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Chapter 11 - Reasons

So maybe I shouldn't have decided to meet midnight first thing tomorrow, Yu wanted some alcohol as well to console me/celebrate. I deadpanned her when she tried to explain her actions but allowed myself to drink anyway.

Turns out having a giant liver means she can process alcohol much faster than I can. Partial expansion jutsu~. I thought watching her torso expand before contracting as she pulled out the next bottle of the gold stuff.

We drank the night away and put billy Joel on her phone, I remember seeing the man live at a concert in my first life. In this one that artist has been dead for three hundred years, I was saddened by this so I needed more shots!

I drunkenly asked Yu if she could make a portion of her skin giant and wrap herself up in it like flying squirrel or a bat. Bad move shinji~ real bad move, for you see asking a drunken woman about loose skin is an excellent way to receive a drunken beating. She thought that I accused her of having flabby arms.

It was around that time that I blacked out, when I woke up I found myself wrapped in some of the furs I keep for the sofa. Man sleeping in furs is so comfortable, they're so soft and it felt like I was having a parka and rec moment as I felt all the fur and searched for something delicious in my offices mini fridge. Chocolate milk for the win~

Yu woke up around an hour later and showed off her bed head, it looked like a bomb had went off and her hair had been blown it every direction by the shockwave. She took off home to pretty herself up whilst I visited the sauna in the gym.

Paper work was the next thing on my todo list, all the people who requested my presence needed an update. Having brand deals and products with your face/mask on them means you need to sign off a lot of shit. Man I need to make a wooden clone thing soon otherwise imma become a hiruzen.

When I finished up it was late in the afternoon so I decided to get some lunch. I pumped some chicken ramen into my stomach before suiting up and heading on patrol. A short patrol because the hangover made being around city noise torturous for me.

When a villain burst through a safety deposit building and start monologuing I slammed a gigantic wooden mallet on his body from above. What? His voice was grating my ears. It was at that point that I had decided that I'd had enough off this shit for the day.

My adoring fans had witnessed my abrupt attitude with the villain and rejoiced. Apparently the guy had a major rep followed by a substantial bounty so the HSPC dropped a few zeroes in my account. Yay~ more money for bills!

Went back to the office and opened up the PC to check some stuff and fill out more paperwork before I decided to head to my apartment. It was in the middle of nowhere and I told no one of its existence. As far as the people in my life knew I either lived in the office or was at Nemuri's. What? I was a single dude running a business you think I could afford a place as well?!? Was the argument I went with when people asked about living arrangements.

The adults nodded in understanding whilst the teenagers thought I was devoted to my job and admired me all the more for it. Children believed I lived in a tree house somewhere in the city so used the internet to catalogue all trees with mustafu capable of hosting life. Was useless but it kept them busy, the local birdwatchers however appreciated the children's effort.

Waltzing through the city on foot was much slower than swinging my way there but I don't want people tracking my private living space down because of it. I also used it to train a little, Baki hanma style! I imagined fighting random people as I walked past them. Hopefully I'll get to the point that one day I'd vanish on my feet.

As I headed my building I felt someone was watching me, I was out of costume so that meant that it may be a mugger thinking I'm an easy mark. May as well make things interesting? I slipped my hands in my pockets and casually made my way to a nearby alley that would cut to another street.

After I entered the alley I heard a *pawuf* noise to i twisted my torso. I watched a white towel? Fly past me so I picked it up and unfurled it. It was a white t shirt that said "through the roof" on it. Looking up I saw a t shirt cannon leaning against the edge.

I jumped and placed a foot against the wall before spontaneously creating a little wooden foot hold from my ankle that imbedded it self into the wall. I didn't want to ruin my sneakers. A few hefty jumps planted me at the top of a building face to face with midnight decked out in her hero attire.

"Really? A t-shirt cannon to get my attention?" I asked her in a chastising tone.

"You were ignoring my calls! I knew you lived somewhere around here." She said with a slight huff in her tone.

"Gee I wonder why? Maybe it's cause you did the one thing I asked you not to do?"

"It wasn't my fault shinji!" She complained but i cut her off "not your fault? You met up with an old flame and mentioned nothing of it to me. Granted I try not to be controlling but I at least would like to know who you interact with."

"How was I supposed to know Ink— Midoriya was going to do that!" She hissed defensively.

"Your not the victim here, you basically did the equivalent of a child patting a familiar stray dog and didn't think you were going to get bit."

"I don't appreciate the analogy of her and a dog to say she was a bitch. Her husband dumped her cause the son was quirkless. She was stressed and needed an outlet, her son would have failed if she didn't do something drastic."

"Your defending her actions? What the fuck! Is that supposed to make me feel better or something? I watch you give some single mother head and I'm supposed to be cool with it cause she was having a hard time?

News flash! We all have a hard time so it doesn't give you an excuse to cuck me. I'm also pissed because this probably wasn't a recent thing was it?"

She remained quiet so I clicked my tongue "I thought you just had a bad rep Nemuri no Kayama. I decided to give it a shot, but I was just a fucking idiot. Midnight? You pick your name because you belong on the streets around that time."

"How dare you!" She hissed at me with rage, yeah I called her a whore so what I'm hurting cause of her. I can be a little venomous right?

I looked her dead in the eye "you cheated on me! Your friend came to my office to explain to me how you got your ass bailed out because your boss likes you which makes me suspect you being a furry on the side."

She looked outraged "that's no tru-" I cut her off with "doesn't matter, you betrayed my trust and tried to justify it. We're through."

"Whhh what?!?!" She questioned with an aghast facial expression.

"You heard me, we are through. I'm done speaking to you, if we cross paths on the job so be it but other than that I don't wanna see you..... oh and you can keep the belt I left at your place, you can use it as a gag the next time you go fuck yourself"

I said before jumping back into the alley leaving her up on the roof. I don't know how she was gonna react but I don't care. All I wanna do right now is go home, check if there's ice cream in the fridge, play some video games and get some sleep. After that it's back to work, the hero academia is about to start so I can't waste my time on a thot.