Hello, everyone. Thank you all for patiently waiting for this chapter to happen. I've been thinking of ways to at least show some signs of Izuku's cousins being abuse by their parents, too. They're not shown much, but I'm going to show how much the Fukui family is messed up.
Warning: There will be child abuse in this chapter.
Seven-year-old Akira played his Gameboy while his father was driving. The black-haired boy has just been picked up from soccer practice by his father who was running late for a meeting in five minutes. Haruto didn't have enough time to drop off Akira home. Normally, Akira would just walk by himself but his father had promised him.
"Hey, Dad, are you coming to my soccer game tomorrow?" Akira asks as he paused his game to look at his father. However, Haruto was talking on his phone, which was held by a holder.
"Yes, I know. This is what the bank needs. Trust me on this, and don't forget who's the boss here," Haruto said on the phone to someone else on the other line.
Akira wonders what was going with the bank that his father owns. Grownups are very weird. They always make sure that everything has to go in a certain time and place. The black-haired boy believes his dad is a cool guy. His dad is a boss and owns a bank. Akira wanted to be like his father. Haruto Fukui wanted to make his bank to be all over Japan.
"Sure, Akira. You can get a new game tomorrow," Haruto said, not actually listening to what Akira had just said.
"No, that's not what I sa..." Akira stated but his father again went back to the calls.
"Sorry about that. My son was just talking. No, nothing important," Haruto said, not looking at his young son.
Akira looks at his Gameboy and saw that it's low in battery. He sighs as he then looks at the window. He saw cars and people going by. Akira hopes his dad would come to his game tomorrow. It will mean the world to him. His dad has never been to his game for as long he could remember. Maybe Haruto would come to this one.
"Akira, did you broke my laptop?" Haruto asks in a stern voice.
Akira felt his entire body was shaking. He should have known that his father would find out eventually. Yesterday, Akira was practicing his kicks in the house despite his older brother said that he'll get in trouble if anything breaks in the house. However, Akira didn't listen to Shu and did it anyway.
The little black-haired boy practice his kicks until he kicks his ball into his father's office. The door was opened and the ball had broken something. Afraid, Akira went inside and saw his father's laptop on the floor. Quickly grabbing his ball and putting the laptop back on the desk, Akira went outside and did his kicking practice there. He was too afraid to tell his father the truth about what he did. Knowing full-well that Haruto will punish him if he ever finds out about this.
Unfortunately, Haruto seems to have figured it out. Akira knew he couldn't get out of this. The best he could do is apologize to his father and promise that he'll never practice inside the house again. That was better than going to the room in the basement as his punishment.
"Dad, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! I won't ever do it again, I promise!" Akira said as tears began to fall on his cheeks.
However, Haruto merely looks at his son with disappointment and anger. A shadow appears on Haruto's face while his son kept crying, scared of what will happen now. Akira breathed heavily as the shadow soon cover his father's entire body, making the man less human and more like a monster that was going to harm Akira. Suddenly, everyone and everything seems to have disappeared when Akira look at the window and saw nothing. Even the buildings were gone.
Akira felt his heart was beating out of his chest. There was silence with his beating heart being noise he could hear. Afraid, Akira turns to his father, hoping the latter will tell him what was going on.
But Akira didn't saw his father...
Instead, Akira saw a giant, shadowy monster in his father's place in the driver set. Its' arm went over to Akira.
Terrifying, Akira quickly got out of the car and run down the streets. He ran and ran to his street. Hoping that he manages to outrun the monster. However, the black-haired boy looks back and saw the monster had burst out of the car, It soon chased him down the street. Akira ran as fast as his little legs could. Scared of what will happen if this monster will get him.
The street itself looks like it was starting to decay. Each time Akira ran, pieces of the road will fall apart... Which it did. Akira stepped on a week spot and the ground beneath him open and he fell into the hole.
Akira screams as he fell. Not knowing what was going to happen. Soon, everything around him turns pitch black. When he finally hit the ground, Akira rolls over and only stops when he crashed into something. He groans as he got up. He felt his breath became heavy and his eyes became wetter as he realizes where he was...
The room in the basement...
The one place he scared and hated more than anything else in the world. There's a bed, nightstand, and a chair. But this place still had more bad memories.
Akira quickly ran to the door, wanting to get out of here before his family finds him here .
But the monster was at the doorway already. It slowly closes the door while Akira tried to run to it. The little black-haired boy soon leaped at the monster and punch it serval times. He contained to hit the monster and cried while he kept hitting the monster.
"I hate you! I hate you!" Akira shouted as the monster beneath him became smaller and smaller.
The shadowy monster soon turns Haruto Fukui. He lay there lifeless. Akira gasp as he realizes the monster was his father along. Everything around him soon turns back to normal. Akira's breath soon became normal as well as he got off of his father. He merely stares at his father's body. Akira then quietly walks away from his father and walks up the stairs before looking at his father for the last time and closing the door behind him.
Akira gasp as he woke from his nap. He was sleeping in the room the whole time. He just had that nightmare again. The one will his father turned into a monster that chased him. He at his bedroom window and saw the sun was setting now. Dinner would start soon.
Back as a kid, Akira and his siblings and cousins would often be sent into the room in the basement as punishment if they ever misbehave. The Fukui children tried to behave as good as possible. But Akira would the one who will get to be the one will in more trouble than the others.
As much he tries to listen to his older brother, Akira would always ignore Shu and the aftermaths will always have him spending the many nights in that room that he came to fear and hate.
The room in the basement was the one thing that Akira and others would often consider to be the worst punishment they ever could get from their parents. Being sent to their rooms and having their stuff getting destroy was better than spending a night in that room.
His mom, Azuki, would often tell his father of not sending their children there. Akira was glad that his mom would tell Haruto to stop as a kid. However, now as a teenager, Akira remembers that Azuki would never ask his aunt, Hatsu, the same thing. That was usually his uncle, Habiki, would tell his wife the same thing for their own children. Neither of them had asked their in-laws for the same thing. They only ask for mercy for their children, not the other ones. Those two only protected their own children while letting the other kids suffer.
But neither of them have ever done the same thing for his beloved cousin, Izuku, either. Sure they were times when they showed worriedness if either Hatsu or Haruto would physically grab her if she accidentally pushes their buttons. Both his mother and uncle would just stand there and watch in horror while Izuku could have been possible hurt by his father or aunt. But when it comes to that room, they never showed the same concern as they showed to their own children.
Akira grows more and more tired of all of this mess. His brother, Shu, was already in college, away from their family. Raki would be moving into his school's dorms soon. Akira felt jealous that his brother and cousin were free from their family. Something he wishes he has now.
He counted the days until he could finally move out, taking Izuku with him. Saving her from all of this. It's her fault that Grandma chose to be with someone else instead of Grandpa.
Akira quickly toting out of his room and headed downstairs. However, Akira heard crying from Izuku's bedroom. He quickly went inside and saw Yuzu holding a crying Izuku while sitting on the bed. What else is new. He wonders what causes her to cry again.
However, he was more careful now since her mental breakdown had him on the edge.
"Izuku, what happened?" Akira asks, trying to sound as calm as possible.
Izuku looks up and saw it was just her cousin, Akira, in her room.
"Akira, Emiyo's in the basement," Izuku said while her tears fell onto her floor.
Hearing his little sister was in the basement, Akira froze and couldn't believe that she had acted badly enough to be sent there.
"What did she do?" Akira asks in a quiet tone.
Izuku told Akira that earlier in the living room, Emiyo had come and told her parents the truth with the All Might comic. Emiyo was the one who brought that comic book by her own free-will and give it to Izuku as a surprise. However, Haruto was beyond anger that his own daughter had lied to him. Azuki tried to stop her husband from taking their little girl to the basement. Izuku herself held Emiyo in her arms and shield the girl from her father. But Haruto wouldn't have any of it. When Izuku begged her uncle to stop and calm down, Haruto had pushed Izuku who fell onto the floor and took Emiyo by the wrist painfully while ordering Yuzu to take Izuku to her room and the other maids to take Azuki into their own room.
"Emiyo-sama will be spending the night there, Akira-sama," Yuzu said to the black-haired boy.
Akira's eyes widen upon hearing that from the blonde woman. Taking Yuzu's hand to lead her out of the room, Akira leads Yuzu to another empty room.
"Akira-sama, I really need to go back to Izuku-sama," Yuzu said worriedly.
"I know. But tell my dad I'm bringing Emiyo her dinner," Akira said.
Yuzu looks for a mere second, but smile nevertheless. Happy to hear that Akira wasn't being so mean to his little sister now.
Basement
Akira stood there in front of the basement door. He still has that fear in his heart. He hated the basement. Even as a teen, Akira would try to avoid this area of the house. He had a tray of Emiyo's dinner.
Breathing hard, Akira turns the doorknob around and open the door. It was dark but Akira turns on the lights.
And there it was...
The door of that room. The door was in front of the stairs. Akira soon walks downstairs. He told his father and grandfather that he was going to bring Emiyo dinner instead of one of the maids or butlers. His grandfather was happy to see that Akira starting to care about his younger sister like a good older brother should be. Masanori said that Shu and Raki should be like him. Always thinking about the family instead of ever wanting to leave the house.
Placing the food tray down onto the ground slowly, Akira opens the tray hole and peek inside.
"Emiyo, it's me, your brother. The one that's still here," Akira said through the hole.
Hearing that it was her brother, Emiyo quickly ran to the door and bent down to the ground to see through the tray and saw that it was indeed Akira. Despite how treats her, Emiyo was happy to see that her older brother still came here to give her dinner.
"Akira, thank you for bringing me dinner," She said as she picks up the tray and walk to the nightstand, and went back to the door.
The door was locked on the outside. The family would lock the door so the children wouldn't get out.
"Izuku told me what happened. Stupid. What the hell what were you thinking?" Akira asks angrily.
"I only wanted to help Izuku. Mom and Dad really don't help much. Auntie and Uncle aren't much better either," Emiyo said on the other said.
"I get it. Our family isn't the happiest. But I told you to need to be careful, Emiyo. The more you do as you're told, the less everything will be less painful," Akira said.
"You're not even that innocent, Akira. You were there that night when Izuku's stuff got burnt," She said.
"Neither are you," He said right back.
Both siblings realize that neither are innocent. Remember their cousin's breakdown, they both feared for her sanity. She had been acting strange lately. Always in her room and looking at her phone. She even smiled at whatever she was looking and blush in embarrassment sometimes as well. It was like Izuku was texting someone. Someone outside of the family.
"Here, I managed to sneak a pudding with me when no one was looking. It's chocolate," Akira said, putting his hand through the hole.
"Thanks, Akira," Emiyo said, taking the pudding.
Despite how their relationship is right now, the two siblings knew that since Shu is gone and Raki be leaving soon, they only have each other. Izuku now needed her two cousins to keep her safe from their abusive family.
"Akira, can I asks you something?" Emiyo asks her brother.
"What is it?" Akira said, rolling his eyes as his sister was trying to keep him here a little longer.
"Did you think any family is better than ours?" She asks.
"Yeah," Akira said to her without any hesitation.
Thank you guys so much for reading this. I hope what did here with Akira and Emiyo. Those two needed to work things out between them. Akira seems to be a fan favorite, and that's actually a surprise since I never expected Akira to be loved by you guys. Also, I know what Akira did as a kid was bad, but he was a kid and they don't always listen. Plus, his dad could handle it better than locking his seven-year-old kid in a dark basement all night.