The Emperor's Dragon

Alliance

"It's a warehouse."

Tsukauchi rubbed his forehead and nodded, even though the officer couldn't see it through his phone. "Thanks for checking, Officer Tancho," he told them before hanging up.

He made a mark on the tablet and shook his head. It was a bust. He scrolled through his contacts, and hit dial on the right one. He knew they'd be working for the same reason he was. To keep his mind off what was happening in the hospital.

Toshinori had been in and out of surgery several times already and there were more to come. The emergency surgery was still ongoing. It was only interrupted so that they could pump him full of drugs and liquid and so that the surgeons could take a break. Twenty-eight hours on and the situation was as grim as ever.

The phone connected. "What is it, Detective?"

"We can't find Izuku," he told the sidekick.

"I'm sorr-"

"No," Tsukauchi interrupted the apology. "You're not. If you had any interest in finding the kid, you would have let us go after him yesterday." He growled. He was so frustrated. They knew where Izuku was. He'd been at school. The school themselves confirmed it. He'd gone home as usual and this morning, he just hadn't shown up! There was no explanation for that.

They had given him Izuku's home address. The new one, and the one they had registered from his first enrollment. Both came up empty. The phone numbers were also not being answered.

"We could not risk All For One suspecting anything," Mirai retorted, sounding tired.

"We wouldn't have gone for him in the morning!" Naomasa growled back. The sidekick knew that. "We would have gone during your operation, or just after it. Then we would have Izuku!" The Police weren't about to interrupt the Number One Hero's mission but there were chances to get both missions completed.

"I understand your desire to solve this case but capturing All For One was more important." Sir Nighteye still had the gall to attempt to sound reasonable.

"You do not!" Tsukauchi snapped. The sidekick did not understand his desire. The sidekick thought nothing of Izuku and even less of Inko. He thought she was some stupid woman for getting involved with All For One. He knew it wasn't like that. She couldn't lie to him and every word she said told him just how much she'd been betrayed.

"The kid should be at home or returning to school. Pick him up from there," Sir Nighteye told him.

Tsukauchi forced himself to take a deep breath before replying. "The home addresses were fake," he told the sidekick through clenched teeth. "And he hasn't come to school today." He couldn't help the hiss that escaped with the statement. "What am I going to tell his Mother?" He asked the question.

"You tell her nothing," Sir Nighteye replied immediately. Naomasa could hear his disbelief that he had the gall to even suggest that they tell Inko Midoriya anything.

"She is involved in this case."

"Five years ago she was involved. Not anymore," Sir Nighteye was matter of fact when he made that announcement.

Tsukauchi stared at his phone for a few moments, not believing what he was hearing. "Izuku is her son," he said softly. How did the sidekick not believe that Inko was involved? No mother ever forgot her children.

"She is no longer involved," All Might's sidekick repeated.

Naomasa trembled slightly. He sighed heavily. "It's going down in my report that your obstruction caused us to miss getting the child back."

"We got All For One. One child, a villain's child is no price at all to pay for that."

Tsukauchi gritted his teeth. Sir Nighteye didn't care and it wasn't 'we' who got All For One, it was Toshinori. Sir Nighteye might have found the man's location but that was his job and when you broke it down, almost any sufficiently skilled analyst could have found him, if they had the details of the case. Naomasa knew why Yagi didn't want the details getting out but... It was Toshinori who had taken out All For One, and it was Toshinori who was in the hospital paying the direct price.