Living A Lie

Chapter 10

"Wanna go to that new Hero Museum is Musutafu?" Midoriya randomly asks Shouto, phone in hand, staring at the screen. "I've been wanting to go since it opened, but my dads have been too busy, and Kacchan's been spending all his time with Kirishima, which is fine, and I thought it might be a good first date..."

Shouto smiles a little. He doesn't really have any actual interest in heroes or the history of heroics, but he enjoys seeing the way Midoriya's face lights up any time he's talking about heroes. "Sure."

Izuku's face lights up like a Christmas tree, and he immediately calls his dad's personal number. The moment that Shouta answers the phone, Izuku immediately gushes out, "Can Todoroki and I go to the new Hero Museum. You said I could only go if I took someone with me, and I thought it might be a good first date, and Todoroki said he'd like to go and..."

"No."

"Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!" Izuku pleads, trying to get his way. "We'll be really careful, and I have my provisional license if anything happens, and I'll take my capture scarf."

"Fine, but Raven goes with you." Shouta answers knowing that his son was only going to continue begging, and at least with his student's cat there, they'll be guaranteed to be kept safe. Anything that can lead to absolute terror in Endeavor is definitely powerful enough to protect his kids, a fact that became even more apparent when Hawks told him exactly what Endeavor had said happened.

An hour later, Shouto finds himself staring at a massive statue of All Might that had to have been sculpted and placed before the building was built as there was no physically possible way that it could have been brought in any of the doors. As he stands there, Midoriya is rambling on about some fact or another about the hero that the statue is of. He starts glancing around the room while his boyfriend continues rambling which leads to Shouto noticing that Raven isn't next to him anymore, a realization that leads to the boy searching from where he's at for a flash of white fur, anywhere. When he finally finds her, she's standing in between All Might's feet poised to vomit something onto one of the sculpted shoes.

"Raven no," Shouto calls out to the cat exasperatedly.

Raven looks up at him with the most pouty look he's ever seen on her face.

"You know it's wrong, get back over here."

As Raven walks back to Shouto, he can see that she's clearly mocking him as she mouths along with the song "Mother" by Meghan Trainor which magically starts playing in his head. Knowing the things Raven can do, Shouto is absolutely certain that she's the reason the song appeared in his head.

Luckily, Midoriya also noticed how Raven was acting toward the statue, and he decides that they should start walking around to look at the other exhibits. At each exhibit, Midoriya starts giving Shouto a rundown on the history of each hero, vigilante, or villain, their quirks including an in depth analysis of how each quirk could be used for heroics or villainy. The level of detail and analysis that the boy gives both terrifies and amazes Shouto. In the wrong hands, Midoriya's brain could probably bring down the Hero Commission if not the entirety of Japan.

The museum, for Shouto, just ends up a blur of images and artifacts merged with a massive amount of infodumping from his green haired date, but, every now and then, Midoriya would glance in one direction or another as if he saw someone suspicious, but Shouto never noticed anything. At different points, though, Shouto would notice Raven doing odd things, like jumping around behind them, and transforming into different large cats, and other times, he'd notice that she disappeared entirely only to reappear as a human with the same collar that she wears as a cat.

Despite all the chaos, though, Shouto thoroughly enjoys himself, even finding a favorite exhibit. It was on someone who's classified as a vigilante, but they existed before the time of heroics being a job. The thing he liked most about the exhibit was that the vigilante, known as Yokai, reminded him of Raven, from their short brown hair that was somewhere between wavy and curly to the fact that their gender changed from time to time to every animalistic form they took being completely white except for naturally multicolored creatures, or animals with manes or hair, having brown markings. If he didn't know any better, he'd almost think the Vigilante was, in fact, Raven. But that's not possible because that Vigilante was around before the Hero Commission, and even fought against its founding. There's no way that Raven could be that old. No one could possibly live that long.