Time Changes Us (DekuBaku)

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A/N A bonus update because I love October. For those of you that asked, yes. I had a wonderful anniversary with my hubby. 🥰

All Might’s POV
They were hurt, all of them. I feel like I’m barely holding myself together and if it wasn’t for Katsuki and Izuku holding the girls I just might have dragged them back to the school to see Recovery Girl, violently. That’s exactly where we are going too, the school. 

Listening to them you would never guess that they were hurt so badly, they joked and laughed and ran around playfully while teasing their sisters. If I didn’t read the mission report myself about how long Katsuki was in a coma while he had his arm surgically reattached I would have thought he just broke it or something. 

Hitoshi was probably laughing the hardest even with his eye patch blocking half his sight and Izuku… There was nothing in the reports that I received about him getting burned or even depicted a situation that could have left him with a burn. How did it happen? When? Is he actually alright? As a father what am I supposed to do? 

“That’s it! You’re all getting checked over by Recovery Girl even if I have to drag you myself. You’re lucky I’m not taking you to the hospital!” Inko kept her voice low but even I felt the chill of her threat going down my back. Nevermind being a father, I need to support my wife as her husband or I might not have a home to go back to! 

“Your mother is right, how could you be so irresponsible as to not even get a check up? Are you trying to give your mother and I a heart attack?” I started guiding them towards the exit, only momentarily forgetting about the press waiting there. “Shit,” I groaned but gritted my teeth and pushed through anyway. 

Thanks to the mission in Rome being such a big international incident of course the press found out that three of the four were my children and that they were all students at UA. The fact that the boys announced that Kaminari had accepted a position with my agency right before the mission only seemed to make everything far more explosive. 

The doors opened and the girls hid their faces in the boys shoulders while we walked past the cameras. Reporters screaming out questions asking why children were allowed to take such difficult and dangerous missions, regardless of their licenses. 

Deku smiled for them but when he opened his mouth the room fell silent to hear him. 

“I understand why you are concerned. After all we are still young but as fully licensed heroes we are required to fulfill missions just as any other pro hero would,” sometimes it's hard to believe he is so awkward socially when he talks to the press so fluidly like this. “Having said that, the mission did turn out to be much larger than anticipated. If the local hero agency would have known it was so huge I’m sure they would have set up a much larger raid with more experienced heroes.” 

He smiled at them and I could see many letting their guard down at his innocence. “As you all can see, we only just got home and we are injured if you could make way for us. Our families and friends have missed us and we are tired from the long flight. Thank you all so much for supporting us through our hero work!” He giggled and I actually heard someone awe at him and we were able to leave the airport and board the bus, because there were far too many of us to worry about cars, and head back to the school. 

Once we were safely on the road, Aizawa driving, Mitsuki broke the silence. 

“WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING YOU BRAT!” Mitsuki started screaming and then Katsuki and her were bickering but the nonsensical fight helped to calm my nerves and I was finally able to see the burn on Izuku’s back. I wouldn’t let him run away anymore and this doesn’t look like an injury from a fight…