The car ride from hell begins. Sebastien tries playing nice much to Suri's dismay. Bigger secrets are revealed and the limo ride gets a little too close to home.

"But I can't say I'm gonna be mad. Not when I'm with you, Izuku~"

Those few words turned Mina and Tooru vicious as they quickly pushed past Suri and Izuku and all but let out feral snarls as they glared at Toga and raised their hands with fists clenched. They were ready for a fight and had gone full on guard girlfriend mode from not only the blonde's presence but her reaction to seeing their boyfriend as well. Suri furrowed her brow in a full on scowl as she turned back and faced the three people now sitting behind her, the obvious culprits of whatever this was.

"What the fuck is going on?" Suri growled, narrowing her gaze at Alpha who looked the most uncomfortable out of the three. "Dad?"

"Mon cherie, why don't you have a seat and I will explain our additional guest," Sebastien spoke up, grinning and holding his hands up defensively. He was amused by the whole ordeal.

"I promise there's a good explanation, baby, just have a seat and hear us out," Maon added, trying to turn on that sweet motherly tone and calm her daughter down.

Suri glared at her mother and then turned her attention back on the changeling who was giggling and licking her lips. She didn't have a knife on her but that didn't change the fact that she had her hands up, looking like a feral cat that was about to pounce. Between the three girls, it would be one hell of a cat fight. But in this tight of a space? With an audience? And Izuku health and safety on the line?

"Babes," Suri said quickly and pointedly. That didn't seem to get through to them so she did the next best thing and hit their reset buttons by reaching forward and grabbing both of them from the back of the neck and pressing the pressure point just above the napes of their necks. It made both of them shudder and their breaths hitched, Tooru's eyes practically rolled in the back of her head from Suri's grip. "Mina. Tooru. Calm down for now, okay? If there's a fight later, go wild, but right now I'd rather not get flashbanged or have a moving car be melted in half."

"F-Fine," Tooru shuddered and cleared her throat, straightening herself and clicking the switch on her bracelet to activate her invisibility. Partly so no one could see her stare daggers into Toga, mostly so that no one noticed the heavy blush on her cheeks.

"But Suri," Mina whined and let out a hiss as Suri responded by squeezing tighter.

"Do not touch Izuku, and at least fucking try to get along with Tooru and Mina. Got it?" Suri commanded, turning her eyes up to lay them flat on Toga. She simply gave her a wry grin in response, one that said she wasn't going to play ball so Suri did something to make sure Toga heard her. She let out a thick, rolling growl that vibrated her throat and the air around her, making sure the blonde knew the danger she offered. "Do. You. Under. Stand?"

Toga flinched, her expression softening a little as she stared into Suri's eyes and saw the monster pacing just behind them. She was reminded of the one other time she'd seen a monster behind someone's eyes pacing back and forth. She would not let that incident happen again for as long as she lived.

"Yeah. Whatever," Toga sneered and looked away from everyone, tightly folding her arms over her chest and crossing her right leg over her left just as tight.

With a nod, Suri moved, taking a seat in the middle of the benches running down the side of the limousine. She made sure to put Izuku next to her on her left so that she was between him and Toga. Across from them Mina and Tooru took their seats with Mina putting herself closest to the blonde. She never took her eyes off of the blood user.

"Okay, now can you tell us what's going on?" Izuku spoke, trying to break the tension as his eyes were full of nerves and panic as he looked at his girlfriends and Toga. When he looked at the back of the limo he tried his best to look confident and put together. "Please."

"Put simply, mon garcon," Sebastien answered, acknowledging Izuku with a small nod. "This is part of a plea deal we and the police have offered Miss Toga."

"A plea deal!?" Tooru screeched. "She's a villain! She's murdered people!"

Suri flinched.

She couldn't help the knee jerk reaction and scolded herself for the way her body tightened and her fists clenched. She thought she'd gotten over this issue a long time ago but apparently there was still a part of her somewhere that said she was what Tooru said.

"You can't just let her get off that easily. Not after what she's done," Tooru continued.

"Tough talk from you. I hate people like you the most," Toga growled, flashing fangs full of spite at Tooru and Mina. "Little miss high and mighty because you didn't get a Quirk that made you into a freak."

"You think I don't know what that's like?" Mina choked with a humorless laugh as she glared harder at Toga. If that was even possible. "Please! Tell me how my elementary school life was."

"Please! Perky pinky princess!" Toga growled back and lunged forward at Mina.

The pinkette's and invisible girl's responses were much the same, screaming at Toga as they lunged for her as well. The high stress of the situation made everyone snap.

"Enough!"

Mina, Tooru, and Toga yelped and screeched as they were jerked backwards, slammed back into their seats and held there. The force was hard enough to keep them immobile but not crush or hurt them. When all three looked down they found black tendrils surging with green electricity all sprouting from Izuku's wrist. Tooru and Mina recognized Blackwhip, but Toga didn't and the sudden restraint and learning new about Izuku made her freeze. Though if Blackwhip wasn't enough, then seeing him with his eyes now matching Suri and Mina's was. This was the first time she'd seen the whites of his eyes now pitch black, making the green of his eyes stand out like an emerald star in the night sky.

She couldn't tell if it scared her or made him cuter even without being covered in blood.

"Mina. Tooru. I love that you two are that fast to defend Izuku but now is not the time. Okay?" Suri sighed, leveling her gaze at her girlfriends, making them look away and shrink in on themselves. She heard both of them offer a quiet apology before she turned her gaze towards Toga. "And you. We need to get along, at least for tonight, okay?"

Toga simply growled.

"We all had shitty experiences growing up. You, me, Izuku, Tooru, Mina, we all got bullied, we all got picked on and made fun of. All of us were made to feel like the bottom of the barrel. Especially you and Izuku," Suri stared at her hands in her lap as she spoke, emphasizing their commonalities rather than differences. When she mentioned Izuku she looked straight at Toga for her reaction.

Toga's stare, which had gone from angry and ready to fight to calm and relaxed. When she mentioned that she and Izuku were more similar than before, she got an almost starry look in her eyes.

"Truth is, I've only had my Quirk for about a year now. I'm a late bloomer and up until then everyone thought I was Quirkless. Every. Single. Day. My life was absolute hell," Izuku spoke, making sure he reminded Mina and Tooru of where he started before looking at Toga and making sure she understood the weight of his revelation. "You know how Quirkless people are treated, right?"

"Yeah," Toga snorted, going back to folding her arms and legs tight again. "Well I don't think it was worse than someone who needs blood."

"My best friend told me to take a swan dive off of the school's roof," Izuku replied with a blank stare right back at Toga.

A thought crossed her mind. One where she imagined she'd been in a lifetime where she'd never met Izuku and fallen in love with him. That same vision had her wondering what it would have been like if she'd met him sooner, long before her life as a caged bird made her snap.

"If I may, mon garcon," Sebastien spoke up, reminding everyone of the audience behind them. "I did not receive my power until later in life as well. I must commend you for how far you've come in such a short time."

"Agreed," Maon added, leaning forward to level her gaze with his. "And the level of control you're at now. You really have bonded with your power, haven't you?"

"Yeah," Izuku smiled, giving Maon a soft look of endearment, letting the beast behind his eyes make sure her old friend knew she would always be there. "Her guidance has been a lifesaver in so many ways. I don't think I would have the control I do or be as far along with it if it had just been me by myself to figure everything out."

"Y-You… So you really are one of them," Toga breathed out. When Izuku and Suri turned back to her, she looked almost… scared.

"Yeah. Sort of. It's a long story," Izuku sighed, rubbing the back of his head. "But that's where I've gotten lucky because with this and when my Quirk finally manifested, I had people in my corner. I had friends and a mentor to help me get through everything. And now I have our clan and the people I care for most helping me."

Toga was refusing to look at Izuku, something of panic beginning to take hold of her features. It made it so that she never saw what happened next coming. But neither did his girlfriends. Toga flinched and let out a choked gasp as she was touched and was instantly halted in her response to fight when she found the owner of that touch. Izuku had gotten up, moved past Suri, Mina, and Tooru and came directly to her, kneeling on the floor at her feet and taking her hands in his. The way he looked at her disarmed her immediately and for a few seconds she forgot how to breathe or that her heart should be beating. Gone were the black sclera as he looked up at her with his normal emerald eyes and a soft smile that held so much reassurance and hops inside of it. For some reason, she didn't know she'd wanted to be looked at or touched like this by Izuku, she'd always just wanted to see him covered in red.

Now though?

Something was different.

Something felt different.

"I didn't have a Quirk for most of my life so I became obsessed with them. I studied every Quirk I came across, dreamed about having it and what I would do with it. I still do that. I figure out all of the Quirk's weaknesses and how to take it down but more than that, I study how every single Quirk could be used as a hero. Including yours," Izuku confessed, smiling softly up at Toga as his thumbs idly ran slow circles over the backs of her palms.

Toga cringed and flinched. Her? A hero? She knew she was crazy, bat shit crazy even. But she'd never been crazy enough to think about that. Not when she'd needed a hero to come and save her from her parents, save her from the people at school, to save her from herself.

"Toga, I think your Quirk is amazing," Izuku beamed up at her, once again making her take a small retreat backwards in surprise.

Then she watched in a mix of shock and gentle confusion as Izuku began to go on one of his long winded mutter fests. It threw her off because she hadn't expected it in the least. She'd seen a small one of these back when she was infiltrating Shiketsu and took the place of that Camie girl for a week. But to have one here, now, and at her feet of all things made her really look at Izuku. Truly look at him. And still she was taken aback from just how many possibilities he'd come up with for her, having only seen her from afar this whole time. It was once again that she had the thought of all the what ifs. Especially, what if she had met Izuku years ago?

It made her recoil from how many times the word hero she heard spill from his mouth as he was talking about her Quirk. Her? A Hero?

Izuku stopped his rambling abruptly when he felt a hand on his shoulder squeeze him to bring him back to reality. Behind him he found Suri leaning over him, her hand on his shoulder while her eyes went back and forth between him and Toga. She watched as Toga tried her best to process the full weight of sincerity and hope his voice held and couldn't comprehend it. It looked like what Izuku saw as truth scared the hell out of her.

"I can see why you love him," Sebastien spoke up with a small chuckle. The group of teens turned to see the vampire smiling as he watched what was surely Grade A entertainment. "I do mean all of you, have you."

That remark made Toga shrink into herself, trying to hide the faint smile but failing horribly from the size of the blush on her cheeks. It and the blonde's reaction made Tooru and Mina let out small growls of disapproval.

"As I was saying before, Miss Toga will take a plea of her case in front of the Midnight Court. I wish to have you defend her, mon petit," Sebastien commented, his grin growing wider while he sat back and crossed one leg over the other to let his psalm rest on his knee. "She will be attending the gathering tonight under your watch and protection. Hence why I had Miss Nagamaki to ensure she brought the spare dress that you had purchased."

"What?!"

All five teens screamed their shock in unison. When they realized they'd answered at the same time Toga glared at Mina and Tooru while the two glared back at her. What followed was an exchange of the three of them saying practically the same thing trying to contradict each other again and again to no avail. Izuku furrowed his brow and looked down in confusion as he let himself get lost in the thought of something. He swore he'd caught something in Sebastien's words and retreated into his mind not only to think but to ask a certain leopardess for some advice and guidance.

"Sebastien," Suri roared, letting a ripple of power flood off of her skin as she stood up and marched toward the back of the limousine. The inside was just tall enough for her to do so without having to truly crouch. In defiance and anger she got to the back seat, slammed her foot down to the side of his legs and then leaned in with a deep, vicious glare. She'd also done something the vampire hadn't expected, she stared straight into his eyes, her power forming a shield that dared him to try and mind fuck her here and now. "I wanna know what the fuck you're thinking. I'm not some little pawn in your game. I'm not one of your servants and I sure as hell ain't one of your blood donors. Right mom?!"

Maon's clever smile slipped as her daughter's eyes fell on her. She'd been getting a kick out of the drama and was really wanting some popcorn as she marched toward the Master of Salt Lake but now? Now she suddenly found herself in the middle of the dumpster fire this car ride had become and didn't see a way out of it.

"When were you going to tell me?" Suri snarled, holding her arms wide open at the three adults. She then looked back and forth between her parents, watching them mentally retreat from her prying. "It was weird enough to have dad whip out his credit card but then smelling your blood on his lips? And all of this? What is going on?"

"Suri, sweety, we-"

"We're bonded," Alpha answered bluntly, his scowl deep like he was either ashamed of the entire situation or just at how it was coming to light. "Sebastien and I are in the process of finding a third partner to create a Trinity Pact."

Suri froze, eyes wide as she stared at her dad for a long moment. When he didn't move an inch, Suri was forced to take a deep breath and comb her hands through her hair in shock.

"After we handed the pack over to Mathias and Rossi, your father, us, we got some of our power drained. We knew it would happen, just not as much as it did," Maon began to explain, helping to take some of the focus off of her husband. "It wasn't going to be that big of an issue until we heard the rumors that Kenji had returned. And then we saw headline after headline of his former associates and business partners dropping like flies."

"I knew he was back and knew I didn't have anything left in the old tank to beat him so… we made a deal. It wasn't like Sebastien and I haven't worked together before, he's one of my best friends," Alpha continued.

"Your father came to me with a proposition. One that I had not considered in some forty years, mon cherie," Sebastien clarified, holding his hands up defensively and looking slightly remorseful at the situation. "I offered this partnership when he first came to take hold of the Aspen Throne Clan. He denied me. And then two months ago, he propositioned me instead."

"But since then, the two of them have not been able to find a suitable third for the pact," Maon added, putting focus back onto herself. "Eve, Alexis, and I have been stand-ins."

"A Trinity Pact though? Seriously?" Suri breathed out, groaning at just the thought of it.

"What is a Trinity Pact exactly?" Izuku asked curiously.

"A bond that is sacred among our communities, mon garcon. Some think it as a marriage of sorts which is technically not incorrect in its importance. It is a pact that binds three spirits to allow them the ability to share their power and expand it far beyond their reach alone. It allows us to think, feel, and share emotions without the bounds of the physical," Sebastien explained graciously, ignoring the twitch in Suri's lip. "How else do you explain your father healing his injuries without hunting in wolf form, mon cherie?"

"It also makes you more vulnerable," Suri growled and turned back to look at Izuku. "What he conveniently left out was the fact that, yes, you share feelings. But you feel more. Like, say one person in the triumvirate, oh I dunno, gets killed. What happens to the other two, dad?"

"They die," Toga answered, her tone narrow and even as she watched everything transpire.

"In very rare cases, mon cher petit chiot," Sebastien waved off and chuckled softly at his answer like it meant nothing.

"Stop it."

Suri clenched her firsts and gritted her teeth tightly. She and Atiena had had about enough of the games and the bullshit. There was no more playing around, no jokes, nothing. The truth was the only thing that would settle the building rage inside their shared mind and body.

"Stop lying," Atiena roared through Suri, turning the inside of the limousine into an oven with the amount of heat that came with the rage inside of her.

The last word came with a wave of power that hit the three adults like a truck and forced them back into their seats, flattening them with the weight of the energy. Suri's eyes were alight again with a golden green fire, her features shifting to less than human as she and Atiena combined and took on her beast woman form. Her claws and fangs were extended and a tail threatened to teach the back of her dress open as it forced its way from her lower spine. She hit the vampire and her parents with a concussive Wave of Domination and watched as the three of them tried to recover from a wave of this magnitude and this close.

Sebastien hummed with a hiss of pain, his lip curling in delight as he let it sink over him and then rolled his eyes up to look at Atiena as his eyes became engulfed in flames of their own. It was the same icy blue flames that he'd shown off when he got off the plane and he pushed himself forward so that he could rest his elbows on his knee. With that push, he let a small wave of vampiric power roll, the thick, icy touch of death slapping at Suri's wall of fiery will and lifeforce to push it away from him, Alpha, and Maon.

"Fine. So be it," Sebastien said plainly and let all of the humor in his expression die. He then leaned back and laid his arms across the back seat, nonchalantly having a hand over both of Suri's parent's shoulders. It made them look like they were his property. "I will have you quickly make our guest of honor look presentable. I will not allow her to be in such drab while in the presence of the parties I associate myself with."

With that, without even a word or command, Alpha lifted the bag he'd taken from Yumei and tossed it towards Suri, forcing her to quickly catch it. It took her off balance for only a second, the thing that took her off balance the most was how quickly Sebastien's attitude and demeanor had changed. This was his true self, the one that was a cold, all business, blood sucking master vampire that had survived the hell of over six hundred years of life.

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean," Toga sneered, narrowing her eyes at the vampire.

"I will have you know, petit chaton de sang," Sebastien narrowed his gaze deeper, and flicked his right index finger. The simple gesture pushed Toga back, forcing her roughly back into her seat and against the cushions. She was held down with an invisible force, making her breathing become more erratic and panicked as she was squeezed by something she couldn't see or fight back against. "My pity for you only knows such lengths. You are here on a whim of mine alone because I saw promise in another who dances in blood as I do. Do not take my gift of minute freedom so lightly or you will return to your restraints, you and your friend will be tossed into Tartarus and be forgotten to time much like the enemies of my youth."

"Stop. Please," Toga choked out, feeling an unseen weight bearing down on her more and more as he continued to speak.

She had to clench her eyes shut because when she opened them the inside of the limousine had been replaced by the inside of her childhood home. A multitude of demonic presences loomed over her making her cower deeper into the floor as the distorted visages of her parents, teachers, peers, friends, heroes, and villains looked down on her. All of them glared at her with blazing red eyes filled with hate, vitriol, and the wish that she'd never existed in the first place.

She was left sobbing and clutching herself in a tight fetal position.

The entire display left Izuku, Tooru, and Mina speechless, feeling helpless because they had no idea what was going on or how to stop it. With Toga reduced to a shell of herself, left sobbing and laying with her head buried inside the feeble protection of her arms and knees. All of the spite and vicious bickering that had been spent between the three girls was a distant memory now, replaced by letting Mina and Tooru get a glimpse of the Toga that had existed before she'd started killing people and joined the League of Villains. They saw the scared helpless girl that had spent nights hoping and praying for someone to save her.

Izuku saw a little of himself long before he met All Might or had the gift of One For All or knew the small piece of Izumi that resided inside him. He also saw a glimpse of what his girlfriends saw every time a night terror about Sir Nighteye sent him spiraling.

"That's enough. Just," Suri growled, having watched enough of Toga being reduced down to nothingness. Her fists clenched and flexed tightly before she let out a long sigh as grief took over, feeling like she'd betrayed Toga and let her be taken advantage of. "Just stop."

The hum of energy that was thrumming throughout the vehicle subsided, making everything go eerily quiet. The only sounds that were heard was the sound of the road beneath them outside of the limousine and the soft, pitiful sobs emanating from Toga. With no more vampiric energy flowing Suri humphed and turned her back on the three in the back of the car, turning to face Toga and go to her to try and comfort her somehow.

Izuku watched Suri's efforts, eventually getting help from Mina and Tooru who'd forgotten all about their squabble. Instead the three girls took turns trying to encourage Toga out, the first big hurdle just being to get her to try and sit up. His own anger flared in that moment, watching how helpless the blood user was. He forgot all of her crimes just as the girls had and now he just felt angry and enraged for her. He felt… like he needed to protect her.

Izumi crept forward in his mind, passing the visages of the past users of One For All and making her way through that long hallway in his mind until she came to hug him from behind. It was the same manner that he'd heard about and learned from the lycanthropes in his life. The same way Atiena embraced Suri, Pazuzu to Tadashi, Hinata to Aiko, and Kyu to Mai. When she wrapped herself around Izuku his eyes rolled to beast, making his eyes black and emerald once again, his ears tapering towards the top, and his fingernails lengthening into claws.

"I'll ask you to never do that again," Izuku spoke, his voice doubling as Izumi spoke with him and layering his voice with a low throaty growl. His aura wafted off him letting the combined power of One For All and Izumi flicker and spark off of his skin. He then directed that spiteful and violently protective gaze turn directly onto Sebastien, looking the vampire directly in the eye. He challenged the master vampire the same way Suri had and then had the balls to give one more request in a polite, gently rasped tone. "Please."

The vampire simply grinned with light amusement.

"As you wish, Successor," Sebastien answered in delight and began shaking his head with a return of his playfulness. "My my, mon petit, you picked yourself a fine king."

"Fucking vampires," was all Suri could mutter under her breath as she focused on the blonde girl in front of her.

Toga was finally sitting up and far removed from the manic girl that screamed danger every time you got too close to her. It didn't seem right to see her like this. Not to Suri. Not to Mina. Not to Tooru. And certainly not to Izuku.

It was taking a lot of effort to get Toga to sit her legs down so that she wasn't so balled up and reserved. None of Tooru and Mina's idle chatter was getting to her at all and with how soon Suri figured they'd be arriving at their destination, she needed to think of something. And fast. But what would get the blonde to open up? What would prove to her that she could trust Suri?

"You can trust us."

"Can I?" Toga quietly answered, rolling her eyes to look up at Tooru suspiciously. Her cold gaze said all it needed to make Tooru flinch and grumble under her breath. "How do I know you're not with them? That you're in on his plan?"

Suri thought of something just then.

"Are you vulnerable to bloodborne diseases?"

The sudden question made Toga pause, her brow furrowing at the sudden question. It made no sense why she'd ask that or what kind of relevance it had to anything going on. Frustrated, she looked up, tilting her head at Suri to make sure she'd heard the beast girl correctly and hadn't heard her ask the wrong question. The gaze on Suri's face told Toga that she hadn't misheard anything and that the beast girl had, in fact, asked a question about her Quirk. Toga simply shook her head and gave an incredulous look in return.

Suri nodded and pulled up her left arm and used her other hand to pull her armored mesh sleeves upwards before presenting the blonde with the inside of her wrist. All four teens flashed Suri a look that clearly asked what the fuck was she doing and whether she was crazy or not. No, Suri was not crazy. This was just the only idea she had and whether it was or not was still up for a very long and lengthy debate.

"Feed," Suri commanded simply.

Toga scoffed at Suri and gave her another very untrusting look.

"I know you sort of process lycanthropy without having to have a beast. I know cause I watched you do it with Izuku's blood," Suri commented. The revelation that she'd had Izuku's blood made the three next to her flinch in response. She'd forgotten to tell them. Whoops. "So go ahead, drink up."

"You think I'm stupid?" Toga questioned with a glare.

"No. I don't. Because you managed to slip through the cracks and not get caught for over a year. You study people to the point you can copy them move for move. And somehow you managed to sneak a silver spike off of a vampire and into your bra there," Suri motioned with her chin to the girl's chest where there was an ever so slight lump and the tiniest of glints of metal above her left breast.

"How did…"

"I've been able to smell silver for the past week almost. I'm guessing it's from another jump in power which means they should have been able to smell it too. They just didn't say anything," Suri turned her head and narrowed her eyes at the three adults on the back seat. "Personally, their dumb as fuck for trusting you with a blade but me? I think you trust me because you listened to me. You managed to grab the one thing that could keep you alive going into a den full of monsters."

Toga grumbled and her face sourced as Suri read her like an open book. Then Suri decided to say something that could possibly win the girl over and either embarrass the hell out of Izuku or really piss off Mina and Tooru. It would probably piss them off because it was the same thing she would do to them to make them melt and fold like a dollar store card table.

"Besides," Suri whispered, letting her voice fill with a sultry rasp as she lowered her tone and moved the exposed wrist towards Toga. She brushed her wrist along the underside of the blonde girl's chin and dragged it until her fingertips cupped Toga's chin and lifted it to make her look at Suri. When Toga looked up, she found a pair of golden green eyes sparkling with a hint of lust staring back at her and a set of full lips that were screaming that they wanted to be mashed into her own. The touch and the look Suri gave her made Toga shiver and have to swallow a painful lump that had suddenly formed out of nowhere. "You trust the ones you love and I'm pretty sure I heard you confess to me in that alley the other night."

Toga's eyes went wide as a slow realization came over her. She'd thought Suri was dead and had said what she said because there was no one else around to hear it. Sure she'd not been shy about confessing or talking about her love for Izuku and Ochako around the League but she hadn't yet vocalized this particular crush to anyone. Jin hadn't even heard her swoon over Suri yet. But now, in front of Izuku of all people, she'd had that secret revealed. And he… he didn't look mad about it at all.

Seeing Izuku give her a half smile as she looked past Suri for confirmation from him made a blush swell on her cheeks once again. The pain and anguish from being forcefully broken into submission by the vampire faded and her old self began to return slowly but surely. For some reason she then looked at Mina and Tooru, two girls that she felt like she wanted to stab a few minutes ago, who were giving her the same encouraging smile. It didn't make sense to her that those two would be okay with what she wanted to do, maybe Izuku just had that kind of sway with them. The same sway he had with her and the same with Suri.

She remembered a few months ago when she was on her own in between calls from the League and she wanted to keep an eye on the grenette. She remembered following him to a mall cafe, one of those cutesy ones where couples always got the milkshakes with two straws. She remembered wanting so badly to go there with him and wishing for a mix of blood and ice cream to share with him. She remembered seeing the pink one, Mina, with him and being jealous to the point she wanted to kill someone in broad daylight. It was watching them laugh that made her second guess that reaction and instinct to the point she just wanted to have Izuku, Ochako, or anyone to really look at her the way he did to her.

Now she was getting that look, the one she'd dreamed of, from him, Suri, and even these two girls she didn't really know. She hadn't cared to know them but maybe… just maybe…

Toga's hands were moving on their own as she looked up at the four teens in front of her. She didn't realize the instinct to feed had taken over her because she'd shoved it down for so long and replaced it with simple, blind bloodlust. Now there was a purpose behind her movements as she cupped Suri's forearm with both of her hands and dragged it from where she held Toga's chin to Toga softly dragging her lips and nose against the tender flesh on the inside of Suri's wrist. Her nose flooded with the scent of a mountain forest, cinnamon, and earth that made her feel relaxed and warm. She didn't even realize a soft moan had escaped her lips or that she had kissed the skin just above Suri's veins because her mind went hazy. Like she was drunk off of Suri's scent and the promise of her blood.

Toga only found clarity when she tasted a hot mixture of copper and vanilla on her tongue filling her mouth. The taste was incredible. The warmth she was feeling felt even more incredible as her body began surging with the tell tale signs of pleasure and delight as she drank her fill of blood. It was so much that she was about to let out a high pitched moan of pleasure when someone else beat her to the punch and it made her freeze.

Suri moaned.

Not only that, she'd practically laid Toga into her enough that when the blonde's eyes shifted to look at the beast girl she was treated to an eyeful of ample cleavage. When she checked her surroundings again she found that her mouth was latched onto Suri's forearm and that it was her blood that was dripping into Toga's mouth and down her chin. She found Suri had one knee on the bench seat she was sitting on and now had Toga pressed into her with her shoulder being tucked against Suri's abdomen. Suri meanwhile was breathing heavily, panting even, as her body twitched and shivered each time Toga's fangs pressed and tugged at her skin. With how she leaned over, Toga could feel Suri's breath come out as a hot mist of eager desire on the top of her head and she could have sworn that Suri had leaned down and breathed her in, getting another groan of need out of the girl above her.

When Toga tentatively suckled Suri's wrist, taking one last swig of the crimson fluid, Suri hissed and let out another pleasure filled moan before practically collapsing on top of her. Toga blinked in shock and a little embarrassment as she felt Suri lay into her, and felt the girl's right hand clutch her tighter. Toga swallowed, happy to cap off her fill of Suri's blood but equally shocked that the beast girl would be on the edge of climax - in front of her girlfriends and boyfriend - from something as simple as that.

"Fucking hell," Suri groaned, letting a lazy grin curl over her lips while she pressed her forehead to Toga's. She couldn't help but giggle when she saw the look on Toga's face when she finally opened her eyes. "I may have forgotten how much I love being bitten."

"And scratched," Mina snorted as she shook her head.

"And choked," Tooru added with a cheeky grin before sticking her tongue out at Suri.

"Girls, we can spill the kinks another time," Suri sighed as she tried straightening herself back up so that Toga and her could make proper eye contact. Which meant she had to quickly correct her expression because her face was telling Toga that Suri wanted to fuck the hell out of her right about now. She quickly cleared her throat and gave Toga a stern look. "There, if I trust you enough to do that? Then why shouldn't you trust me?"

Toga and Suri stared at each other for a long silent moment as their eyes watched each other for any uncertainty in each other. In the end, Toga remembered the night that she and Jin were attacked and how Suri let her go after helping calm Jin down. She'd saved her best friend that night from himself. Then two nights ago when she'd saved her and Jin from that asshole of a weretiger, King Saber. It had made her help in the fight, something she couldn't explain because she felt like her body moved on its own. Now she couldn't remember if she owed Suri or if it was that Suri owed her.

Did it even matter anymore?

And she definitely wanted to move on from staring at Suri because she was feeling very uneasy from the way her heart kept skipping. That and she couldn't stop the damn blush on her cheeks from forming.

"Fine. You win," Toga grumbled and brought her wrist up to clean her chin of the blood running down it.

"Okay," Suri answered with a nod. She then reached back and took the package from Izuku, barely remembering that she'd handed it to him when she thought to offer Toga her blood. It wasn't a great sign that her memory of the last couple minutes were really fuzzy. "Let's get those clothes off of you and get you into this thing. Mina, Tooru, do you two have any makeup we can use and get her done up?"

"Yeah, I've got some here," Mina answered, pulling open the coin purse that she'd had hanging from her own wrist. She then retrieved a small case containing a few swatches of eyeshadow and then a bottle of black eyeliner along with it.

"So what's going to happen? Is there anything we should be prepared for?" Izuku asked, turning himself so that he put himself between Suri and the girls and the vampire and werewolf at the back of the vehicle. Suri was also incredibly grateful for him thinking to take charge so that she and the girls could focus on the Toga. "I don't know much about vampire society but I haven't really asked about it either."

"Of course, mon garcon," Sebastien nodded, letting a little of his previous demeanor return so that he didn't come off as a complete asshole anymore. "If the night proceeds as what would be typical we shall hold a tribunal in front of representatives of all high councils. This is especially true because of King Saber all but declaring war on all of the councils and all of vampire kind. He wanted to upset the balance we and the high elves have established for centuries to ensure the human race didn't annihilate itself eons ago."

Izuku let Sebastien's words sink in as he offered up his explanation. The gears in his head were turning as he thought about the whole concept that two non-human races had apparently been the only reason humans were even still a thing at all. The gears managed to freeze though because, as he processed the information, he'd looked back at his girlfriends to see if they were understanding what they were hearing as well. He looked back just in time to see Mina folding the button up shirt that went to Toga's schoolgirl uniform while the blonde in question was finishing unfastening her bra and pulling it off of her form. He'd gotten an eyeful, a far better and clearer view than what he'd seen during the Provision Licensing Exam.

Moreover, Toga froze at the same time when their eyes met.

Toga's blush deepened even further than either of them thought was humanly possible. She'd flinched and covered herself briefly but then her eyes went from Izuku to Suri, Tooru, and Mina who simply shrugged. Izuku had been with seven different girls including the three of them a dozen times over. And in at least two of those occasions he hadn't been the only guy involved. For them to get mad, jealous, or make a big deal out of something as tame as this? It just didn't make sense to freak out.

So Toga did it for them.

"You can look… I-If you want to," the blonde declared, being uncomfortable at just how shy she felt like being. That's not who she was. But this was Izuku! This was the guy she was madly in love with, the guy she wanted to drink down the most. And if he'd seen the three girls next to him then she wanted him to look at her like that too. "I don't mind, Izuku."

Saying his name, giving him permission for that chance, and the fact that she watched his eyes linger on her for what seemed like an eternity? God did it make her heart and core burn something fierce. The desire for him himself was replacing the desire for just his blood and that was something Toga didn't know the first thing about how to comprehend. Instead she took that thought and compartmentalized it for later.

Much later.

"So how does this tribunal work?" Izuku asked, trying to force his mind back onto the topic at hand. It forced him to pause his mind from memorizing and analyzing every inch of Toga's form as well. Something he too compartmentalized for later. "You mentioned she would be making a plea deal for her case?"

"Ah, yes," Sebastien nodded and waved his hand idly. "We will be walking into a courtroom as it were. He will likely try to justify himself, no doubt. It is the only thing he can do as the sole defendant against a forceful team of prosecutors. Miss Toga here will be a key witness in disclosing his operations here in Japan."

"Though we do have concerns," Alpha added, folding his arms with a deep sigh. "She's a great resource to learn from when it comes to finding out how far deep the influence of All For One, King Saber, and the League of Villains run. We're prepared to work with her further if tonight goes well. But…"

Alpha and Sebastien looked at each other and then back to Izuku and Toga just beyond him. Izuku didn't like the look of worry in their eyes. That was never a good sign.

"Her testimony is not the problem, I'm afraid," Sebastien sighed, furrowing his brow. "The problem with our petit chaton de sang here is that her very being present will have unforeseen consequences I'm afraid. It will make it so that Kenji Mutekabe will not be the only person on trial in front of the high council tribunal."

"What do you mean?" Izuku asked curiously, his brow furrowing in confusion.

"Suri…"

Izuku paused his thoughts. He had to because the sound in Tooru's voice was something he didn't like at all with how much fear and dread it carried with it. He hated hearing Tooru - or anyone for that matter - scared and feeling helpless. That's the kind of dread her voice held and it was all but confirmed when he turned around and saw the look in her eyes.

He then watched that same look of dread and fear fill Mina's eyes as she leaned around Toga to see what Tooru saw. And then he looked over to see Suri nearly falling back into the chair with the same look of dread in her eyes, but also an insurmountable amount of fear. She'd seen a ghost and he knew the ghosts that haunted her were nightmares sent from the lowest depths of hell itself.

While Izuku had been talking to Sebastien and focusing on the vampire, the girls were deep into working on Toga. They'd stripped her down to her underwear and helped strip away some of her nervousness and shyness with gracious compliments about her and laying on some flirty teasing to boot. They weren't lying either. Suri had the easiest time overlooking Toga's past and just enjoying the view of the hot blonde girl in front of her. Since Suri was okay and pressed past that hurdle Mina and Tooru followed, helping the girl in front of them gain quite a bit of confidence. The blonde had gotten cozy if not for the sad thought about wishing these three had been in her life so much fucking sooner. Mina had settled into doing Toga's makeup, dusting her eyes and applying a light salmon pink colored lip gloss and eyeshadow. She joked with Toga that, thanks to her being topless at that moment, allowed the pinkette choose a perfect color for the blonde. Toga couldn't help but giggle at the notion that if you wanted to find the right shade of lipstick you just had to look at your nipples. Low and behold, it worked. While Mina was doing Toga's makeup, Suri was busy with the blonde's hair and had run into a massive dilemma. She'd undone the tight dual buns to take them out and redo them so she could make them a little neater and tighter than the blonde usually had them. That was when she saw Toga with her hair down for the first time and it took her breath away. Cause fuck did the girl look amazing with her hair down.

It had been enough of a distraction that it made Tooru have to pause pulling the wine red dress up over Toga's hips and marvel at the sight as well. They'd both agreed that they really wanted to see Toga have her hair down for the night. It helped because they informed Toga that she wouldn't be the only one with them wearing her hair down and different than usual. And then that was when Tooru froze and her breath hitched as her eyes drifted down Toga's hair to her bare back.

"What's happened? Is something…"

Izuku came to his three girlfriends, seeing Toga's eyes become dreary and suddenly not wanting to look at anyone. He came to Suri's side as he found himself needing to see what the three girls saw and why it had affected Suri and Toga so much. It didn't take long for him to find his answer. Part of him hated that he couldn't marvel at Toga wearing her hair down and having an ample curtain of bright blonde that screamed to have his fingers run through it. He hated that he couldn't do it at that moment. He hated, even more, the fact that the end of her hair framed something he wished he'd never seen.

Again.

"Honey, I am so sorry," Mina said sadly, trying to break the tension and straightening herself up so that she could look into Toga's eyes. The blonde found remorse and understanding that she didn't think was possible. The gentle care in her voice helped Toga to look at her but it also threatened to make the blonde cry.

"I'm guessing you've seen it before?" Toga asked cautiously.

"Yeah," Izuku growled angrily. Three of the four girls turned slowly to see a rage that they'd never seen out of him before. It almost scared them to see the look of absolute hate and disgust in his eyes. "Yeah, we have."

"Girls, mon garcon, what is the matter?" Sebastien asked, his brows turned down as he tried to decipher what could possibly have made Izuku this angry and Suri terrified.

"Suri? What's wrong?" Maon asked, hoping her voice would get through and shake her daughter out of the haze she was in. "What do you see?"

"I'm guessing tonight just got more complicated, didn't it?" Toga dared to ask. Daring even more to try and add a little light sarcasm into her tone to lift the mood.

"She's been branded," Suri breathed out and then, like Izuku, her anger and rage took over. The heat of it began boiling and turned the inside of the vehicle into a sweltering oven, begging to bake and cook everyone alive around her. "By her."

Suri's eyes glared a hole into Toga's back, particularly one familiar spot on the girl's right shoulder blade. It was something she'd seen before and had now witnessed different variations of this shit in the past week. The thought of marking and branding a person like they were property like this made Suri burn like an inferno with rage. What stoke the fire higher was the fact that this mark made Toga part of a matching set and fuck it all if she didn't happene to have almost the same color of hair as the person who matched her.

Because yes, absolutely, she did have a matching scar the exact same size and in the exact same place as Katsuki. It was the exact same astrological symbol carved out of her flesh by hand - or in this case, claw - in a janky fashion. Because the woman didn't know the first meaning of the words gentle or care.

On the center of Toga's right shoulder blade, carved out and scarred over was the same symbol gouged out of Bakugou's own right shoulder. It marked them both as the pseudo property of a sadistic bitch of a werehyena and serial killer; Gemini.

Yeah.

Tonight had just become a fuck ton more complicated.