The air was unnaturally thick around the area as Amari gazed at her brother with utter horror and fear. The one thing she didn't want him to know, the very secret she was trying to keep, it was somehow all ruined in a blink of an eye. He knew everything now. There was no going back.

Feeling her own voice shake, the girl knew she had to say something, anything that would make him understand. "Katsuki, I can explain…"

With his fists balled to the side, Bakugo was still in utter shock, her words sparking something inside of him. It had to be a joke, it just had to be. She was healthy. "Damn right, you better fucking explain.."

The heat in his stomach was unchangeable as she remained silent. What could she even say? What could she tell him that wasn't a flat out lie? For the first time in her life, Amari was at a loss of words.

Although Bakugo certainly wasn't, taking a step closer. He was being scarily calm though for some reason. "Say it's a joke, say it's a fucking joke right now.."

She really wished she could but the one thing Amari could never do is lie to him, letting her hands fall in despair. "Katsuki, let's just calm down and…"

Yet before she could finish, Bakugo threw an explosion next to her foot, causing her to jump back, now slightly scared of her brother. "Calm down?! Don't fucking tell me to calm down Amari! Tell me the truth already goddamn it! You were joking, right?"

He waited for her to laugh, to tell him that this was all an elaborate prank so they could then go on with their lives normally, but that never came, all he got was a shattering reality as she spoke. "You weren't supposed to find out."

His sisters words crashed into him all at once, now fully realizing what she meant. All of talk about her pills, her lifespan and her struggles, they were all real? And the worst part of it was that she was hiding it from him all this time.

Suddenly, his devastation turned into a hot fiery rage. It was more intense than anything else he had ever experienced before, his head reeling in a hundred different directions as tears started to rise to the surface.

His voice cracked on every word, hurt and betrayed by her all at once. "No, no you're lying. You're lying to me right now! God fucking damn it Amari, say that you're lying!"

Although the only thing he got in response was his sister's teary response, choking on her words. "I'm sorry Katsuki.."

Sorry? Was that all she had to say, for lying and hiding this from him? Bakugo was furious. "And what? You weren't ever going to tell me? You thought you could come into my life and then fucking die without saying anything?! Are you fucking serious right now?"

Balling her hand into a fist, Amari closing her eyes in pain before answering back, sharply. "You've lived almost your entire life without me Katsuki. I figured that not much would change.."

Although Bakugo was livid with her response, feeling a pang of shame in his throat. "Are you shitting me? Not much would change?! God, your brain is so fucked up Amari. Do you really think I wouldn't care about you dying?!

Then he noticed Todoroki in the corner who wasn't reacting to the news at all. That could only mean one thing. This bastard knew. "And you icyhot, you knew about all of this the entire time, didn't you?"

Todoroki opened his mouth only for Amari to put a hand up, blocking him from her brothers advances. He could say whatever he wanted about her but she wasn't about to let Katuski disrespect him. "Stop it Katsuki. Leave Shoto out of this."

The words seemed funny to him, shaking his head in disbelief. "How can I when that bastard knew you were destroying yourself the entire damn time and didn't even say anything!"

That may have been true but Todoroki never pushed her into something she was uncomfortable with, unlike her brother. "That's not his fault…"

Although Bakugo was too livid for reasonable conversation, instead narrowing his eyes in disgust towards the boy. "I don't care. You know what, stay the fuck away from my sister. I knew you were no good for her."

Amari turned her brow in anger though, realizing he wasn't getting the point at all, instead he was saying thoughtless things. " Whoa Whoa, that's not for you to decide, and I'm sorry but not all of us can be born with the strongest quirk. Some of us have to claw our damn way just to be recognized! What's so wrong with taking that chance to be stronger?!"

Gritting his teeth, Katsuki hissed. "What wrong is that you're fucking killing yourself! You stupid little idiot, I knew you had a screw loose but this is on a whole other god damn level!"

His insults made her heart saddened, but luckily it was too covered by anger for her care at the moment. "Oh come off of it Katsuki, we both know that if you were in the same position that you would be doing the same exact thing I'm doing!

Although that might of been true, Bakugo denied it. "Screw you brat! This is over right now. There is no way I'm letting my idiot sister destroy herself just because of some stupid make believe fantasy!"

Then before Amari could register it, Katsuki reached down and grabbed her pills, causing her eyes to widen. "Hey, give that back!"

Yet her brother didn't listen, just holding the bottle high in the air. "Not a chance. You are not using your quirk anymore and that's final. I'll tell U.A. you are dropping out."

All of Amari's hopes and dreams started to shatter around her in that one solitary moment, seeing the pills in her brother's hand. No, she couldn't let this happen. She had worked too hard.

Narrowing her eyes in anger, Amari shouted back. "Stop trying to control my life Katsuki and give me back my pills! The only way I'll drop out of U.A. is over my cold, dead god damn body!"

She jumped up but due to her short nature, Bakugo was able to raise the bottle higher, forbidding her to grab them. "Stop being so stubborn you brat!"

Although Amari wasn't finished, ramming her fists into her brothers chest and knocking the life out of him. Was she really going to fight him right now? "God damn it Amari!"

She then hissed back in absolute desire, throwing another fist towards his body. "Give me my pills…"

Bakugo was able to dodge this time though, stepping to the side. "No, give it up brat. It's not happening!"

Narrowing her eyes in absolute anger, Amari then tried again, punching him in the chest only for him to move his arm and push her aside.

Seeing her chance was now or never, she then looked at her brothers arm before wrapping her teeth around the surface and biting, causing him to grunt in pain.

The action certainly surprised him and caused his grip to loosen on the bottle, just enough so she could grab it. "I said, give it back!"

Feeling the glass in her hands, she quickly emptied and contents before shoving them down her throat, a fiery passion in her eyes.

Then before Bakugo could even widen his eyes, she lifted her hand out, quirk fully at the ready. "I'm sorry Katsuki. I would do almost anything for you but I won't give up my quirk."

He realized that she just willingly shortened her lifespan and a heavy ball of anxiety build up in his throat. This had gone too far. He needed to stop her, now. "You brat, what did you just do?!"

Her response was smooth, the girls red eyes shining through his vision. "I did what I had to, with the chance I've been given. If you can't support that then.."

Bakugo cut her off through, throwing an explosion in her direction. She thought she was acting all righteous when in actuality, all she was doing was getting herself killed. "Damn right, I don't fucking support it! Now, you drop out U.A. right now before I make you…"

Amari's eyes turned cold then, using her gold matter to block his explosion. "Make me? So does that mean you're the only one that can be a hero?! Just because my methods are different doesn't mean you can do whatever you want! I will not go back to the past, I refuse!"

Yet Katsuki wasn't doing what he wanted. Truly he was beyond scared and terrified for the first time in his life. He just wanted everything to stop. "It doesn't matter, quirk or no quirk you are still the god damn same as back then! Using those pills doesn't make you stronger, it makes you a coward!"

Her eyes widened at his words, feeling the sting a thousand different ways. No, that couldn't be. She was stronger, she was better then back then.

Feeling her palms light up with absolute fury, Amari began throwing an explosion back, her control completely out the window now. "You take that back! You fucking take that back right now! I am not a coward for wanting to be like you!"

Katsuki stepped to the side though, realizing what she had just said. No, he didn't want her to be like him. He was a goddamn mess. "What the fuck are you even saying?!"

Narrowing her eyes once more, Amari hissed, throwing a couple more explosion in his path. "Why do you think I wanted to do this in the first place?! I wanted to be your sister Katsuki! I wanted you to actually look at me for once, and with these pills, you finally did. I'm not giving that up, no matter what you say!"

Heavy tears came to her eyes but Amari shoved them down, not noticing Bakugo's fist approaching and colliding with her face. "Shut up, shut the fuck up! I never wanted this you god damn brat! Do you really think I'd be proud of this?!"

Coughing out a spit of blood, the girl replayed the words in her mind over and over again. He wasn't proud of her. Everything was all a lie.

That warm heat build up in her stomach again as Amari screamed, throwing an incredibly large explosion in his path, knocking the poor boy off his feet and into the floor.

Breathing heavily, she laughed to herself insight delium as the boy rolled over in a hard cough.. "I start off as a quirkless nobody and you aren't proud of me, and now that I can actually hold my own and honor the Bakugo name, you STILL fucking have the nerve to say that to me? When will you finally be satisfied?!"

Amari was then caught off guard by another punch, this time to her stomach in order to shake some sense into the girl. "I will be when you stop acting like a goddamn idiot all the time! Snap out of it and realize that you will never a hero!"

Groaning back, the girl then threw another explosion, knocking him back a couple feet and drawing blood. "Screw you Katsuki! You have no fucking idea what I've been through to get here!"

Bakugo scoffed back though, already aiming a close explosion for his sister again. Both of them had lost their control now and were letting their emotions go haywire. "So what?! We all fought our way to get here. You aren't special. Stop acting like a goddamn child!"

The explosion went off, causing Amari to grunt in pain, blood leaking from the top of her head onto her face, yet not giving up. "You're the one that's acting like a child Katsuk. Grow up and realize your mistakes!"

Covering herself with her gold matter, she then touched Katsuki arm, causing him to reel back from an incoming burn, seething. "You brat! It's times like this when I wish I really was a fucking only child!"

His words hit her hard, just as his fist did a moment later, causing her to fall towards the ground. Did he really just say what she thought he did? She kind of already knew that he never wanted her but hearing it out loud was something completely different. "What.."

Coughing out even more blood, Amari looked up at the brother that didn't want her with tears in her eyes, causing Bakugo to falter. "Do you really think that way?"

Of course he didn't, but the emotions mixed with his explosions was making his thinking hazy, only thinking about the utter rage he felt in his stomach at the time.

When she didn't get a reply, Amari accepted that as the truth, raising to her once more before staring at him with utter devastation and anger all at once. "If you really think that way, then maybe I should stop trying to please you. It seems like a losing battle anyways."

Then, through her tearful expression, she spoke again, cracking on each word as if it physically pained her to say them. "And it's times like this when I wish I had a brother that actually loved me."

Amari then raised her fists, once more, ready for another battle when something wrapped around her waist, pulling her back a couple feet and trapping her all at once. "What the hell…"

Flopping to the floor, she heard Aziawa's voice through her emotions, sighing in exasperation. "You two are acting disgraceful."

She looked over to see Bakugo stuck in the same scarf prison and saddened, feeling the adrenaline crash down around her and now only feeling the shame. It was really over, wasn't it? Their relationship was through.

Aziawa said an assortment of things that neither siblings listened to but they did catch the tail end of his words. "You both are banned from the test of courage tournament tonight and will reflect in your rooms alone."

That seemed fair, although Amari couldn't help but feel pained, watching her brother turn away from her all at once, like he was ashamed. Letting her eyes fall, she muttered back to the teacher. "I'm sorry Mr. Aizawa.."

Although the teacher only shook his head once. "This is not the behavior of a hero Bakugo. You still have much to learn."

And much to learn she did, as the girl put a single finger to her cut lip from the fight.

That dream that she loved so much, was suddenly over.

Thinking back to their fight, Amari sat in her room alone with one leg pulled up to her chest silently. How had everything gone wrong so quickly? All she wanted was to be stronger, why was that so bad?

Suddenly, a tap on the window to her left made her turn around, now finding a couple girls from her class staring at her through the glass.

She made her way over to the object before unhooking the latch slowly. "Mina, Uraraka, Asui? What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be doing that test of courage thing?"

Uraraka only smiled back though, resting her elbows on the ledge. "We were but then we heard about you and Bakugo. So, we came to check up on you."

This couldn't help but make Amari smile, suddenly feeling self conscious about her injuries. "Aww thanks girls, but I'm fine really. You should head back before you get in trouble."

Minda spoke next, winking slightly at her next words. "Well, that's not all we came here for. You know that thing we talked about. It's all ready to go.."

Oh right, she totally forgot about that surprise. So much so that Uraraka seemed a bit concerned. "But you don't have to do it tonight if you don't want to Amari. I know you are probably still upset about your brother and everything…"

She was right but for some reason, Amari saw this as now or never. Just because her day started out crappy didn't mean it had to end like that. "No, you all went through the trouble. I'm ready."

Gaining the approval of the other girls, Asui then pulled out a hanger with a large white bag covering it, like she was waiting for her que. "We thought you'd say that."

Todoroki wasn't really paying attention as his partner for the game, Denki, led him through the course one step at a time. To be completely honest all the boy could think about was Amari. He really hoped she was okay.

Beaming with pride, Denki pointed off the trail. "Alright Todoroki, the next clue says it's around that tree. Will you go check it out for me?"

The boy only sighed, wishing for this game to be over with quickly. "I suppose."

He heard the vague giggling from Denki as he past him but didn't really think anything of it. That boy was always a weird one after all. It was hard to rationalize him.

Todoroki turned the corner only to find the tree adorned with thousands of lights, hanging from the tops as if someone had placed them there. That was strange for a test of courage tournament.

Moving closer, he stopped when he heard the soft sound of music from the corner, but the odd thing was, this music wasn't scary. It sounded rather calm.

Finally reaching the place where Denki had instructed, Todoroki froze at the display before them. In front of him was a large picnic blanket with more lights hanging off the trees, and Amari in the center.

She looked different then earlier, now wearing a light pink laced dress that reached just above her ankles. It was like she was dressed up for some kind of event. "Surprise!"

Looking around the space, Todoroki questioned. "Amari, what is all this?"

But she only smiled, before pulling the same notebook she'd been holding onto for days. The one thing she wouldn't let him see. That was for this? "It's for you. Happy late Birthday."

Todoroki eyes widened all at once, registering her words. "What?"

Moving towards him, Amari replied. "I realized a couple weeks ago that I missed it, and I'm sorry about that. But I wanted to do something special for you. You know, to thank you for all you've done for me."

The boy was in absolute shock, never expecting her to do all of this for him. It seemed to have taken a while. "You did all this yourself?"

Shrugging her shoulders, she sheepishly smiled back. "Well, I had a little help."

Then, she put one finger up before searching for something behind her. "Hold on, let me get your present.."

Narrowing his eyes in concern, Todoroki raised his hand up, as if to stop her. "You really don't have to do that. This is more than enough."

But Amari just shushed him, pulling out a small remote from her pocket. "Listen, I've been planning this for weeks. Let me do this."

At that, he knew had to comply, watching her mess with her dress as if she was nervous. "Right so, don't make fun of me because I haven't done this in awhile."

Then, giving herself a breath of courage, Amari pressed a button on the remote, causing the space to be filled with guitar, followed by a voice, her voice.

(Hello, yes I actually wrote a song for this fanfic.)

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Todoroki listened to the song in absolute shock, as he listened to the words, truly hearing the extent of her feelings to him.

The last line of the song though caught him by the most surprise, hearing the lyrics. I know forever isn't meant to be mine, but I think that loving you, would be just fine. I hope it's fine.

Once the song finished, Amari ignored the redness in her cheeks, muttering softly. "I know I'm not going to be around forever so I thought I should make something that would be."

Then, she pulled out a small thumb drive out of her pocket before handing it out to him. "Here you go. It's yours."

Todoroki looked down at her hand for a moment being completely ignoring the thumb drive and instead, choosing to embrace the girl in a tight squeeze. "Thank you. This is the most anyone's ever done for me. My father would usually forget my birthday most of the time."

Smiling into his chest, Amari replied. "You deserve it, and more."

A small silence could a heard after that, until she spoke again, this time slightly uncertain. "Hey Shoto, the last couple months I've been wanting to ask this but I guess I just never got the courage to.."

Pulling away from her, he brushed a small hair from her face before replying. "You know you can ask me anything."

She nodded her head then, reaching up to cup his face softly. "Is it alright, if I love you?"

That was obviously not what the boy was thinking she would ask, now feeling his face rise in heat all at once. He was almost afraid that his fireside would come out but luckily it didn't.

Looking at the girl that changed his entire world, Todoroki only had one answer. "Of course. That is, if it's alright if I do the same?"

Amari's face flushed all at once, nodding her head in agreement as tears started to form. She had never loved anyone before, so it was very overwhelming.

He noticed her tears though, and leaned forward, kissing her eyes and the tears away every so slightly. He silently wished to do that for all her fears.

Once they were dried for the moment, he then leaned down and pressed a kiss onto her lips, drawing her into him all at once.

Amari melted into his touch, feeling their bodies naturally grow closer but didn't pull away. She wished they would never have to again.

Wanting to touch her more, Todoroki then placed his hands on her upper thighs before lifting the girl in the air, now finally able to look at her from eye level.

He gazed at her with such admiration and care before whispering to her smoothly. "Amari, I love you."

She thought the words would feel weird to her, but somehow it just felt natural, like they were made for each other.

Looking down at the boy that saved her, Amari could only smile. "I love you too Shoto."

After she said her words, Amari leaned forward and kissed him, only for him to return the favor a couple seconds after. It was almost like her fight with Katsuki had never even happened. All she could feel right now was absolute and pure bliss.

He turned her body then, the girl now feeling her back hit the tree behind her, his mouth still on hers. Things grew more intense but neither decided to break away, just enjoying the sensation of being loved for the first time. It was perfect.

Suddenly, the sound of loud clapping stopped them though, breaking away and breathing heavy as a stranger voice appeared to their right. "Oh, don't mind me. Please, continue.."

Turning to the voice, the two stopped when they noticed the stranger watching them. He was wearing all black with slightly purple skin around the sides of his face.

Amari called him out first, fixing her dress in the process. "Who the hell are you?"

The man only smirked thought, as if he knew something she didn't. "Don't worry about that. I'm just here to see the lovebirds in action."

She felt weirded out by that, and it seemed Todoroki noticed because he was already putting an arm out in front of them, on guard. "This is private property. You can't be here."

Although the stranger laughed in response. "Oh Todoroki, I can be wherever I please."

At the sound of his name, Amari's eyes narrowed. "Wait, how do you know who we are?"

Smirking back, the strange then stood up from his spot, slowly making his way over to them. "I have my ways. You know, some very dangerous people have been watching you two very closely , especially you Bakugo Amari."

Moving even closer, Todorki stayed on guard as Amari replied. "What, like you?"

Once again, the man smiled before lifting his hand out reaching towards her sharply, and all at once. "Not quite."

Todoroki saw this though and pulled her away in time, just as the strangers hand made contact with the tree trunk.

Suddenly, the tree started to spark with blue flames, covering the entire space and engulfing it completely, now spreading towards the other trees in the other areas as well.

As the fire grew, Amari's eyes widened, hearing the stranger speak again. "You better hurry up, or else Bakugo will be trouble."

His words caused her to freeze, turning to him sharply. "What the hell did you just say?"

Shrugging his shoulders, the stranger replied. "My colleagues aren't so friendly so who knows, they might already have him by now."

Amari felt her chest filled with anxiety, registering his words all at once. Someone was after Katsuki? Over her dead body.

Then before she could even think about what she was doing, Amari raced off through the woods with only one thought in her mind, to save her brother.

Suddenly she heard a voice echo to her left, only to see Todoroki chasing after her. "Amari, wait! Slow down.."

Although she would not slow down, not until she knew that her brother was safe.

Shaking her head, she stopped when a tree flew down behind her, separating herself from Todoroki all at once.

She looked back at the burning tree for a moment before silent apologizing to Todoroki. She couldn't just sit here.

Then all at once, she raced through the trees, with only one thought in her mind.

It find Katsuki before it was too late.

Angst and romance, oh boy. I told you things are only gonna get worse from here. Hope you enjoyed the song I wrote for the project though. Hopefully it offsets the sadness. I wrote it as a little thank you for everyone's overwhelming support and love.

Next chapter: Kidnapped