All Might's POV
I'm going to end up pulling my hair out from these boys. WHY would Katsuki agree to something so foolish? He knows how dangerous those landmines were and he still piled them up like that? He had to be the one to plan it because why else would the boys do something so irresponsible and dangerous? Other than Katsuki who had seen Izuku do just that during our first life that is.
"They are grounded, from absolutely anything and everything! WH-" I was cut off when Inko gave me a sweet kiss.
"Dear, let the boys be. They are still children, let them have a bit of fun and no one else's parents are grounding their kids so that the world could hear them, right?" Inko patted my shoulder trying to calm me down and Aiko popped out from behind her.
"That's right Daddy! Let my big brothers have some fun. It's not like there are any bad people here to hurt them! Right?" She had convinced her mother and I to take her to get a perm and now her golden blond hair had ringlets instead of the waves that she used to have and she absolutely adored flipping it around while she walked or curling it around her finger while she talked, paired with her sparkling blue eyes it was really not fair on anyone, much less me.
"But sweetheart they could have been hurt," I tried to explain to my daughter, squatting down to her level while Inko was watching, giggling and not helping me at all.
"But Daddy! They always have to do everything your way. Are they supposed to be just like you or are they supposed to be heroes themselves?" Aiko puffed out her chest, her hands on her hips while she glared at me and damn it. I lost.
"How did you get to be so smart?" I asked my four year old, petting her head and she smiled real big at me, making me dread the answer.
"Because I listen to Mommy!" She announced, super proud of herself. It was now that I heard a few thousand people, "awe" and I looked up to see that the cameraman for the event had recorded and broadcasted the whole conversation.
"Do you mind?" I asked, irritated. Why must someone point a camera at my baby any time we take her out? Just why? It's just bad manners to record children without permission. I heard him cough and mutter an apology but Aiko had my attention again.
"Mommy! Mommy did you see? I got Daddy to admit it!" Aiko had already turned her attention back to her mother and I was left forgotten. Why do I get the distinct feeling that I am Aiko's least favorite person in the family? She adores all of her brothers the same and Yuki is like the sister she just doesn't have and of course there is her mother and I am just left in the dust of all of them.
I let my head drop and sighed, "I guess it can't be helped." The smile on my face didn't disappear while I watched my wife and daughter and it wasn't long before the second round was announced.
I picked up my little angel and she happily sat on my shoulders so she could see better and held on tight while cheering for her brothers. We watched while all the other teams went running for them and young Todoroki used his ice to coat the field and they were able to easily dodge the worst of it and Katsuki grabbed several headbands as they skated past the other teams. Listening to Present Mic announce things as they happened it was hard to take my eyes off of the boys, they managed to get a girl from the support class to join them and they were scarily efficient in taking out the low powered teams making me chuckle.
"What's so funny Daddy?" Aiko asked and I explained while Inko laughed next to us, her giggles turning the once silent air into music.
"They are taking out any teams they don't have an interest in facing in the next round. It's pretty easy to see that they are skipping past the students who seem to have the more powerful fighting style and we all know how the boys can be," I teased looking away from the monitor and up at my little girl.
"That's right! My big brothers can take them all easy, peasy lemon squeezy!" She cheered and several found her adorable but there was one in particular that didn't.
"Hmph, my Shoto could take them," I turned my head to see Endeavor and my smile faded.
"You still have such a long way to go," I sighed and he glared at me. For a moment I thought he was going to hit me and I returned his glare, if he even dares while I'm holding Aiko…
"Don't forget that I am the number two hero, you can't be number one forever!" He hissed, Inko taking our baby girl from me before I did something drastic.
"I don't need nor want to be. I have faith that the new generation of heroes will rise to the coming villain threat and protect the people as heroes should," I smiled again when I looked down on the stage to see our children working together and NOT fighting.
"Are you trying to steal my youngest son now too? My eldest wasn't enough for you?" He growled and I'm pretty sure that the cameraman from earlier is recording us again but I don't really care now that Aiko wouldn't be in the shot.
"I did not steal Dabi, he is working at my agency that he applied for, and working just like anyone else at any other hero agency," I sighed, rubbing the bridge of my nose in irritation.
"Toya was supposed to come to my agency, that is why I trained him the way that I did!" He hissed at me again and I narrowed my eyes at him.
"Todoroki, watch what you say or someone might misunderstand that you don't care about your children at all," I kept my eyes level with him. "As parents we are only supposed to love and raise them to know right from wrong and shield them from dangers, not force them to do whatever we want from them."
"That's rich! Weren't you just yelling about grounding your boys because they WON the first round, albet cheating but still," he snorted and I can't find him more repulsive than I do right now.
"I am mad because they took an unnecessary risk that could have not only hurt themselves but could have killed them. I am angry that they were not more responsible not because they won and no they did not cheat. Using your head in the field is necessary as heroes and if there was adequate reason for it then I would encourage it. There is a difference, I don't know how you don't know that," I studied him again and again. I'm worried about the youngest Todoroki boy. What has he done to that poor boy all this time without anyone to put a stop to him?
"Say what you want, it will be my son at number one, not your boys," he rolled his eyes this time and I couldn't help laughing which made him focus on me again.
"Just know that if my boys get disqualified for simply being my sons that means yours would be too. Let them figure out how they want to cooperate with each other, in the last few months I've only seen them becoming better and better friends, not hostile towards each other," I smirked, knowing that I had won. He can't refute it because he can't see what happens during the school day and even if he could he still couldn't without making the world think there was bad blood between us. Something I have never understood, in any lifetime.
"You-!" He started but then Present Mic was announcing the winners and I didn't care that he cut himself off to look down at the stage.
"My little heroes," I smiled seeing the four boys and one girl team place first with a ridiculous amount of points. They didn't even have that hard of a time and even now they were playing on the ice, showing off their skating skills and even Young Todoroki was laughing with them. Yes, they are all heroes and not so little anymore.
I turned towards Inko who had walked back over when she saw that I wasn't paying attention to Endeavor anymore. "Why do they have to grow up so fast?" I asked, putting an arm around her back and hugging her to my side after picking Aiko up again and letting her sit on the opposite hip.
"Because we did a good job," she smiled, leaning into my chest and smiling up at me. "Makes me want another little one and we still have our little Aiko," she gave me a devilish grin that I just couldn't resist so I gave her a light kiss.
"Only time will tell, I'm afraid that regardless of how I look, I'm not that young anymore," I sighed and she giggled.
"We can either have one or adopt one, but if we adopt, let's wait until Aiko is in middle school. She isn't like the boys, well, I guess there is still Yuki," she corrected herself and that got Aiko's attention away from her brothers long enough to find out what we were saying.
"Yuki? Is she here? She said she didn't want to come because it was so crowded! She should have just come with us instead of Aunty and Uncle!" Aiko pouted cutely and Inko and I were laughing at our daughter's adorable haughty attitude.
"Don't be like that, Yuki loves you very much and if she could have come then she would have. No pouting now, you wouldn't want your brothers to think you're disappointed now would you?" Inko teased her and several minutes of Aiko's cuteness just warmed my heart.
"Looks like it's lunch time, we should see if we can catch the boys before they have to go back. I'm sure Aiko wants to give them good luck kisses?" The way Aiko smiled when I said that was almost too much for my heart. She is adorable, I had put her down and she was currently trying to pull me through the crowds and people were easily letting us pass the moment they saw who the little girl was pulling along and I'm not even mad.
"Make sure to use your manners," I gently reminded her and she nodded before raising her voice and calling out excuse me and sorry as she passed by people.