Our Art Is Our Connection

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I look inside the empty classroom and spot my uncle on his desk, I carefully open the door and sneak behind him. He was focused on his task and had music in his ears. I then take the time to walk up to him and jump on his shoulders.
"Boo!" I say loudly at the same time and he jumps going to hit me by reflex and I dodge as usual.
"Happy to see you too very dear uncle!" I grin proudly of my stunt, I love scaring people!
"For the love of All Might stop sneaking up on people like that! I'll end up having a full on heart attack!" He scolds me and I chuckle grabbing a chair sitting across his desk.
"Did you eat?" I ask him and he sighs loudly and takes a bento out of his bag.
"I bet mine was better! Mom did it!" I give him a smug grin making him roll his eyes.
"So, how is it so far?" He asks me taking a bite of his food.
"It's awesome I met a bunch of people and people actually like my art! And I saw some of the others and they're awesome! Even Bakugo had good art works, lacks emotions but that's an other story! And Uraraka and Tsu are so good! They learned together and apparently Tsu's brother showed them a lot the rest is practice!" I continue rambling about all the people I met today and he listens while eating. "The day isn't over, but I really want to go to this school, it's way better then I thought! There isn't a whole lot of control over everything like I originally expected!" I say smiling.

"Do you think that dad would be proud of me now..?" I mumble sadly and he quickly gets up hugging me.
"He's an asshole, stop worrying about his opinion." He says softly and I wipe my tear quickly.
"Yup! You're right, he's an ass who went to get the milk and never came back!" I say trying to push away this feeling with a short laugh.
"Well if it means anything.. I'm proud, I'm so damn proud of who you became. You went from someone who was closed on the world and look at you now. You stood up to Katsuki Bakugo out of respect to yourself!" He has a proud smile that brighten my day.
"You saw that!?" I say laughing and embarrassed.
"Yeah we were a few to witness, even Shota smiled!" He chuckles and I laugh a little.
"Thank you Yagi, for everything.. For being there from the beginning and being the best father figure I could have asked for!" I smile at him meaning every word.
"Would be a shitty uncle if I let my nephew and sister on their own wouldn't it?" He smile a tear falling, I'm pretty sure it was of joy.. "But I'm happy to be there for you but, you did most of the work on your own, even the school noticed you without me mentioning you!" He says proudly.
"By that do you mean they mentioned it and you added icing and a cherry on top?" I raise an eyebrow before we both laugh.
"But seriously kid, you did your own reputation without using no one else to build it. Many would of used their uncle to get here but you never even tried to, you worked so hard. You passed from painting on walls for fun and running from trouble to painting these gorgeous murals. You have something to be proud of!" He smiles and I laugh at the memories of when I started. I would go in alley-way and run from the old lady that came to scold me every time she caught me. And now, I fixed it up and it's part of my progress. That lady that would run after me ended up watching me over time and she was my first 'client' even if I did it for free, for never calling the cops on me an all- And she spread the word and I got to work on things and people just told me to do whatever I wanted with the wall and I would spend hours doing it. All I asked in exchange was for them to buy the material. Other then that it was just for fun. 
"I wish the old lady was still there.. I'm sure she would have loved to have a frog or a humming bird on her wall.." I mumble with a sad smile.

"Life is too short!" I say suddenly with a large smile.
"Indeed it is." My uncle agrees with a soft smile.
"Is the offer to go see the principal to have an interview still on the table?" I ask looking at him and he nods with a look of proudness in his eyes.
"He dosen't think the interview was necessary actually, with the impression you made today he just wants you to sign papers and he wanted to see for himself more of your art!" He explains and I nod putting the chair back in place.
"Good then!" I smile at him.
"I can join you here after class?" I ask him and he nods.
"Okay! I'm gonna go so I don't get lost and get there late!" I laugh embarrassed and leave the room.