A stranger's eye

Chapter 31: day 1

Amari didn't like being separated from Izuku. The week of his freedom didn't feel right without him.

He had ventured towards the city that housed UA high school. His training with Izuku did make him more aware of his surroundings, but the sun drained his energy quickly.

He would only be able to walk a few miles before needing to stop for a break. UA was only the next city over so it wasn't going to be a far walk, but he still had to figure out how he would get in.

He would assume the security for a hero school would be top notch. He didn't want to end up electrocuted by a door again, but if that meant being with Izuku again then he would choose otherwise.

Memories of the purple haired boy played in his mind. If he was able to find him, then maybe he would be guided to where UA was exactly. If he could just talk to a person in power, maybe, just maybe he could get to Shouta.

Only time would tell.

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Hawks and Izuku wandered around the store. Izuku was overwhelmed by everything around him, but the mask he put on was saying otherwise.

"How about this?" Hawks pulled up a black tank top, since it was the summer months still.

Izuku just looked at it and shrugged his shoulders.

"You don't care do you?"

"I've worn the same thing my entire life. Just get be something to wear and I'll be content."

Hawks placed the shirt in the basket he held with a few other pieces of clothes.  He remembered he was the same way when he had his internship. Clothes weren't something they worried about.

"So, happy birthday," he spoke picking out another pair of shorts for him.

Izuku sent a glare to hawks. 

"I know, birthdays are just another day, but I want you to live a little in the real world."

Izuku rolled his eyes. He knew he wanted to live, but the person he wanted to live with was dead.

"So fun fact, the internship is basically introducing how to live in the normal world with some hero stuff. I'm guessing you aren't going to be a limelight hero based on your personality and such, so you'll be joining me on most of my night missions."

"So I have to learn how to be a person, got it," he sassed looking to the opposite way.

Hawks let out a sigh. He forgot what it was like to not have any sort of freedom, kinda.

Freedom was a very loose term to them. He knew that he was still controlled by the commission, but he didn't live under their institutional place.

"I think this is enough for now. The more you are out in the world, the more you'll get a feel for what clothes you like."

"We actually get a choice?"

"With their approval. You never shop without telling them what you get or in this case someone who knows what to look for. Plain shirts and shorts are the way to go."

Izuku figured there was a catch. Nothing was that easy.

"We can head back to my place and get you situated."

"You left me in the car to get that sun tan lotion," he called back to their quick stop at Hawks's place.

"I knew where it was and it didn't take me long."

"You think it was a smart idea to leave someone who hasn't been in the outside world in years by themselves," he whispered, not wanting others to overhear.