Chapter 7: When We Were Young.
A/N: Bold text is someone speaking in English.
*28 YEARS AGO*
Today is the day...The first day at your new school in Musutafu, Japan. You quickly shower then get dressed in your school uniform. You grab your book bag before rushing out of your room and down the stairs.
You can hear a loud ruckus coming from the kitchen where, no doubt, your father is cooking breakfast for your large family. You start heading for the front door calling out, "See ya, Pops! I'm heading to school!"
A booming loud voice replies, "Oh, no, you don't brat! Get in here and eat some breakfast first!"
You sigh, but stop and head into the kitchen. Even though the kitchen is extremely large it is still crowded, what with your 3 older brothers sitting at the huge marble table fighting over food, and Pops himself. Your father is a giant of a man; easily 12 feet tall and extremely muscular. His black hair is slowly turning snow white with age along with his crescent shaped mustache. He is definitely a man that any sane person wouldn't want to mess with.
You quickly make your way to a cupboard and grab a package of poptarts. "I've got breakfast covered, Pops! I wanna get to school early and make some new friends!"
Your father turns around to face you and points the spatula, which looks ridiculously small in his hand, at you. "You have the rest of the day to make friends. Now sit down and have breakfast with your family."
You sigh, but put the poptarts back and sit down at the table between your oldest brother, Vista, and your second oldest brother, Marco. Vista is 15, tall, with curly black hair and is attending U.A. starting this year. Marco is 12 with blonde hair that makes him look like a pineapple and a permanent bored expression on his face. "Hey, Mighty Mouse," Marco greets you while messing up your hair.
You huff at the nickname, "Very funny, Pineapple."
After eating breakfast with Pops, Vista, Marco, and Thatch; whose pompadour hairstyle always makes you smile and giggle; you take off running out of the door with Marco and Thatch following behind you at a more leisurely pace. "Oi! Slow down, Mighty Mouse!" Marco yells at you. You turn around, walking backwards, and stick your tongue out at him. "Watch where you're going!"
"Huh? Why?" But your question is answered a second later when you walk into someone. Both of you tumble to the ground in a tangle of limbs. "I'm so sorry!" You apologize while untangling yourself from the stranger while your brothers laugh at your situation. Once you are free you stand up and offer your hand to the person you ran into. "I wasn't looking where I was going, I'm sorry. Are you okay?"
The person that you ran into is a boy the same age as you with wild, bright blonde hair with two long pieces hanging down in his face, and the most beautiful blue eyes. "I'm okay. I wasn't paying attention either so there's no need for apologies." He takes your hand and you easily lift him up, his feet not touching the ground. "Whoa!" The boy cries out in surprise at your strength.
You place him down on his feet then let go of his hand, "Heh, sorry. My quirk is super strength and sometimes I can't fully control the amount of strength that I use." You rub the back of your head with your right hand before holding it out for the boy to shake. "My name's (L/N) (F/N), but you can just call me (F/N)."
He takes your hand in his and shakes it, "I'm Yagi Toshinori. You can call me Toshinori though. It's nice that meet you, (F/N)-san."
"It's nice to meet you too, Toshinori. I like your hair. Coincidentally, sunflowers are my favorite flowers." Toshinori blushes slightly at your compliment. You point over at your brothers, "The laughing hyenas over there are my older brothers, Marco and Thatch." You give Toshinori a huge grin, "We just moved to Japan from America."
Toshinori's face lights up in excitement, "Really?! I love America! I want to go there after I graduate from high school."
Marco and Thatch walk up beside the two of you, "Let's go Mighty Mouse or we're going to be late for school."
You blush at the nickname, "Maaarrrcooo," you whine, "don't call me that in front of my new friend!" You notice that Toshinori is wearing the same school uniform as Marco and Thatch: black slacks, a white dress shirt, a blue tie, and black jacket. You're wearing pretty much the same uniform except instead of wearing slacks you're wearing a black skirt. "Hey, do you go to Alderra too?"
Toshinori nods, "Yes."
"Would you like to walk with us?"
"Sure!" Toshinori happily replies. You and Toshinori walk side by side while Marco and Thatch follow behind you. "I've always wanted siblings. How many do you have?" Toshinori asks you.
"You can have one of mine."
"Oi! What did Pops say about trying to sell us?" Marco teases.
"Technically, I'm not selling you...I'm giving you away free of charge." Everyone bursts out laughing. Once the laughter stops, you tell Toshinori, "So far, I have three older brothers."
Toshinori looks confused, "So far?"
You nod, "Yeah. Pops likes to adopt stray kids."
"That's really kind of him."
"Pops' heart is as big as he is," Marco says.
"Tell me more about your brothers, (F/N)-san."
"Well, Vista is the oldest, he's 15 and attending U.A. this year."
"Really!? What's his quirk?!" Toshinori blurts out then blushes in embarrassment, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be rude."
You giggle, "That's okay, Toshi. Vista's quirk is called Flower Blade. He can create swords and knives out of flowers."
"That's so cool!" Toshinori shouts in excitement.
His excitement is contagious and soon you're bouncing from foot to foot in your own excitement. "Not as cool as Marco's though! He can turn into a phoenix made of blue fire!"
"Really?!" Toshinori looks over his shoulder at the other blonde. Marco let's a small tendril of blue fire surround his hand. "Cool! What about your quirk, (F/N)-san?"
You rub the back of your neck, "Well, I inherited my quirk from Pops. It's called Tremor. Pops says with a whole lot of training that I'll be able to cause earthquakes with a single punch just like him."
"E-earthquakes?!" Toshinori says shocked.
"Yep! But it will take years and years and years of training. But until I learn how to control the amount of power that I use I have to wear this," you lift the right sleeve of your school jacket showing Toshinori the large silver bracer on your forearm.
He grabs your arm and brings it closer to his face to examine the bracer better. "What is it?"
"It's an experimental quirk restraining bracer. It doesn't fully suppress my quirk, but it keeps it to where I don't accidentally hurt someone."
"Wow...you're that strong?" Toshinori asks, his eyes sparkling in amazement.
Marco chuckles, "We don't just call her Mighty Mouse because she's small."
You turn around and stick your tongue out at him, "Butthole." You turn back around to continue your conversation with your new friend. "What about you Toshi? Do you have a quirk?"
Toshinori's face turns slightly red and he looks extremely sad. "No...I'm, uh, I'm, uh..."
"It's alright, Toshi. We don't care if you don't have a quirk. As a matter of fact, Thatch is quirkless too."
"Really?" Toshinori looks over his shoulder at the boy with the weird hairstyle.
"Yep. Here's a little word of advice, Toshinori-san: never let being quirkless get ya down. All that being quirkless means is that we have to work slightly harder than everyone else."
As it turns out, you and Toshinori are in almost all of the same classes. There's only 2 classes that you don't have together. You ask Toshinori if he wants to come over to your house after school, but he says he'll have to call his parents and make sure that it's okay. He calls them at lunch from the phone in the office of the school and they say that it's okay as long as he's home by 6.
So after school you, Toshinori, Marco, and Thatch all walk to your house together. Your house is absolutely huge; it has to be because of your father. It's three stories high with extremely large doors and windows. Toshinori's mouth falls open slightly, "Wow! Your house is so big!"
You grab Toshinori's hand and begin to drag him towards the front door. "Come on! You gotta meet Pops!"
You pull him all the way inside and you yell out, "POPS! WE'RE HOME! WHERE ARE YOU, OLD MAN!"
"I'M IN MY OFFICE, BRAT!"
You lead Toshinori through the huge living room; which has a big screen TV and the latest video game systems; and down a long hallway. You stop by the first door on the right and motion to it, "If you ever need to use the bathroom, this is the guest bathroom." You then continue to drag him down the hall until you reach a door at the very end. You knock on the door and the deep masculine voice of your father tells you to enter. You open the large oak door and walk inside dragging Toshinori behind you. Your father's office is twice the size of the living room, which is nearly the size of a small studio apartment. There are floor to ceiling bookshelves covering the wall opposite of the door and every shelf is full of large, old books. Multiple polished oak shelves run along the left wall and all sorts of different and unique objects that your father has collected from all over the world rest on top of them. Large bay windows make up the right wall and look out upon the immense back yard. Sitting behind a enormous oak desk is your father. "Hey, Pops! This is my new friend Toshinori!" You say happily and your father looks up at you and Toshinori.
Your father stands up behind his desk and Toshinori's mouth drops open. "Wow! You're the biggest man that I've ever seen!" Toshinori blurts out and his face immediately goes red in embarrassment. He bows and says, "I'm so sorry, sir. I didn't mean to be rude."
"Gurararara! It's fine, brat. I get that reaction a lot. My name is Edward." Your father sits back down behind his desk, "Now why don't you two go outside and play? I have important paperwork to do."
"Okay!" You grab Toshinori's hand and start to lead him out of the room. "Come on, Toshi! We can play Heroes and Villains! You can be the hero first."
"O-okay! But you can't use your quirk." The adorable blonde boy replies following closely behind you.