks his own foot in the Villains mouth as they were laughing. Jamming his foot all the way to the back of their throat. They lot go coughing and trying to rip Aizawa's foot out of their mouth. Aizawa gets flung after a few more seconds of struggling and the villain freezes in its tracks. Aizawa didn't care how he turns around and starts crawling to where he last saw the tuft of hair through the blinding agony. He was going to give Hitoshi a gift, he needed to know where he was to give him a gift. He finds the cement slab almost tripping into it, he didn't have one eye and it was messing with him. He pushes the cement slab up and sees part of the clothes were still smoking, "Shinso please move I got the slab. Daddies here. Shinso please-" Aizawa bends down keeping the slab on his back and tries to gingerly pick up Hitoshi who's eyes open a fraction he winces as he hears fractured bones and can see the burn marks on his sons side. A sicken wet crunching noise was heard then Hitoshi screamed as his leg twisted forwards at the knee bending at all the wrong angles. Hitoshi kept screaming but Aizawa had to move he was apologizing for the next shuddering movements the slab lands heavily behind then. Aizawa turns around kneeling on the ground and places Hitoshi correctly in his arms. He could feel blood and other fluids dripping into his clothes but Hitoshi''s leg was mangled. The screams subside on because the four year old passed out. The police were talking the villains into custody and Aizawa looked over, hoping to see any medical services they weren't there yet.
Aizawa rocked back and forth holding onto Hitoshi even when Hizashi came out and wrapped his arms around him apologizing for everything that happened but both were there before any medical quirks or emergency service cars appeared they saw Hitoshi breath his last breath.
It was a Saturday they would never forget.