Katsuki + Eijiro + Izuku: +9 Years (5) (+Tenko)
Christmas was a bit depressing for Izuku since Lucia was in the hospital because of more complications. He brought Kieran and Leony over and Inko came too, Lucia was happy to have her family around, Kieran cuddled close to his mother, he knew that something was up and he didn’t like it.
Leony was on her chest, the pup was snoring peacefully. Izuku hummed for them, mainly to calm Lucia down. When Kieran and Leony were asleep, she looked over to Izuku. “I’m so sorry,” she apologized again.
“Don’t worry, everything will be fine,” Izuku tried to reassure her, but he knew that this was nothing more than wishful thinking.
For Katsuki Christmas was very peaceful, finally his stalker was gone and he had more time for his family again, he watched Kira unwrapping her presents in joy. Karma was jumping around her, wagging his tail happily.
Katsuki was on the couch with Hiroto. “I wonder if we will have a second pup next Christmas already,” Hiroto murmured.
“I’m sure we will,” Katsuki chuckled. They kissed each other, but they broke up laughing when Kira let out an ‘ewww’ sound.
Mitsuki and Masaru came over the next day and Kira got even more presents. She was squealing when she unwrapped the dollhouse.
The Todoroki family had always lots of presents for the pups, Hotaru was so eager to unwrap hers. She chirped when she saw the new bike that Sougo got for her. Yuki and Enko got Dinosaurs, they were in a dinosaur phase and they wouldn’t play with anything that wasn’t at least dinosaur-themed.
The next day, Takara and Takuya came over to play too, Keigo accompanied them, Enji stayed at home, he wasn’t sure if they would even want them over there.
Toya sat next to Keigo. “So, Shigaraki is now living with Michiko?” Keigo looked over to his former friend. He really wasn’t up to date any longer.
“Hm, yeah. It’s honestly sad to see what became of him. He doesn’t even remember me,” he sighed while watching Sougo bunny jumping around with the pups. They squealed in glee when he leaped five meters in the air – thanks to his leg braches this was possible.
“That’s crazy …” Keigo looked down to the ground. “Do you want Hotaru to meet him one day?”
Toya shrugged. “I don’t know … maybe? But not before she isn’t a little older and can understand those things better.”
“Understandable.”
Toya was silent for a while. “And you? How is your relationship now? Is he still absent?”
Keigo smiled. “No, he improved himself. He’s home more often.”
“That’s good, I guess.”
“It really is,” Keigo murmured.
Much to Keigo’s surprise, Rei came over. “So … Enji is not coming?” She questioned.
“Uh, no, he thought it would be better if he doesn’t come. He doesn’t want to disturb the peace.”
Rei looked at him for a while. “Give me your phone …” She held out a hand.
Keigo and Toya looked at her confused. She sighed. “He can come over if he wants to. I am not bothered by it. Sitting all alone on Christmas is depressing,” she looked like she spoke out of experience.
Keigo blinked a few times. “Uhm, uh, o-okay!” He was utterly baffled. He had never expected Rei to say something like that.
He called Enji and even though it took a while, and also Rei’s interference, he promised, he would come over.
Enji felt really awkward, amidst his ‘old’ family. Takara and Takuya were of course happy that their dad was there too. Enko and Yuki didn’t know how to behave, they hadn’t really met Enji before.
He stared at Rei, still wondering, why she had invited him. Toya mustered him for some time, no, he still didn’t like him. It would probably never change.
Tenko was overwhelmed when he saw the decorated room, Korra’s, Kiku’s, and Satsuki’s doing, of course, he had no idea what this meant. He also wondered, where Mimi was. Luckily Kuroko wasn’t here, she was still scary.
He had grabbed Ruben’s hand, over the weeks they had gotten somewhat close, the prime omega helped him usually to stay calm and he soothed him when he got scared.
“Where is Mimi?” He asked Korra.
“Uh … I don’t know, she might be working.” Tenko pouted, Frosty next to him, rubbed herself on his legs to cheer him up.
“Why don’t you sit down for dinner? I try to find Michiko,” Korra directed him and Ruben to the dinner table.
Still, a bit down, Tenko moved over, Ruben looked after Korra, he sensed something was off. But he tended to a sad Tenko immediately.
Korra sighed and grabbed her phone, she dialed Michiko.
«What is it?» She asked, rather cranky.
“Do you not want to come over? It’s Tenko’s first Christmas, he’s asking for you all day,” Korra told her.
There was a silence on the other end for some time. «I don’t celebrate Christmas …»
“Then don’t, just be here for him. He needs you, you can just not show up on a day like this, you’re his mother now. It doesn’t work like that.”
She exhaled, she sounded exhausted. «Fine, I come over, but don’t make me ‘celebrate’ anything.» She had a sarcastic tone on the word “celebrate”.
“No, I won’t.”
About twenty minutes later, a rather pissed-off-looking Michiko arrived. “Don’t look at me like that! You can’t just skip the day. Do it for Tenko, and Ruben, who didn’t have a normal Christmas in his life!” Korra looked at her with a firm gaze.
“Yeah …” Sighing, the alpha walked past Korra to go to her room, shower, and get dressed.
She chose the most un-Christmas-y outfit she got in her closet. Tenko didn’t mind, he was just happy to have her around, he hugged her when he saw her.
Ruben was surprised, that he got a present too, he wasn’t even part of the family, yet they bought him something. He decided this was the damn best Christmas of his life.
Christmas for Eijiro was depressing. He felt like a loser all over again, he didn’t even have presents to give to his children. All the presents came from Mae, her parents, and his parents. Now, Mae made it look like they got the presents together, but of course, he knew better.
He had, so far, kept his promise to not touch alcohol again. It was hard, the urge was there, but he kept himself together. He still felt massively down and the visits to the therapist didn’t help him. He got medication for his depression, and Mae watched him take it every time to make sure, he got the right amount and took them in the first place.
It made him feel even shittier, that she didn’t trust him in taking his medication. Whenever something important came up, she rather did it herself.
Eijiro watched his pups, they crawled around with their new toys. Ryuu helped his sisters in moving around.
His relationship with Mae was very strained, for obvious reasons, he had lost her trust and it was hard to earn it back.
He hadn’t been working for some time now, he just couldn’t, he freaked out whenever he just saw his hero costume, so the only money he had was the money that Mae gave him, roughly 20.000 Yen weekly. It was barely enough, but he brought this over himself.
When the pups were in bed, Mae stayed in the living room with her parents, Eijiro’s parents, and his little brother, but he excused himself, he went to the bathroom. He locked the door and sat down next to the tub. The tears he had to hold back all this time flowed over.
He pulled his legs closer and wrapped an arm around them, he buried his face on his knees and his other hand ran through his hair. His hairline was by now black again since he didn’t have money to buy hair dye. He felt so utterly helpless, he felt like he was drowning in all of this. The stress was so much.
Eijiro felt like an utter failure, the guilt weighed heavily on him, not just from the shit he had done the past couple of weeks, but also the stuff he had done to Katsuki all those years ago. It was nagging in the back of his head.
Tears spilled over, he tried to muffle his sounds, he didn’t want to alarm the others. He felt so disgusting, he was a bum. He was a loser, not a real alpha. A real alpha could provide for his family, but he brought nothing but pain over them.
He wondered when it had become so bad … why could he do nothing right anymore? When had he become such a pathetic excuse of a human being? His mate had to do all the work he was supposed to do.
His head was buzzing and he felt just so exhausted, he caused so many people so much pain. He wondered if they weren’t happier if he was gone … There was nothing he contributed to their lives anyway – except the amount of pain.
They would be better off without him for sure. He wasn’t a real man anymore, he had disappointed too many people. He wasn’t a good father, he couldn’t even buy his pups Christmas presents. He wasn’t a good mate, he had ruined Mae’s dreams of a perfect wedding multiple times now. He was a bad friend, he had caused Katsuki and Izuku so much trouble, how were they still talking to him?
Slowly, and with numb movements he opened the faucet on the bathtub, he put the plug in and then he stripped out of his clothes. No one would miss him, his head was swirling and his thoughts screamed at him to just end it. There was nothing that kept him here, right? The buzzing got stronger.
In a daze, he climbed into the bathtub. The hot water was surrounding him, it felt even hotter on his cold body. He felt a little nauseous. He didn’t have the strength to continue this. He stifled more of his sobs, by biting into his arm. His teeth dug deep holes into it, they broke his skin so easily.
He just lay there, in the tub, thinking of what to do next, the buzzing in his head was now the most prominent thing, it drowned out any other thought. He noticed how his fingers hardened he looked at the sharp edge of it and suddenly he knew how to end it.
Like in a trance he brought the sharpened tip of his fingers over to the left forearm, he applied pressure, he had to stop his arm from hardening. He dug his finger deeper into the flesh and the first droplets of blood pooled out. He grimaced a little but he continued to drag his finger over his arm.
A long scratch appeared and the blood was rushing faster. A high-pitched noise appeared in his ears, fighting with the low buzzing sound in his head for dominance, and his vision got blurry.
He set another scratch and he felt liberated with every cut. He knew that it would be over soon. More tears spilled over. He wouldn’t be a burden to the others any longer.
His whole arm was covered in deep gashes, blood was dripping into the water, dying it red. He moaned and he slid deeper into the tub, his cut arm sunk into the water and a stingy sensation rushed through it when the hot water made contact with the open wounds.
He closed his eyes and let his right arm hang over the edge of the tub, blood dripping down his fingers. He waited until the numbness took over.
«Oh, what do you think you’re doing, ending it like that?»
Shocked, he opened his eyes. He was in total darkness, a little bit panicked he looked around, who had spoken to him? He turned around and he was met with himself?
A dark and beastly looking version of him, he was chained to something and nothing at the same time, he was hovering in the air. «You shackle me up all the time and now you want to end it just like that?» His other self tilted his head. «Pathetic …»
“Who are you?” Eijiro asked confused.
His other self scoffed. «I am you, your alpha» he shrugged. «The one you shackle up all the time, or maybe just something in your imagination.» He had a little bit of a condescending tone in his voice.
“What do you want? I know that I’m pathetic …” Eijiro looked down.
«Don’t give me that look. It’s not my fault, that you don’t trust yourself any longer. Instead of shackling me away, you should have used me. I would have sensed the danger in this guy who robbed you. I tried to warn you, but you stupid little drunken brain ignored my warnings,» he growled.
«I never really understood, why you shackled me away. Life would have been so much easier if you would have trusted me enough to let me loose. I’m an alpha, not that savage beast that they made you think I am. I wanted to protect you and the ones I care about, not hurt them!»
“But, what about the incident in school where I went feral? You were scary! You hurt my friends.”
«That was quirk-related! I tried to tell you that I was okay after the quirk was gone, but you were so afraid that you wouldn’t listen to me. Because you didn’t trust me, you lost your friendship with the prime alpha and the omega! I would have made the right decision … Because you didn’t trust me, you lost the other omega too, and because you didn’t trust me again you are now stuck in this here.»
“What are you saying? You’re just in my head!” Eijiro scoffed. “What would have changed, huh?”
«Just in your head … Moron, I am you! I am your instincts! If we had worked together, it would have been much easier. But no! All those years you barely used your alpha instincts, only in dangerous situations you used me. If you had listened to your instincts sooner, all of this could have been avoided,» his alpha sounded extremely pissed off.
«You could have had a nice and cozy life with Katsuki and Izuku both by your side. Have maybe some pups running around too. But now you’re trapped with the other omega, in a house that’s way too big. You felt it from the beginning, that she isn’t the right one. Your instincts told you, to not fucking be with her, at least not in long term. But you ignored your instincts because you wanted to be a good boy, right? You can’t leave her and the pup alone, even though you never actually wanted the pup, right?»
“Don’t say that, I love my pups!” Eijiro defended himself.”
«Of course you love them, I never said you didn’t, but did you want them?» The alpha tilted his head.
Eijiro stopped, his breath hitched, he thought about it. “No, not really …”
«See! I don’t say, Mae is a bad person, she’s not, but she’s not the right one for you. You know exactly who you want.»
“But what am I supposed to do? He’s married! And he lives on a completely different continent!”
The alpha laughed. «Oh, your instincts tell you to go for Izuku? See, this would have been the right decision. I was so angry at you, for just ending this good thing that just happened. But of course, you pushed me away again, didn’t listen to me at all. You put me behind a wall that I couldn’t overcome, no matter how much and how loud I screamed.»
“I was … it wouldn’t have worked out!”
«You don’t know that! It would have probably worked if you had worked on controlling me. Like the female prime alpha said. We were de-synched from the start. You never properly learned how to control your instincts. And even after school and all the drama, you never made an effort to completely learn it! Only just the bare minimum of what was needed. No wonder you struggle so much, no wonder you can’t activate the Zone any more.»
Eijiro was silent for some time. “So, I am really a pathetic excuse for an alpha … I knew it.”
His alpha sighed. «You could have learned it, idiot, it’s just this way, because you were fucking afraid of using me! And now you want to kill yourself? This is what makes you pathetic. What about all the people that love you? You're doing them no favor in killing yourself. You make it even worse for them. They need you, as you need them! Your pups need you, hell, even Mae needs you!»
“But …”
«No fucking buts! If you don’t believe that, then how about this: You haven’t paid a single cent back to Michiko, should Mae pay all of the money back to her, do you want to burden her with that too? You have never told Katsuki what went really down, you haven’t even told Izuku how you really feel! So fucking get your shit together and take responsibility first.»
“But how am I supposed to get money? I can’t even be a hero anymore because I get panic attacks even thinking of going to work!”
«You don’t need to be a damn hero! You can be anything. Take a fucking break, get a different job, it’s not that damn hard! Even if the pay is not nearly as high, just do something to help Mae, to get money, to pay off your debts. Michiko is so generous to you, to buy your fucking house so you can have it easier, don’t fucking waste that!» The alpha growled.
“Yeah, you’re right, I should do that … But I can’t possibly tell Katsuki! Not after all those years! Besides he’s so happy right now, I don’t want to ruin our friendship again! What if he leaves me again?”
«Quit your whining! That’s the exact same thing you put him through! Now you’re afraid he could do the same with you? And you don’t want to lose him? You don’t do shit with him for years! You barely meet up with him, only if you need something, or if he asks you for something. It’s eating you inside out, right? The fucking guilt of what you did to him. But trust me, you will feel better when you tell him. And who knows, maybe he has matured more than you think», the alpha growled deeply. It resembled the buzzing that he had heard earlier.
Eijiro looked down to the ground. «Will you let me take over now? I can help you, I am not your enemy! All I ever wanted was to protect you, your loved ones. But I never got the chance to do so.» As the alpha spoke the darkness surrounding him slowly disintegrated. The beastly features crumbled too.
«We are not monsters, Eijiro. You have seen Izuku, right? He’s a prime alpha who fully embraces himself. Why can’t you do this with me? Why do you chain me away and make me watch all those mistakes that could have been prevented? Your family is crumbling and I wanted to protect that … But you don’t let me.» The beast mask crumbled more and more, got thinner, and slowly Eijiro could see something else, he saw himself again. «I’m an alpha, I am not a vicious beast. Let me be a guardian for you and your family.»
The vicious façade came off and now Eijiro was facing himself. His alpha looked saddened. Not at all dangerous as he used to look before. This was the truth about it, there was no beast, it had never existed in the first place. He had really thought, he understood his alpha a long time ago, but he was so damn wrong.
Eijiro closed his eyes and he tried to remove the shackles. When he opened them the alpha smiled at him. «It will still be hard, the things that happen won’t go away just like that, but suicide is not the solution, it never is. When we work together, we can overcome this, I promise!» The alpha looked him deep into the eyes and then he walked closer.
He opened his arms and Eijiro finally embraced the alpha.
Eijiro opened his eyes, he was still underwater, he was drowning! He straightened his legs and pushed himself up. He spat out the water and inhaled, he coughed up a lot of water. He was breathing heavily, his arm hurt like hell and more blood was dripping out.
He crawled out of the bathtub, and pressed a towel on the cuts, he pulled the plug, the red water was disappearing soon he watched it swirling down the drain. Eijiro hardened his skin to stop it a little from bleeding, at least for the moment, while he started to clean the tub and to wipe the blood off the floor before he got into the shower to rinse his body off, which was tinted red from him sitting in the blood water.
After he was done with this, he took the first aid pack and he took care of his cuts, he didn’t want others to see. He did all of this quite mechanically up until this point, he was still in shock. His thoughts were swirling around the fact, that he had attempted to kill himself. And he wasn’t dead … that was almost a miracle.
He stood in front of the mirror and he looked at his relatively long hair it hung in his face, it annoyed him. Exhaling, the alpha grabbed a pair of scissors and he pulled on a strand of hair. He closed the scissors around it and it fell to the ground when he let go of it.
With every strand that was coming off, he felt more at ease. He knew that his struggles wouldn’t be over all of a sudden, just because he cut his hair, but he promised himself to work on this more. He had still people that counted on him for whatever reason. He didn’t want to disappoint them further.
His hair was significantly shorter now and almost all red was gone and he was back to black. He knew that he wouldn’t stay this way forever, but he needed to find himself before he returned to be Red Riot again. He ran his hands through his now short hair to get the last loose strands off. He felt much better now.
He had to find a way to get money, he knew that hero work wasn’t possible for him at the moment, he just wasn’t in the right mindset to help people, he would have to look for a different job in the meantime, but no matter what, he would make it work.
Mae and the others, who were still deeply in their conversations, looked up shocked to see Eijiro with the changed hair. “W-What? What does that mean?” She blinked in confusion. “Are you alright?”
He sat down next to her, her ears pointed backward. He looked at her, smiling. “Yes, I’m alright now. I promise that I get myself back together. As I should have done in the first place.”
Mae furrowed her brows, still not understanding a thing. Takumi looked at his big brother and smiled. “I like the new haircut, it’s been a while since you got black hair.”
“Thanks.”
Later that night, when the parents were gone, Mae and Eijiro sat at the kitchen table. “Okay, now, tell me what happened? Why the sudden change?”
“I tried to kill myself,” Eijiro didn’t even hesitate in saying this, Mae needed a few seconds to process this. When she did, she pressed her ears flat against her head.
“W-what?!” Her eyes were wide and she was pale. “Why would you do that?”
“Because I felt like it wouldn’t even matter if I died or not. I felt like I was a burden to you anyway and you would be happier without me. That everyone would be happier without me.”
She still stared at him. “How did you change your mind?” She looked him up and down to see any injuries.
He rolled up his sleeve to show her his bandaged arm. “I guess I had a conversation with my inner alpha … Or my imagination played tricks on me. Whatever it was, it made me realize that I can’t go for the moment.”
Mae put her hands together, creating an L-shape, and placed her chin on her two thumbs. Eijiro just waited and let her process all of this.
“Why didn’t you tell me, that it was so bad?” She asked.
Eijiro thought about it. “I don’t know, you had your hands full with Christmas preparations. And today, it was … in the spur of the moment, I was crying in the bathroom because I felt so terrible that I couldn’t even buy Christmas presents. And then I just snapped. But, uh, don’t worry, I cleaned up afterward.”
She huffed slightly, she ran her hands through her bangs. “And what do you want to do now? I mean … I … I don’t know …” She looked helpless.
“I will look for a new job, I can’t work as a hero, for the time being, it just makes me miserable.” She nodded in understanding.
“Okay, yeah, I understand that.” She murmured.
“Then I need to talk with Katsuki, well, next year, I don’t want to ruin his New Year and all. But I need to talk to him about the stuff that happened in school. My alpha was right, this is weighing on me too much, and even though I’m scared as hell that he will never talk to me again, he deserves to know.”
Eijiro paused for a moment, contemplating if he should or should not tell her. He closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths. “And lastly …,” he opened his eyes again, he looked Mae in the eyes. “I don’t think, I can marry you …”
Mae inhaled sharply. She held eye contact, to see if he was kidding her. But there was no indication. Her ears pointed backward. Eventually, she slowly exhaled again. “Yeah … I thought so.” She nodded.
“I’m sorry, Mae, but I tried so hard to make this work, but I don’t think I will ever be able to love you the way I should. You are a great person, no doubt, you proved this time and time again, sticking to me, helping me through everything et cetera, but I just can’t marry you.”
“Do you want to break up completely?” She asked calmly. She had felt that he wasn’t happy at all, especially these past months.
“Yes.” He answered.
“Okay …” She murmured. She grabbed the engagement ring and pulled it off her finger. She placed it on the table and moved it over to Eijiro. “How do we go from here on?”
“I don’t know, what would you like? Should I move out?”
Her ears twitched. “No, you don’t have any money, you would end up on the streets …” She sighed. “You can stay here, I mean, you slept in the guestroom before so, I guess that works … Besides we are stuck with the house now … Michiko bought it for us so … getting rid of it is not an option. And the pups, I don’t think I can handle them on my own.”
“Yeah, alright. I’ll stay in the guest bedroom,” he was happy, that she didn’t kick him out. “And I definitely want to stay in the pups' life, I love them and I want the best for them.”
“That’s not a problem,” Mae stared at the surface of the table. She had a weird mix of feelings. She was disappointed, of course, but deep inside she had expected it, their relationship was rocky all the way and now the dents in it were too big. She had told him after he had been robbed, that she wanted to leave, so she couldn’t really hold it against him. She was sad too, that her dream of marrying someone had now ended, but she also didn’t want to force Eijiro into a marriage he never really wanted. “I … could we talk about this another time, I need some time to process this.”
“Of course, you can go to bed, I will clean up.”
She nodded. “Do you want to get your stuff out of the closet quickly?”
“Oh, yeah, right …” They walked towards the bedroom and Eijiro grabbed his stuff, while Mae was sitting on the bed.
“Which one is it?” she asked all of a sudden.
Eijiro paused for a moment. “Izuku …”
“Ah …” She let out.
Within ten minutes he had grabbed his stuff and he brought it over to the guest bedroom, which was always more his bedroom. He stuffed the clothes into it before he went down again to clean up.
When he lay in bed later, he thought about everything that happened today. He still couldn’t believe it. Suddenly tears shot into his eyes, not tears of sadness, however. He knew that he shouldn’t be this happy, but he felt so relieved that he had talked with Mae and he was so happy that he was … free. He pressed the blanket against his mouth to stifle his laugh. For the first time in what felt like forever, he slept peacefully.
Mae and he didn’t talk about it for the next few days, they played in front of the children as if nothing had happened. But they would make further arrangements in the future. They had to get a bond scrubbing now. He wondered how it felt like.
On New Year, Katsuki and Toya sat next to each other, their families celebrated again together. This year they wouldn’t go up to the mountain either. Michiko had to stay home to take care of Tenko.
“So, what is it?” Katsuki asked.
Toya had asked to speak with him. “Well, uh … here,” he pulled something out of his pocket.
Katsuki gasped when he realized what it was. “Oh my God, really?” Excitement was in his voice when he looked at the positive pregnancy test.
“Yeah, I finally feel ready again,” Toya smiled. “I told Sougo this morning.”
“Ah, that’s why he’s so happy, eh? Congratulations.” Katsuki beamed.
“Thanks, hey, if you get pregnant in the near future, the pups can be best buddies.”
Katsuki laughed. “Yeah, that sounds like a plan!” He had a wide smile on his face.
Eijiro and Mae were celebrating with Tetsutetsu and Mina, she was also finally pregnant. Late at night, Eijiro told Tetsutetsu what had gone down on Christmas.
“Are you okay, bro?” Tetsutetsu asked mortified.
“Yeah, I am okay now. It’s still hard here and there, but I feel so much better.” Eijiro looked down from the balcony. His arm was still healing and bandaged up.
Tetsutetsu still couldn’t believe it. “I’m sorry I never noticed anything … My head was too occupied with Mina …”
“Don’t worry about it, bro, you got your own life to focus on.” Eijiro looked in the distance. “But that being said, I will quit being a hero, for now at least, I just can’t do it any longer.”
“Yeah … I thought so when you were not coming back … Well, I guess, I will partner up with Fat Gum again, since I am alone now.” He sighed.
“Sorry for causing so much trouble.”
“Ah, don’t apologize, it’s better to quit now than to force yourself to do it. You’ve seen now how bad this can end.”
Eijiro nodded. “Yeah …”
They stood together in silence. Tetsutetsu was still thinking about what Eijiro had told him. He didn’t even want to imagine how his bro had felt.
Izuku sat with John, Joseph, Leigh, Ian, Miles, and Kairi in the cafeteria of the hospital. “I just want to warn you before,” he murmured, “if anything happens to Lucia, if she really should die, then I won’t stay here. This farm life was something I had with her, and I am not sure if I can continue it without her.”
“I get you, boy, I am not mad about that,” John looked at him. “I’m sure I’ll find someone who will take care of the farm.”
“Thank you for understanding,” Izuku nodded. He sighed. “And there is really nothing you can do, Kairi?”
“No, unfortunately not. As I said, I can’t heal terminal illnesses, otherwise, I would have been able to help my sister.” Her gaze was hard. Miles was looking to the ground by the mention of his late wife.
“It’s just so hard … She struggles already so much, to think that she has to hold out until February, it scares me.”
“I know, it’s terrible …” the prime murmured. “Even after dying hundreds of times, seeing someone die that you love is so much worse …”
Izuku clenched his jaw. “Kairi … am I a bad person for wishing she would have chosen to abort the children to stay with me?”
She looked at him for a moment. “I can’t answer that.” She looked down. “But I think it’s good that you respected her wishes, even though it was hard on yourself. Even if she got rid of the babies, she would probably hold resentment towards you, for making her do that.”
Izuku was looking down to the ground he covered his face with his hands, he had trouble holding back his tears. Kairi extended a hand and put it on his shoulder for comfort.
Tenko was scared when he heard the loud explosions of the firework, he was cuddled up next to Michiko, she rumbled to keep him calm. On her other side was Ruben, he wasn’t too fond of the explosions as well. He purred to self-soothe.
In times like this, she realized how little she was made for being in a motherly role. She flinched when her phone rang. Ruben gave it to her. It was an anonymous number. With furrowed brows, she accepted the call.
«Happy New Year, little sister. You got quite the big family now. Would be a shame with something would happen to them.» The call ended.
Michiko’s rumbling had turned into a deep growl. She knew that this wouldn’t be good. She texted Kuroko that she should observe the area. She didn’t want the house to suddenly blow up. If her brother was alive, she was sure that he wanted revenge. But she knew that he wouldn’t target her directly, but more the people she cared for. She had to warn the others the next day.
