Imaginary Friends

Izuku is 6 when he makes his first real friend. Ritsu is a small boy with red hair, and he's Izuku's best friend. The problem with Ritsu was he didn't exist. Inko was sure it was an imaginary friend. This is what all kids go through at some point or another, isn't it? But she also had to wonder why her Izuku was turning to imaginary people when he had Bakugou and his group of friends right there.
Oh well, she supposed, it's just a thing kids do. It will pass eventually.

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Hunter was just supposed to be a coping mechanism. He wasn't supposed to exist outside of Shouto's training time with his father. But Hunter kept talking to him even when he wasn't training. So Shouto accepted Hunter as his friend. This must be normal right? Mom had talked about imaginary friends before. That's what this must be. Hunter was his imaginary friend.

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