Kireina hadn't intended for them all to move in so suddenly, but when something came up and she was able to provide, she was perfectly happy to show Keigo, Touya, and Tsuyoi the property she had built a home on for them. Not gigantic, but Tsuyoi still seemed to think so when they walked through it. Touya had made some offhanded comment about how the size shouldn't be so surprising after seeing hers and Keigo's apartments, and Kireina had looked around again at the size with new eyes, trying to identify the issue.

Had been shut down before she could let herself into a panic about it when Tsuyoi had kissed her and promised it was perfect and that she couldn't wait to paint every inch of it.

She'd made good on that promise in the weeks they'd been in the large house, claiming the section Kireina had built deliberately for her with glee when they had all been moved in and started in on it before she'd even unpacked boxes. Had painted up her entire room and office spaces and things in what felt like seconds before moving into the common area where the rooms all connected. It was really more of four walk-in closets around a sitting room and a big bedroom connected between them, but the closets were large and each of them had couches and end tables and things of the nature. To Kireina it had seemed presumptive to assume they'd all want to automatically sleep in the same room together so she had put a day bed in each room and the big bedroom had some things for all of them in there to enjoy and room for them all to rest in at the end of the day. Keigo had laughed at her a little when she'd explained it, just ruffling her hair as they all wandered in ahead of her to snuggle up in the bed she'd chosen.

Tsuyoi and Touya had questioned why Keigo had another separate room for bedtime, but Kireina had brushed it off by showing that everyone had their own private spaces and Kireina had just known Keigo would want another nap space. Keigo hadn't gone into detail with them about that particular thing yet, so she hadn't pushed the issue. Just shown Touya's own little 'bedroom' and Tsuyoi's as well and the rest of the house and mentioned if they needed anything to be adjusted she was sure she could accommodate. That it was their home too and she'd been trying to make it right but wasn't sure if she had done so.

In response they had all dragged her to bed and curled around her to sleep.

They'd done that every night for a few weeks, but slowly Kireina started to get nervous without really knowing why for a minute. Didn't really realize until someone started to discuss a cherry blossom event and it hit her that spring time was upon them. That Keigo was quicker to disappear when he got home now and that he was sleeping in his room more often.

That she should have known and prepared for it by now, but she hadn't thought about it.

She made her way home quicker than usual from the club that day, stopping by a few stores to gather some things she knew they would need and then returned into what she thought would be an empty house save for Keigo.

Jumped when she found Tsuyoi on the couch sketching across Touya's lap. "Jesus, you scared the hell out of me," she told them, slapping the bags from the store over her chest to calm her heart. "I thought you were working early today," she nodded to Tsuyoi as she started to pull the things she'd brought home out of the bags.

"Was supposed to be. Client cancelled on me so I was open and decided to stay home. I'm open for the rest of the week actually unless someone wants anything so I'm probably just gonna take the week for vacation. I still have to paint Keigo's rooms and I haven't decided if I like the stuff I did in your room," Tsuyoi answered.

"No!" She blinked when she realized she shouted, calming herself down. "Sorry. No, don't go into Keigo's rooms this week."

Touya blinked, eyeing the things she was pulling out as Tsuyoi shut her sketch book. "What's up this week? He okay?"

She grimaced, looking over everything. "Yes and no. You obviously know his quirk is a mutation quirk that gives him a lot of qualities of a hawk, yeah?"

He nodded. "Yeah. What, is he molting or something?"

She shook her head. "No, he's not molting. He does that constantly it feels like. It just… He doesn't talk about it much and when it does happen he usually tries to give me warning, I didn't wanna just bring it up without him saying anything but…"

Tsuyoi gave a confused, amused looking grin. "I've never seen you dance around something like this, babe, it's kinda cute," she teased.

Kireina sighed, glancing out to the people she and Keigo shared their whole lives with, a small smile peeking free. "It's not my story to tell but it's one you need to hear, so I'm trying to put it delicately. He doesn't like being compared to an animal frequently. He makes the bird jokes but you've seen him get irritated when you pull the 'pretty bird' thing." Touya laughed, but let her continue. "Fuck, you know what nesting season is, right?"

Tsuyoi nodded, still confused. "Yeah, bird mating season basically."

Kireina nodded. "Yeah. And Keigo has these biological bird traits."

"He never mentioned it to any of us," Touya said.

"To you I doubt he would have. It's not that he'd hide things from you so much as he wouldn't want to be mocked for that particular event," Kireina told them. "I only found out the first one we were together for because he was with me when it started and he hadn't felt it coming on. It's not like something he can time, but he usually gets a little warning. Like cramping before a period isn't really an alert but it certainly lets you know something isn't right."

"So is he...dealing with that soon? How long does that usually last? It just goes away on its own doesn't it," Tsuyoi asked.

"Technically, it can. But it takes longer for it to just go away on its own than without help. A month versus a week, on and off sometimes but more often than not straight through." She rubbed across the back of her neck. "And it isn't all that pleasant to just ignore."

Touya looked to be starting to understand, taking in the things on the counter again, but Tsuyoi still seemed lost. "So why should we avoid his rooms for the week if it's gonna take a month if we ignore him?"

"She's not gonna ignore him," Touya answered. "She just wasn't gonna tell us about this to save birdbrain's pride, and handle it herself."

Kireina sighed, leaning back against the counter. "I didn't really want to not tell you, but it's Keigo's story to tell, you know? He…" She stopped as she heard him shuffling in the room, glanced over to see him start to step in the room only to stop cold at the door, wings fluffed and pants hardly on. "You need some water, baby?"

He shuddered, eyes turning to her, and she could see in the pupils and the brightness of his eyes that water was only on his mind until he'd run across them. Shivers went down her own spine then at the thought of what was on his mind now and she started to move around the counter taking a water bottle off the counter out of the stacks of them. "Come on, hon, let's go back to your room and I'll come with you, okay?"

His breathing started to go ragged, but he nodded. "Pushed it a little too far, baby bird. Just didn't wanna interrupt your house building, and it gave me some warning." Shivered as he looked over her again and she realized she probably had enough exposed skin to be giving him issues focusing. Tugged her jacket around her a little tighter.

"Shoulda told us pretty bird," Touya said, approaching rather suddenly from around Kireina and going straight up to him. "What, you think we weren't gonna be able to handle it?"

Keigo shuddered, a whimper escaping him as Touya stripped his shirt over his head and tossed it onto an end table nearby. "You're busy," he started, a whine in his voice. "The agency knows I'm out for a while, you can't do that and…"

Touya cut him off with his lips, pressing them down into Keigo's own and snarling into the keening whine he released. Lifted him off his feet and Keigo wrapped his legs around Touya's waist easily as his fingers tunnelled into the unkempt black hair. Kireina wanted to reach out, tell him to be easy on the sensitive flesh of Keigo's body right then, but Keigo whimpered into the harsh grips that would likely leave bruises when all was said and done, and Tsuyoi didn't make things any easier on him when he threw a desperate glance to Kireina. Approached her and pressed a kiss into Kireina's lips and threw her arms around Kireina's neck, the picture of willing need.

"Fuck, I…" Keigo keened, arching against where Touya didn't pull his mouth away from Keigo's skin, merely started biting up bruises onto his throat and shoulders. "Baby bird, tell him…"

Kireina had to pull away from Tsuyoi then, tugging her backward toward Touya and Keigo. "Touya easy, he's already so sensitive," she told him, catching his arm. "His skin's real sensitive and he probably feels like he's falling apart, you could just as easily hurt him with that."

"Am I hurting you, birdie," Touya grumbled, starting to walk him toward his room. "Does my teeth in your skin hurt, or my hands on you?"

Keigo all but sobbed, rocking against Touya's stomach, and Kireina had to sigh, pushing the door open to Keigo's nesting room so that she could pry Touya loose and get him to set Keigo down.

Keigo had her before she could explain what was up, throwing his arms around her neck and pulling her in to kiss along her throat and along her collarbone, sucking up little marks as he went and trying to remove her jacket and shirt at the same time. She sucked in a sharp breath, trying to focus a little bit. Spoke to Touya and Tsuyoi. "Just let Keigo lead a little. It's a lot but overloading him won't do anything, right baby? Talk to 'em for me."

He growled, digging his teeth into her skin, and only when she yelped did he pull back, burying his forehead into her throat for a long second. "Doctors called it a fucking rut," he growled in frustration, rocking against Kireina as he spoke. "Some mating habit animals have, hormone buildup or whatever. But when it builds up this far it buries most everything human beyond the feeling you get when you fuck and it demands it. As much of it as fucking possible. It's the only time Kireina is okay with me taking her while she's asleep because I fucking abuse that goddamn sexy body so much no human should be able to keep up with it, but she does because she loves it."

"Love you, Keigo. All of you," she interrupted, paying for it with sharp incisors in her shoulder that had her crying out again, arching up into it.

"I'm not a goddamn animal," Keigo snarled.

"I know, baby, we know." Kireina shivered, reaching up to gather his hips in her hands and rubbing circles with her thumbs there. "It's okay."

Touya settled over Keigo's back, pinning him where he had Kireina pinned, and pushed in close, pressing his face into Keigo's throat without touching it. "The only animal here is me, birdbrain. You just look the part. If you need my cock so bad you can't wait to wake me up, I'm not gonna worry about it. Fuck your little baby bird through a round and I'll take over for a little."

"You guys keep forgetting that I exist too," Tsuyoi answered, trailing her fingers over the top of Keigo's wing.

Keigo cried out, falling full weight over Kireina's body, and she grabbed Tsuyoi's hand, tugging it loose and settling it against his shoulder again. "We tease the wings sometimes, but not now. Not unless you really need a breather or he's distracted or asks you to. They're always sensitive but now it's like scruffing a cat."

"I'm sorry," she started, but Keigo reached up and clamped down on her wrist.

Turned desperate eyes on her, and before Kireina could stop him, he was launching at her. Had her back pressed to the bed and was jerking her bra open between the cups where she had already stripped out of her shirt and latched on with sharp teeth. Tsuyoi cried out then, arching up against him, and he didn't lift his head to find her panties. Ripped them open down the front and jerked them from under her as he scratched at his own pants to push the drawstring things down and free his cock. Wasn't even persuaded by Touya leaning across his back again and curling his fingers in his hair to tug. He continued to use his mouth to form a trail down her stomach and over her hips before his mouth landed on her cunt, and he began to eat like he was starving as she cried out, grabbing him anywhere she could to try to hold him steady. There was no holding him steady this way, though, and Kireina leaned down beside her as she stripped out of her clothes quickly. Pressed a kiss to her temple gently.

"Don't apologize to him right now. He's sensitive to a few things but mainly the concern he may hurt you. Apologizing won't do anything but make him crazy. Something in his brain hears it as a taunt." She leaned down and took Keigo's first finger between her teeth, tugging just a little to pull his hand loose, and when he glared at her from the warmth of Tsuyoi's legs, she bit down harder, reaching up to take his hand and settle it between her own thighs, pressing his fingers in just a little. "Come here, baby, let her breathe. Come here." She ground down on his fingers and let a little moan slip, watching him shift attention to her against his own will. "Touya, take care of Tsuyoi for a little bit. Open her up and if you can make sure we have the stuff I got."

Couldn't get much more out because now Keigo was focusing on her, pressing her back and pressing his fingers all the way in and starting to fuck her on his hand, drawing her nipples into his mouth while he did so. Drawing his hand away to press his cock against her entrance and bring his lips up against her ear.

"You okay baby," he asked, voice ragged. "You sure?"

Kireina nodded, letting herself reach up to brush the hair out of his sharp eyes. "I'm sure baby, go ahead. We love you."

Keigo didn't wait for much longer. Snapped his hips forward in one go and let her grip his shoulder as he started to fuck into her tight sheathe in quick bursts. Hard and vicious and so deep, and she threw her leg up to wrap around his waist and fucked into him as well, sobbing his name as she kept fucking onto him. "Fuck, you're so hot, so tight for me baby bird, fuck. Sensitive to me and gripping me, fuck yeah, baby bird you're so good." He buried his face in her throat, licking along the column of her neck until he could bite down on her earlobe enough to pierce it, and when she whimpered into the motions, he dug in his fingers at her hips. "Fuck, so pretty, so good. You gonna keep Tsuyoi wet for me, baby bird? Gonna let me watch you while you do it, right?"

Kireina sobbed, nodding. "Yes, baby, I'll do it for you. Don't worry baby." She dug her nails into Keigo's shoulder, but she didn't get much room to breathe because Tsuyoi yelped and she was able to look over just enough to see Keigo tugging her from the bed where Touya had just left her to gather their things. Settling her on her knees over Kireina's head and Tsuyoi looked down at Kireina with something close to terror in her eyes. Not fear, though, but anticipation, and Kireina spared her a gentle smile. Whimpered when Keigo started to fuck into her harder. "You're okay, sweet thing," she told Tsuyoi. "I'm just gonna keep this little hole wet for him. Promise you won't get shy on me?"

Tsuyoi let out a little whimpering sound then, but she nodded a little as Kireina kissed up her inner thigh. "My thighs are kinda big, I'm not gonna hurt you am I?"

That challenged Kireina personally, even as Keigo was tearing her insides in half, and she wrapped her arms around Tsuyoi's thighs and tugged her down on her face, pulling them in tight while she started to feast on the labia and tasty little clit there. Started to press in with her tongue and fuck her with her mouth. Listened to Keigo whine and snarl alternatively as he fucked into her brutally while she continued to do what Keigo had asked of her. Was hardly able to ignore Touya when he returned and settled in front of Tsuyoi, tilting her head up so he could watch her face and kept telling them all dirty fucking nothings. Ran his fingers through Kireina's hair and clawed into Tsuyoi's thighs. Teased little hotspots that Keigo left bare to him, and it wasn't long before Keigo cried out, burying himself deep inside Kireina as he released his load into her at the same time Tsuyoi sobbed her own release on Kireina's lips. Didn't hesitate to tug Tsuyoi off of Kireina's face before she was done quaking to settle her on her knees over Kireina and let Kireina wrap an arm around her waist.

"Hold onto me baby, okay," she whispered to Tsuyoi. "Don't worry about a thing, just hold on to me."

Tsuyoi's fingers dug into Kireina's ribs and she gasped as Keigo pressed into her then, and Kireina watched him start to tear her apart too, teeth digging in at her shoulder while he slammed home inside her. Eyes locked with Kireina while Tsuyoi sobbed into her shoulder in pleasure, crying out Keigo's name and clawing for purchase against Kireina and Touya where she could. Touya watched it all uncharacteristically gently, warmth in his eyes and gentleness in his hands as Keigo slid in and out of both of them in turn when Tsuyoi cried that she needed him to stop and back to her when she said she was okay. Shivered as he watched them all try to tide Keigo over a little, and tried to provide some semblance of comfort.

Let Kireina and Tsuyoi settle their heads against his lap and stroked through Kireina's hair. "You did this by yourself?"

Kireina nodded, gasping in breath while Keigo switched back to Tsuyoi. "Only happens once a year, sometimes if the weather gets weird it happens on it's own." She felt Tsuyoi quaking in her arms, shaking uncontrollably while Keigo continued on into what was at least his third orgasm and at least Tsuyoi's second. "You alright baby?"

Tsuyoi shook her head. "I need a break, please. Please," she begged.

Kireina nodded, taking her hand and burying it in Keigo's hair to jerk his head back off of Tsuyoi, and he whimpered in heated agony, stopping briefly to glance at her. Touya took his cue and pulled Tsuyoi out of the way and Kireina rolled Keigo to his back, settling onto his cock on her hands and knees and trying her best to ride him on legs already shaking. Keigo shivered, one hand coming up to cradle a breast while the other settled on her thigh, gripping it tightly and watching her bounce on him. "I didn't wanna hurt her, baby bird. You okay? You sure you can take it?"

Touya took him by the chin and jerked his head back to look at him, pressing his mouth to Keigo's roughly and he smiled viciously. "She's fine, birdbrain. Don't forget I'm here too, pretty bird. The three of us can more than handle you."

Keigo shuddered, fingers crushing down on Kireina's thigh, and she settled on his hips while he reached out to tug Touya in closer. "Want you, please, fuck."

Touya looked to her, nodding to indicate she get out of the way, but Keigo shook his head, rolling Kireina back to the mattress and tugging Touya around him. Pulling him flush against his ass and Touya grinned darkly as he pressed Keigo's face down toward Kireina. "Talk nice to our pretty girl, hero, tell her how it feels while I fuck her through you. You've been mean to her, so now I'm gonna be mean to you. Sound good?"

Keigo sobbed, licking up Kireina's throat and biting gently at her ear as he nodded, still seated firmly inside her. "Yes, fuck, please. I need it."

Touya wanted to open him up, it was obvious by the way he reached down to grip him, but Keigo glared over his shoulder at him, and Kireina shook her head when Touya glanced to her with a pierced brow raised. "Just do it, he won't sit still for it."

Shifted up onto Keigo so he was distracted as Touya started to bury himself in on one thrust like he'd been indicated. Shivered as he did so and watched Keigo bottom out into her as he did the same to their overwrought lover. Let him take the brief moment of almost agony he must have felt then to glance at Kireina. "You gonna be able to handle this, sweetheart?"

Kireina was all but jumping under them, but she knew better than to say anything to the contrary where Keigo could hear. Knew even if it made her crazy she would do it, because Keigo would be worse without it. "Do your worst, baby, our pretty bird needs it."

It felt like days upon days, must have been, before they got any decent sleep. Not unusually, Kireina was up before Keigo was, and she slipped into the bathroom to run the heated over large tub there to full. Glad that she had been sure to make the tub too large for any one of them to really need it all but enough that there was plenty of room to fit them all should they all end up in it one day. When it was full she started the shower and started to rinse sweat and disgusting from her body.

Jumped when someone's fingers traced over a bite mark on her shoulder.

"Sorry," Touya apologized quietly, voice rough. "Had to piss, heard the water running. You okay?"

She nodded. "Yeah, yeah, this is normal. It's over now. He may need something small when he wakes up, but he can't really sleep until it's all over. It's been four hours and he hasn't woken up. It's over now."

"You should be sleeping then," he said, nodding to the other room. "If he won't be up for a while and everyone is asleep you should take that chance too."

Kireina shook her head. "I can't sleep. Not usually, not recently, and right now I just can't…" She sighed, biting her tongue for a moment. "I need a minute by myself after everything, you know?"

His eyes sharpened out of weariness and into focus on her. "Are you okay?"

She smiled, but she knew the tears in her eyes didn't let it touch there, spread over her face like a real one would. "It's just a lot. Everything's okay, it just is a lot of energy and it takes his choice out of it. He hates it, and he does it because he has to, needs it, but he does hate it. I don't like being part of it because of that, even if there's not really anything else that makes me upset about it. But he doesn't deserve to sit in his own misery for a month in pain because I don't like it and he can't be around me with any kind of comfort without it. We've mentioned before that he doesn't like to do it, but that it's better than the alternative."

Kireina couldn't decipher the pain in Touya's eyes there suddenly, but he took his hand off her. "And you feel like you did something wrong trying to pull him together again."

She didn't like not looking Touya in the eye, it felt dishonest, but she couldn't help it. Nodded as she glanced toward the door briefly before she wiped the tear that leaked out of her eye. "He hates it, Touya. He doesn't like to do it. Doesn't like having to do it, I should say, because he doesn't mind sex with us, you know that, but doesn't like it being all but forced on him. On us. I take part in that, something he already doesn't wanna do. Taking the choice away from someone who doesn't want it in the first place, even if it's supposed to feel nice and if it's fun usually. If you say no, you should be heard for a no. You shouldn't have to do it anyway. Just because some man tells you that you have to doesn't mean you do, even if no one will make it stop when you scream, and Keigo doesn't have that option and I'm that person who can't make it right and I just…"

The arms that came around her were familiar, but it made her feel filthy to have Keigo holding her so sweetly while she had just done all that. She jerked forward, away from both boys, but Keigo reached out anyway.

"You never told me that's why you always needed an hour to yourself after, baby bird," he offered softly. "You do make it right, baby. You're not taking my choice away. You're helping me make it, letting me make it. You're not doing to me what happened to you, Kireina."

Touya looked sharply between the two. "Excuse me?"

Keigo ddn't glance to Touya, to his credit. "I wish you'd have told me this is how you felt, pretty bird. I know where this is coming from, and I really wish you hadn't kept it to yourself."

"What do you mean, Keigo, what happened," Touya asked.

Keigo traced that same bite mark that Touya had traced. "I'm gonna tell him, okay baby bird? He needs to know, and I thought by now you had told them."

Kireina nodded, clenching her jaw while she slid down onto a stool nearby for her to shower herself with. Keigo sighed, running his hands through his hair, and Kireina wanted to cry looking at how exhausted he looked. Should have been sleeping but had probably heard her talking. Always, always she was doing too little by them.

"When she was little, Kireina's mom and dad got her a music teacher. A choir teacher to strengthen her lungs, her ability to use her quirk, you know?" He shook his head. "He'd give her those lessons in a private, sound proofed room. It's where she learned how to produce blastwaves. Trying to scream through the soundproofing to tell someone what he was doing. One day she did, and her parents being pros got it buried so the news didn't get a hold of it. Her dad beat the shit out of her when she wouldn't stop screaming because of nightmares. Mom told her she needed to learn to be quiet when things upset her because the man they paid to assault her had done his job of strengthening her lungs too well, and Dad reinforced it." He reached out and ran his fingers through her hair.

"Since my quirk manifested, people took that choice from me," she interrupted, leaning down into her hands. "People who were supposed to protect me. I wanted to be a hero for someone like me, someone who needed to know that someone would stop it when bad people tried to do horrible things to someone they should have been protecting even if it cost them everything. And here I am doing the same fucking thing…"

"No, baby bird. You're doing what you always do. You're putting others before yourself as you always do and tearing yourself apart for it." He took a deep breath, sighing heavily as he crouched in front of her. "For years now, you've been letting me do what you're worried about doing to me. Letting me keep hurting that trauma so I don't hurt. That's vicious, baby bird, but not to me."

"These fuckers still breathing," Touya snarled from where he had started pacing the room.

Kireina shook her head. "Don't, Touya. You can't hunt down all of our parents and barbecue them all. I haven't heard from Mom and Dad in almost five years. Once when I got promoted in the rankings a while ago, but that was it."

He growled in frustration, approaching to crouch in front of her beside Keigo. "Have I ever…?"

"No," Kireina cried. "No, gods no, you three have never hurt me, I swear."

"That's not right, baby bird," Keigo said gently. "I have, it's pretty obvious that I hurt you pretty bad. Not seeing it when I should have."

"I chose Keigo," she told him desperately.

"I get what he's saying, mouse, and where he's coming from you didn't. You ate bullets, but you didn't choose," Touya said. "You shouldn't have had to."

"I enjoyed it," she told them.

"But you're sitting in here for an hour by yourself showering off things that aren't there because of something else. A choice you didn't get to make that my bullshit set off, and it makes you feel like you were hurting someone else. You're retraumatizing yourself every time you come to let me get this all out. I'd rather sit here with you on the other side of a door than know this is why you need to be alone. When I said I didn't like this, it didn't mean I didn't like the time I got to be with you and got to give you pleasure. I just meant I hate putting you through it, especially so much when I know you overload easy. Hate that because I need it physically, you have to do it or let me sit. And I can do either, you can always tell me no. But I know you and I know you will always choose the option that makes it easier on me. You just won't say that's what you're doing and you know that when I'm like that I can't tell."

"I should have seen it," Touya added, lips tight on his face. "I should have known in the kitchen, and I should have known when you told us time and time again that you could handle it when I could see you needed a fucking break."

Kireina looked between them and back to her hands. "Can I have a minute to just get through the shower before we have this conversation? If you guys wanna just go back to sleep for a little bit…"

Keigo shook his head. "Nah baby bird. I was rough on you. We all were, really, but mostly me, and you gave it to me. Lemme help you clean up and set you in the tub. I'll take care of us this time, all of us. You need to rest."

She needed to make it right, but if he needed to feel like he was putting something right she wouldn't argue with him.