Can You Feel The Love Tonight

Chapter 7

"Nobody knows, the trouble I've seen, Nobody knows, my sorrow." Nezu sadly sang to Tomura, who was picking his teeth with a bone.

"Oh, Nezu, do lighten up. Sing something with a little bounce in it." Tomura said, and threw the bone at Nezu, who was in a cage.

"It's a small world after all-"

"No, no! Anything but that!" Tomura shouted.

"I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts, deedle dee dee, There they are standing in a row, Big ones, small ones, some as big as your head." Nezu and Tomura sang together.

"I would never have had to do this with All Might." Nezu mumbled.

"What? What did you say?" Tomura snapped.

"Nothing."

"You know the law." Tomura said. "Never ever mention that name in my presence. I am the king!"

"Yes, sire, you are the king." Nezu stuttered. "I-I only mentioned it to illustrate the differences. In your royal managerial approaches."

"Hey, boss!"

"Oh, what is it this time?" Tomura asked himself.

"We got a bone to pick with you." Dabi said.

"I'll handle this." Toga said and stepped towards the lion. "Tomura, there's no food, no water."

"Yeah. It's dinner time and we ain't got no sticking entrees." Dabi exclaimed.

"It's the lionesses' job to do the hunting." Tomura rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, but they won't go hunt."

"Eat Nezu." Tomura pointed at the white bird.

"Oh, you wouldn't me. I'd be so tough and gamey and-"

"Nezu, don't be ridiculous. All you need is a little garlic." Tomura chuckled.

"I thought things were bad under All Might." Dabi whispered.

"What did you say?" Tomura snapped.

"I said Al-"

Toga hit his stomach to shut him up.

"I said y'all mighty." Dabi said.

"Good." Tomura glared. "Now get out."

They walked to the entrance of the cave.

"But we're still hungry." Toga complained.

"OUT!" They whimpered as they ran off.

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Back at paradise with Izuku and his friends, the night was silent but Izuku belches interrupted it.

"Whoa! Nice one, Izuku." Denki said, as the three look up at the night sky.

"Thanks." Izuku thanked him. "Man, I'm stuffed."

"Me, too." Kirishima agreed. "I ate like a pig."

"Kirishima, you are a pig." Izuku chuckled.

"Oh. Right." Kirishima said. The trio paused when Kirishima asked a question. "Denki?"

"Yeah?"

"Ever wonder what those sparkling dots are up there?" He asked.

"Bro, I don't wonder, I know."

"Oh, what are they?" Kirishima asked again.

"They're fireflies. Fireflies that got stuck up in that big blueish-black thing" Denki explained to his friend.

"Oh, gee." Kirishima rubbed his belly. "I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away."

"Bro, with you, everything's gas," Denki said.

"Izuku, what do you think?" Kirishima asked the green maned lion.

"Well, I don't know." Izuku stuttered, his friends urged him on. "Well..."

"Yes?"

"Somebody once told me that the great kings and Queens of the past are up there watching over us." Izuku said and remembered his father telling him the same thing.

"Really?" Kirishima asked.

"You mean a bunch of royal dead people are watching us?" Denki started to laugh and the warthog soon joined in as well, Izuku laughed awkwardly. "Who told you something like that? What mook made that up?"

"Yeah. Pretty dumb, huh?" Izuku said with a sad smile.

"Aw, you're killing me."

"Yeah." Izuku said and the laughter started to quiet down, the lion looked up at the sky where his father, he hopes, is looking down on him. Izuku rolled up and started to walk off. Denki and Kirishima watched confused as to why he left.

"Was it something I said?" Denki asked.

Izuku walked to the edge of a ledge and remembered his mom, his family, and his crush, who he missed very deeply and sighed as he collapsed on the ground, and flowers underneath him flew away. Unknown to him the wind carried the flowers on the way to an old baboon in the Pridelands.

Torino grabbed the flowers in mid air and smelled them. He hummed to himself and jumped down into his home. He took a turtle shell and started to slowly mix them together, he took the same fruit that he put on Izuku's head as a cub and started to eat it. He gasped as the flowers formed a lion.

"Izuku?" He gasped. "He's- He's alive? He's alive!"

He started to laugh and swing around. He grabbed his staff and dipped his hand into some green paint. The old painting of a young Izuku, and drew a green mane on top of it.

"It is time!"