"So your mother is asking about the girl you mentioned to her?"
Izuku sighed as he again sat beside Ryuko on the vault's couch in the middle of the night after a long day of hero-ing at the agency.
"Yeah... the advice I asked for is back to haunt us. I'm sorry, Ryuko."
She shook her head. "Izuku, you're over-apologising again."
"Right, right... But it is my fault that this is happening. I should've thought more about what I said during the interview. Now we have another situation like Mr. Hadena on our hands."
"Honestly, Izuku, I don't think it's that bad."
Izuku gawked at Ryuko, noting how surprisingly calm she was. "Really? So you have a solution?"
"In a sense. You said your mother 'isn't too pushy,' and you can't really lie to her as you've thoroughly explained to me in the past, so... tell her a bit about us."
His eyes became saucers. "WHAT!? JUST TELL HER EVERYTHING!?"
"No, not everything... not yet, anyway.-"
She winced slightly.
"-Only bits of the truth. Tell your mother that the girl you confessed to confessed in return and that you're both waiting until our respective situations have stabilised before starting a proper relationship and leave it at that. None of that is a lie."
Izuku was still very unsure about this. "But... but... she'll want to meet her—to meet you! And my Mum's already thinking that I'm not telling her because I got rejected. None of this will add up."
"Then tell her I'm just not ready to meet her, and that's why you were so cagey. Which is also mostly true..." She sweated slightly.
Izuku frowned in thought. "I guess that works... She's still really going to want to meet up, though. But she's kind and patient enough not to force the issue, I guess..."
"Look, Izuku, someday we must tell her about us... In a way, it's good to have her prepared to meet someone.-"
Ryuko audibly gulped.
"-Though I'm probably far from what she'd expect..."
While the dragoness did her best not to think about it, part of her felt immensely guilty towards Inko.
Though she wasn't outright dating Izuku at the moment, the fact of the matter was that they were more involved than the boy's mother would likely appreciate. It was tragic since Ryuko only grew to cherish the woman more as her impromptu stepmother. The scarf the dragoness got from her saw frequent use during the colder days, sometimes even while on patrol...
In some ways, Ryuko dreaded telling Inko more than her own mother.
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FanfictionBeing a hero was hard. Few knew that better than Izuku Midoriya. One would think that after so many harrowing experiences, he'd be at least kind of used to it by now. But when Eri's Quirk triggers out of nowhere, replacing herself with an alternate...
