Toshinori sat down in his chair as he peeked up at Shouta who was walking back and forth. Once everything for the man had settled down, Toshinori explained everything that he had discovered about his past life, his first life so to speak. A life that he had as a vampire. It was strange, that in one life that he really was a vampire, but it still confused him a great deal and it made him rather curious as to what was in store for him and Inko.

"So, you had help from your first life, this Yuudai. The man who created One for All?" Shouta said in shock.

"Yes." Toshinori said with a soft sigh as he leaned back in his chair.

"Then he even mentioned how vampires can possess people by taking a sliver of their soul, a fragment at that which would allow them to control who they turn." Shouta muttered, his hand covering the bottom half of his face with his index finger tapping at his upper lip in thought. "That makes me think I figured out why you may be having human feelings and a heartbeat again." Shouta mumbled.

"What?" asked Toshinori.

"It's possible, that a vampire if they so desire it they can steal a piece of the person's soul if they deem the person worthy to possess so to speak." Shouta whispered, causing Toshinori to blink a little as he looked over at the man when he saw that Toshinori only tilted his head in confusion. "Think about it this way, you have no desire to control people. Right?"

"Yeah, controlling people is wrong." Toshinori said with a frown on his face.

"Exactly!" Shouted exclaimed as he pointed at the blonde, causing said blonde to stare with wide eyes. "You don't believe in controlling people, because of that you never had any reason to take a shard of their soul. Even if you even knew how that even worked in the first place you wouldn't have wanted too. I believe that the soul shard is only taken if you so have the desire to do take it."

Toshinori hummed as he scratched at the back of his head while in deep thought. It did make sense, he never had any kind of desire to take control over anyone. In fact, he never knew such a thing in the first place, but what did that mean for him? After all, Yuugure had bitten him, tried to possess him but it had failed. So either he never took a piece like he thought he did, or he hadn't been able to take it. It just seemed as if he was grasping at straws at this point.

Yet, it also still didn't answer his question about what had happened for his heart to start again. There was something more than what Shouta was saying, but what could it be?

"Tell me Toshi, did Inko say anything that made you feel special, that made you feel happy or at least did something different happen that wasn't like it was with Hizashi and I?" asked Shouta.

Toshinori frowned a little. He had to think on that one. What was different between Inko and the other people that he had bitten in the past? He knew that there had to have been something different, though just what was it? In the past, other people who he had bitten he just went for it because he was hungry. But if he never took a piece of their soul because he had no reason too other than to feed himself, then there was something different.

Yet, he just couldn't think of what it could be.

"Have me, holy and completely, I am yours and yours alone Toshinori. You are the only man I'd ever want to have my body and my soul."

Toshinori's eyes widened so wide that one would have thought that his eyes would have fallen out of his skull. "Inko was willing to give me her body and soul, that she was mine and mine alone." He whispered.

"That's it, because of that one little confession your vampire instinct told you to claim what was yours. A piece of Inko's soul. Because you aren't using it to control her, that piece of her soul is used to give you a heartbeat, human emotions, the ability to sleep at long last and you are even warmer."

"I just can't eat human food."

"Yeah, that's about it." Shouta sighed softly.

Toshinori frowned a little at the thought of it. So that was what allowed him to feel human emotions but it didn't solve everything that was wrong in his life. "Though, the other theory about why you aren't even in his possession was that something filled in the missing piece of your soul."

"Huh?"

"Think about it, it could have been a mixture of things. The only known person who wasn't able to be possessed by him in some way was the brother. The man forced a quirk upon himself, as if hoping that would be what got his brother to join him, but the brother resisted. The brother was strong willed, which is most likely a reason why you resisted."

"Huh?"

"Basically, your spirit is too strong to be controlled. You have an unbreakable spirit even if you were missing a piece, that piece was filled in from when Yuudai bit Kumiko, he must have taken a piece of her soul as well and that piece was what filled in the piece that Yuugure took from you." Toshinori nodded in understanding. That did make sense, it was one reason why he wasn't so easy to control along with the head injury he got when he had been tossed aside.

But maybe it wasn't just the head injury but his spirit itself.

So, that made it easier for him to resist any kind of control, for the most part. Letting out a soft sigh, the young man looked up and blinked as he saw Shouta looking at him. "What about the curse though?"

"The curse… that is tricky." Shout mumbled before letting out a soft sigh. Crossing his arms the young man calmly started to give in another theory of his. "It is possible that he did indeed curse Yuudai, if he even had a quirk like that in the first place. He does have who knows how many." Toshinori could agree with that. There was no telling how many quicks the man had at this point. Yet, he couldn't help but be curious as to how many. "But, it makes you wonder if it isn't a curse, but his mere presents that forces him to be able to make any incarnation of his brother and Kumiko suffer a similar fate so to speak."

"What do you mean?"

"Think about it, every reincarnation of Kumiko was always a princess of the Midoriya line, and the reincarnation for Yuudai was always a member of her royal guard and not just that, but a holder for One for All."

Toshinori nodded in understanding. This was making sense so far. "But, the princess herself never died… because Yuugure still wanted her himself but couldn't do so because of the sword. While the princess, your princess, was able to escape such a fate because maybe he couldn't locate her. Her quirk may be able to bring vampires to her, but only if they can locate her I believe." Shouta thought aloud, making Toshinori a little confused about that. He gave the man a sigh before Shouta went on. "Maybe there was someone in the village that knew who Inko was and blocked her presents or maybe she had something silver. We don't know."

That is possible.

"AS for breaking the curse, it is possible there are two ways… one involves killing Yuugure while the other… uh… um…"

"What?"

"I… I can't say."

"Why can't you?"

"Because it isn't my place, plus you wouldn't believe me."

Suddenly, Toshinori sped out of his chair, grabbing a hold of Shouta and pinned him to the wall. Shouta stared with wide eyes only to calm down. Even though the blonde glared at him with crimson eyes, he showed no fear. "Toshi."

"Why won't you tell me?! Does it have anything to do with what you and Inko are keeping from me?!"

Shouta's eyes widened for a moment before returning to their usual tired, bland stare. It only seemed to piss the man off all the more as he snarled at his son. At the moment, he didn't see Shouta as his son, but as something standing in the way of his Inko. But not enough so where he wanted to seriously hurt the man. "Why won't you tell me?! What is so bad about this that you refuse to tell me?!"

"Because it isn't my place to tell you." Calmly said the raven haired man.

"Tell me now!" shouted Toshinori.

"You are acting like a spoiled brat Toshi. Inko has to be the one to tell you what it is that she wants to tell you. It isn't my place, I know very well that it'll never be anyone else's place to tell you something like this but her. Plus, you wouldn't believe me if I told you."

"I could easily just bite you, and learn from your memories."

Toshinori's red eyes started to fade away until they have returned to their usual blue. He frowned a little before lowering the young man to the floor and releasing his hold. Turning away, he walked off to grab his jacket. He knew that he had acted rashly, and that he could have easily hurt the boy that he had promised to protect at all costs. Yet, here he was, been so close to hurting the boy that he raised. "Shouta…"

"Yes?"

"Can you at least tell me this… will it hurt Inko? Whatever it is that she is keeping from me? Will it hurt her or me?"

"No, it won't."

"Thank you…" He whispered before leaving the apartment that night to get away. At least, to walk around to clear his head.


Toshinori didn't know what he was to do, it had felt as if everything was crashing on him. He knew that he shouldn't have tried to attack Shouta like he had. But he couldn't stop himself. It was as if a part of him just wanted to attack the person that was keeping something from him about the woman he loved. It wasn't that Shouta was doing it out of spite, but because it really wasn't his place to tell him but Inko's.

He just hoped that she would tell him but what could it possibly be?

Letting out a soft sigh, the young man wasn't sure what he was to do. Should he just go to Inko and talk to her about it? To tell her that he knew what was going on with her?

Frowning a little, Toshinori knew that he had to talk to her. All of this waiting was driving him mad, he knew that this was something that he had to talk to her about. Looking up at the sky, he saw that it was starting to grow cloudy. Maybe he needed to see her, he had to see her. If he just waited for dinner, and she still never said anything then there was a chance that she wouldn't ever say anything to him.

Clenching his hands into a tight fist, the young man knew that he still had so much to tell Inko but he had to be calm and rational. If he just went all out and attacked her so to speak with his questions, then he could hurt her more than he ever wanted to.

Letting out a soft sigh, the vampire started to make the long walk home in the hopes of figuring out what it was that the green haired woman was hiding from him. Though before he got to the corner, thunder was heard as a flash of lightning was seen and with that, came a heavy downpour.

"Fucking great." Toshinori grumbled, before he let out a soft sigh. "I guess Shouta is really rubbing off on me." He shook his head, his blonde bangs clinging to his forehead as he started to walk further down the street thinking that a walk would make things better for him.

Hands shoved into his jacket pocket as he hummed softly a tune that he remembered the princess, and of course Inko, would sing. He knew that song better than anyone, she would sing that song while he was gone on long missions. She would be sad, missing him with all of her heart and soul and she had hoped that the song itself would have been enough to connect the two while they were so far apart.

In a way, it did work, as he would find himself singing it as well.

It wasn't a quirk that allowed them to feel the other, but their hearts. Their love for the other that was stronger than anything else in the world. And now, in a way he did finally figure out why he could always feel her. Why he had been able to feel her so perfectly in that life, because a piece of her soul was within him to the point that he could feel her but never really noticed it for the most part.

Reaching up, the vampire grasped at his chest as he felt his heart beating, still slower than a humans, but it was there. A feeling that he knew that had been dead in him for years but thanks to Inko, he was able to feel again. Not just the imprints or the phantoms of emotions he would get when he drank from packets or people but, real emotions that were his and his alone.

Yet, with those emotions came anger and hate, the desire to hurt anyone that would be a threat to Inko but at the same time he wondered if it was even possible for him to hurt Inko. Could he ever do such a thing? Even if it was only verbally hurting her, would he do it just to get what he want? No, he couldn't bear to even think such a thing. But, it had him curious if the possessive part of him would take control should push comes to shove.

Closing his eyes for a moment, the young man knew in his heart that he could never hurt Inko, but still there was that fear of what would happen. Not to mention, with what she was hiding from him. Was Shouta right though? About it not hurting her or himself? But what if it did? What if it did hurt her? What would he do with himself if he had allowed this to happen in the first place?

Sighing softly, the young man knew that he to trust them. They knew what they were doing after all, they were adults. Not children who didn't know any better.

Looking at the sky, he whispered "Mother, Father, Miyoko, what would you think of me now if you saw me? Would you have been happy with the live that I have lived thus far?" He wondered what they would have thought about him now. Him, being a vampire of all things. Sure, he's never once killed a human while he fed but, even then this was not a life that he would recommend for anyone.

Sighing softly, the young man frowned as he looked up at Inko's apartment and had a small smile on his face before he started to make his way up the stairs of the building. Shaking the water from his clothes and his hair, Toshinori checked to see if the door was still broken.

"No surprise." He muttered before shaking his head and walking inside the building up to Inko's floor. Looking up, he saw that the floors were soaked as well, yet he found no trace of a leaking ceiling. "Must be the people who live in the building." He whispered before shaking his head and making his way up to her apartment.

Making it to her apartment, Toshinori sighed softly as he knocked on the door. The sound of Inko's voice reached his sharp hearing as she said "Oh moment!" He wanted to smile, it had felt like ages since he's heard her voice but knew that it had maybe only been a couple days at best. Though, he wished that he had kept some spare clothes around here. He was still dripping wet, and he hated the fact that he was standing in the hall of her building leaving water everywhere.

The door soon opened, though when she looked up at Toshinori she just stared at him with wide eyes. "Toshi?"

"I'm sorry to intrude on you Inko but… uh… I need to talk to you."

Inko looked scared for a moment. He wasn't sure what that was, did he think that he was gonna leave her? "About what?" Inko asked softly, grabbing onto her elbow in a nervous way.

"It isn't anything bad… at least I'm sure it isn't." Toshinori whispered softly before leaning closer to her. "I can assure you about one thing though, I'm not leaving you. Come on, after everything we've been through, do you think I'd just up and leave you?" He gave her a soft smile before kissing her cheek hoping that would assure her.

Inko nodded as she walked into her apartment with Toshinori behind her. She gazed up at him over her shoulder with a frown on her face. "You should get out of those clothes… I don't have much for you to change into but a towel but, I hope that will do until the dryer can dry your clothes?"

"I'll keep my boxers on, may as well have something on right?" He chuckled a little before giving her a soft smile. "Then again, it isn't like it isn't something you've not seen before right?" Inko blushed at that and playfully slapped his arm causing him to chuckle. Hm, now that he got a better look at Inko he saw that she was wearing a baggier shirt than usual. Odd, it wasn't that she didn't look good in it but, it was strange.

"Inko, why are you dressed like that?" Asked the blonde with confusion in his voice.

Inko looked up at him like a deer in headlights before looking away. "Uh, no reason?" She was lying to him again, but why? What could this be that she would have to lie to him about it? Making his way over to her and gave her a small frown. "Anyway, strip down and I'll at least put your shirt and pants in the dryer, your jacket we'll have to hang to dry."

Toshinori nodded his head a little before smiling a little at the green haired woman. Shedding his jacket, the young man turned to look at Inko as he saw that she was looking at the time, her green gaze would shift back and forth between him and the clock. What was she doing? Was she expecting something? Frowning a little, Toshinori shed off his shirt and pants before handing them to Inko, leaving him in his boxers. "So, what brought you down here Toshi?" asked Inko.

"Uh… I was out and about, needing to cool my head. I found myself outside your apartment." He whispered, not really giving the full truth…

"Oh, alright." Inko said with a small smile on her face before walking off out of the apartment. In a way, he wanted to follow her but there was no way that he was going to wander around in his boxers. Screw that, it was weird enough to walk around Inko's apartment with Inko and him alone.

Gulping a little, the young man looked around her apartment, trying to get a real feel for her place. It just made him curious that at some point there was another man living here but now? IT seemed that every single trace of him was gone. Toshinori wanted to snarl a bit thinking that at some point another man was here with Inko. Yet, he held himself back and he knew that he couldn't allow that to happen. He mustn't ever lose control like that in front of her.

"Toshi I'm back." Inko said with a smile on her face, he looked back at her and smiled a little bit back at her. For some reason, Toshinori thought that Inko seemed as if she was… well, glowing. "You okay?" She asked with a tilt of her head.

"Yeah sorry, it's just that… well, it just seems like you have this glow about you. I like it, you seem even more beautiful than I thought possible." He scratched at his cheek nervously, trying to think that he had said something that didn't make him look like a fool.

Inko blushed, maybe he said the right thing to her after all. He smiled a little, maybe this was something that he needed after all. All of the research that Shouta had dumped onto him and Inko was enough to make them both crazy from everything that was happening. Yet, he knew that he still had one other thing on his mind that had been bothering him for days. Maybe weeks now, he doesn't know he's lost track at this point.

"Inko, I need to talk to you."

"About what?" asked Inko before she sat down on the couch, hunched forward a little. Hm, that confused him as well. Inko hated sitting like that. Saying something that it would ruin your posture. She started to shift side to side as she sat here, as if in her own world and, maybe she had been hoping that he would have forgotten what it was that he wanted to talk to her about.

"About this secret that you are hiding from me. I know Shouta knows but you both won't tell me what it is. Why won't you tell me? I know Shouta promised me that it wouldn't hurt the either of us but, I can't help but be worried. I'm scared Inko, scared that whatever this secret is, that it may take you away from me!" Toshinori stared at Inko with wide eyes, eyes filled with so much fear that his words could be true. That the chance of losing Inko would be too great and he feared that she would be out of his grasp forever.

Inko looked up at Toshinori with wide eyes, her own green pools filling with tears as she gazed at him. What? Did he say something that upset her? "Inko?" He whispered gently, wanting to make sure that she was okay. This had to be something that they both could handle together. Whatever it is, he knew that he had to be careful.

Gulping a bit, he took a careful step towards her as he asked "Inko, what happened? What are you keeping from me?" He wanted to know, god did he want to know more than anything in this world about what this so called secret was.

"Toshi, I'm scared that you won't believe me. That you wouldn't think no matter what I say that you would only think I lied to you." Toshinori frowned a little at this. Why would she think that he wouldn't believe her? What reason could she ever have to lie about anything with him? Not to mention, he knew that if he wanted too that he could just have a sip of her blood and see her memories if he had too.

Scratching the back of his head, the young man sat down next to the love of his life as he asked "What is it? What makes you think that I wouldn't believe you?" He tilted his head at her, a frown narrowing his face.

Inko turned as she set her gaze at him for a moment before she let out a soft sigh. "Wait here." With that, she pushed herself up and started to make her way over to the bathroom. What could be in there that she would need to show him that she spoke the truth? Or, was it that she just had to use the bathroom? No, that wasn't the case, she would have shut it. Ugh, he was starting to over think this.

Soon, Inko walked out of the bathroom as she gazed at Toshinori only to look away as she tried to collect herself. Once she joined him on the couch, Inko fumbled with a little item in her hand for a moment before looking up at the blonde vampire next to her. "Toshi I… I had noticed something odd with me lately and I thought maybe it was nothing. I told Shouta, since he was with me and saw that I was panicking and scared. I wanted to be the one to tell you this once I figured it out but, I was scared that you would leave me as it just seems impossible."

"Inko?"

"So, I listened to his advice after hitting him with a shampoo bottle and a hair straightening brush." Oh, so that was why Shouta had those bruises on his head. "I took so many tests to make sure and… this is the last one and they were all positive and this one is too and I was just trying to find a way to tell you, on how to tell you, when to tell you and I was just so scared that you'd leave me-"

"Inko breathe!" Toshinori said when he saw that her panic was making her speak so quickly so fast that it feared she'd black out from lack of oxygen. She looked up at him with a frown on her face as Toshinori placed a gentle hand on her shoulder. He gave her a look of concern as he asked "What is it that you are even talking about Inko? What could it be that it had you so scared that I would leave you?"

Inko sighed softly before standing up as she looked at Toshinori, if it wasn't for his height, he would have been looking up at her but he still was a few inches taller than her. Staring at him, her green eyes seemed rather uncertain, but Toshinori knew that this was something that they both had to go through together. Even though the blonde had no idea what it was that was wrong with her in the first place.

Taking a deep breath, Inko closed her eyes for a brief moment before opening them. "I'm pregnant." Toshinori blinked a little at her before reaching up and digging a finger in his ear hoping to clear out any kind of blockage that was there. Because there was no way that he could have heard her right. "Toshi?"

"Sorry, but I think I heard wrong Inko." Toshinori said with a frown on his face as he tried to think clearly. He had a sinking feeling in his stomach that this couldn't be right, that this was nothing but some kind of ruse to make him think otherwise, but her face said something completely different altogether.

Inko frowned a little at the man before her. Toshinori let out a soft sigh as he gazed up at her and leaned back on his seat a little as he just stared at the green haired woman. "Can you say that again Inko? Please, just so I know for sure if I had, or hadn't heard you right."

The young woman just groaned before holding up the item that was in her hand as she said "If you don't believe my words than believe this." She dropped the item when Toshinori held out his hand and gazed at the item in question. It was a simple long pink stick with a blue plus on the little screen. He frowned, having heard about how women had tests to tell if they were expecting a child or not but why would Inko hand him something such as this in the first place?

That would indicate that she was… expecting a child of her own. But that can't be possible, he knew that she's never been with another man. He had seen her memories when he drank from her so how could it be that she is pregnant?! Looking up with wide eyes, he couldn't help but stare at the woman with his lips parting in shock.

"I took so many tests to be sure, I was scared about what you would think of me. Thinking that I… I cheated on you." Inko whispered, tears pooling in her eyes more, refusing to spill down her cheeks. Toshinori even felt the tears building up in his own eyes, knowing very well that they weren't his, but hers. The fear was something that he could feel from within her and it made him want to reach out to her.

Sniffling, Inko looked up at the man that held her heart and she feared that her next sentence would either break her heart or make her the happiest woman in the world but, Toshinori wasn't sure if it was really true or not. Yet, a part of him knew that this was anything but a lie. "I tried so hard to find a way to tell you, to make sure that you knew that I wasn't lying to you but no matter what I always came up empty handed and… I knew that you wouldn't have believed me unless uh…"

"Inko, there is no way that you can be pregnant. I'm a vampire after all, I'm the living dead who feeds on blood to survive. There is no way in hell that I could ever get you pregnant." Toshinori said with a frown, he knew that he had to stop her, after all he had heard tales where there was false positives on tests… right? That had to be the case here, they were all just, oddly false positives is all.

Inko frowned a little at the man before sighed softly. Lifting up her shirt a bit, Toshinori frowned as he looked down and felt his eyes nearly bulging out of his skull. There was Inko alright, but what was new was the fact that her stomach was rounder, not very noticeable unless she kept wearing baggy shirts but it was there. How the hell hadn't he noticed this before?! "How… I… how is this?"

"Toshi?"

Before he knew what happened, Toshinori fainted.