#i cant even remember if both you and thumper went in the same year this all feels so blurred

[ringtaileds]

I wish you were with me so I could celebrate with you, I miss you.

I'll make sure to call more often this time. I'll find the things you got me and make sure they never leave me again.

I need to make sure I can see my cousins more too. All of them.

[addercharmer]

Monday night and Tuesday saw Izumi looking out the living room window feeling lost. 

Izumi knew that being in the past was a good thing, a great thing even. She had already changed some lives for the better and there were still more coming. 

She had all of the evidence needed against Endeavour, she was just waiting on Rei to call her for it, and with taking the work studies offer Izumi was sure she could weezle her way into Eri's parents hearts and take custody if the same tragedy of her rewinding her fathers existence happens again. 

It was just that she missed her class, she missed all the shenanigans they got into, and missed fighting with Bakugou.  

She had no real reason to miss it though and that's what bugged her. She knew that her friends were using her as a way to slack off when they just copied her homework or to better their quirks, they hadn't ever really been there for her like friends were supposed to be, like Shōta, Nemuri, Oboro, and Hizashi were. 

Being back in time also gave her the space to actually examine how she had been treated by Bakugou and her mother. If she had seen any child treated like that she would have done something, why hadn't anyone done anything even after she had gotten into UA. 

These thoughts were doing her no good, but Izumi couldn't shake them. The fact that she usually made herself so busy to not think was working against her when she had nothing really to focus on. 

Maybe she should try to contact Rei, or maybe suck it up and contact aunt Mitsuki, she really was going to need help with tops and jackets for Keigo. 

Izumi didn't move though, she just stared out the window listless. 

She watched as the moon made its way across the sky chased by the sun's rays, she didn't move when Nezu came into the room and tried speaking to her, she just blinked dull eyes at the stoat. 

Izumi saw Nezu give a sad smile before he pinched the meat of her thigh with his claws. 

Izumi yelped as she felt herself slam back into her body. 

"Sorry." Nezu says to her the same sad smile in place. "You've been gone ever since you got back home on Monday, I need you here today." 

"Mmm, sorry dad, just got a shock for internships, and then had a meeting with Ida, made me think dark things." Izumi explained as she started to slowly test her joints. 

"Keigo is being released fully into my custody today, we are both needed at the school for homeroom and heroics so he will be joining us today, you have no appointments so if you would watch him?" When what Nezu is saying finally registers in her slow moving mind she feels a smile spread on her lips. 

"Un." Izumi grunts as she forces herself to move and get ready for the day.

"You have two hours, I would very much like to braid your hair today though if you don't mind?" Izumi cant help herself from kneeling and hugging Nezu, she knew he had trouble socially but he tried so hard for her, she loved him for it. 

A long shower had her joints and muscles relaxed enough that moving around was easier, even sitting still for her braid was easy in a way that it usually wasn't when she hadn't moved for a while. Her body was so used to being on the move that when she stopped for long periods of time it tended to hurt. 

"It's still early, but our lawyer is dropping Keigo off at the school. You weren't really there when I explained that Keigo had been staying with our lawyer as the custody papers were processed." Nezu explained why he had 'woken' her. 

"It's okay, I plan on contacting Bakugou today, so I can do that as we wait for him and, or class." 

Izumi is a little anxious about it, but she knows that it will work, given that she had the altered photos already planted. 

The two split off from each other, Nezu went to wait by the gate as Izumi went to her classroom. 

Once at her desk she opened and unlocked her laptop, she took a deep breath and started her email. 

From: electriczuzu@Gab.jp

To: fashionbomb@Gab.jp 

Subject: hi, it's been a long time. 

Hi Mitsuki, I don't know if you remember me, but I'm Inko's little sister. 

My new name is now Nezu Izumi! I made it into UA and was adopted two years ago now. 

Recently my adopted dad has adopted a little boy who has a wing mutation, and when we went shopping for tops I was sorely disappointed at the selection of three styles offered. 

I was hoping that even if you don't remember me you would be willing to help me learn to alter shirts and jackets for him, or if you would be willing to make them yourself. I remember you always working on fashion before I went into foster care. 

Thank you

Nezu Izumi. 

Izumi clicked the send button before she could give it much thought, hopefully Mitsuki would look through her photos that Izumi knew were all kept electronically and felt bad enough for forgetting Izumi she would help. 

The door to the classroom slammed open and Izumi caught a blur of red and blond as Keigo flung himself into her. 

"Rosefinch!" Izumi yelped, happy to see her nestling. 

"Izu-nee! You're really my sister now!" Keigo sobbed into her shoulder, Izumi just held him tightly rocking side to side with him. 

The morning passed quickly for Izumi who focuses on giving all her love and attention to Keigo, she only really had to stop for heroics. 

Keigo was still sitting in her lap as Echo joined the class for choosing hero names, Izumi was still on the fence, she had thought about using Electra but is was just a rip off of prequirk comics, she also thought of using Dekiru paying a little bit of homage to her past, her last thought was simply going by Bear, or Cub, eh maybe the others could help, then again. 

"I don't care what my hero name is." She heard Shōta grumble to Hizashi. 

"Then I'll name you!" Hizashi stood knocking his chair over. "Your hero name is...uh... EraserHead!" He exclaimed. 

"Okay." Shōta agreed before dropping his forehead on his desk. 

Izumi sighed before she started listening to the names being given. 

"FatGum."

"Mandalay."

"Record."

"Present Mic."

"Ryukin." 

"LoudCloud." 

"EraserHead." 

"Thumper."

"BassBeat."

"Dreamer."

"Timcanpy."

With all eleven other students done Izumi froze, she didn't know, she had no idea. 

"Nezu?" Echo broke her thoughts. 

"Huh?" Izumi asked, a little dazed from being broken from her rapidly spiraling thoughts. 

"Huh, the confused hero." Nezu spoke from the front of the room. "It fits well Izumi, as we like to say, 'Am I a rat? Am I a bear? Am I a dog? Am I human? It doesn't matter, I'm...' I do believe it fits our family well." He sounds proud and it just makes Izumi nod.

Well she had a hero name, and her dad was right. 

By the end of the school day Izumi was tired, she hadn't slept since Sunday night, she begged off dinner in her exhaustion, also citing that it would give the two males time to bond. Izumi took very little time changing and borrowing under her blankets. 

Waking to Keigo jumping on her bed as his wings fluttered had Izumi groaning before she grabbed Keigo's ankles and pulled him in for cuddles. 

"Sush little rosefinch, you're being cuddled." Izumi grumbles and she holds Keigo tightly against her chest. 

Keigo flaps his wings to get away, only he lifts them both off the bed. His wings freeze when he registers that he just lifted Izumi and they both fall back to the bed with groans from having the air knocked out of them. 

"Rosefinch, should we practice flying today?" Izumi asks gently. 

Keigo is wide eyed still but he answers. "I can fly, I just didn't know I could lift others." 

"Ah, okay well we can work on that, we know you can lift me, or we can wait until you're older." She tells him seriously. 

She gets up leaving the rosefinch in her bed, after a quick shower she's back in her now kid free room throwing on her uniform and pulling her hair into a ponytail. 

Skipping down the stairs she grabs an apple and a to-go mug of coffee, Nezu and Keigo are already waiting at the door for her. 

The walk to the school was full of Keigo chatting about all the things that he wanted to try that the commission had told him no. 

Learning to swim, ride a bike, go to school, and have friends. Not having to do things like train all day. 

Izumi and Nezu followed behind the happy boy, smiling gently.