#i'm supposed to be doing icba

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Aaaaaa I feel like shit and Mr. and Mrs. Smith is on, so you know what? 

Spy/assassin AU

Inko was a high profile spy who ended up getting pregnant from a mark she fell in love with. The mark, underground, uh...philanthropist...Kishimoto Hisashi, falls absolutely in love with Inko, and she’s a sucker for sweet guys, so they run away together. During a battle while she was pregnant, Hisashi took a deadly attack for her that left him disfigured and nearly dead in her arms, much to her despair. The terror she wrought on the assassin world following Hisashi’s disability led to them begging for a truce. 

As such, Izuku is born safely and without disturbance, and is very much loved. Still, wanting him to be able to protect himself, Inko also trains him to be an assassin.

His mother can be very closed off to others, but she’s the sweetest person to her husband and her beloved son, who inherited Hisashi’s sunshine and rainbows disposition, his curly hair, and his freckles. Hisashi’s still alive, but he’s bound to a wheelchair and is partially immobile. He has painful burns all over his back, shoulders, arms, and face, but his eyes are still intact, he still has a tuft of hair left, and he very much loves his wife and son. Still, his current weakness and PTSD from the attack led him to further isolate himself, so he prefers that Inko and Izuku tell others that he doesn’t exist, even though he still does his philanthropy work under a code name. 

Izuku grows up in a loving household and, despite being quirkless, is told that he can do anything he puts his mind to.

Except being a hero. He probably shouldn’t be a hero with the mother that he has.

But Izuku wants to be one! Sure, he can kill a person with his eyes all wide and sparkly without a single flinch, but he thinks he could do good and be a person of justice! So, he wants to go to a hero school and become a hero! An underground one, but a hero all the same!

Inko is hesitant about it, but after some convincing on both Hisashi’s and Izuku’s parts, she says that she’ll allow him to go to one.

Izuku’s so excited by the idea! He can’t wait till he gets old enough to go to a hero school!

So, while Hisashi does his, uh, philanthropy hidden away from society—he’s more of a house husband, anyway—and Inko fronts as the worried single mother to her quirkless son, she quietly pulls the strings in the background to coerce the sponsors to hero schools to start allowing quirkless students to attend hero high schools and Hisashi uses the money he has to do the same.

Meanwhile, as Izuku grows up, he’s growing to question his choices about becoming a hero, because Kacchan bullies him over being quirkless all of the time, and everyone looks down on him. Even when he helped save a kid only a little older than him during a building collapse from a hero/villain battle, the hero scolded him for doing more than he should’ve because he’s quirkless, even though Izuku made the boy keep the metal shard in his leg so he wouldn’t bleed out.

“I...I still want to be a hero, Mom,” Izuku says, choking a man out with garrote wire, the man gargling his own blood, “But...I’m starting to wonder if...well...am I going about this the right way? I’m not sure...” He doesn’t flinch, even when the man coughs some blood up on his cheek.

“Oh, honey.” Inko crouches in front of him and wipes at the blood, her eyebrows scrunched and smile sad. “Heroics could do a lot better if they had someone like you working with them. Pro heroes have progressively grown blind to reality, all cosied up because they have All Might to protect everyone. But at the end of the day, some scum cannot be caught in the limelight.”

“But that’s why I like underground heroes, too!” He pulls the wire tighter, and the man chokes loudly on a gurgle before he finally falls still. “I...I still like All Might though...” Izuku smiles. “He’s so bright and shiny, just like Daddy and Kacchan.”

Inko sighs. “I understand you liking All Might because he reminds you of your dad, but Katsuki?”

“Yeah! He’s so angry all the time, but it’s because everyone’s stacking everything on his shoulders without thinking about it! He’s not too different from All Might in the end.” Izuku puts his hands on his cheeks. “But...sometimes, when I think about him, my chest gets really fluttery and my face gets all warm...I don’t know why though, even though he thinks bad things about me...”

Yes, Inko knows. Even though she’s friends with Mitsuki, she can’t say she’s a huge fan of her friend’s son.  A brash, wild boy who her friend hasn’t stopped from bullying those around him. Most of society are such slaves to the idea that quirks mean so much when she’s had people with much stronger quirks than her own fall to her blades. Quirk or no quirk, death comes for everyone, especially when the right research is done and the right price is paid. 

Still, her son, whether Inko likes it or not, is attracted to bright things, and she wont’t deny Katsuki’s potential. She herself is also attracted to people who shine brightly, though if they shine too bright, she shirks away. Her Izuku, like Icarus, flies straight towards the light, whether it burns him or not. But Izuku, unlike Icarus, not only knows how to catch himself from falling, but is learning how to keep from falling entirely.

“I think...I think Kacchan can change if he’s pushed the right way. I want to see him change.” Izuku smiles real sweetly, blood stained on his cheek. “I want to see him change to world.”