The Underground

Part 6

One week later

The sun rised by the time Shinso decided to sit on a bench of an empty park. He got used to running at dawn that it helped him sleep that one day-not that it worked every time, but he guess it's worth trying. It wasn't quite a sunny day. Instead, it was quite gloomy, with just a few lonely adults passing by the pathway. He's able to look at the sky freely that morning, while he couldn't if it was sunny.

After a while, more people started coming. Little boys running around with their dog, while their parents sat with more adults not so far away. Shinso found himself smiling-once in a little while. 

Live the life kid, you wouldn't know how you'd be by my age.

A ball came flying at him at high speed. Shinso caught it with one hand, he didn't flinch. It's a boy's quirk going out of control. He's probably in primary school by how young he looks. His hair was jet black with a little bit of red, falling to his ears. He was fascinated by Shinso's reflex, while some parts of him felt guilty for almost harming someone. Despite, he run towards the middle school boy-clearly much older than him. 

"That was so cool!" the boy said, "You grabbed it mid-air like WHOOSH!"

Shinso smiled as he lend the boy back his ball. "That's one flashy quirk you got," he smiled, "Once you have more control of it, I bet you can rule the world." The boy scratched the back of his head and smiled. "Like Allmight?" he asked excitedly. Shinso nodded, "Sure, if you work hard enough." The boy smiled as he take the ball from Shinso's hand, "Thank you and I'm sorry."

"No need to be sorry," he smiled. "What's your name?" the boy asked. "You can call me Hitoshi," he replied, "What's yours?" "Kato." Shinso nodded, "I'll remember that, make sure you remember me once you're a hero." The kid nodded excitedly, "I'm pretty sure you'll be a hero before I am, Toshi." Shinso giggled. "I wish," he murmured, "then let's be heroes together." The boy nodded, then smiled once more before he left to play with the other kids. That one most sincere smile Shinso have seen in life, the one he pledge to remember.

"Kato," he murmured.

~

Aizawa get out of his apartment for the first time after having recovery girl remove most of his bandages the other day. He'd be out earlier that week if Nemuri didn't show up to prepare all the things he need each day-he didn't complain, he kind of enjoy the nursing.

In his all-black hero costume, Aizawa passed the street wanting to get some fruit punch from the market not so far from the city park. He took a sip of it after he went out of the market. As he walked back home, Aizawa's eyes got locked to a boy sitting on a park bench with another boy running towards him after catching a ball. The boy he recognized, purple hair, eye bags.

Aizawa decided to wait to ensure if he's who he's referring him to. These past days he have been looking for the boy, he almost believe he was just hallucinating. Little did he thought he'd seen him here after getting some scrubby fruit punch.