(Authors note: I've decided to completely rewrite this story, I've made a lot of different decisions to the plot and learned more about the m.h.a universe and decided that I could do better.)

Zuko todoroki was reborn on the coldest day of december to Rei and Enji todoroki. Their third child is so different from the rest of his siblings with dark black hair and golden eyes.

"A mutation." Enji muses as he holds him in his hand, hoping that this child would be his perfect creation, the fruit of his quirk marriage .

"He's beautiful." Rei tells her husband.

"He is." He agrees. Knowing the wait to see if he had succeeded would be torture.


Rei brings zuko home shortly after the birth introducing him to his elder siblings natsuo age 3 ,fumi aged 7 ,and touya todoroki aged 9. Shoto is born a little over a year later.

She raises Them almost alone, Endeavour checking in on him after the age of three hoping to see his quirk develop but spending most of his time between training Touya and being a pro hero. And then at the age of three everything changes. Zuko falls asleep and his memories return to him, 19 years worth of memories come flooding back to him in a moment and he wakes up screaming tears running down his cheeks. He wouldn't know it but this is the night that Azula is reborn into this new world too.

At the age of 6 zuko can see the changes in touya the anger in his eyes whenever enji isn't looking at him, it reminds him so much of himself and so much of azula.

"Touya?" He calls peeking his head into the training room to see Touya throwing blue flames at the wall, the skin on his hands bright red and bubbling.

"Stop it." he yells, running in and extinguishing the flames, Touya's eyes widening in surprise.

"What are you doing!?" Zuko yells at him.

"Training." touya says, sitting down on the floor as zuko drags the burn kit off of the wall and over to him.

"You got your quirk?" touya asks, ignoring his burnt hands.

"I got my quirk at four." the 7 year old tells him as he starts cleaning the burns.'

"What do you think you were doing."

"I told you training, so you can control fire too, why didn't you say anything."

"I didn't want him to know." he says and touya nods

"Well he's not here, show me what you got?" he says grinning at zuko who finishes bandaging the burns before standing and looking at the wall Touya had been practicing against earlier.

Throwing his hand out sending a blast of multi colored flames at it.a temperature reading flashing on the wall above it reading 3000 degrees. Dabi whistling at the temperature, his reading while pushing himself and burning his hands being about 4,000.

"That's a strong quirk zuko, do you want to be a hero?" dabi wonders and zuko doesn't answer.

"Shotos quirk came in a few months ago, were trying to hide it but i don't know what to do." he tells him and sees the horror in Dabis eyes,

"What is it?"

"Fire and ice, he's strong, I don't know what to do." He admits " Should I tell Father about my quirk and try to keep his attention?" he asks and toya grabs his shoulders forcing him to look him in the eyes.

"No! I'll take care of this zuko, please don't worry. Let your big brother handle this ok." he says and zuko can see in his blue eyes that he's sure he can save them.

"Ok, I trust you touya." The smile on his brother's face makes this almost worth it.


That was the last time he had seen his brother. Whatever had happened happened quickly before Zuko could stop it. The training room was scorched and Touya was gone, said to have burnt himself to ash. Endevor had found out about shotos' quirk and had begun training him. The loss of her son and her fear of what would be of her youngest had driven Their mother mad making her lash out and burn Shoto's face and zuko found it sick, to see history repeat itself on his brothers and he wonders if this is agnis punishment for him.

"Shoto." he asks, knocking on his door, seeing it open and Shoto poke his head out, his eye covered in bandages.

"Can I come in?" he asks and shoto nods opening the door for him, half of his face wrapped up in bandages and years younger than he had been.

"What's the doctor say?" he asks

"It will scar, but I'll be able to see."

"That's good, I heard that you've stopped using your quirk shoto, you know that's not healthy."

"I still use my ice, but i won't use his quirk." he tells zuko his voice filled with venom and zuko is reminded of his search for the avatar how in his darkest moment he had latched onto something and it had given him hope and he can't bring himself to break that hope when he needs it the most.

"Fine, i won't push you…" he trails off trying to think of how his uncle had helped him on his journey but quickly decides that asking his brother if he likes tea would come off as inconsiderate after what had happened.

"If you ever decide to use your fire I can help you don't need to go to our father." he could have told him the truth of his own quirk but he wasn't sure how he would react and he needed to be sure he could keep watch over him.

"I won't." he says sure in his decision

"But if you ever do shoto I'll be here ok?" shoto nods

"Ok zuko." shoto agrees trusting his brother and zuko smiles

"Great."


Zuko is twelve and not much has changed at home, but he could feel his inner flame growing stronger, meditation wasn't enough anymore he needs to firebend, when he was younger he could steal time n the training room but Endeavour had installed cameras in the hopes of catching shoto use his flames so he hadn't been able to firebend freely in years, so he had decided to look for alternative options finding a quirk based gym across town.

"Perfect." he says to himself, filling out the online forms and deciding he would go the next saturday to pay the monthly fees and get in some proper bending practice and the week passes quickly, leaving before everyone wakes up not wanting to be questioned by his siblings taking the train across town and following the map on his phone until he reaches the gym paying the fee with cash so Endeavour couldn't track him down and making his way into one of the empty training rooms writing his name on a sheet of paper locking the door behind him and stripping off his shoes and shirt and beginning to run through the basics, taking his uncles lessons to heart.


The sun rises and with it so does zuko now 17 years old. Today was his brother's first day at U.A so zuko woke up early.

Shoto wakes up to an alarm getting ready for his first day and walking downstairs to find a sight, zuko in an apron surrounded by what may be the biggest mess the Todoroki residence had ever seen.

"Were we robbed?" he deadpans.

"...Yes." zuko returns. Setting down a plate with slightly burnt eggs and toast.

"Did you cook?" he asks, surprised.

" I did, I can also make tea."

"Is it good."

"No." Zuko admits and Shoto sits down to eat.

"Don't tell Natsuo, he'll want breakfast every morning." he says and shoto nods. Both of them eating in silence before zuko sends him off for school Glad that Their father had not pestered Shoto today.

"I guess I have to clean this now." he says looking around.

"Shoto?" Fuyumi asks, staring at the mess.

"Were we robbed?"

"...Yes." she looks at him for a moment before looking around the kitchen.

"Did you Try to cook for yourself again."

"I can cook." he says defensively.

"You think you can cook Zuko." she says turning and leaving him to clean up his mess by himself.