Chapter 98: Blood Diagnostics I

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A/N: OCs in this chapter:

Wakakuro Seibo – Quirk: Empathy – Former foster care caseworker of Hitoshi, Isozan, and Uretori

Tohiro – Quirk: Blood Diagnostics – Patient on Unit Echo, current foster child of the Hamabi family (Hitoshi's foster family before he was adopted by Aizawa and Yamada)

Hamabi Hanisu – Quirk not revealed, Hitoshi's former foster mother, current foster mother of Tohiro

Hamabi Genori – Quirk not revealed, Hitoshi's former foster father, current foster father of Tohiro

Nato Hachisho – PR manager for HPSC

Takaga Mayori – HPSC agent

Omoto Isozan – Quirk: Full Throttle

Omoto Uretori (aka Phantasm) – Quirk: Hallucinogenic Gas

"Wakakuro wants to be there for the meeting," Hitoshi said.

"Is that a good idea?" Neito hedged.

Hitoshi sighed, eyes rolling up to the ceiling, unsure. "He always had a problem with me, but he never treated Isozan anything other than kindly, or Tohiro, for that matter. I don't think it'll be a problem."

"If it is, we can always have Kurogiri spirit him away!" Denki interjected, throwing himself across their laps.

"Well," Neito started, and Hitoshi shifted under Denki's weight, sure that whatever was going to come out next was going to be entertaining, "when Kurogiri warps someone, they don't just disappear, they go somewhere else, so depending on how atrocious the behavior is, he could end up on a tropical island vacation, or a hundred meters above an active volcano so that he at least has some time to think about what he's done."

"You would have been a great villain," Dabi said, breezing into the room, looking at Neito like he was a lost cause as a hero.

Neito smiled brightly and barely had time to chirp a thank you to Dabi before Denki was already saying, "maybe we should ask for him to be dropped higher than a hundred meters, though. Less than two seconds isn't exactly much time to think about anything other than 'oh, shit. I'm about to die from being warped above an active volcano.'"

Neito looked down at Denki on his lap, who looked back up at Neito, not understanding the surprise he saw on his soulmate's face. "You had such a hard time in school with math, and here you are doing advanced calculations in your head about gravity acceleration?" Neito pressed, clear awe in his voice.

Denki giggled. "No," he admitted, reaching up to run his fingers along Neito's jaw, amazed that Neito would think so highly of him instead of reaching the correct conclusion right away. "I just have used my lightning to blast myself into the sky so many times at varying heights that I know from experience how long it takes an average sized adult male to free fall from many different heights. Never underestimate the power of experience."

Slowly, the grins started growing on the soulmates' faces until the laughter burst free and could not be contained.

Denki's phone chimed with a new notification, and with tears in his eyes from his laughter, he looked, and he sobered quickly. Hitoshi and Neito noticed and looked down at him in concern as he stared at his phone screen with intense concentration, worrying his bottom lip between two teeth as he thought about what he saw there.

Unofficial.HPSC: '@P05itiv3R3volt Let's meet up? I'll send you the coordinates to a neutral location. No tricks—just a discussion and we all walk away at the end.'

"What's up, Denks?" Hitoshi prompted, squeezing a hip in comfort, rubbing his thumb over the skin of Denki's hip bone where the shirt rode up.

"Uh..." Denki sputtered, looking up from his phone in bewilderment. "The Hero Public Safety Commission wants to meet with me."

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