The Green Valley Twins

Building B's Daycare

"Midoriya-San?" Inko looked up at the staff member, "can I speak to you for a moment?"

"Alright you three, go play your game!" Inko gartered to the box the boys were playing before her laughing fit. The boys raced ahead and Izumi headed towards the closest table where a coloring book and a box of crayons still remained. Inko followed the staff member out the door and only a few steps away from the door.

"I'm afraid you're going to have to leave Midoriya-San." The young man started out, regret on his face. "Bakugo-San won't be able to leave work for a few more hours and her husband is out of the prefecture right now." Inko stared at the young man for a moment, noting his exhausted expression and the dark smudges slowly growing beneath his eyes.

"Soo you're telling me you want me to leave a three year old behind in a soon to be closed building?"
"You don't have to worry, I'll remain here with Katsuki-kun until his mother arrives."

"No offence sir but... You look ready to sleep through Armageddon." Inko responded with a raised eyebrow. "Please inform Bakugo-San that her son will be coming with me to my apartment. Feel free to give her the address."

"Wha-bu--"

"Please give her my phone number as well." Inko bowed slightly, turned and walked back into the children's room. "Children, how do you three feel about a sleep over?"

"With Aunty Yuko and Aunty Miho and Aunty Natsuko?!" Her twins asked loudly, big smiles on their faces.

"And with Katsuki-kun as well." Inko one else and smiled at the old boy. "I already talked to your mother sweetheart, she said it was okay for you to come with us for a little while."

"Really?!" Katsuki asked loudly, a big smile on his face. "I can go?!" Inko nodded, smile never falling, and Izuku tackled the albino with shrill laughter. The staff member smiled at the children's reaction before leaving. It took Inko a moment but she managed to gather the children's belongings and get them ready for departure. The boys were possibly thrilled to discover that they wore the same 'all might' sneakers.

"Midoriya-San?" Inko looked at the staff member in the doorway to the room. "Will you tell me if this is helpful to you?" Curious she walked towards the door and looked out towards the hallway. She discovered a large twin-baby stroller, its bars were bright red and the fabric was blue with little white stars.

"ALL MIGHT!!!" The shrill screech from the boys made Inko jump to the other side of the hall, clutching one hand to her heart. The staff member started laughing as the boys gushed over the stroller.

"I wanna ride in it!" The boys declared excitedly, "can I please?!"

"The problem is whether or not you'll fit in it." Inko smiled at them.

"Ew," Izumi declared when she saw the stroller. Inko giggled as the boys struggled to get into the stroller. Eventually Izumi walked forward and helped Izuku settle himself inside and even buckled him. Inko helped Katsuki settle himself before placing their bags on the handles.

"Please text me when you get to the apartments," the statement asked as he locked the door behind them. "I'll lose my job if something happens to the four of you."

"It's sweet of you to worry," Inko smiled at him. "Here, give me yours and Bakugo-san's number and I'll give you both step by step updates."

"Alright, thank you."

As promised, Inko gave them both step by step updates. She only lived two blocks away so it wasn't long before she was telling them she was inside building B. Before that though, she sent them both a picture of the children. They had been about halfway home when she noticed the boys were quiet. She stopped walking and hurried around the stroll to look at them. Both boys were asleep, their heads braced together and their hands touching. Internally squealing, Inko quickly took a picture of the adorable children. After that she put away her cell, pulled her daughter into her arms and started walking the stroller again. Thankfully the stroller had a wide handlebar, it was the perfect seat for her daughter who fell asleep leaning against Inko.

Twenty minutes later and they were in the lobby of the apartment complex. Moving quietly, Inko carefully pulled Izumi off the stroller and approached the daycare of the apartment complex. Shimizu and Tanaka giggled when they saw her and eagerly went to go grab the boys from the stroller. Hisakawa was inside with the eldest of the apartment children helping shuttle food away.

"Haruto-kun, can you help us for a moment?"

"Yes Aunt Inko," no sooner had the young teen said these words did a terrified scream arise from one of the children. Inko turned, old instincts kicking in, only too Katsuki-kun flaying in Shimizu's arms.

"Hold still," Shimizu ordered, struggling to keep a hold on the boy. "Are you trying to fall?"

"Who are you?!" Katsuki was screaming and there were cute little tears in the edges of his eyes. "Izuku! Wake up!"

"Huh? Kacchan?" Izuku looked so adorably confused as he rubbed at his eye. "Why are you screaming?"

"Stranger danger! Stranger danger!!" Katsuki continued screaming and flaying wildly. Inko looked about and noticed some of the other children were waking up do to Katsuki's screaming.

"I'm not a stranger," Shimizu giggled, trying to keep a hold on the little boy while he thrashed in in her hands. "I'm aunty Yuko."

"Katsuki-kun," Inko called as she approached him. "Lower your voice sweaty," Katsuki looked at her, face still morphed in fear. "This is our family." Shimizu gently set the boy down on his feet before moving away to comfort a couple of the younger children who had gotten frightened by the screaming.

"Welcome to building Eight's 'working mother daycare'." Inko smiled as Izuku hurried to stand next to his friend, offering a comforting hand to the young albino. "Our building has a particularly large number of single or working class mothers so we built a daycare on the first floor."

"Did you just move in?" One of the boys asked as he approached Katsuki and Izuku, rubbing sleepily at one eye. "I'm Hachiro Kurosawa," he paused to yawn before continuing, "nice to meet you." Pretty soon there were others approaching Katsuki and introducing themselves.

"Midoriya-Chan," Inko turned to look at Hisakawa, a frown imminently formed on her face. "May I...may I speak to you for a moment?"

"Alright," Inko hesitated with her answer but she gave it all the same. "Izuku-dear can you take your sister to a room? She's still sleepy."

"Yes mommy," Izuku smiled as Izumi reluctantly released Inko and then begrudgingly followed Izuku to a nearby room. Katsuki seemed to follow Izuku out of fear of the sudden barrage of other kids his age, all strangers no less.

"Midoriya-San, I just...I just want you to know I didn't mean to bring you any harm with my words earlier." Hisakawa started quickly, her wrinkled hands twisting together unduly and no doubt painfully for her old age.

"Don't worry about it," Inko crossed her arms and leaned against the hallway wall. "Your words just brought back some unpleasant memories. I'm already over it."

"You shouldn't lie Midoriya-Chan," Hisakawa murmured, "its unbecoming of a young woman and even more so of a mother."

"You lie all the time," Inko pointed out bluntly.

"I don't lie," Hisakawa disagreed with an easy smile. "I skirt along the edges of truth without truly relaying said truth."

"...did you bump your head?"

"No Midoriya-Chan," Hisakawa giggled, "I'm just an old woman who survived the very war society wishes to forget."

"The dark days if quirks ended decades ago," Inko frowned at Hisakawa. "If you survived them, how can you be alive now?"

"Let's just say, humans are curious creatures and that many scientists got away with many horrible acts against humanity." With that said truth, Hisakawa walked back into the daycare. "Alright children, who's hungry?" A chorus of 'me' echoed back out into the hallway. Sighing, Inko filed the information away and walked back into the room. She smiled as Izuku and Katsuki both hurried to her side, chattering about the wonderful smell in the air.