Time Changes Us (DekuBaku)

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All Might's POV
I walked into class A to find all three of my boys missing from their seats and everyone else looking up at me confused.

"Where are-?" I started to ask but my phone beeped, making me pull it out to find that Toshi had sent a message.

Toshi: We are in the nurse's office. Uncle Painkiller's quirk wore off of Kacchan and Deku knocked him out. Uncle is on his way now.

"Oh," I relaxed only for Aizawa to snatch my phone out of my hand and read the message himself.

"... They call Painkiller, Uncle?" He asked after several minutes of just looking at my phone and I chuckled a little. "Painkiller? THE Painkiller?"

"Yeah, Izuku found him while we were in France and kind of adopted him as found family or something like that but Painkiller insisted that he was too old to be their brother or cousin and well one thing led to another and by the time I found them they were already knee deep in shenanigans. Then he found out I was their father and well… Yeah," I chuckled at the memory. "If he is on his way that means that Katsuki is healing and is ready for his follow up surgery."

"Surgery!?!" A few of the other students yelled in surprise and it was my turn to be surprised.

"Didn't they tell you about his arm?" I looked around trying to figure out how they've been back for a whole day already and none of their classmates actually know what happened? How did they manage that?

It was Iida that stood up, "Sir, they've been avoiding us. Could you tell us?"

I thought about it for a minute and to be honest there is a high chance that they will need their classmates help with something so I looked at Kaminari who was currently trying to make himself as small as possible.

"Kaminari, you were there, brief the class on the mission that Katsuki and Hitoshi were hurt on," I directed and he groaned.

"Do I have to?" He whined and I swear I did a double take before lifting an eyebrow at him. He let out a sigh, "fine." Before standing up. He knows very well that he can't act like that while working at my agency, his only pass is the fact that we are currently in class but I guess I am being a little hard on the boy. 

"We had already found the kids that had been kidnapped and bought through the slave trade," he started with the mission report and how they notified the standby team and then everything up until when the first boy appeared.

"The boy was actually the villain," he went on to describe how later during the trial they found out that his quirk sucked the vitality out of others and gave it to him and if he "used" the vitality he could create what was basically an air saw, depending on how many years of vitality he used depended on how strong it was.

"He…" Kaminari's voice broke but he cleared it and kept going with his voice breaking every now and again. "He already knew of the three youngest heroes in history; Dynamight, Deku and Mockingjay but he wasn't familiar with me so he stated during his trial that the best way to get rid of all of us was to pick one of the three, he picked Dynamight who was guarding the girl he was supposed to use his quirk on that night and me because I was an unknown variable."

He looked back up at me pleading with his eyes to be able to stop but none of this was in the report that I was given. They didn't give me the trial notes, only the mission report.

"He didn't want any mistakes so he decided he would decapitate Dynamight, he said he used ten years just to make sure there was no chance of him chasing after him," my hands clenched as both fear and rage flooded my body at Kaminari's words.

"Deku panicked and turned around screaming and running for Dynamight pushing him out of the way and Dynamight used an explosion behind Deku's head which disrupted the air saw and saved both of them from getting their heads cut off. None of us saw the second air saw aimed at the girl holding onto Dynamight for dear life so when Deku pushed Dynamight back the girl was thrown back enough for the air saw to miss splitting her in half and instead it ripped Dynamight's arm off and threw both his arm and the girl roughly six meters away and knocking the girl out when she hit her head hard on the ground." Kaminari took a deep breath, a few actually before going on, his voice shaking in places.

"Then he said that he only used about three years for me because even if it didn't slit my throat I would be far too distracted with the decapitated head of one of All Might's sons to care to chase after him. Mockingjay saw him turn his attention to me and guessed that he would do the same to me as Dynamight so he pushed me to the ground hard and twisted his body to try and dodge getting hit himself. He only half succeeded, when he turned he was able to avoid getting hit directly but the backlash of the air blade cut his left eye… Mockingjay was hospitalized and had multiple surgeries for his eye and several healing quirks but in the end he still has to wear an eye patch for several more months. While Dynamight…" Kaminari took a deep breath and tried to force it out but choked.

It took a while of him trying to swallow some spit and I was just about to cut him off because I already know this part but suddenly he spoke up, his voice heavy, "Dynamight can't take anesthesia medications. So even after someone, I think it was the hero Runic, used his quirk to stabilize him he was rushed into surgery. The room wasn't sound proof, he. He. He woke up so many times while they operated on him. While they tried to reattach his arm, the way he screamed echoed through the busy halls even when they were full of people during the day. He begged for it to stop, he demanded for someone to call for Painkiller but no one seemed to know who he was talking about until Deku pushed his way inside with the hero when he arrived. And even after he used his quirk on him he still screamed and cried. I couldn't make out the words but it sounded like he was mourning someone dying instead of being in pain."

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" I shouted when he didn't seem to notice how many times I tried to get him to stop. "That's… That was a memory you heard at the end. Whatever you do, don't ask about that," I warned them all and it's only now that I'm able to turn my attention away from Kaminari to see the shocked faces of his classmates. "None of us want to remember that day."

I couldn't hold myself together and it was obvious that Aizawa noticed. He sent the students to the gym and to change before I could cave.

"Are you okay?" He asked slowly.

"They never sent me the trial transcripts," I whispered before sitting down. "I think I'll need a few minutes, could you have them run laps until I get there?" I asked, not turning to look at him. I flinched when his hand touched my shoulder, not expecting him to try and comfort me.

"Take all the time you need," he patted my shoulder before leaving me in the room with my thoughts. I feel like I'm going crazy. In the end I took out my phone and contacted the hero Flame, requesting the trial transcripts to be sent to me.

Flame: Are you sure? It isn't pretty.

All Might: I need to know.

Flame: Okay. Don't show the Green Demon until after the baby is born though. I refuse to hurt you more than you've been hurt already.

All Might: Thank you.

It took only moments before the file was sent to me and I sat there and read. I ended up sending Aizawa a message telling him I couldn't come after all but he just sent a thumbs up and that was all. I went to my office to try and digest what all I already read and prepare myself to finish.

My boys have been far too strong for far too long.