Five years later-

The attack on USJ was going off without much of a hitch- much of course being the fact that several of his underlings thought it was okay to go after the frightened kids that were being trained to be hero's. Currently, he was holding one of his more...bloodthirsty underlings off of the ground by his neck, listening to the man fight for air as he clawed at his throat.

"I told you not to touch the kids. I don't care if you scare them, but injuring them or killing them is off limits." The words, 'Disobey me again and I'll rip out your lungs.' hung unsaid between them as he abruptly dropped the man to the floor to make sure that no one else was stepping out of line.

His eerie neon blue eyes scanning the massive indoor training area, the various faces of the kids and the one teacher that was too busy trying to hold the students that wanted to fight back, that he simply watched her for a moment curiously.

She was small, petite boned, generously curved in body, pixie like facial features framed by a wealth of red pink hair that was up in a twist style at the back of her head where the thick silken mane was held in place by a hair clip.

Feeling a peculiar- yet not unfamiliar vibe that he couldn't place at the moment, coming from her- and decided that he'd keep his eyes on her even as one of his underlings went after her.

"What a pretty little thing-" The guy said as he licked his lips in a creepy manner that had even Toshinori bristling at the unsaid implications of his words as one of the kids stepped in front of the woman and told the guy to back the fuck off.

Frankly Toshinori was with the kid.

They were there to fight with the pro-hero's not go after the kids and innocent bystanders. Besides, he ran a very disciplined group. If they couldn't stick to his rules- they died screaming and bloody. There was simply no two ways about it.

And it was starting to look as if he'd have to clean house again if the actions of the two men in his group were of any indication at all. His mind began to wander a bit when he heard an ear piercingly terrified scream and quickly located the source of the sound and blinked when he saw that the kid that had placed himself between the woman and his underling was down.

Like dying sort of down.

Gnashing his teeth because he knew he needed to step in and stop things from escalating further, he quickly activated his quirk and took a flying leap as his man was about to move to kill the kid and woman both. Landing between the two and further harm, he wasted no time in reaching out and snapping the man's neck, he then threw him down to the ground like the trash that he was and turned to check on the woman and kid.

The kid was bleeding badly, and likely would die unless something was done and quickly. The woman was trying to staunch the bleeding and comfort the boy, but she was hurt and bleeding and so badly rattled by what had just happened that she could barely think straight.

Though Toshinori gave her credit for not simply breaking down and crying her eyes out. God knew that in her place he probably would have.

Kneeling down next to the two, he drew on his years of training and former experience as a hero and looked at the woman as she eyed him questioningly and tightened her hold on the boy in a protective manner that he understood all too well.

She was the school's appointed 'momma bear' apparently. And right now she saw him as a threat to one of her cubs. Trying hard not to grin at her antics since he didn't want to antagonize her into using her quirk on him, he simply said in a soft tone as he slowly reached out and took her hand and paused for a moment as he felt a spark of something so heart achingly familiar that he didn't dare dwell on it as he choked out the words, "Here. You need to press more tightly right...here." He placed the hand within his grasp more tightly over the student's wound and then moved back a little bit so that he wasn't quite crowding her anymore and simply studied her face as he tried to sort things out in his mind.

He knew that most people that lost their soulmates went mad, or insane at some point depending on the strength of the bond between the two. Just like he also knew that second soulmate's were rare.

Like Haley's comet passing by the earth every seventy five to seventy six years or so.

Second soulmates were so rare that they were all but unheard of in some instances. And yet...here he was in the middle of an attack on USJ and he had just found his second soulmate.

He-He didn't know what to think. Much less what to feel about her.

He had destroyed his last soulmate with his carelessness, foolishly believing the lies fed to him about rejecting her would be in her best interest due to his job and age. He hadn't wanted to cage her or influence her when she had been so young.

But his rejection of her had devastated her and had even led to her untimely demise. He wasn't sure at this point if he wanted another soulmate. Or if he even deserved her.

God knew that his life was beyond a mess right now and he definitely had no place in it for a woman... However, she was his soulmate. The last one he would ever be awarded in his lifetime. And that made her considerably more important than anyone else at present.

Making a split second decision he asked her, "What would you give to save the people here from further harm?"

She looked at him for a moment and blinked her soft green eyes and made an unintelligible squeaking sound, "W-What?"

"What would you do...to save them? The children. The teachers." He asked again a little bit more slowly so that her shock addled mind could keep up as he motioned with his head towards the frightened kids and the injured and possibly dying teachers that had already been taken down for the count.

The dazed look that she had been given him suddenly shifted and changed, her eyes becoming more focused on his face as she gave him a look of steely determination and said, "If I could save them, I would give up everything. My freedom, my will, my body- even my life!"

Giving her an unnaturally chilling smile, Toshinori suddenly moved forward and snatched her up in his arms- tossing the injured boy into the arms of one of his classmates as he did so- earning a startled cry from his woman as he placed her over one of his shoulder and lifted his fingers to his lips and let out a loud whistle that caused any and all movement from his men to still as he then shouted, "Time to leave, men!"

There was a series of groans from the villains as they slowly moved back towards their boss, each one noting the woman tossed over the big guy's shoulder as they each vanished into the portal's that had opened up around the tall blond before he too vanished into the swirling, inky darkness, with his prize.