Trouble (SeroDeku)

Chapter 26

"Iz?" Hanta asked in blatant shock, not even trying to hide how confused he was at the villain's presence in his office. He quickly shut the door after he checked the hall to make sure no one else had caught sight of the other man. "What the hell are you doing here?" 

Izuku kicked his feet off the desk and pushed himself out of the extremely uncomfortable desk chair (he made a mental note to get Hanta a better one soon). "I got bored. Shiggy and Chisaki are still plotting on their own and keeping me far from it. Himiko is constantly busy with your sisters, and there's only so many times I can bother Aizawa before he starts activating his quirk," he said with a huff, walking to the front of the desk and propping himself up on it. 

Hanta looked him up and down with an amused smile, walking over to his desk and letting his hands rest on either side of the other man. "So, I'm your last choice?" he asked with one raised brow. 

"No, that's Kacchan," Izuku stated, tilting his head to look up at the taller hero, seemingly unaffected by their proximity. "You were my second to last." 

"Stop, I'm blushing," Hanta teased, bumping his nose into Izuku's before backing off to walk around his desk and taking a seat. "Unfortunately, I am at work and can't drop everything to entertain you." 

"Please, your work is way more entertaining than you on your own," Izuku said with a dark chuckle, whirling around to lean over Hanta's desk and scan the paperwork scattered across it. He'd already read everything that had caught his interest and now waited to see what the hero would reach for. 

Hanta completely disregarded the case files and reports littering his desk in favor of a new file he pulled from a drawer. "Keep sweet-talking me, and I might have to clock out early," he chided, handing the folder over to Izuku without any sort of prodding. 

The villain raised a brow at the action but didn't object, flicking through the file quickly. "What is this?" 

"You said her name was Eri, right?" Hanta asked, leaning back in his chair. "It's everything Aizawa could dig up on her, which is unsurprisingly almost nothing. Her parents had suspected ties to the yakuza and died a few years back. She's been off the radar ever since." 

Izuku shut the file and let it fall onto the desk. "Why're you showing me this?" 

"You said you were bored. I know you wouldn't have shown up here if you weren't looking for something to analyze and pull apart," Hanta said with a shrug. For as much fuss as Izuku kicked up about being unreadable and unknowable, Hanta almost had him down to a science. 

It unsettled the villain more than he cared to admit. 

"And what the hell am I supposed to do with that?" Izuku asked, his arms crossing over his chest. "Her background won't help me get her out of there, and I can't do anything until I hear back from Chisaki anyway." 

"You want to work on something that has nothing to do with Shigaraki or Chisaki?" Hanta asked, caught off guard by the request. He'd figured Izuku would want to put everything into getting the girl back and tearing down the villains' enterprise. 

"I want you to work on something that has nothing to do with them," Izuku corrected, his jaw clenching for a moment before he caught himself. "I can handle those two on my own, and I need you as far away from it as possible." 

"Sorry, lightning bug," Hanta said, but there was no sympathy in his voice, "but you're not my boss. I do what Aizawa assigns me to." 

"I knocked that guy on his ass in two seconds and you're gonna listen to him over me?" 

"He writes my checks." 

"Quit your job and I'll make sure you never run out of cash." 

"What?" Hanta couldn't stop the question from leaving his mouth. He'd always known that Izuku wasn't particularly fond of his profession, of course, he knew that, but he'd never outright told him to quit. Not only had the villain just told him to quit his job, but he'd essentially just offered to be his sugar daddy.