Chapter 18
"You had no right to make a threat using the Nomu's." Tomura aggressively growled red eyes narrowing as Mr. Compress removed the balaclava revealing the whole face of Atsuhiro Sako.
"Oh, so that's what you're mad about, the Nomu," the magician said undoing and retying his short brown hair with ease back up into its normal small ponytail. "And here I thought you would agree with such a threat, the heroes certainly bought it."
Himiko giggled holding her newly acquired treasure in hand. "That's cause you were a complete badass Press."
"Thank you, my dear," the man smiled fondly at the girl before shooting his leader a victorious grin.
"I'm still trying to figure out why you would agree to have Dabi stay with those fake heroes," Spinner spoke up pausing in his task of sharpening his blades to look at the magician seriously. "You know she'll be pissed when they tell her right."
"Angry but safe my dear Spinner," Atsuhiro assured the swordsman. "Angry but safe."
"Safer U.A. then a hos*hiccup*pital. You traishore … traipores … bad people!" Jin drunkenly answered taking another shot and adding the glass to the pyramid he had started building since before everyone left.
"She'd be safer with us," Tomura snarled. "The Doctor could look after her and we have a living mountain as a guard dog."
"It almost sounds like you care about her Tomura." The magician hummed accepting a drink from the bottle Giran had given Kurogiri as thanks for returning him to one of his offices.
"Dabi is my second in command," the decay user retaliated with a seething tone. "She should have told me from the start who she was and what was really going on. Maybe if she had we could have protected her better instead of running around in circles looking for her dumb ass."
Silence fell amongst the League members each knowing in their own way that this was Tomura's way of expressing his worry. At first, when Kamino Ward happened and their young leader lost his Sensei he would lash out at everyone, even Kurogiri, snapping every time they tried to give him some food or look after his self-inflicted wounds.
After a while, they stopped trying, except Dabi.
The cremation user would constantly challenge Tomura until he relented to doing something like eating or getting some sleep. She had even physically restrained the man once to take care of his injuries, though they could never get the story as to how from either of them, before disappearing for a few days well he cooled down yelling at Tomura that if he was going to behave like a brat, she would treat him as such.
During those few days Dabi was gone they met Overhaul and lost Magne as a result opening Tomura's eyes a little about the people who were still standing with him. Magne's death and Sako's maiming lite a strange desire in Tomura to keep the rest of them safe.
The feeling had grown larger after the Re-Destro incident in Deika when they had all been seriously hurt and now had grown into a possessive desire with the news of Dabi's kidnapping.
All for One had taught Tomura how to destroy things, not keep them safe so the decay user was completely lost at what to do with these new feelings he kept having.
"And another thing is she really a Todoroki?" Tomura asked deciding on a change of subject to avoid thinking about any possible feelings he may have towards his pain in the ass second in command. "I mean just cause she uses fire doesn't make her Endeavor's child."
"Oh, I know, I know," Himiko bounced up and down excitedly raising her hands showing everyone a rather full looking folder. "Lookie what that nice mouse man gave me."
Putting the file on their makeshift table Himiko opened it dramatically revealing a large assortment of pictures. Holding one up she showed everyone the picture of a teenage girl with long red hair and blue eyes staring back at them with a very familiar scowl.
"See it's Dabi." The blonde giggled putting it down and picking up another one.
"It really is her!" Jin exclaimed stumbling over slightly to the table and clumsily grabbing a photo for himself. "Can't be she's too pretty."
"Holy … her hair is long," Spinner said joining the two and picking up a picture of Dabi at what looked like the U.A. Sport's Festival in the midst of delivering a kick to someone.
"I must say that school picture didn't do her justice," Atsuhiro nodded showing Kurogiri a candid picture of peaceful-looking Dabi and her desk reading something.
Tomura slowly slid his way closer to the table pulling a piece of paper from the pile and starting to read it. It seems that when Himiko wasn't looking the principle had slipped in Dabi's student information as well.
Tatsuo … Yukimistu?
Dabi's name left a strange taste on the decay users' tongue, his biggest problem wasn't the name itself it was that Tomura hadn't had a chance to figure it out and torment Dabi herself with it. More than that she hadn't even used Endeavor's last name, perhaps the hero thought his daughter would be safer under a different name but Tomura doubted it.
Eyes moving to the family portion of the file Tomura saw Endeavor and the U.A. brat in the family portion in addition to three other names. Could Dabi have siblings other than the hot and cold brat?
"Hey, Kurogiri hand me the laptop the machine brat gave us," Tomura ordered the bartender who in turn raised one eye. "Please."
"Of course," Kurogiri said picking up the laptop next to him with his mist and handing it over.
Tomura turned on the computer, a custom order from their new Blacksmith as Tomura called him, and opened a couple of government programs and started to get to work. First, he typed in Endeavor's name and pulled up his hero profile snorting at the fact that the picture the man had posted made his look constipated. Reading over the short bio he found very close to the bottom that Endeavor did indeed have four children but only the youngest was named.
"Himiko," Tomura said getting the blonde's attention away from the sea of pictures she was currently cooing over. "The name Dabi used at U.A., why that one?"
"Dabi said it was her mama's name," Himiko answered getting up and sitting beside Tomura hissing like an angry cat when she saw Endeavor's picture.
Closing the heroes page Tomura began to look up both Fuyumi and Natsuo Todoroki online only to have nothing come up. Finger hovering over the backspace button the decay user pressed it and quickly changed Todoroki to Yukimistu instantly bringing up numerous results. After a little sorting, the decay user eventually found the two names he was searching for.
Opening a screen for each name opened each sibling's social media profile. It was plain to see these two were related from their looks even though the sister had red in her hair well the brothers were pure white. It seems that well Fuyumi was already working as a teacher at a local elementary school her brother Natsuo was going to school to be a doctor, each had their pages full of pictures of friends and collogues but strangely nothing with family.
"Is that Dabi's sister?" Jin giggled drinking some water through a crazy straw Kurogiri had given him leaning over to get a better look at the teacher. "She's totally hot. They look nothing alike."
"I didn't know Endeavor had other children," Atsuhiro frowned looking at the pair curiously from over Tomura's other shoulder. "What about her mother?"
"Dabi said Endeavor drove her crazy," Himiko spoke sadly looking at the pair wondering if they knew their sister was alive.
"Drove her crazy?!" Spinner echoed looking angry. "I knew he was a fraud but you don't think he … I mean even the HC wouldn't let a murder walk free."
Tomura sat Himiko's words looking up the name Rei with both last names and getting no results meaning Spinner was right and the woman was dead or something else was at play here. After ripping through the criminal element the League of Villains were starting to see more and more how ineffective heroes really were in the grand scheme of things.
"Tomura," Kurogiri said getting the decay users' attention. "What should we do about this?"
Remembering the deal that Atsuhiro had made with the police and heroes Tomura smiled a plan starting to form.
"I think that we should get Dabi a present," the decay user spoke. "Who's up for a sidequest?"
*~*~Notes~*~*
Yuki means Snow and Mistu can mean Light or Radiance. I searched a few last names with the words ice and snow in them since Rei's cannon maiden name hasn't been given and liked this one the best.
Next time something not so nice is gonna happen, no spoilers but there will be someone who gets seriously hurt and a kidnapping.
Stayed tuned for next time and drop me a comment to let me know if you liked the chapter or not.
