Purple Haze

1

Toya suddenly zoned back in at the mention of Izuku's friend flying. He had always wondered if he would be able to fly with his own fire quirk, but he was never allowed to try during his training.

"What's your quirk?" Toya found himself quietly asking, interrupting the boys rambling.

"Oh, um. I don't have a quirk yet. My mom thinks I'm a late bloomer though so she's taking me to the doctor tomorrow" the greenette explained, his eyes subtly dropping to his lap before quickly looking back up in excitement.

"What type of quirk do you have?"

Toya instantly shut down. He doesn't want to talk about his quirk. The same thing was the reason he was here alone in the first place. His quirk lost him any semblance of family he could've had. All because it wasn't enough.

"None of your business" Toya answers coldly, his blues sharpening at the young boy.

"Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable! Please forgive me!" Izuku cried, tears already welling up in big green eyes as he frantically apologized to his hopeful new friend.

Toya was immediately uncomfortable. All he wanted to do was sleep, but here he was, "talking" with a kid 6 years younger than himself.

Geeze, I didn't mean to make him cry, Toya thought to himself, grimacing at the huge tears rolling down the greenettes cheeks.

"Hey, I didn't mean like that, it's just-" Toya sighed, "-my quirk is a bit of a touchy topic"

This seemed to be a good enough answer for the five year old as the boy nodded firmly before wiping his tears on his sleeves.

"I'm sorry. We're still friends, right?" Izuku asked shyly, not wanting to accidentally make the older boy upset again.

Toya was surprised the boy still wanted to be friends with him. He guessed it was just a side effect of being a toddler, they wanted to be everyone's friend and everyone was just always automatically their friends.

Toya sighed once again as he opened his mouth to answer, but before he could, he was interrupted.

"Izuku? Izuku, it's time to go home!" Toya heard someone call, most likely Izuku's mother.

"I have to go now, but I'll be back in a couple days, will you be here?"

For some reason, when Toya looked into those big green puppy dog eyes, he couldn't but agree that he'd be here.

He had no idea where he would be and spending the next couple of days in the park during the rainy season wasn't ideal in the slightest, but the look of the younger boys sparked and indistinguishable something in his own.

As soon as Toya nodded, Izuku smiled before rushing over to where his mom was most likely waiting for him.

Looking up at the sky, Toya deflated a bit. The setting of the sun and the arrival of the stars telling him he was going to have to find some place for the night sooner rather than later.

Maybe he would stay under the tree again? It didn't look like it was going to rain.

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Toya doesn't think he's stayed in a place as long as he had stayed at the park, at least since he left home and all.

True to his word, the five year old did come back to the park the two days after they first met, and Toya found himself waiting.

Toya knew he didn't trust, he couldn't, and that extended to the five year old as well. Yet he couldn't bring himself to leave.