A/N: It seems that Ragdoll has regained her first place spot again so let's get this started. Hopefully it won't change out of nowhere those split second wins throw me off.
Tomoko a member of the Pro Hero team the Wild, Wild Pussycats just got off the phone with a representative of a Cat Food company they had called to ask if the Pussycats would consider endorsing their product. This was pretty much normal for her. Every Cat food and Toy Company wanted them on the front of their product. It was their own fault really calling themselves the Pussycats kind of put them in a bit of niche marketing sector.
Tomoko leaned back in her chair as she heard the front door open. She looked over her shoulder as she saw her daughter come rushing in. Something was wrong Toka didn't even look at her as she ran to her room. "Toka?" Tomoko asked as Kota came around the corner. He had grown into a handsome young man and was currently studying under her husband as his sidekick, but Kota was off duty for today and had been sent to retrieve Toka from her high school.
"Kota what happened?" She asked as Kota sighed and shook his head.
"Sorry Tomoko I think that's a conversation you and Izuku need to have with her." He said simply before heading to his room. Tomoko arched a brow and got up from her desk to head to her daughter's room. She knocked lightly on the door.
"Toka what's the matter?" She asked and got no response. "Toka what happened?" Tomoko persisted. She wasn't about to give up. Since losing her power to All for One all those years ago Tomoko had been pouring herself into her work, but that was only a Band-Aid for what she'd lost. It wasn't until she met her husband and had their child that she truly felt fulfilled again. Toka was the biggest reason she was able to wake up in the morning and not think about what she lost, and right now her daughter needed her more than anything.
"Toka?" She asked again before the door was flung open as her daughter looked at her with tears streaming down her face. Toka had the deep green hair of her parents with her mother's golden eyes and her father's freckles. She was partially dressed in her school uniform. The skirt gone having been replaced by hastily pulled on pajamas. The top part of the uniform was open revealing a sunrise yellow bra.
"Kenta broke up with me alright?! Are you happy now? Just leave me ALONE!" She shouted slamming the door in her mother's face and continued to cry alone in her room. Tomoko just stood there staring at the closed door. Tomoko's mind was reeling. The look on her daughter's face, the pain of loss was so close to her own that it hurt her down to her soul. She nearly collapsed as she walked back to the living room and sat down.
In her room Toka just curled up on her bed and cried. Every memory she had with her boyfriend that had once brought her comfort was like a broken glass in her soul shredding it each time she thought of them. The same words he said to her reverberated in her mind like a ghastly echo. "I'm sorry Toka, but I just don't feel the same way for you anymore. It's not something you did or didn't do it's just me." No matter how gentle his voice was it still hurt her to see have him leave her like that.
Izuku alighted down on the ground outside the pussycat lodge dispelling the telekinesis around himself as he walked inside. He came into the living room and saw all four members of the pussycats gathered in the living room. "We should string him up by his nutsack!" Ryuko shouted which jarred Izuku and immediately made his genitals flinch.
"Who are you talking about?" Izuku asked gaining all eyes on him. Ragdoll rushed to her husband and squeezed him around his wide barrel chest and cried into him. "What's going on, what happened?" Izuku asked looking frantically around the room for the source of his friend's anger and his wife's sadness.
"That little bastard Kenta broke our sweet Toka's heart. There must be retribution!" Shouted Ryuko as Mandalay shook her head.
"Ryuko we don't know the whole story. These things happen sometimes. This is Toka's first break up, we've all been there before. She'll come to terms in time we just need to be supportive." Mandalay said trying to be the voice of reason in the thickening cloud of bloodlust in the room. All the Pussycats considered Toka to be their daughter and anyone who caused her harm deserved to be punished, but this was something that everybody went through. A breakup was a breakup.
Izuku took a breath steeling the anger inside him. Yes he was mad that someone had hurt his daughter, but he also knew that this was just a part of life. Break ups happen and this would be the first of hopefully not too many. Izuku looked down at Ragdoll and stroked her hair. "Tomoko lets go talk to our daughter she needs us now more than ever." He said as he wiped Tomoko's face free of tears and the two walked to their daughter's room.
Izuku knocked on the door and received no answer. He sighed before speaking. "Toka it's me, dad. Open the door please." Izuku said as he listened to his daughter shift in her room, but made no move to open her bedroom door. Izuku turned around and placed his back against the door as he slid down it and sat on the floor. Tomoko took his cue and did the same. "Believe it or not Toka I know how you feel. We both do." Izuku said only to hear Toka's voice.
"How could you possibly know how I feel? You and mom have been married for like ever!" She shouted only to hear her dad laugh.
"Do you honestly think your mother was my first love Toka?" Izuku asked. "Your mother is more than ten years older than me. No Toka my first love was a girl in my class named Ochaco Uraraka. I crushed on her so badly." Izuku admitted thinking of the brown haired love of his high school life. "I thought she was the one, and I asked her out, but she rejected me." Izuku said feeling his chest clench. "It was heart wrenching to say the least. I felt like someone had torn out my guts afterwards." Izuku admitted as on the other side of the door he felt Toka sit down as well her back pressing against the door as she drew her legs to her chest.
"So what'd you do to get over her?" Toka asked as Izuku bluntly answered.
"I cried my eyes out for one, but the next thing I did was go talk to someone I trusted about it. I let someone help me through that painful part of my life, and your mother knows what you're going through too you know." Izuku said grasping Tomoko's hand. Ragdoll looked at Izuku who gave her a confident nod. Tomoko smiled before taking a deep breath. She hadn't wanted to ever tell Toka about this but if it helped her daughter get through this then she would bare this painful part of her history.
"You know I was a hero some time ago, and I told you I retired to become the Pussycats' agent right?" Tomoko asked and taking Toka's silence as a yes she continued. "Well I didn't give you the full reason. I retired because a villain took my quirk. He stole a part of me that I can never get back." Toka's breath caught in her chest at the thought of having her quirk stolen. She possessed a combination of her parent's quirks. Being able to find people and know things about them and her father's telekinesis, but like the saying goes. 'Jack of all trades master of none.' Neither of her quirks were as powerful as her parents. As of right now she could only keep track of about twenty people not even a fourth of her mother's former ability, and her telekinesis was in much the same boat.
At her age her father was able to lift a car with his quirk she was struggling to lift a motorcycle. "I was so lost I didn't know what to do. I tried to put on a brave face, but it was all for show. It wasn't until your father came to me and told me how inspiring I was did I finally feel like myself a little bit. Your father was so kind and earnest I couldn't help but fall for him and then he gave me you and finally I could forget about what I lost and enjoy what I have. I love you Toka and I'm sorry Kenta hurt you, but I promise we are still here for you. All of us are. Your dad, your aunts, and uncle and Kota. You're not alone in this." Tomoko said as the door opened behind both parents.
The two adults fell into the embrace of their daughter as she cried into them. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry for yelling." Tomoko said as she hugged her parents tightly. "It just hurt so much. I really loved him." She shouted as her parents hugged her.
"It's ok Toka you don't have to apologize." Izuku whispered before something fell on the trio that something being the rest of the pussycats.
"Oh this is just too sweet!" Ryuko shouted nuzzling Toka. "Don't worry Toka I'll love you forever!" She shouted as Mandalay petted her head.
"It'll be alright you'll find someone even better." She said as everyone wiped tears from their faces.
Kenta walked into school on that Monday feeling a pit in his stomach. He couldn't get the look Toka had on her face out of his mind. He felt so bad for breaking up with her and knew she would probably be pissed and make a scene. He hoped not, but he'd accept whatever she did. It was her right to do so. He rounded a corner and saw Toka walking in his direction. He stiffened up as he looked at her. He could see a slight redness around her eyes, but other than that she looked completely unfazed. He stood still as she approached him and….walked right by him without saying a word or even acknowledging him. Kenta turned around real fast about to say something when he felt his pants fall around his ankles in the hallway.
From the stairs Toka could hear a yell from her now Ex and laughter she smiled only to then frown. "Dangit I couldn't resist." She said with a sigh before walking to her class. She had wanted to appear unfazed by Kenta, but at the last second she could keep herself from doing something spiteful. "Come on Toka you're better than that." She admonished herself.
