Minutely Hero (Bakudeku)

8

There was a stool laid in front of the cart, allowing the customers to sit on them with an extended long table attached to the cart front for the bowels to be set on.

"Welcome! Have a seat," Izuku tore his eyes away from the piping hot udon, and focused on the owner who had a big warm smile.

Izuku nodded his head shyly at the stranger. As much as the food smelt delicious, he doesn't have enough money to afford it. Focus, he needs to find sensei and get hell out of this sweet hell.

Izuku turned away, to continue his search. However, at the corner of his eyes, he caught the sight of a lump of fur sitting on the stool.

His head shot to the cat that was sitting on the stool with chopsticks resting in front of him. What the hell is he doing now? He smiled nervously at the owner, and slid next to the cat who was drooling rivers at the sizzling ingredients.

He poked the cat's belly, "Sensei, sensei," Izuku called out, but the cat won't respond, Sensei was fantasizing about the fat noodles. He sighed and then looked at the owner who watching them amusedly, "The poor cat has been at it for a while now,"

Izuku stood up, looking alarmed, "Ah, I'm sorry, he must have been a nuisance,"

The owner chuckled and shook his head, "The poor thing must have been hungry if only I had cat food,"

"Ah, you don't need to worry about it, he prefers our daily food more than the canned cat food."

The owner seemed surprised by that, looking slightly worried, "Is it healthy for it to eat like that?"

"Well, he is not your usual cat, his previous owner always fed him a very unusual diet, so now he doesn't accept normal cat food,"

The owner chuckled slightly, "So that is why it is eying the udon so deliciously?"

Izuku's face warmed up, feeling quite frustrated, "I'm so sorry sir. I'll take him away right now."

The owner shook his head and smiled warmly at the boy, "No, no, he is no trouble at all. In fact, the cat is my first costumer for today, so take a seat!"

The teen nodded hesitantly, and slid back to his seat, sweat dropping at the drool that thickened as the delicious noodles were cooked. "Sensei snap out of it!" the boy hissed, he waved his hands in front of the sparkling eyes. Thankfully, that did the trick. "Huh, when did you come?"

Izuku sighed, rolling his eyes, "For a while now," He pinched the cat's chubby cheeks, the yokai swatted his hands, they soon went for another round of arguing not noticing the weird look coming from the owner.

"Is it your quirk?" the question broke off their fight. Oh shoot, "Huh?" Izuku paled, he totally forgot that Sensei's current form, humans can hear him.

"Umm...It u-um, I-"

At that awkward moment, he tried to wrack his mind for a perfect explanation on why the cat can talk, he looked at the yokai who was done arguing with him, and back to gazing at the noodles.

The arrival of the customers distracted the owner from them, Izuku sighed in relief.

'I told you it would stir trouble if you talked to me in public,'

'Then why'd you reply out aloud, you could've just talked in my mind,'

'That's your punishment for not dining at the mutt's home!'

'Kacchans? Sensei you are acting childish, won't you be in danger if humans discover that you are a yokai?!"

'Geh, I forgot about that, but the danger doesn't exclude you! You'd be the one to be hunted!'