Warning: Character death

The plan

10 days after the start of the new year, UA would be bringing the students on a school trip. Shouto's class would be going to Kyoto for 2 days. Shouto and his siblings suspected that Dabi would attack again sometime during this trip. Therefore, Fuyumi and Natsuo decided to quietly follow Shouto without Endevaor finding out. It was quite difficult to follow with Endeavor following Shouto's class as a pro hero but they had to get their oldest brother back.

Fuyumi and Natsuo made sure to be as close as possible to Shouto and thus rented a room near the guest house where Shouto's class is staying. The plan was that if Dabi does attack them, Shouto would call Fuyumi and both of them would go to the area where Shouto is. To get their oldest brother back, all 3 of them had to work together to ensure that it would succeed. If it was just 1 or 2 of them, Dabi may not come back to them. How exactly were they going to get their brother back? They were going to make him recall all the pleasant memories they shared when they were younger. Hopefully, that would be able to coax Toya to come back to them.

"Don't lie Toya-nii. We'll help you remember everything. Natsuo, Shouto, carry on as planned." Fuyumi said.

"Toya-nii. Remember when we were younger, you, Fuyumi-nee and I would play in the yard with Grandma watching over us. There was this one time you were trying to show off your dribbling skills but you fell and landed on your butt. After that you looked at us with such a sheepish expression that made everyone laugh and smile despite the tense atmosphere." Natsuo started.

'I do remember that. I did it on purpose. Everyone had such a grim expression on their faces...' Dabi recalled that memory as Natsuo described. 'But no, I can't remember. Toya is gone.' "Get off me! I don't know what you're talking about!" Dabi struggled against the tight embrace only causing the trio to tighten their hold on him.

"I remember there was once I was helping mom with cooking and I was cutting the onions. I was still young and didn't know how to do it without tearing up. You walked in and started scolding the onion for making me cry and proceeded to cut it as revenge. But that only caused you to cry as well." Fuyumi said with a soft smile while thinking back to that day.

'That was so embarrassing. I can't believe I used to pick a fight with a vegetable. But anything for my precious siblings... No. I must be strong. I can't let the old weak Toya return.'

"I hardly have any memory with you Toya-nii. But there was once during dinner where mom cooked soba for us. You knew that I loved soba so you gave me more of your soba. Despite getting scolded by Endeavor for doing so, you gave me the gentlest and warmest smile. That day I had a really bad training session with him but your small gesture made that day much better." Shouto said with his face buried into Dabi's shoulder.

'Shouto... I'm sorry I couldn't do more for you. I really regret not being strong enough to protect you...'

Just like that, the trio continued sharing all their found memories that they shared with Toya. From the biggest events such as the day when Shouto went to the hospital to the smallest of events such as helping Natsuo tie his laces because he injured his finger in school.

Dabi was desperately trying to suppress all the emotions flowing through him. But with every memory shared with him made him miss the good times more and more. He really wanted to drop the act and return the embrace. He really wanted to. Tears were threatening to fall from his face with each passing memory. At some point, he had given up struggling and denying that he wasn't Toya. He just stood there in their embrace and taking in all the memories, each one vividly played out in his head.

While all this was going on, the backup had arrived. With more pro heroes on the scene, most of the league members had been taken down. While evacuating the students to a safer place, both students and pro heroes came across the scene unfolding before them. Todoroki Shouto and two others in civilian clothes were hugging Dabi. Endeavor was also lying nearby watching everything.

Some of them come to a confusion that Dabi had defeated Endeavor and that Todoroki and the other two were in danger. They wanted to leap in to bring the trio to safety but when they got close. Endeavor stopped them.

"Wait. Be on guard for an attack. In the meantime, don't stop them." To say that Endeavor was curious was an understatement. Seeing 3 of his children hugging a villain while calling him Toya was something he didn't see everyday. He wanted to know what exactly was going on but he knew that he was walking on egg shells. Saying something wrong at this point could put his children in danger so he decided to just sit there and watch what was going on while being on guard.

After many many memories shared. Natsuo and Fuyumi both broke down crying thinking about the past. Shouto was sobbing quietly as he couldn't relate to most of the memories shared. Dabi on the other end was doing his best to ensure the tears didn't fall. At last, he couldn't hold it in anymore.

"Fuyumi, Natsuo and Shouto. I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry for everything. For leaving you behind with that monster... What kind of big brother am I. I can't even protect my younger siblings and need them to save me." Dabi's voice was shaking with each sentence. Tears rolled down his face unceremoniously while sniffling. Dabi slowly returned the hug.

Hearing that they had managed to get through to their brother, they hugged him back even tighter and they were a huge mess of tears and snifflings but that was alright. They had each other and that's all that mattered.

"You have to tell us what exactly you've been doing these few years." Natsuo said to Toya while giving his shoulder a soft punch.

"Got it brother."

"Toya...?"

Dabi turned and looked down at Endeavor, not saying anything.

"Toya is that really you? Where have you been all these years! Why are you with the league of villains!" Endeavor shouted, his quirk activating.

Instantly, Shouto and his siblings shielded Toya from Endeavor.

"There's no need for you to know anything." Toya monotonously said from behind his siblings. They stayed like this with both Endeavor and Toya staring each other without exchanging any words.

"DABI!" Hearing that voice, Toya whipped his head in the direction to see none other that Shigaraki Tomura flying towards him.

Landing a few feet from the Endeavor, Shigaraki smirked. "What do we have here. A fallen Endeavor, two civilians, Todoroki Shouto and Dabi. This is perfect."

'Shit.' Toya thought to himself. They were indeed in the best position for a pincer attack.

"Ha. Good job Dabi. I'll deal with the rest of you later. As for you Todoroki Shouto, I can finally get rid you!" Shigaraki ran towards Shouto at an amazing speed. They all knew that they wouldn't be able to guard themselves with him coming at this speed.

Shouto shut his eyes and braced for the attack. But he didn't feel anything. He heard a scream and he opened his eyes. What he saw left him standing there in shock.

Toya had come in between Shouto and Shigaraki, taking the attack head-on. Shigaraki had activated his quirk and his hand was now on Toya's stomach. The area that had come into contact with Shigaraki's hand had started to decay and Toya fell to his knees.

"Dabi..? What are you doing?!" Shigaraki yelled.

Before Toya could even reply him, all the pro heroes gathered there had sprung into action and had taken Shigaraki down.

At long last, the league of villains has been taken down but at what cost?

Everyone turned their attention back to where Shouto and his siblings were. They all crowded around Toya, Fuyumi using her legs as a cushion for his head and both Natsuo and Shouto had taken his hand in theirs.

"Toya-nii! Toya-nii! Stay with us! Is there any way to stop this?" Natsuo gripped Toya's hand tightly looking around for answers with tears spilling from his eyes.

"Natsuo... You are a strong boy. The strongest and bravest I know and you're still growing. I'm sorry I couldn't haven been with you to watch you grow for the past few years." Toya gave Natsuo's hand a squeeze back.

"Fuyumi... You have the kindest heart. Even after everything that has happened with Endeavor, you are still willing to give him a chance. I'm sorry I couldn't have been by your side to support you." Natsuo shook his head continuously saying that it wasn't Toya's fault.

"Toya-nii... stop talking. Please. We can find a way to save you." Fuyumi practically begged.

"Thank you... but... there's no stopping a decay especially when it's so near the heart."

Toya turned his head and looked at Shouto.

"Shouto... I'm really sorry. I wanted to save you all those years ago from Endeavor but I was too weak. I wanted to protect you as much as I could while being in the league of villains. When I heard that you had entered UA, I was so so proud of you. My smallest brother has grown so much over these years that I've been missing. I really wished that I could've been with you to train you and help you improve your quirk. You are already so strong but I'm sure you'll get much much stronger." Toya smiled and coughed out blood. Shouto was bawling his eyes out. That was the first time Shouto had shown so much emotion that everyone's heart began aching.

Toya knew that he didn't have much time left. "Endeavor. I haven't forgiven you for everything you've done. If you hurt any of my siblings again... I'll haunt you forever." From where Endeavor was lying, he quickly wiped away a tear and replied. "You've grown so much Toya. I'm so proud of you."

"Fuyumi, Natsuo, Shouto... Please tell mom that I'm sorry... Tell her that.. I'm sorry for not being able to visit her at tell mom that I'm sorry... Tell her that.. I'm sorry for not being able to visit her at all... I'm really sorry for everything. I... I love all of you so... so much." Everyone was a crying mess. Not only the Todorokis, most of the pro heroes and students were crying as well. Even Bakugou was trying his best to hide the tears that threatened to fall.

"Shouto." That one word filled with so much love, pain and regret caught everyone's attention.

Toya looked at Shouto and gave his warmest smile.

"Happy birthday... my brother."