I Found What I Was Missing

Chapter 2: Deepest Desire

Deepest Desire

"Izuku, I am not your mother," she paused, and tears started to gather in his eyes as he gasped, nearly choking on the excess spit that gathered in his mouth. "You're adopted,"

For just a few seconds, it felt like Izuku's world came to a grinding halt, and did a sudden flip as he felt his heart skip a beat, before everything turned back to normal.

Izuku watched as tears fell freely from his mother's eyes as she waited patiently for him to absorb this new information. But, Izuku couldn't quite understand, he looked so similar to his mother, they even had similar eye and hair colour.

But this would explain why she didn't like talking about his dad, she might not even have known anything about him; if he truly were adopted. Then, why was he put up for adoption, anyway? Did his parents not want him?

Was he abandoned? Or, were they killed in a tragic accident, maybe? He had always known, deep down, that something wasn't quite right. He loved Inko, she raised him, she's his mother, and yet; he could tell that they just didn't have that deep a bond as he might have had with his birth mother.

No, it didn't matter, Inko was still his mother.
"Izuku," Inko called, pulling him from his thoughts.
"I don't care, you're still my mom," he stated firmly.

Inko smiled at the stern look in his eyes, though she could see the confusion, and questions swimming in those beautiful green eyes.
"Before you make up your mind, let me first tell you everything I know," she uttered softly.

Izuku swallowed again, nodding.
Inko squeezed his hands. "While I might not be your birth mother, we are still blood related," she stated.
Izuku rose his brows at this.

"I'm the younger sister of your father's father, so your great aunt, I think." She had a thoughtful look on her face, before she smiled again, laughing softly. "Your granddad actually did something similar with your dad as he did with you,"

"Ging and I were born and lived on a tiny fisher island called, Whale Island. It's called that because it looks like a whale from the distance. Ging was always fickle and adventurous, and when he was twelve, he left the island in order to take the hunter exam and become a hunter,"

"Our cousin, Mito, still lives on the island--always has--when Ging returned after years with a small child, and asked her to take care of him before he disappeared again. I haven't talked to my brother in over thirty years, but I have no doubt that he's out there somewhere causing trouble." She laughed fondly at the memories of her older brother.

Izuku couldn't help but smile at the happy look in his mother's eyes as she was clearly stuck in a moment of nostalgia.
"The child that Mito raised as her own, is in fact your father, Gon," she said, expression turning serious.

Izuku squeezed her hands reassuringly, feeling quite eager and curious to learn more about his father.
"Mito and I used to talk a lot, we still do. It's because of this that I know that Gon also left the island at twelve to become a hunter, like his father, in order to understand why he had left the island instead of staying with him." Inko paused a moment.

Izuku felt a little confused, he wanted to know what a hunter was, because by the way that she was talking, he could safely assume that it wasn't anything like your average game hunters. But, he stayed quiet, choosing instead to save his questions for after she finished her...story.