Midoriya smiled as he looked at the newspaper clipping that had been hung on his wall for the last two and a half years; the day he and his friends took down Shigaraki. As his fingers caressed the frame, he felt the bittersweetness of the situation hit him.
It had been a dream to go to UA, ever since he was a little boy watching All Might videos on the computer. "Who would have thought these would be the best three years of my life?"
It was the last thing to pack up and, as he did so, he let out a forlorn sigh. He'd spent the last three years of his life in Heights Alliance and it wasn't easy to leave it. "Guess I can't get stagnant now."
A knock came on his door and he heard a familiar voice croak, "Kero, come on Midoriya! You're going to be late for the graduation ceremony!"
"Alright, coming Tsu!"
He left his now empty dorm, closing the door behind him for the final time.
Graduation ceremonies, Deku decided, were not his favorite thing in the world. Still, it was nice to see how happy his mom was as he was handed his diploma and to see the smiling faces of his classmates.
Even Gran Torino showed up, although he claimed it was only there so Hatsume could perform maintenance on his mechanical arm and leg.
As he and Hatsume walked to meet their friends for dinner after, she was telling him all about the appointment.
"So he said, 'your work is even better than your parents!'" She told him, in a mock-old-man voice, "So I told him that he could just be my new cyber grandpa, and he didn't seem to like it, but I think I'm winning him over!" Midoriya laughed as she continued, "I mean, who doesn't want a cyber grandpa! Normal grandpas just tell stories and have the weird smell, but cyber grandpa can do those things with less hip pain!"
Midoriya snickered. "Maybe that can be your next project when you pick a company to work for."
Hatsume froze up and stopped walking. Izuku paused and turned back to her. She wasn't someone who second guessed herself, but at his words, she looked downright nervous. "I-I actually wanted to talk to you about that."
"Yeah? Did you pick one?" He asked, curiously.
Hatsume took several deep breaths. "Will you... will you..."
She abruptly dropped to one knee, freaking him out, and screamed, "WILL YOU OPEN A COMPANY WITH ME?!"
"Hatsume, don't do that, I thought you were proposing to me!" Midoriya leaned forward, clutching his chest. "It's not very heroic to keel over and die from a heart attack."
Hatsume stood up and began fidgeting with her gloves. "But this is so much more than marriage, Midoriya! This is baby making! Baby making for the entire world!"
Izuku smirked, blushing a bit as her yelling about baby-making began to attract attention from random passerby. Some things never changed. "What brings this about, anyway?"
"I'm tired of contracting out all our ideas for other people to make money off of them," Hatsume replied. "We both make decent money, but people are living it up on selling our babies. We own the rights to these products now. I want to be the premiere support pro. But..."
"But...?"
Hatsume turned red, and looked away. "Whenever I picture myself on top of the world, I can't see myself doing it without you."
"Mei..."
"And I know you want to be a Tracking Hero!" She blurted out, "You're so good with Detective Work! We can have two branches of the company!"
"Mei."
"Lot's of Support Labs partner with Pro Heroes and their agencies, it will be just like that."
"I'll do it."
"And that way you can do both Hero and Support work like you've been saying for..." Hatsume paused, only just now hearing what he said. "You what?"
"Let's do it!" Deku beamed. "Let's make our own agency!"
He had to catch himself as Hatsume lunged at him - thankfully in their second year he had grown taller than her - as she wrapped her arms around his neck, the two spinning around from her momentum. "YES! YES! YES! YES! We're going to make so much stinkin' money!"
Midoriya laughed again as he returned her embrace. "Alright, alright. Come on, moneybags, we're late! We can tell all of our friends."
It took a year to get off the ground, but finally, Hatsudoriya Industries got off the ground. Even with the contracts they had, it was hard to procure the money for a startup and advertising. But, thankfully, the two had strong reputations in their fields, and hiring the Hero who stopped the League of Villains to track down hard-to-reach criminals was something desperate people were willing to try.
As business picked up, they were able to afford a small house with their best friends, Uraraka and Asui.
Coincidentally, Uraraka's power made moving really easy.
"Honestly, living with three women," Inko muttered as Deku and Hatsume were picking up the last of his things from his childhood apartment. "What will people think?"
"I'm with Hatsume, mom," he laughed. "Don't be weird."
She huffed. "I know, I know... Well. You know I'm proud of you, regardless."
He turned red. "Thanks, mom."
As she shuffled from the room, Hatsume raised her eyebrows, and said in a low voice, "So you haven't told her about the time the four of us got drunk after finals and -"
Midoriya now turned crimson and hissed, "Why would I tell her that?! Don't talk about that here."
Hatsume cackled. "You're lucky I'm not a villain, Deku Scrub. I always know how to get under your skin."
A few years after they moved in with their friends, business was picking up. Hatsume now had hired a few assistants to help fulfill the many orders and repair jobs they were getting - including Yukio, who actually managed to not be completely useless at Support after his first year. Midoriya was also getting some expanding business and decided it was time to hire a few Sidekicks as well.
"Are you sure about hiring me, Midoriya?" His new Sidekick asked, nervously. "I only just recently got my License. I can't believe they even let me."
Izuku grinned. "Of course, Todoroki. You want to make up for what you did, right?"
Todoroki Shoto nodded. "More than anything."
"Well. Redemption starts today."
Yes, life turned out pretty good. And as Midoriya returned to his agency after a long night of patrol, he wondered if things were finally stabilizing in his life. "Just need to change out of this suit and get back home."
He was surprised to find Hatsume in his office, with a weird smile on her face. "Hey Deku Scrub! Good patrol?"
"Eh, it was kind of slow. What's up? Usually you're either at home by now or I have to drag you out of the lab," he joked.
Hatsume walked up to him and wrapped her arms around his neck. She seemed excited, though not in her usual energetic way. "We made a baby."
"Oh, did our new project work out?" Deku asked, pulling away excitedly. "I was worried when it kept exploding in testing and-"
Hatsume smiled and put a finger against his mouth. "Not that kind of baby." She grabbed his hand and gently placed it on her stomach.
"Oh." Midoriya Izuku replied, quietly. Then it hit him, his eyes widening in realization. "OH!"
TFW you finish the biggest fic you've ever written.
TFW you end a story with the, "making babies," joke with an actual pregnancy.
I want to thank all of you for making it this far. This story is far from perfect, of course, but I am proud of it and hope that you've enjoyed.
I got to a point where, admittedly, I wasn't sure where to go with this. But I'm not one to abandon a work (other than an Undertale story I wrote a few years ago) so I wanted to give this an ending. Hopefully, I lived up to it.
I'm sure once Season 4 boots up, I'll write more, but for now, I think I'm going to move on to some original works.