Yagi Izuku- Adventures in Fatherhood!

Chapter 12: Happy 1st Birthday Izuku!

"Let's head down stairs, the Bakugou's will be over shortly." Daddy carries me down the stairs and puts me down in the living room again.

I watch people pass through the room carrying things and talking, after a while there's a ring at the door. I look up to the window and see my auntie Mitsuki and uncle Masaru. Uncle Masaru is cradling Kacchan!

"Mitsuki, Masaru, little Katsuki. It's wonderful that you could make it, please come in!" Daddy hugs them as uncle Masaru sets Kacchan down next to me. I watch the adults walk into the kitchen, leaving me and Kacchan alone.

"Kacchan!" I smile.

"Izuchan! What's going on, why's everyone here?" Kacchan reaches for a teething ring.

"I don't know, something about my birthday. Kacchan, what's a birthday?" I ask.

"A birthday is when people get together to celebrate you. I think." He sighs.

"What happens on a birthday?" I tilt my head back.

"That's the best part! You eat really sweet food and you get to open gifts. Remember on my birthday when I got that super soft All Might blanket? You'll probably get gifts like that." Kacchan grins.

"Really?!" I smile.

"Sometimes when you two babble it sounds like you're having conversations!" Tenko laughs as he skips into the living room and sits next to me.

"Come on, dad said it's time to celebrate!" Tenko says as he picks me up. Gran carries Kacchan.

The kitchen is decorated with bright ribbons, and banners. There's balloons on the edge of my high chair and they float well above my head. Daddy brings over a cupcake to my high chair but he sits it just out of reach. He gives everyone else a cupcake too. And then out of nowhere they started singing! They must have gone crazy, they never sing like this. Maybe it's a birthday thing?

Once they stopped singing Daddy moved my cupcake closer to me so I could reach it. I took my hands and took handfuls of the frosting and shoved it into my mouth. Kacchan was right about getting to eat sweet food! Grandpa Torino laughed at me as he wiped some of the frosting off my cheeks. Kacchan also had cupcake all over his face, but Mitsuki was a lot quicker to wipe him off.

"Alright, who's ready to open presents?" Daddy brings a box over and sits it on the table.

"This 1 is from your Auntie and Uncle!" Auntie Mitsuki smiles. Daddy lets me tear the corner while he opens the rest for me. Inside is some sort of bag. It's blue with patterns of flowers all over, it has a large pocket and a few smaller pockets.

"Masaru, Mitsuki, you shouldn't have!" Daddy squeals as he hugs them. Apparently it's an expensive baby bag, but I don't get it.

"Take this." Grandpa Torino nods as he hands me a smaller box. I shake it around and struggle to open it until Daddy helps. Inside is a soft yellow blanket that matches the cape that Gran wears sometimes. The blanket has tags and teething rings on the corner.

"That should help with the teeth you'll be getting soon." Torino nods.

"It's great!" Daddy smiles at Grandpa.

"This might be too big for you to open Izuku." Mirai laughs as he lays a large rectangular box next to my high chair. Daddy helps Mirai open it up, inside was some type of trash can. It's called a 'diaper decomposer' and it's supposed to get rid of dirty diapers. It's some sort of new tech that made daddy very happy.

"Here's my gift to you!" Daddy says as he sets me on the floor.

"What's this going to be?" Masaru ponders. Daddy returns with a box that has holes in it. He hands a string to me and tells me to pull it, so I do. When I tug on the string the box falls open and out comes a puppy!

"A puppy!" Tenko laughs.

"Oh dear lord." Uncle Mirai sighs.

"He's gone crazy." Gran shakes his head.

"Aww." Masaru coos.

The puppy licks all over my face before running around the kitchen. I crawl after her and we do circles around the kitchen island. Tenko joins in and it turns into a full on chase.

"I figured, with Tenko starting school soon, Izuku might need someone to keep him company." Daddy blushes as Gran glares at him.

"That thing better be trained." Gran growls.

"Oh she's all trained! Mostly... I mean she's potty trained and she knows how to sit. She's got all her shots!" Daddy waves his hands in front of his face.

"What's her name?" Uncle Masaru asks.

"Her name is Emiko, and she's very well behaved." Daddy says as she jumps into his lap and licks his face.

"Yeah, very well behaved." Mirai laughs.

"Emiko is pretty cute!" Tenko grins as he cuddles her.

"Well, it's about time we got something feminine around here." Mitsuki nods.

The rest of my night is spent playing with Kacchan and Emiko. She ran circles around us and Kacchan can't wait to come back to see her again. But like most good things, my birthday had to come to an end. The Bakugou's went back home and so did Uncle Masaru and Grandpa Torino, after they helped clean up. So it was just me, Tenko, Emiko, and daddy again. Tenko was in the bath when daddy came to me with a small gift.

"Izuku, there is just 1 more gift for you." He whispers as he hands me a little wrapped box.

"This is from... it's from your mother. She wanted you to have this, but she can't be here to give it to you." Daddy's eyes start to water.

"Open it carefully, okay?" He sits it in my lap and I start to rip the ribbon off. Inside the package was a photo. It was daddy and mommy, they're sitting on a beach. Mommy is holding her tummy and daddy has a big grin across his face.

"She would've loved you more than the sun, Izuku." Daddy cries as he holds me.

I think I love mommy too.