Author's Note: This fanfic is listed as "Completed" since the initial chapters (1-11) were completed as of August of 2017. In its original series - this fic *is* complete. If additional chapters are added afterwards, this is due to the author throwing them in at their own fancy. It will *not* be listed as "Incomplete" due to these added chapters, whether or not more are planned for the future. Follow or unfollow at your own leisure.
"Yaoyorozu Momo
Mobile"
Mid [Yaomomo. its me Tsuyu]
Yao [Where did you get this number?]
Mid [i found it on my husband's phone. i didnt know you had a smartphone]
Yao [I didn't give you permission to use this number. Goodbye.]
Mid [i didnt give you permission to text my husband in secret. hello]
Yao [It was not secret for any reason you would think of. It was simply to speak with him in a more relaxed manner. Over more casual matters, as a friend.]
Mid [to talk about old times, like old times. i know, i breezed through his texts]
Yao [I didn't expect you to be an overly suspicious wife, Tsuyu.]
Mid [i didnt expect your texts to still look so cutesy at your age, Momo]
Yao [It's rude of you to pry into other people's texts. Even if they are your husband's.]
Mid [consider me inept when it comes to common courtesy. especially towards those who use my husband as a tool to handle their company's dirty secrets]
Yao [If you wish to discuss the upcoming mission in detail. Then please, visit me in my office.]
Mid [my body is so beat that i cant twitch my toe without tearing up. i'd rather not leave my bed]
Yao [Ochaco seems well enough to move.]
Mid [?]
Yao [I can see her on our security cams. She's using a wheelchair to get to the elevator.]
Mid [… i have no idea what shes doing. or where she got a wheelchair. does your medical facility send them to rooms?]
Yao [On request. The wheelchair she's using, though, looks nothing like the ones our medical facility provides.]
Mid [no idea what thats about]
-[anyways. i do want to talk about the upcoming mission in detail.]
Yao [Then we can speak over the phone. Call my office number.]
Mid [the one you never answer?]
Yao [I will answer this time.]
Mid [i still prefer to do this over text. i cant move my jaw much. and besides, you look like youre more honest in your texts than you are over the phone]
Yao [I would greatly appreciate it if you stopped looking through your husband's texts.]
Mid [afraid i might see something i shouldnt see?]
Yao [Aside from all the texts, which were meant to be kept private between us? No. Outside of privacy reasons, you won't find anything like that in our texts. I just prefer you to respect the privacy.]
Mid [i put away his phone]
Yao [Thank you. Now what is it that you want to talk about?]
Mid [Toru. i never knew she joined your company]
Yao [Her contract is under a different name, and it was kept a secret.]
Mid [reason?]
(12:14 PM)
Yao [Nothing I can disclose in detail over a public or commercial line. But simply put: she was hired into my private security force. If her name could be found on my company listing, then it would have been easier for intruders to know what to expect.]
Mid [so then whats this about what your investigators found out?]
Yao [I would really prefer to have this discussion in-person, or over my private line.]
Mid [and i really would prefer to stay in bed and not move my mouth. dont worry, i wont say anything specific. i'll keep things vague]
Yao [Very well. Then please know that I cannot divulge enough information to satisfy your questions over these texts.]
Mid [thats obvious. but let me be the judge of whats 'satisfactory']
(12:18 PM)
Yao [Then to vaguely answer your question: I have reasons to believe that what my investigators found and are acting on – is suspiciously inaccurate information. I would not recommend you make any conclusions after reading their reports.]
Mid [but you were praising your investigative teams earlier, saying how thorough they were and how they could match, or even pass, the best detective agencies in this city]
Yao [Which is why it's very concerning that they're working with inaccurate information. I do not find a fault with them – but with how convincing the false information is.]
Mid [and what is your proof?]
Yao [Outside of a few leads that I can't discuss here… I'm afraid I don't have much else. Call it 'intuition' or 'instinct', but I cannot help but feel that the conclusion that my investigators have reached are completely incorrect.]
Mid [in other words, you trust Toru over them]
Yao [Yes.]
Mid [has Toru contacted you?]
Yao [No. Her comm's frequency is suspiciously quiet.]
Mid [and that wouldn't prove the investigators' leads?]
Yao [Quite the opposite. If what the investigation teams found is true, then Toru would have benefitted more from countering their evidences, than simply remaining quiet over them.]
Mid [are you sure about this?]
Yao [You can never truly be sure of anything in this business… But if old relationships count for anything – then I would prefer to hold onto that trust than turn my back to it.]
Mid [really? coming from the woman who stopped speaking with her friends for years?]
Yao [Toru continued in her attempts to speak with me. All the way up to our graduation. I owe her for that. Where were you?]
-[I apologize. That was very unfair of me.]
Mid [no i suppose youre right. she tried, while the rest of us gave up too early. i am sorry for that Momo.]
Yao [I forgive you. And I am sorry for the poor behavior on my part. I shouldn't have shunned the rest of you for that issue.]
Mid [ever care to tell me what that issue was?]
(12:31 PM)
Yao [Your husband hasn't?]
Mid [no, he never spoke a word about it. he said it would have hurt you if anyone ever found out]
Yao [He's not wrong, but]
-[He should've told you. It's wrong for him to keep that a secret.]
Mid [if thats the case then why was it wrong for me to look through his texts?]
Yao [The issue between your husband and I is far more detrimental to your relationship than our small textings.]
Mid [so then what was the issue?]
Yao [I'll speak with him later. I'll have him tell you. It's better if it comes from him.]
Mid [i'd prefer to hear both sides. but i'll hear it from him first then]
Yao [That way is for the better. But for now, this discussion is neither here nor there. Your team should be focused more on the missions ahead, rather than bickering over this old topic. I'll let him know about this talk after you've accomplished your missions.]
Mid [you seem confident that we'll make it out alive]
Yao [After what you've shown in your fight against the Poisoned Mind: I have no doubt you'll succeed.]
Mid [did we see the same numbers for that last mission? time completion, damage ratio, and number ratio? comparing that to the next ones is like comparing a pebble to a boulder]
(12:40 PM)
Yao [I wasn't judging your effectiveness over those results. I am judging it off of the personal reports Creati had given me. Specifically, in how you discovered the villain lead's Quirk. Your hesitation to jumping to the more obvious conclusions, while still making quick deductions under pressure, proves that you have the best mindset for the upcoming missions.]
-[The best way to bring down an organization is to cut off its head. And finding the head of the Poisoned Mind was like finding a lone cricket in the forest. You're more than qualified for the next missions.]
Mid [i doubt we'll be ready for them in time. it'll take more than two days to recover from these injuries]
Yao [Then I'll clear your schedule for the week. Focus on recovering first before taking on those missions.]
Mid [but we still have the one week time limit for each of the groups, right?]
Yao [Yes. That requisite still remains.]
Mid [ugh. fine. we can work with that. well, i can. i doubt my husband is happy having to wait so long]
Yao [Creati can keep him busy with beneficial tasks until then. He can help gather necessary materials for support items with her, and study over the villain files we have.]
(12:51 PM)
Mid [Creati is going to need more than that to keep my husband distracted. once he knows someone's in trouble, it takes a miracle to stop him from rushing out the door. or at least a really hard jab to the rib]
-[dont tell her to jab him in the rib. thats my duty]
Yao [Don't worry, Creati would never dare hurt her favorite Hero.]
Mid [?]
Yao [Did I say something odd?]
Mid [i thought you were her favorite hero]
Yao [I'm no longer a Hero, Tsuyu. That automatically disqualifies me from that assumption.]
Mid [i know that, but i thought that was why she took on your old hero name. i thought she was a fan hero]
Yao [Akahoshi is very much a fan hero. But she took on my hero name simply out of convenience. She couldn't think of a hero name for herself, so she asked to take on mine.]
Mid [oh]
Yao [The hero Akahoshi looks up to most is Deku. She's been a fan of his since before she joined U.A. If you ever get the chance to look into her room, it's absolutely filled with Deku merchandise. And far too many custom posters of him.]
Mid [i see]
Yao [Don't worry. She means nothing by it. She's simply a big fan of his.]
Mid [its strange. she doesnt act like it. most fan heroes are aggravating to be around when their favorite hero is nearby]
Yao [I wouldn't hire someone who could lose their professionalism over their silly fanaticism. Everyone in my company is allowed to hold whatever hobbies they please – so long as they don't harm themselves, the company's name, or anyone else in the process.]
Mid [is it fine that shes working directly for us then? wouldnt it endanger her ability to make rational decisions during battle?]
Yao [Firstly, she's not allowed to assist any of you directly in battle. If she ever does, please report the incident to me immediately.]
-[Secondly, despite her calm demeanor, Akahoshi is anything but rational. Her favorite Hero is Deku, remember. Would you consider Deku 'rational' under most circumstances?]
Mid [no]
Yao [Then you have your answer: she isn't rational. So there's nothing to endanger.]
Mid [having her near Deku wouldn't increase her chances for irrational outbursts?]
(01:07 PM)
Yao [It's the opposite for her. If I kept her away from you three, she might have attempted to leave her post in order to help in your battle against the Poisoned Mind. And if she did, I would have had to make the terrible decision of firing my only assistant. Leaving her with you three allows her to watch her favorite Hero in action, up close – which will only prove to her that her direct meddling isn't necessary for him to succeed.]
Mid [you set everything up from the very beginning…]
Yao [The best solutions are ones that can solve multiple problems at once.]
Mid [what else do you plan to solve with us under your agency, i wonder]
Yao [Do you hold this against me, Tsuyu? I am acting as I should be, according to my position as CEO of this Agency. I have more than just you three to look after.]
Mid [no i didnt mean it like that. im just surprised, is all. how can you keep this up 24/7, Momo?]
Yao [I don't. My job ends at nine PM. On the dot. And I'm off work on the seventh and third days of the week.]
Mid [but todays the seventh day of the week. and youre still at your office multitasking]
Yao [I'm always in my office. This is where I live. And I'm not multitasking, I'm just watching people on my security cams.]
Mid [? Where's your bathroom? Kitchen?]
Yao [In the walls.]
Mid [when do you ever go out to get food? or sunlight?]
Yao [Creati picks up my groceries for me every week. And I sunbathe on the building's roof.]
Mid [you take this hermit life very seriously]
Yao [I've gotten used to it. And frankly, I prefer it now. Having to live under everyone else's standards in the past stressed me in ways I didn't know of – until I left it behind me.]
Mid [yet you still check social media to see what people think of you]
Yao [No person is an island. Even I get curious of people's opinions of me from time to time. Though it really is a bad habit.]
(01:18 PM)
Mid [you really havent changed that much, have you, Yaomomo? i thought all these years that you became someone so different, cold and distant. but the way we're chatting now isnt too different from how we used to text late at nights. its really nostalgic]
Yao [Yes. It does feel like those late night texts, doesn't it? I miss those.]
Mid [we can have them again. like we used to]
Yao [If you don't mind, I would actually very much appreciate that.]
Mid [you dont mind me texting you on this number?]
Yao [As long as you stop reading Izuku and I's texts.]
Mid [i have rights as his wife]
Yao [Then don't text me.]
Mid [i'm joking. i'll stop.]
Yao [I was joking too. I would still prefer if you didn't read our private texts, but I understand if you're doing it because you're worried over your husband.]
Mid [he ended up with a second wife after all. i'll be honest and say that i'm not open to him having a third]
Yao [There's no need to worry over that. Our relationship is nothing of the sort.]
Mid [thats what Ochaco said]
Yao [I have no interest in being a man's third wife, thank you very much.]
Mid [i'll hold you to that]
Yao [Please do.]
Mid [anyways. my thumbs are numb now. i think i should be getting back to resting. we'll talk later, okay, Yaomomo?]
Yao [Of course.]
-[Oh, and Tsuyu?]
Mid [?]
Yao [Thank you for texting me.]
Mid [thank you for answering]
(01:35 PM)