BakuDeku: The Baby Project

Chapter Thirty Eight

"Zoë! Dad and I could use some help!"

Zoë grinned and tied the pink ribbon on her dress quickly, and ran to the kitchen.

"Yeah, what's up?!" She asked excitedly. Izuku giggled.

"Someone's excited!"

Zoë just nodded. She was bouncing on the balls of her feet.

Today was Ai's first birthday party, and Izuku and Zoë has been planning his party for a long time. Zoë was a social butterfly, and any chance she got to get people together, she took.

Unfortunately, with all of the Bakugo's' friends being pro heroes, that meant that there would be huge media coverage of the whole event, so it wasn't just for fun.

"You mind getting Ai into his car seat? Dad and I are loading up the truck with some last minute stuff!" Izuku smiled.

"Yeah, I'm on it!"

She picked up her baby brother and hugged him close to her. She still couldn't believe how big he had gotten.

"Alright, let's go! It's time to go to your party, Ai! You're gonna be one!!"

She got a tiny giggle in response, and by the time she had strapped him in, Bakugo had the key in the ignition.

"Alright, let's buckle up! Iida and Uraraka and Sakura should already by there, as well as Yaoyorozu and Yukino. After that, it's up to us to greet everyone. Unfortunately, Zo, that means that you'll have no choice but the greet some of the reporters.

"Dammit," she grumbled under her breath. Usually, Izuku would be on her case about swearing, but he knew how much she hated the press.

"You remember the rules, right?" Bakugo sighed, dejected.

"Yeah," Zoë murmured. "Always keep a smile on your face, use last names, or at least Sir or Ma'am, shake hands, look into the cameras when talking, and don't refer to anybody specific if you can help it."

Bakugo gave her a small smile in the rear view mirror.

"Awesome as usual, baby."

Maybe a half hour later, they pulled up to the space they had rented for the party. They unloaded some things from the back of the truck, and carried them in, only to be greeted by the Iidas and Momo and Yukino.

"OMG I'm so excited!" Sakura squealed. Her and Zoë high-fived, and she gave Yukino a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Alright, that should be everything for now!" Izuku sighed. Ai was strapped to his chest in a baby bourn, in a tiny tuxedo and frankly, just looking absolutely adorable.

Uraraka and Momo were wearing long evening gowns, and the girls were all wearing knee-length gowns.

Sakura, Zoë, and Yukino were running around the whole space putting place cards down and trying to decide who should sit with who.

It wasn't long before more guests started to arrive. The door was nearly ripped off of its hinges a few minutes later.

"BAKUBRO! 'SUP?"

An ever-energetic Kirishima burst into the room, in matching tuxedos with Testsutestsu, who was also wearing a huge grin. Kirika gave a quirky peace sign, and ran over to the other girls.

Eventually, Izuku pulled Zoë away from her friends.

"Dad, PLEASE! Can't I just play with my friends for once?!" She asked, exasperated. "I'm sick of all of this shit with the press!"

"Don't use that word," Izuku muttered. "Zoë, I know, and I'm really sorry-!"

He was cut off by Zoë pushing him out of the way and walking to the doors, taking her place holding one of them. Izuku bit his lip.