#some backstory to Iwa's telekinesis and other childhood shits

[bolbianddolanhouse]

BNHA self insert AU [Book 3]

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Chapter 6: What’s More Manly Than This? Just Guys Being Dudes!

Not gonna lie chief....I’m excited for once to be training with my mom on something that’s unrelated to quirks! I really want to know how she does things, what makes her tick.

“Okay Iwata, sit across from me” instructed mom as she sat on the grass in the backyard “today, we’re going to tap into stamina. It’s not as easy as it sounds, in fact, it’s not my favorite thing about the quirk BUT it comes in clutch.”

I sit down comfortably, still kinda full from breakfast “I’m ready to learn!” I responded eagerly.

“I like to hear it!” she giggled “Okay, it starts with mentality. Telekinesis takes a lot of brain power, but the stamina enhances it so there’s no lagging and you can focus on multiple things.” She sat up straight and closed her eyes “I unlocked this stamina when I was a child, my sister was about to body slam me in the living room, the fear triggered me to stop her mid-air. Before I struggled to float more than two inches off the ground and to see that made me realize the potential of my quirk.” She floated off the ground, along with a few other things laying around the yard “The stamina allows me to sense things with my telekinesis, my thinking is sharp and lets me continue the fight beyond what my body can sustain.”

“Is that what’s going to happen to me?”

“Well, that’s the thing, I don’t know!” she opened her eyes “Everyone is different. My mom’s muscles strengthen and it heightens her other quirk, not her telekinesis. My aunt Imelda’s trigger is anger and she creates invisible walls. OH! And my cousin Julie needed to get on blockers because she gets unstable when she triggers it.”

“Oh” I said, feeling a little nervous.

“But I will say, male telekinesis users are rare” Mom stated “3 out of 5 girls in Latin America have telekinesis, 1 in 30 boys in the same demographic. Nobody in my family on either side has a male telekinesis user! To think I birthed two in one generation is a miracle” she say proudly “If only everyone else knew.”

“Your family doesn’t know about me?” I was surprised to hear that.

“Nope, only my immediate family does” she sighed “Oh but the things my aunts would do if you knew about you and Tensei! They’d do everything for you and treat you like royalty!” she chuckled “They did that when I was born, I was the only one in my generation that was born with telekinesis. I was spoiled by my aunts and uncles.”

“So what you’re saying is that I might not like what happens?” 

“Yea, but only one way to find out” she threw a rubber ball in my face, getting me off guard “I’m gonna have to break you just a little, sorry in advance.”

Giving me no time to react, she came at me freakishly fast. While her strikes and sneak attacks were erratic and nearly impossible to dodge, I was starting to feel my mind overwhelm. My mind started to cloud and spin, like the beginnings of a tornado. What tipped me over the edge was when mom’s hand went for my face, for whatever reason, my head went to a dark place. I grabbed her by the wrist and put it in a vice, I felt a second wind of power and suddenly the cloudiness cleared. It was like everything was firing off at once and had no way of controlling it.

“Iwata!” mom’s voice broke through to me “Can you hear me?”

“Yes! Mom? Help!” I cried out, unable to loosen my vice on her “I can’t stop!”

“Do your breathing exercises, try to calm yourself” she calmly spoke “Don’t focus on your hand, only your breathing.”

I closed my eyes and did the exercise “Breathe in...hold....out for 10....breathe in...hold....out for 10.”

“Good, keep it steady” she encouraged me until I finally let go of her “How do you feel?”

“Scared, I didn’t have control over myself” I uttered, then I looked at her wrist “Mom! Your arm!” I took a closer look at what I did “I- I hurt you”. Tears were welling up in my eyes as I saw my engine mark on her arm that almost broke her skin.

“Hey, don’t worry about me” Mom covered the mark with her other hand to get me refocused “I’ll heal and this isn’t the worst thing to happen to me. Walk me through your experience.”

I wasn’t convinced that I didn’t do a bad thing to her “I felt the fog in my head when I got overwhelmed and your hand coming for my face triggered me.”

“What thoughts came up when you saw my hand?” she asked “How would you describe it?”

“My mind went somewhere...dark” I admitted “Like something out of a horror movie when the white teenagers go in the basement.”

“Oh my sweet baby” she brought me in for a hug “I feared it might of been that.”

“What do you mean?”

She took a deep breath “It’s rooted in trauma, because your quirk activated on that night.”

Pause this shit! Okay.... flash back time! When I was about 5 years old, back in the old house, somebody broke in. I didn’t know what was going on but I was grabbed by my dad and taken to the twin’s nursery. All of us were in there, except for mom. We were told to stay put and be quiet, but listening to the sound of fighting and things breaking in the living room was too much for me. So I ran out of the nursery to get my mom, I knew I couldn’t do anything to help but I wanted my mommy so badly. At the top of the stairs, I saw the scene that I relive in my nightmares; My mom was badly beaten on the ground as the home intruder was about to finish my mom. I screamed for the bad guy to get away from my mom, but then he dashed toward me. Before he could reach me, I held my arms out and my telekinesis activated and I threw them down the stairs. Mom finished the job but my memory is hazy from that but all I know is that if I didn’t step in, she wouldn’t be here. After that incident, I was going from doctor to doctor and put in therapy. I couldn’t sleep well unless my mom was in the same bed as me and I woke up next to her. I was scared of this new quirk, I was scared of losing my mom...I was scared to be alone.

I got over my anxiety of losing my mom and I controlled my quirk better...but, I still get the nightmares of that night. That event made me resent having quirks and all the evils in the world. I put it in my head that you can hurt me all you want, but you don’t hurt my family ESPECIALLY my mom! I vowed to never hurt the people I care about, if I do, then I’m no better than a villain. That event shaped my fate and I’ve given up a normal life when I was a child...this is my purpose and I shall live up to what I put in my mind!

...flash back end! Unpause this shit!

“Is that a bad thing?” I asked, pressing my chin on her chest.

“I- can’t say” her voice cracked “if this is really your trigger, then you relive those repressed traumatic feelings every time.”

That shit hurted, hearing my mom lose her cool. I had to say something to put her at ease.

“Then I guess that’s how it’s gonna be” I made eye contact with her “I want to get stronger and control this ability. I promised myself that I’d become stronger and protect my family. And I won’t stop now” I broke the hug “Please, teach me more.”

Mom stood there for a moment, tears falling as she looked at me, but snapped out of it “Okay then, onto the next part.” She wiped her tears and continued.

Over the course of a month, I mastered activating my stamina. And it payed off in the classroom! I can use more weaponry without using my arms, I figured out how to enhance my engines with it, AND (my favorite part of it all!) I’m crushing it in the hero course. It’s amazing how everything is falling together...it’s late April at this point. Beizu has been tweaking the device a bit more and we’re fast approaching the sports festival.

-Friday, Hero class-

“...And Iida-kun, since you’re a dual enrolled student, you have the option to do the sports festival or not” announced Mineta sensei “It won’t affect your grade or anything, it’s more for scouting than anything really.”

“Hmmm, in that case” I didn’t hesitate “I will not participate this year.”

The class roared with confusion, clearly not liking my answer.

“Bro! What do you mean no?!” yelled Gon as he shot up from his seat “You’ve been on the gains with me! Plus you moved up in the class rank! You have to duke it out with us!”

“You’d get tons of offers Iida-kun” added Kage-san “why refuse?”

“Well, I’m focusing more on my agent stuff this year” I defended myself “they have something similar, so I’m not worried about not getting noticed. Besides, my uncle is going to be there personally to scout and he’s just gonna do the thing where he offers one to me because I’m his ‘favorite’ nephew.”

“Wait, who’s your uncle?” asked a different classmate.

“Former Ingenium” I responded “He might be out of commission but he runs his agency and refuses to retire!” I chuckled “Good for him though, he worked hard to start up back in the day. Also I’d rather that offer go to one you guys, he already knows what I can do.”

“Fair enough, thank you Iida-kun” sensei said as he wrote on his notes “And that’s all the business we had to take care of! Time to go into this educational video.”

I didn’t pay much attention to the video. I was much more excited for after school activities! It’s Beizu’s birthday and that means it’s sleepover time at his place! I got him the perfect gift and I’m ready to sleep in and eat way too much pizza. It’s the ritual we’ve been doing since we were babies and I wouldn’t have it any other way! Once the bell rang, I just shoved all my things in my bag and sped off to meet with Beizu. I kept my duffle bag with him and we giddily waited for his mom to pick us up.

“Hello boys, how was school?” asked his mom once we hopped in.

“It was good!” we said in unison.

“Ready for your festivities I assume?” she questioned as she drove out of the parking lot.

We nodded vigorously and couldn’t sit still the whole ride to his house. We immediately washed up to get into our jammies.

“Oh shit, almost forgot to text my mom that I’m here” I said after putting on my sleepytime sweater.

“What do you want on the pizza?” asked Beizu, looking down on his phone “I’m ordering it online.”

I stopped my text “Uhhhhhhh”

“AND DON’T SAY NONE PIZZA, LEFT BEEF AGAIN!” scolded Beizu “I won’t fall for that again!”

I chortled remembering “It was hilarious! The pizza place had to call to make sure we input the information correctly” I wheezed breathlessly “then the lady was all like ‘the beef won’t stick on the bread without the sauce and cheese’!”

“That’s why! Every year it’s the scandal of the none pizza, left beef” Beizu groaned “Just say what you want or I’m just getting 3 green pepper pizzas!”

“Ugh fine!” I cringed at the idea of bell peppers “Get the Meat’za Treat’za and the Hawaiian with extra pineapple.” I finish my text and flop onto his bed “Hey, I have an idea!”

“Hm? What is it?” Beizu responded as he clicked away on his phone.

“Lets look at our 5 year old selves building a pillow fort.”

Beizu stopped his clicking and turned to face me with that twinkle in his eye “Hell yea! I’ll get the cube!”

As he opened his desk drawer, his mom called out to us “Boys? Is there anything you want from the store?”

Beizu slammed his draw closed “Yea! Some juice!”

“Also some almond milk!” I requested.

“Okay, I’ll be back soon with everything!” She responded “Don’t get too rowdy while I’m gone!”

Beizu waited until his mom drove out into the street to open his drawer again “That was close!”

“Why did you close your drawer like that?” 

“Mom doesn’t know that I’m working on this” he said, taking out the device “I’m scared that if she finds out, she’ll flip and deconstruct it.”

“True, I didn’t think about that” I changed the subject “But lets see our 5 year old selves!”

He input the day and the scene changed to 12 years in the past. In this room, all the tech stuff on the walls disappeared and were blank again. We saw our little bodies trying to build a fort out of bedding.

“aaaand done!” squeaked little Beizu, putting on the final pillow “Inside! Hurry!” little me huffed and little Beizu followed. “Hugs!” little Beizu tackled, knocking down our fort in the process “Oh no!” Little me giggled “We’re trapped! But it’s okay because we’re both under here.” “You’re my bestest friend Iwa!” “You’re my bestest friend Bei!” “Boys, pizzas here!” Our little heads popped up from the pile of pillows and blankets “PIZZA!” We clawed out of the pile and ran straight into the door “Owie!”

“We were a so dumb!” I laughed at the little boys wincing in pain.

“But we were so cute” Beizu fawned “I remember this was the birthday that your mom finally let you sleepover!”

“Yup, we were both super excited and I almost peed my pants when preschool was over for the day” I laughed at my memory “glad to see that we at least learned how to build better forts.”

The hologram fizzled and all the tech stuff reappeared on the walls. Beizu puts the device on his desk “Put those skills to the test!” he walked over to his closet to have all these pillows fall out once he opened it “I got more pillows.”

We built and perfected our fort, out doing ourselves from last year. We had our usual fun of nesting ourselves in the fort with our pillows and snacks while watching youtube videos. This time around, we shut off everything after midnight and just talked.

“Hey”

“Hm?” I responded as I move to my side.

Beizu was tracing the piston on my palm with his finger “When we graduate and get jobs, do you think we’ll be drift apart?”

“I don’t think we will” I look at him “I meant it back then when I said you’re my bestest friend, I always want to be around you.”

“Then, if we’re not in serious relationships by then” he paused for a bit “do- do you want to live together?”

“Sure, I’m down” I think about it for a bit “If you don’t mind me hoarding up the bathroom with my personal care.”

“Deal!” Beizu laughed “But that makes me happy that we’ll always be together. I really can’t imagine life without you.” 

“I can’t imagine it any other way” I hold his hand, then I remembered something “unrelated question, who’s your crush?”

He turned red “Um, I uhhhh can’t tell you.”

“Aww why not?!” I whined “You said you’d tell me.”

“That was then, it hasn’t changed but I’m a little shy” he admitted “But I will say that they’re amazing, handsome and caring. Sometimes they say dumb things and I just want to kiss them to shut them up.”

“Oh you’re into dudes?” I asked “Didn’t expect that.”

“But they’re the only guy I’ll ever feel like this toward” Beizu clarified “I kind of wish they’d make the first move so I don’t live with the rejection. I don’t know what I’ll do if they reject me!”

I brought him in for a hug “Don’t worry about, if they don’t feel the same, then it’s their loss! I’ll be on stand by to beat his ass.”

Beizu started laughing “I believe it” he snuggled up to me “you’re like one of those big teddy bears at department stores, soft and snuggly.”

“That reminds me!” I float my bag toward me “I got you a gift, here.”

He opened the box and gasped “It’s one of those teddy bears with the small head! I love them!”

“Thought you might” I beamed at his reaction “You share those memes with the bear and figured you’d like the real thing.”

“I do! But what should I name them?” Beizu looked at the bear’s little face “it has to be fitting.”

I blurted out “Shamwow”

“Like the infomercial product?” Beizu questioned “Why?”

I shrugged “I dunno, feel weird giving pets or stuffed animals people names.”

Beizu thought about it “Yeah you right” he held the bear up “Shamwow McHeadinson it is!”

“I love it!” I laughed at the name, then I felt Beizu snuggle up with me again “still want to squeeze me instead?”

“It’s like we’re a family now” he pointed out “This is our son.”

“Then who’s the mom?” I asked, playing along.

“Uhhh....shit, didn’t think that through” Beizu furrowed his eyebrows “Guess we’ll take turns being the...mom?”

“We need a third person to be mom” I suggested “I’m not responsible enough to be a mom, but I’d be more than happy to be the protector!”

“And I’m too focused on my projects to be a mom!” sighed Beizu “But I’m down to be the bread winner!” He put the bear between us “Two Dads, Mom and a baby with a small head.”

“Sounds like the title of an American sitcom” I snort-laughed “But could you imagine? Us part of a polyamory partner-hood? The third person would have to be on a whole other level to have us in the mix.”

“Would you be down?” Beizu curiously asked “Like, lets say, we both like the same person and we don’t feel like making the other choose sides. So we just all date each other?”

I put some thought into it “Hmm, if we were in that situation sure, I’d hate to be divided against you” I put my arm around him “I’d never want to deny you of happiness and love, I want you to have it all, even if I don’t have any.”

“Love triangles are for anime and young adult novels!” Beizu said as he fixed himself to lay more comfortably on me “You’re warm and comfy” he yawned “I’m just gonna sleep here.”

I pulled a few pillows to support my body for this sleeping position “Then I won’t move so you can sleep” I say as I put my arm around him “Nighty night Bei.”

“Good night Iwa” he responded sleepily “I love you.”

“I love you too” I closed my eyes so I could sleep too. 

To think that Beizu and I are so close that we can cuddle and say soft things. All without crossing the line of friendship! He’s more than that to me, he’s part of my family. I can’t wait to live with him later down the line, all that talk about after graduation plans got me motivated to get stronger.

The weekend was going great until dad had to do some work related thing on his day off, so I had to go back home Saturday night. Mom had some agent work that came up too, so Uncle Jin had to portal me home to tend to the brats. Yeah they’re old enough to not have a baby sitter BUT they shouldn’t be left alone like that.

“I’m home you shits” I announced myself in.

“Welcome home!” responded Hanaka “we’re in the living room!”

I walk into the area and see the twins and Nikita “You too Nikita?”

“Everyone got called into action” sighed Tensei, sitting at the dining room “All of our friends are here.”

Before I could groan, Hanaka’s friends tumbled down the stairs.

“How was that?” chirped the girl with the bird head.

“Nya! You’re squishing me!” snarled the other girl with paws for hands.

“Needs landing work” Hanaka responded, then turned to me “We’re practicing stair surfing for a stunt.”

“Nya! We’re going to attempt to stair surf on a mattress down the spiral staircase at school!” said the girl “No cap!”

“I’m telling you guys that it’s not gonna work!” stressfully groaned Tensei “now shut up! I have to do research for my next debate!”

“You’re no fun!” huffed the girls.

“Does it look like I care about your little stunt?!” retorted Tensei “At least I know I’m gonna pass elementary school without a misconduct record!”

“Okay settle down!” I demanded the room “It’s late for y'all niños, so if you already ate, go to bed! I’ll be staying up in the living room” I point to the stairs “If I hear a single peep after midnight, Ima give you a powpow.”

That last part made everyone scramble upstairs. Sometimes being part latino has it’s perks. But I took my things to my room and found that Tensei’s friends were already asleep on his side of the room. Looks like staying up downstairs was the right move. I head back downstairs to make myself an iced coffee and heat up some leftovers, like the gremlin I am! 

I don’t know how long my parents are going to be gone, it’s been a long time since the last one of these things. Last time I was like 10 but Lili was the one in charge. Since our parents and their friends are in hero careers, emergencies spring up often and sometimes both of our parents are called in. When that happens, usually their friends get called up too, so they drop off their kids at our house since our house is protected by it’s own system that my mom created. It’s a system not sold by her company! She says it may not even be legal to sell on the security market and that just makes me both laugh and be in awe by her innovation. 

“Iwata, what would you like to do?” asked the robo dog, awaiting command.

“Oh uhhh, can you check the surroundings of the house?”

“Scanning now......all clear.”

“Put up the level 2 security shields” I say before taking a sip of my iced coffee, feeling particularly mischievous.

The screams of the children followed “AHHHH WHAT THE HELL?!”

“GO TO SLEEP!” I yelled back “DON’T MAKE ME GO UP THERE!”

Then there was immediate silence...good! Level 2 on this security system blocks any and all internet connection in case of hackers or transmission locating by an intruder. Yeah, mom thinks of everything! But my little stunt didn’t make me feel any better from leaving the birthday festivities early. We had planned a whole night of binge watching Steven Universe and talk about our feelings! 

Yea, it’s a classic cartoon but I grew up watching it because my mom has all the episodes and movies saved in the family media library. She’d put it on when she had to have some time to herself and didn’t want to deal with our asses. It was the only times we’d stop and watch something as kids, all four of us on the couch. We’d play ‘Crystal Gems’ in the backyard sometimes, I’d get stuck being Garnet only because Tensei didn’t have a quirk like Steven...so he’d be Steven by default. But low-key, all of us wanted to be Steven! Lili was Pearl and Hanaka was Amethyst, and if Beizu was over, he’d be Peridot. Good times....good times.

Time ticked on, it was nearly 4am when our parents came back. Mom deactivated the shields and entered the house with the other parents.

“Welcome home” I greeted my parents “And glad to see everyone is alright. Your kids are all upstairs, asleep.”

“Thank you for taking care of things Iwata” thanked my dad “Sorry that you had to pull away from the birthday festivities, I know how important they are to you and Beizu.”

“It all good” I said before yawning “He understands that I’m the oldest and the twins can’t do this on their own.” I noticed that everyone was still in costume “Hm? You’re still in your hero fit.”

“Yes, that’s because we all changed at home” he explained “We all work at different agencies, it would be inconvenient to go change at work then fight.”

“Oh, fair I guess” I look around for Mom “Where’s mom? Is she okay?”

“She’s a bit under stress at the moment” he looked at the stairs leading to her office “Wish I could tell her to calm down and sleep it off, but she wants answers to what we just saw.”

I didn’t pry for more answers “Hope she finds what she’s looking for” I yawned again “I’m going to bed.”

“Sleep well” Dad said as I turned to the stairs.

“Same to you!”

-Chapter 6, End-

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