Author's Note: The end of the double whammy before my spring break ends.

I should let you all know that the next chapter is going to be a dozy. All I'll say is that this story is rated M for a reason.


Summer break came and went before the new school year started. Ghiaccio had entered the fourth grade and by that time Katsuki started the first. The first few days had gone as anyone expected it to go

Horribly.

"Takara get up! Get up!" Mitsuki had barged into Ghiaccio's room, shaking the boy roughly before stomping over to his closed blinds. Ghiaccio could hear the blinds be yanked open, spilling harsh light from the morning sun directly in his face.

. Ever since the start of the new school year, Mitsuki became tougher with her two sons. Work had made it so that she had to leave early in the morning and had no proper time to make sure her kid would get to school on time so the responsibility would be mostly on Ghiaccio to make sure that he and Katsuki were up and ready to go to school.

"Damn" He hissed as he shielded his eyes with his arms. He felt a smooth hand slap him on the top of his head, stunning him just enough for the covers to be pulled off from over him.

"NO CURSING!" Mitsuki growled. "Honestly I have no idea where you get that from!"

"WHAT THE HELL?!" Ghiaccio yelled, shooting upright to glare at the woman standing over his bed.

"Don't 'What the hell' me! You and Katsuki are going to be late! Get up and wake your brother, I want you two out of this house in the next ten minutes!"

Ghiaccio made no move to anger the woman any more and did what she asked. He got dressed and then went over to Katsuki's door, knocking on it with enough force to wake the dead. All it got him was a muffled grumble which prompted Ghiaccio to let himself into the brat's room. He watched a tan blob of spiky hair hide itself underneath the covers.

"You can't hide from me brat" Ghiaccio sneered.

"Leave me alone!

Ghiaccio marched over and grabbed at the covers hiding his brothers body. "Katsuki, come on! We'll be late if you don't hurry up!" Ghiaccio yelled as he yanked on the covers that Katsuki had rolled himself in.

"I don't wanna!" Katsuki whined. Ghiaccio rolled his eyes and yanked the covers harder, sending his baby brother tumbling off the bed and onto the floor below.

"Hey! Why'd you do that?!" Katsuki groaned, peeking out from the covers with a glare. Ghiaccio reached in and pulled the boy out.

"If I have to suffer, you're gonna suffer with me, got it? Now get dressed, we're going."


"Kaa-chan! Hey Kaa-chan!"

Ghiaccio looked ahead as he dragged Katsuki over toward the school grounds. Standing next to a worried and anxious Inko was a wide-eyed Izuku, or 'Deku', who waved happily at Katsuki. In his hands was a brand new All Might action figure, which keenly caught Katsuki's eye. "Deku! Where did you get that?! It looks awesome!"

Ghiaccio rolled his eyes as Katsuki ran to join his friend. The two boys had gained a strong friendship over the years, even though their personalities were quite different. But class was starting soon, and Ghiaccio didn't feel like making enemies with the teachers. He walked over towards Katsuki and grabbed the back of his backpack.

"Come on brat, you can talk to Deku later."

"Wai-What?! Let go of me! HEY!" Katsuki yelled as he treid to shake off his grip. He managed to turn around and give Ghiaccio a firm punt to the shins.

"Argh!" Ghiaccio cringed, kneeling to hold his shin as Katsuki bolted away, knowing what was coming next. "YOU LITTLE SHIT!"

One of the teachers near the entrance glared his way.

"TAKARA NO SWEARING! GO TO CLASS!"

"FUCK YOU OLD HAG!"


The school day was uneventful at best and boring at worse. That made Ghiaccio especially ecstatic when he was finally able to get out of there. The walk back home was quiet for the two brothers, until they turned the corner into their street. The two of them were met with the sight of a moving truck parked at the front of their old neighbor's house. The previous neighbor was a sweet old lady that had lived on that spot for the past fifteen years. When she died her family had all but gutted the house of her possessions and left it up for sale. The realtor, for some reason, had a hard time trying to sell it to anyone. But it looked like it their efforts payed off.

There were a bunch of large boxes being loaded off the truck and onto the sidewalk by workers. However besides them, there were no sign of the new neighbors, all except for a kid on the front lawn. He was crouched on the ground with his back towards Ghiaccio and Katsuki. The two boys could see him scrounging something in the dirt with his pale hands. Before Ghiaccio could do anything, Katsuki broke away from him and proudly marched up to the occupied boy. With no concept of personal space he slapped a hand on the boys shoulder in an attempt at getting his attention.

It worked spectacularly.

"EEP!" The boy shrieked, jumping up to his feet before spining around. In his hands were a multitude of different insects, all shimmering with different colors. Ghiaccio could see Katsuki's skin crawl from where he stood, and watched in amusement as he jumped back in terror.

"EW! TAKA-NI SAVE ME!"

Oh boy "Katsuki stop, that's rude." Ghiaccio deadpanned, walking up as his brother ran behind him. "Sorry about my brother here, I'm Takara."Ghiaccio quirked an eyebrow at the kid before him. "What's your name?"

"I'm Yoshirou...I like bugs." The response was awkward, but not enough to make Ghiaccio cringe. He watched Yoshirou eye the bugs crawling around in his hands, tracking their every movement in some sort of trance.

"That's...cool." Ghiaccio said, taking a slow step backward.

"Do you want one?" Yoshirou offered, holding a beetle.

"No thanks."

"Are you sure? They taste great!" Yoshirou smiled, and to prove his point, ate the bug right in front of them with a sickening crunch. There was no hesitation, he just at the damned thing like it was a tasty potato chip. Katsuki audibly gagged and Ghiaccio couldn't help but feel a bit queasy. Yoshirou watched the two of them in silence as he waited for an answer.

"This kid is fucking insane." Ghiaccio thought in disgust.

It took a while but eventually Ghiaccio talked the kid down from giving them bugs for snacks, giving them enough time to nope out of there and into the safety of their home.

"Wait! Don't you want to see my bug collection!"


Ghiaccio's new neighbor proved to be much less strange than how he introduced himself. Yoshirou was the only child of a nice but eccentric couple, who had quickly transformed the small patch of land around their house into a vegetable garden. The new couple developed a small friendship with Masaru and Mitsuki, occasionally delivering a hand basket of freshly cut cucumbers and tomatoes as a sign of friendship. Yoshirou went to the same school as Ghiaccio but in a different homeroom class. Despite that he always managed to find Ghiaccio where he'd least expected, always with a few bugs smuggled in his pant pockets.

He was a weird kid, and his fascination for bugs only steered him further away from the rest of the students, but he wasn't hated, only viewed as a nuisance more than anything.

"Takara-kun, look what I found this morning!" Ghiaccio barely moved his eyes from his own lunch as Yoshirou stood next to his desk. "Come on look!"

Ghiaccio looked and immediately regretted it. In Yoshirou's hands was the biggest centipede he had seen in his entire life. How in the world did he even manage to sneak that in?!

"Isn't it cool?! I bet i'd taste great too!" Yoshirou beamed, opening his mouth wide.

"Please no, not while I'm eating." Ghiaccio groaned with his head in his hands. There was no reason for him to let this kid anywhere near him. Why did it always have to be the weird ones?

"Where do you find these things?" Ghiaccio was genuinely curious. The only thing he ever saw around his house were beetles and the occasional spider. A wide smile slowly grew on Yoshirou's lips.

"I can show you after class!" He leaned in with hopeful eyes. Ghiaccio stared at the kid for a while, he had no skating practice that day, and he could always do his homework later. Besides, when was the last time he actively hung out with kids his 'age'.

Never. So Ghiaccio did something he'd never thought he'd do, he agreed.

That would become one of the worst decisions he made in his entire new life.