Fukumoto Fuji smiles as she eyes the cafe, or more specifically the woman that just walked out with a large coffee.
Crown Princess Yamaoka Yasuko, the second oldest daughter of Emperor Yamaoka Takahiro. She is 43 years old, with blonde hair, green eyes and, as is common in the royal family a floating body part Quirk, she has an extra set of ears that she can move through the air and hear through just as well as the ones attached to her body. Her husband died over a decade ago leaving her alone with their now 17 year old daughter, as next in line for the throne it is rare to see her outside the palace, especially without guards.
And yet here she is.
Fuji was lucky to spot her while she was on her way to work. As a reporter for channel 3 this is not a story she'll let slip through her fingers.
Yamaoka takes an outside table, her extra ears moving around searching for something.
Fuji grimaces, yeah she does not want to get caught out by those ears, if she does she'll miss this scoop!
She takes out her phone and hits record before making her way across the street and into the cafe, she orders a caramel latte and asks them to bring it to her, then takes a seat outside two tables away from the Princess, then she settles in like she's playing on her phone, keeping it subtly aimed her way.
5 minutes later Fuji has her latte and the Princess looks more impatient, checking her phone and the surrounding area constantly.
Suddenly she stops her not-so-subtle frantic search, ears aimed left. A few minutes later a woman appears from the crowd staring at the Princess.
"Yasuko" the woman is a little older than the Princess, her face thin and eyes blood-shot, her hair is the same shade of blonde, her eyes gray-blue, needle marks visible on her arms and…..
…and another set of eyeballs floating next to her.
It takes everything Fuji has not to outwardly react. Holy fuck, its Yamaoka Suzume!
Yamaoka Suzume is the oldest Princess, her story is a sad one. One highly covered by the media too. She fell in with the wrong crowd as a teenager and became addicted to something, heroin is the most popular theory. Her Father, the whole royal family tried to help her but she ran away. No one has seen her since she was 17.
This scoop is going to make her fucking career!
"Suzume" the younger Princess reaches out like she wants to hug her big sister but doesn't let herself.
"Ha" she laughs oddly, "I haven't heard that name in a long time."
"It would stand out" the crowd Princess agrees, "What are you going with nowadays?"
"Tomie," she replies, taking a seat next to her sister. "Did you tell Father?"
"No!" the crowd Princess shakes her head, "I promised I wouldn't. No one knows I'm here."
"Good" 'Tomie' nods nervously, extra eyes looking around carefully.
"Suzu" Yamaoka hesitates, afraid one wrong move will have her sister bolting, "How have you been?" she asks instead of whatever she was going to say, "Are you working?"
Fuji resists the urge to lean forward curiously, keeping her eyes on her phone as turned-off earpods in place. Details like that are what she needs.
"No, no" 'Tomie' shakes her head "I-I don't work. Yas, I called because I need your help. I'm out of money, I've sold everything but my apartment. I need it" desperation lights her eyes.
Yamaoka frowns, "Suzu, I don't want to give you money for dru-"
"I NEED it!" she pleads "Please Yas. I don't want to sell my apartment, I can't go back to the streets."
Yamaoka hesitates, "I-" she sighs "I'll help you" she looks away uncomfortably.
'Tomie' lets out a relieved breath, all for eyes looking at her two years younger sister gratefully, "Thank you Yas! There's a ATM ov-"
"Not yet" Yamaoka cuts in firmly, "Suzu, I haven't seen you in 28 years. I want to have a conversation with my sister."
'Tomie' looks torn between running and wanting the money. "Ok-okay, what do you want to talk about?" she doesn't look happy about it.
"You have a apartment" Yamaoka tries, "How'd you manage that without a job? Boyfriend?"
'Tomie' snorts, "No, no. I had a husband…..but, well he's in prison. After he went in I ended up on the streets." she pushes that trying to remind her sister why she needs the money.
"But you got off the street once" The crowded Princess points out, "What did you do last time? Maybe you ca-"
"I can't sell my son again" 'Tomie' cuts in with a scoff.
Fuji gasps, having to muffle it by taking a drink, thankful neither notice as Yamaoka goes still, looking sick with shock.
"You sold your- you" her eyes go wide with horror.
"Hm" she nods, somehow not noticing her sister's disgust, "Keigo got a good mix of me and his Father's Quirk. They liked that, gave me enough money to last 16 years" she frowns "But it's all gone now and I need more." she doesn't seem sorry at all, she doesn't seem to see anything wrong with what she said or did.
"Keigo" Yamaoka repeats the name like its something sacred, "How old was he?"
'Tomie' frowns like she's not sure "6? Maybe 5?"
"Do you know if he's still alive?" Yamaoka doesn't look like she wants to ask that, expecting a bad answer.
"He is" 'Tomie' waves her hand, looking annoyed at the conversation, "Now, the money?" she presses.
The crowned Princess snaps, fury covering her face "Can you stop it with the goddam money!" she winces as soon as the words leave her mouth knowing they were a mistake.
'Tomie' moves in her seat, all four eyes looking for a way out. "You're not going to help me."
"Wait! No, Suzu I am!"
'Tomie' doesn't seem to buy it, in half a second she is out of her chair and sprinting through the crowd.
Yamaoka takes off after her but is back only a few minutes later for her purse.
She lost her.
Fuji smiles at her phone, she got the whole thing. This is going to win her awards, and start up a manhunt. Everyone in the country is going to be looking for the lost Prince, it will be the number one story everywhere and she's going to trend with it.
MISSING PRINCESS YAMAOKA SUZUME SIGHTED WITH SISTER, CROWNED PRINCESS YAMAOKA YASUKO, REVEALED TO HAVE SOLD SIX YEAR OLD SON INTO SLAVERY!
By Fukumoto Fuji, Channel Three
This morning Crowned Princess Yamaoka was seen in downtown Tokyo meeting with another woman, upon closer look that other woman was her long missing sister, Yamaoka Suzume through his meeting a shocking revelation came to light…Read More.
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16 years and not one drop of regret. Fuck her.
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Hawks first thought when he saw the video that's trending number 1 everywhere. So that's my name.
He'd been trying to remember it for a long time but never could, but as soon as he heard it the pieces clicked back into place.
His second thought is how the hell is my Mother of all people a Princess?
It took him a minute to recognise her but the floating eyes were kind of a give away.
Once he's done watching it Ha-Keigo (god it feels good to have a real name) sits in his office chair and wonders what to do now?
This is so much more complicated than his deadbeat mother making her family aware of what she did. The entire country knows she sold her kid and are looking for him, police, Pro's. Hell the Emperor and the Crown Princess put out a statement pleading for 'however has Keigo to let him go.'
Does the public know he's not 6 anymore? Yes, many news channels pointed out how math works and that he's 22, but none of them seem to care.
The idea that Keigo of all people is a Prince makes him want to laugh. Nothing about his life screams royalty.
The door to his office opens, his manager/Handler walking in like he owns the place. "Hawks" he glares at Keigo like he's the cause of all the worlds problems.
Keigo closes the door with a feather and gets down on the floor, bowing as low as he can, knowing better than to speak or claim he's too busy to talk.
"You had to have the addicted Princess as a fucking Mother didn't you?" he glares, hand transforming into a whip, Keigo's back aches at the motion, still sore from last night's lashings "Right now they don't know anything" he continues "Your Mother has been paid off again and sent somewhere out of the way. For now we wait for it to die down. You're on the team looking for 'the prince' , keep your mouth shut and treat it like any other case. If you fuck up and reveal the truth report back to me immediately and say nothing to no one until you can."
"Yes sir," Keigo replies stiffly.
"Good" his Handler goes back to the door and away.
Keigo stands up, feathers twitching as relief, he was sure he was going to get beaten for that. Yay! He didn't!
Keep it a secret, should be easy, he's been keeping it so secret for the last 22 years he didn't know.
(For a moment he wonders what would happen if he came forward, but dismisses it just as fast. He has orders, he must do as he's told.)
A hour later Keigo is in a police meeting room with a dozen other heroes looking for a chair.
"Hawks!" Rumi waves him over, a empty seat saved between her and Tsunagu.
Keigo grins and walks towards them, claiming the seat with a low back, one of the few in the room (he loves how his friends always think about his wings) "Heya Jeanie, Miruko. Quite a news day huh?"
Rumi snorts "Fucking understatement. I did not see a Prince sold to some low life on my bingo card for this year."
"Well you would have lost bingo, seeing as it didn't happen this year" Tsunagu half jokes.
Rumi flips him off.
"Attention!" a cop walks to the front of the crowd, "I am Detective Fukuda Michi. I will be leading this investigation."
Rumi leans in close "I bet you 10000 yen I will find him before you."
Keigo forces down a laugh, "You're on" he whispers back.
"Now" Fukuda continues, "Our most honorable Emperor wants us to find his Grandson and we will do everything in our power to do so. You all will be divided into 3 teams and work with officers to follow your lead. Team One: You will search for Princess Yamaoka Suzume, AKA Tomie. Team Two: Will search records countrywide for a boy named Keigo born within the two-year window we have with a Quirk similar to his Mother's. Team Three: You have the most difficult task, you will be investigating every group of criminal activity in the last 22 years, you will shut down any that are still active and interrogate anyone found with ties to ones that aren't. We need to find a group with the kind of funds for someone to survive 16 years on one payout."
Damn, if he didn't already know it was pointless Keigo would be impressed. But it'll all be for nothing, not his birth or anything else are recorded until the Commission bought him, (not that looking for his Mothers Quirk will do much good) the deadbeat has been disappeared by the Government there will be no finding her. And the last one, well at least they'll take down a lot of criminals.
Keigo is pleased to find he and his best friends are on the same team, Team 3.
"So, where shall we start?" Tsunagu speaks looking around the room at the dozen other heroes on their team.
"Up to you" Fukuda speaks poking his head in the door "Best Jeanist you're in charge of Team 3" and then he keeps walking.
Tsunagu smiles with his eyes.
Keigo instinctively grabs his hair, he does not want a repeat of the last time Jeanie was in charge of a team he was on.
"He is not making me wear jeans" Rumi mutters, clearly remembering her last time too.
"We'll start with the most well funded organizations" Tsunagu starts, "Both those active now and in the past. We also must consider the possibilities of Quirk Traffickers, Keigo may not even be in Japan anymore, or he may have been freed years ago and be living a normal life."
Keigo pushes down the strangest of his friend say his name (his name he just learned and really wants to use) talking about him but not to him. He's gonna have to get use to that.
Mt Lady raises an eyebrow, "If he's been free for years why not come forward now? He's a fucking Prince! Who doesn't want that?"
Keigo scoffs, "This is the most popular story in Japan right now. He should totally come forward so every reporter in Asia can scream invasive questions about how they tortured him or if he was raped. Nah, I'd stay hidden too."
He's honestly glad this is how his owners choice to handle this, having everyone ask invasive questions like that sounds like a fucking nightmare. The media is already doing it too, pushing the tragic angle of this and making the worst suggestions they can think of for what could have been happening to him the last 16 years.
"That is a good point Hawks" Tsunagu agrees, "The media's…pushing may be holding him back. I will speak to Detective Fukuda about promising Keigo protection from the media."
Once the meeting is over and everyone has their tasks Keigo walks up to his denim addicted friend "This better not be like last time" he half warns/half jokes.
Tsunagu's eyes move to his hair, teasing filling his voice, "Are you sure? I'd be happy to help to styl-"
"No way!" he cuts in, "Last time you used like four bottles of gel! Do you know how hard that was to get out?"
Tsunagu laughs, "Fine if you like your hair as a birds nest, then you can keep it that way."
Keigo grins, not letting a teasing chirp leave his lips but fluttering his wings pointedly, "Hey now birds nests are very comfy."
He rolls his eyes, "I walked into that one" he sighs and picks up a box of case files, "Shall we?"
It might sound weird but Keigo ends up enjoying investigating himself.
In the next five days, while looking for 'the lost Prince' they take down 9 Trafficking rings, 3 drug cartels, 6 gangs, they arrest over a hundred buyers and free over a thousand people.
Keigo loves every minute of it, no suspicion is on him so he gets to focus on his job and use unlimited resources and manpower to save victims he couldn't have saved without this investigation.
"Ugh!" Rumi groans falling into her chair at Tsunagu's apartment.
They just got out of a end of week meeting going over all the processes the teams have made since Monday. The summed up answer from all three teams is basically: we got nothing on the Prince but side quests lead to lots of arrests and victims saved.
"We've got fucking nothing!" Rumi huffs looking pissed.
"Not nothing" Jeanist counters, putting a cup of tea down in front of Rumi and Keigo before taking a seat across from them, "We saved many people this week."
Keigo nods his agreement, moving so he's perching on the armrest and doesn't have his wings squished against the back of the couch. "Yeah Rumi, we'll find a lead, in the meantime we've saved over a thousand people this week. That's nothing to scoff at."
Rumi stares him in the eye and very pointedly scoffs.
Keigo pauses for a second "You're a bitch."
"I am mission focused," she corrects. "We've been at this a week and have jackshit. That deadbeat Mother has disappeared, we got nothing on anyone named Keigo with a Quirk like hers born even fucking close to when he should have been, as for us well we took down a bunch of low lifes yay. Yes, saving people is good. Go us, but we have no leads!" she dramatically falls back into the couch.
Keigo frowns, right he isn't actually trying to find 'the Prince' if this was like any other case he'd probably be pretty pissed too. "...Maybe there aren't any records to find" he suggests, throwing them a bone "If her husband is anything like her" (worse that asshole was so much worse) "I doubt either of them would have cared to take him to Doctors appointments, get vaccines, hell they probably didn't bother with a birth certificate."
Rumi's ears perk up at the idea.
"That is a good point," Tsunagu nods thoughtfully. "Perhaps we should be searching for records of things they would have cared about."
"Some drug dealers keep client lists" Rumi grins seeing where he's going with this, she pulls out her phone "Nice thought nugget-head! I'll let Aizawa's team know."
Opps, maybe that was a better clue than he thought.
They order Korean food and settle in to watch some shitty dating reality show, all three happily laughing at how bad it is.
The next day Keigo walks into their base with a can of coffee and a smile having done his morning patrol and is ready to investigate more traffickers. Honestly this has been like a break this last week, he's only patrolling 2/4th what he normally does this week the rest of the time has been his paperwork or the investigation, its been fucking great.
He pushes his way through the crowd of reporters (damn there are way more than normal) and to the door.
"How the hell are you smiling this early?" Mt Lady groans barely looking up from her own cup of coffee as she makes her own way through the horde.
"Early bird gets the worm" he grins, walking through the door into the lobby of the police precinct they've taken over, he holds it open for her.
She walks through, flipping him off as she goes "Yeah well get fu-" she cuts herself off staring ahead into the lobby in surprise.
Keigo looks where she's looking. There's like a dozen armed people all dressed in the Imperial Guards uniform, in the middle of the group is Crown Princess Yamaoka Yasuko.
"Hawks" she nods, noticing him at the door, it takes her moment to place the Pro next him "And you are…..Mt Lady?" she nods to her as well.
Mt Lady, freezes, realizes she is still giving Keigo the bird and lowers it, both of them bow deeply to her.
"Your Highness, you honor us" Keigo bows, as his feathers flatten nervously, what is she doing here? Does she know?
"You are the ones who honor me by searching for my nephew" she replies easily. "How goes the search?
"We are following many leads" he replies, relieved, she's not here for him. She wants an update, "Best Jeanist and Eraserhead are interviewing a drug dealer now who claims to have known your sister for years" boy was Keigo relieved when he didn't recognise that mugshot, she musta got a new dealer having going high class when she sold him.
Crown Princess Yamaoka smiles hopefully at that news "That is good."
"They should be back soon" he adds, "Best Jeanist, Eraserhead and Gang Orca are in charge of the three prongs of the investigation. When they get back they'll be honored to give you a briefing on everything we got so far."
(He is talking with his Aunt, his Aunt the Crown Princess. Cause that is his damn life now. God this is the longest conversation he's ever had with a blood relative that hasn't ended with verbal or physical abuse. So fucking weird.)
She nods and lets him lead her and her guards to a waiting room.
"You guys want tea or something?" He asks looking at the guards.
The head of the Guard looks to his men, "Coffee would be great if you got it."
Keigo nods, sending feathers to the break room, they come back minutes later with a fresh pot of coffee, a stack of disposable cups, packs of sugar, a bunch of stirring sticks and a bottle of milk.
"Thanks" the head of the Guard….Yagami? Yeah that's it smiles at him, he makes up the first cup for the Princess then he and his men go at it.
"What if he got out?" Yamaoka speaks staring into her cup, "What if Suzu knew he was still alive because he escaped, came to her for help? He could have been out there living a normal life until my fuck up got him noticed by the press."
"We don't know that your highness" Yagami throws back, "He could be locked in a basement somewhere. Yes the media attention isn't great but it means that if he is in trouble all the eyes in the country are looking for him."
Keigo wonders for a moment if he can leave the room without drawing attention to himself. All the Guards are clearly friends with the Princess, all of them are looking at her and talking to her like friends. Yeah he is definitely intruding.
"Or we could be ruining his life!" she throws back, "I can't imagine what he's been through, hell what he might still be going through. Having all this attention, all these eyes on it on top of everything else must be horrible!"
"Maybe" another guard, this one with a dog heteromorphic Quirk speaks up, "Or maybe its somewhere between. My lady, maybe he's chained through his mind now and living his days free. He could be seeing this new wave of attention as a chance for true freedom."
Keigo pushes away feelings he doesn't want to think about.
"Maybe" she nods but her frown grows "...if he is let out day to day he may also be brainwashed, if we find him he may not want our help."
"Sometimes the cage with invisible bars is easier to stay in than risking true freedom" Keigo freezes, fuck he didn't mean to say that outloud.
(But she's getting so close, its making him feel things he hasn't let himself feel in years.)
All four of her ears focus on him.
Keigo decides to keep going, "If he is half out like that then Keigo knows about the hunt for him and his owners do too. What your offering is different and like a fairy tale come to life. I mean he's a literal missing Prince, it doesn't get more fairy tale than that. He's not going to risk such a public unknown when his cage, though painful, is still a safety net."
Yamaoka makes a thoughtful sound, "So how do I make him feel safe enough to risk it?"
Keigo honestly isn't sure himself.
"We get the public presser off" Yagami suggests, "When we find him we ask for privacy and don't let a single photo or quote leak. If we can keep him out of the limelight it might work."
Keigo doesn't see a reality where that would happen. This is a huge story now, if the world found out the missing Prince is the Number 2 hero there would be no stopping them. "Best Jeanist is already working on a court order for privacy" he tells her instead.
Yamaoka smiles hopefully, "Good, you Pro's are always one step ahead of us."
Someone knocks on the door, Tsunagu steps in, bowing deeply to the Princess "Your highness."
Eraserhead and Gang Orca step in behind him, bowing just as low.
Keigo bows a goodbye and takes his leave, happy to get out of there.
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Hours later after taking down another ring Keigo checks his phone and isn't surprised to see a missed call from his Handler.
He doesn't bother calling back, just makes an excuse for his friends and goes straight to his office.
Keigo goes up to his office the boring way, his Handler hates it when he comes through the balcony, with a nod to the man's secretary (Keigo doesn't know that face, is she new?) he heads for the door.
"Enter" he calls when Keigo knocks.
Keigo walks in, closing the door behind him and moving in front of his desk, bowing low as is standard with people higher than him.
The door opens again, the secretary walks past him without a glance and whispers something to his Handler before walking back out.
"You met the Princess this morning" his Handler starts, his voice hard. "What did she say to you?"
"She was there for a update sir" he replies, keeping his voice blank and still, "I greeted her, led her and her guards to a waiting room and got them coffee" is that enough? Should he mention the chat? Will he get in more or less trouble if he doesn't say anything? "She expressed worry about if she was doing the right thing, I tried to comfort her but didn't have much luck."
His Handler's face doesn't change, still pissed "You shouldn't have talked to her at all. If she notices how much you look like her family you will be in a world of trouble."
Keigo doubts she would have noticed, or anyone else really, its one thing about having a heteromorph Quirk he's happy with for once, when people look his way the wings or eye markings (or the rare times everything else is uncovered those) are first to draw the eye, seeing similarities between him and anyone who's not a bird heteromorph just doesn't happen. "If I can avoid it I will sir" he promises instead.
His hand turns into a whip.
Shit, was answer was too honest?
"Off" he orders.
Keigo doesn't waste time, he strips off his jacket and shirt, ready to add new lashing scars to his large collection.
This Handler walks around him, reading to strike. "My new secretary has an interesting Quirk. Mind reading."
Oh shit, was he thinking anything bad when he walked past her? What did she tell him before?
"She said you are thinking of yourself as Keigo" the whip strikes hard to the left of his wing, "We've been doing random checks for years, its always Hawks. Now is not the time for an identity change Hawks" he strikes again a little to the right.
He winces at he strikes not letting the pain show, fuck is he not allowed privacy in his own mind?
"It was better when you didn't fucking remeber" STRIKE "You belong to us. You don't get an identity outside of what we allow" STRIKE "You do not have the right to another name!" STRIKE.
Ke-Hawks feels tears leek from the corners of his eyes. He shouldn't have done that, he should have known they'd find out and forbid it.
People like him don't get the luxury of a name.
Hawks leaves with 20 new lashings and a freshly beaten down sense of self-worth.
He goes straight home and treats his wounds then heads back to the station for work.
"Where the fuck have you been!" Rumi calls when he walks into the room filled with all their desks.
"Had a issue at my agency I had to deal with" he lies, shooting Tsunagu a wave, "Anything new?"
"All the dealers we've tracked down were fucking after the bitch got paid for her kid" Rumi huffs "We're still looking for any from before."
"But those we have tracked down have given us a pattern of residence" Jeanie adds, "All of those who came to her home for a deal confirmed she lived in Fukuoka."
Hawks forces himself to smirk, "My territory" he flutters his wings dramatically, suppressing a pain filled wince when the movement pulls at his wounds. He takes out his phone "I've got some informants that deal, I'll ask around" he promises, planning to ask his worse contacts, the assholes that never get back to him.
"Great" Rumi groans, bored "Can we take down another Drug Ring? I'm Bored."
Tsunagu rolls his eyes, "Ru-"
The door flies open, Mt Lady running in, "You guys gotta see this!" she turns on the shitty old tv in the corner and changes channels.
On the screen is Takami the Thief, dressed in a prison jumpsuit, only visible from the shoulders up, his mean gold eyes glaring into the camera.
Hawks stops breathing. Holy fuck.
He forces his feathers down and relaxed before someone notices and keeps his face blank. Why is his Father on TV?
"You claim to have known Tomie?" the interviewer asks, her bubble still in the newsroom, the words below declaring this is live.
"Isn't that what I just f-BLEEP-ing said?" he huffs, "Look, I don't know why you give a BLEEP about that bi-BLEEP. I don't get TV privileges, bad f-BLEEP-ing behavior, but a newbie saw her photo in my cell. Said you as-BLEEP-oles would pay good for what I got" the screen changes to a photo of his parents, also just shoulders up, both much younger, his Father kissing his Mother's cheek as she laughs at something he said.
"Shit" Rumi lights up at the lead "He might be the husband!"
The three of them share looks while Hawks wishes he could dive out the window.
The reporter smiles at the photo, "You two seem close. What was your relationship?"
He frowns, "You're paying me for this BLEEP right?"
The reporter sighs, "As long as you are completely honest. Yes."
His Father smiles, "Good. She was my wife, had this old shack outside of Fukuoka. Helped me hide from the cops. Great in bed but useless around the house. BLEEP didn't do BLEEP, didn't matter how much I beat her, wouldn't leave that damn TV."
"I see" the reporter nods, expression blank, "Did you have any children?"
He scoffs "Unfortunately. One waste of space, Keigo. Should have beat him out of his Mother before she had him woulda saved me years of that freak following me around."
"God this Prince has shit parents" Mt Lady stares at the screen.
Tsunagu nods, "He truly does."
The reporter perks up at the confirmation, "Do you have any photos of him?"
His Father blinks in surprise "I thought you wanted to hear about Tomie. Why the f-BLEEP do you give a BLEEP about the brat?"
"We will double your pay for a photo" the reporter replies without missing a beat.
The asshole smirks "Done" he turns to the right, "Guard go talk to the kiddy f-BEEP-er in the cell next to mine. I traded him for my only photo years ago."
Hawks puts his face in his hands, god he hates his parents.
"We should get age progression software ready" Jeanie speaks up, rage in his voice at the man on the screen.
A prison door opens and closes in the background.
"That'll take a minute" Takami sighs, "What do you want while we wait? I've got some stories. I caught Keigo sneaking out to the stream once. Held his head in it for a full minute!" he laughs like he just told a great joke.
The reporter looks torn between her scoop and having to listen to this asshole brag about abusing his kid.
"Or the time I beat him so hard the floor broke and he fell into the basement" he raises his arm, scratching his nose, the red feathers sticking out of his forearms now visible for the world to see.
All three pros turn and stare at Hawks.
Oh shit, does he go for the window? He needs to get out of here.
The reporter makes a choking sound, eyes wide "Uh wh-what is Keigo's Quirk?"
His deadbeat Father frowns "Some BLEEP super mix of me and Tomie's with a f-BLEEP-ing bird mutation side. Brat has big red wings while I can just harden these" he moves his arm to show off his feathers "Shoot them off like throwing knives and regrown 'em fast, the brat can harden then, detach them, control and sense BLEEP through them like Tomie and her eyes."
"Hawks" Tsunagu takes a step towards him, a mix of worry and horror in his eyes.
He needs to get out of here and report in, like now.
Hawks dives out the closed window, uses his feathers to guard from broken glass and takes off upwards going 70 feet in less than a second.
The reporters below him scream questions and point their cameras but he doesn't look down, ready to get out of there.
….He's pulled back hard by his own jacket.
"GET BACK HERE BITCH!" Rumi kicks off and into the air wrapping herself around him, worry and fury in her eyes, "Hawks, don't run" she pleads.
Hawks hesitates, he doesn't want to but he has too. He bucks in midair, throwing her off (he sends feathers to make sure she lands okay) then tears off his jacket as it tries to pull him back down to ground.
There is a flash of purple and white to his left and Mt Lady standing there at her full size trying to hit him out of the sky like he's a fly.
"We are trying to help him, not harm!" Tsunagu calls to the tall woman as he climbs out the broken window and up the side of the building.
"Right, sorry!" She calls back trying to grab him instead.
"Hawks you don't have to run" Tsunagu calls, now standing on the roof of the police station.
Hawks hesitates, "I have orders" he sighs, "I'm sorry Jeanie, I don't want to but I hav-"
Mt Lady takes the chance while he's talking and grabs him out of midair, wrapping both hands around him tight.
Her glove unfurls from her hands and wraps around his wings, tight enough to make flying impossible but not tight enough to hurt.
Fuck, he hardens his feathers to cut through but nothing, the fibers of the fabric are so tightly woven together they're blade proof.
There are no weak points, he can't even sneak a feather though gaps where fabric meets skin.
Tsunagu keeps his hands raised, ready to move the fabric more if needed.
Hawks scoffs, like he didn't see this trick coming? He calls the feathers he sent with Rumi back…..
She jumps into the air and grabs them, snapping all four in half, "Sorry nugget-head you ain't getting away."
Hawks pushes away the pain of the feathers breaking with practiced ease as 2 of the other feathers, the ones he released when jumping out the window take the moment of distraction to sneak up Mt Lady's side and stab into her hand.
"Ah!" She let's go with a cry of pain and Hawks jumps, he can't fly properly with his feathers covered like this but he can glide. Bad news there's only one place to glide too.
He lands on the roof, at the other end to Best Jeanist and takes stock of what he has to work with.
He's got 15 feathers, the roof is pretty flat, nothing to use in a fight, if he gets off the reporters will swarm him. So in other words, not much.
Rumi lands behind him, "Chicken head, stand down!" she orders, her eyes shining with worry "I don't know what kind of bullshit is running through your head right now but you don't have to do jackshit they fucking order you to do!"
"She's right" Tsunagu runs towards him from the other side of the roof, "Hawks please think for a moment. What do you want?"
They are wrong, there is no choice, no what he wants. Only what the Commission wants. "What I want doesn't count for anything" he replies, repeating the words his Handler burned into his brain.
For some reason those words make pain flash across both his friends' faces, "Yes it does H-Keigo" Tsunagu replies forcefully.
Hawks flinches at the name, his back aching like a reminder, "Don't call me that! You don't understand Tsunagu, this is my life, there is no changing or fixing it! All I can do is live in the good moments and put up with the rest! What I want has never mattered and never will!" he snaps.
"Yes there is fucking changing it!" Rumi glares "Whoever those assholes are, they can't fucking own you! Let us help you Pigeon!"
Hawks hesitates, he trusts these two more than anyone else in the world. But he has orders and…..he doesn't want things to change, sure things suck 90% of the time but the rest of it, hanging out with Rumi, Tsunagu, Tokoyami and Dark Shadow, saving people, the afternoon he gets off every two weeks. He lives for those moments with these people.
He doesn't want things to change.
Maybe he can keep things the same, Tsunagu and Rumi are gonna bring him in if he's caught but they can only hold him for 48 hours without charge. If he can ride out the media storm without giving anything away things can stay the same.
Plus what can his Handler do if he gets away now? Probably have him killed before he causes a leak. No this is his only option.
Hawks let his feathers soften and stands down. "I don't want help, but know better than to fight this."
BREAKING NEWS: PRINCE KEIGO IS HAWKS
BREAKING: HAWKS IS LOST PRINCE, TAKEN INTO CUSTODY BY BEST JEANIST AND MIRUKO
BREAKING NEWS: HAWKS IS PRINCE KEIGO! WHO OWNS HIM?
BREAKING NEWS: HAWKS IS LOST PRINCE! WHY DO HIS OWNERS WANT HIM AS NUMBER 2 HERO?
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Tsunagu looks through the one-way mirror to his young friend who's sitting at the table playing with the pen and pad in front of him with a bored look on his face.
To say he did not expect this would be the largest understatement of the year. Yes he was aware Hawks works too much, has ties to the HPSC that are closer than healthy and based on many behaviors he's observed over the years did not come from a good home, but he never saw anything like this coming.
Hawks, Keigo is someone's property and the missing Prince they have been looking for for the last week.
He made it clear doesn't want help and stopped talking, having not said a word in the half hour since they brought him in.
Rumi steps into the room with her arms crossed and a pissed off look on her face, "How do we get his head out of his ass?"
"I am not sure" he admits, "Hawks is dealing with 16 years of conditioning. That is not an easy thing to overcome."
"I don't expect him to overcome it in one sickeningly gushy chat" she scoffs, "I want him to agree to not go back to assholes and give us their damn names."
Well that is a some-what more realistic goal.
"That's what we want too" Aizawa steps into the room, Kuugo one step behind him.
"I go out for lunch for a hour and come back to this" Kuugo jokes weakly, staring past him and into the other room.
"This is a mess" Aizawa agrees, looking like he'd rather be napping. "None of us thought to look inside our own house but it's done now. We have to deal with the fall out." he glares past them and into the room, "Hawks knows we can only hold him here for 48 hours, he's committed no crimes and once its done we can't take him back. If he gets past the two day mark he'll report back to his owners and if they let him live they'll try and keep things as they are."
"So how do we get him to talk?" Rumi frowns.
"We've got a therapist on the way" Kuugo tells them, "He'll work with Detective Fukuda and do the usual cop thing. When they have breaks we'll have the people he trusts visit."
"No pushing" Aizawa shoots Rumi a look, "You'll be his relief from the pushy Investigators."
Tsunagu nods, feeling strange to be on the other side in an investigation like this, he definitely doesn't like being the victim's family.
"Is there anyone else who you believe Hawks would trust for this?" Kuugo questions.
"Those baby birds he's always going on about" Rumi suggests.
"His interns, Tokoyami and Dark Shadow" Tsunagu fills in, "Hawks cares deeply for the pair."
The teacher nods, looking pleased for his students, "I'll have them visit tomorrow afternoon."
The first 'meeting' between Hawks, the Detective and therapist lasts three hours, Hawks doesn't say a word or react once.
Afterwards they give him a hour alone before Tsunagu and Rumi enter.
"Here Chicken legs!" Rumi greets holding up a bucket of KFC.
Hawks perks up at the sight of dinner.
"We aren't here to interrogate you" Tsunagu promises.
"Yeah" Rumi grumbles, "They said 'we're too close to this' and 'your personal bias means you're off the case'" she makes a face, faking annoyances "They're too close to my foot."
Hawks snorts, relaxing at her words "So you're not gonna bug me about this?"
"I think you're getting enough of that from the Detective" Tsunagu replies, not feeling bad for his lies. Keigo will thank him for this one day. He takes out his sketchbook "Would you like to see my newest designs?"
Hawks perks up even more, he always likes looking at Tsunagu's ideas for his fashion line and giving his ridiculous opinions (no matter how many times he tells the bird heteromorph he refuses to understand that shiny does not equal style.)
Over the next hour they chat about his designs, Rumi's latest failed date and upcoming movies, carefully avoiding anything to do with Hawks's life.
"Well our hour is up" Rumi tells Hawks when it is, "See you later chicken" she grabs the empty bucket and turns to the door, Tsunagu moves to follow her out.
"Wait, Tsunagu" Hawks calls hesitantly.
He turns back, confused. Surely Hawks isn't going to open up to him already.
"Can you do me a favor?" his wings, still wrapped in Mt Lady's gloves flutter slightly.
Tsunagu's eyes move to the covers he made, "Are they too tight?" he was careful when crafting them to be sure they wouldn't hurt but he could have done something wrong. Shame he can't take them off but Hawks's Quirk is too crafty to let him have access to while locked up here, perhaps there are adjustments he can make to make them more comfortable.
"Nah, there find" he shakes his head "Problem is there fused to my shirt and I can't take that off now and…." Hawks pauses having an internal battle over if he should say whatever this is or not. "...I got a flogging punishment when I was out earlier, I can't change the bandages if I can't get my shirt off."
Tsunagu tries and fails to suppress his rage. His friend was whipped today. Not only that none of them noticed and fought with him. Did they reopen wounds?
"I'm going to kill whatever fucker that did this" Rumi hisses furiously.
Hawks looks away awkwardly.
Tsunagu gives her a look, "Rumi please go find a first aid kit."
She stomps out.
"Please sit on the table" he requests.
"You don't need to treat it for my Tsu" he shakes his head quickly, "Really I'm fi-"
Tsunagu cuts him off with a look, "Hawks I want to help. Please let me."
Hawks sighs but does as asked, getting on the table with his back to Tsunagu, spreading his wings so they aren't covering his back.
Tsunagu unravels all the fabric covering his back, Rumi reappears with the kit, he sends her a thankful look and puts on gloves then does the same to the stained bandages, uncovering a mess with scars and old wounds and fresh wounds.
There are hundreds of old marks layered on top of eachother covering every piece of visible skin, along with older still-healing wounds, some look days old, others a week and older. There are a few ripped stitches and one lash is bleeding.
"I'm kicking this fucker out of a goddamn window" Rumi stares at Hawks back with fury.
Hawks shirks at her voice, "None of that Rumi" Tsunagu warns, it takes every he has to keep his own anger out of his voice. "I'm going to start Hawks" he tells him, cleaning the wounds.
Rumi, getting more pissed as she watches him work moves to sit in the chair in front of Hawks.
"I messed up" Hawks speaks after a few minutes of not looking at him or Rumi, "I didn't remember my name, when I heard it at the start of the week I started using it in my head. When I went in earlier they had a mind reader ready, she reported to my Handler" his voice turns bitter "'You don't get an identity outside of what we allow. You do not have the right to another name'" he quotes someone bitterly. "I was dumb enough to think I could use that name in my head. I shouldn't have been so fucking stupid."
God, that explains his reaction when Tsunagu called him by his name earlier, "Your Handler is wrong" he replies, "Hawks everyone is entitled to use the name they choose. Having someone look into your mind and punishing you for using your name in your own head is wrong."
"Jean-Man is right Birdie" Rumi agrees, still looking ready to kick someone into the sun, "I know you ain't gonna agree if I tell you your whole life is fucked, but you gotta see this, its your name they can't fucking whip you for it."
Hawks looks unsure and goes quiet, not saying anything until Tsunagu is done, even then it is only a quiet thanks as he puts his shirt back as it was.
When the pair leaves the interrogation room Aizawa is waiting for them. "Good work."
Rumi growls, "Why does this have to take so fucking long? I need names."
"He opened up to us" Tsunagu points out, "That is a good start."
"It is" Aizawa agrees, "Hawks is showing a lot more trust in you two than the Detective. Be here tomorrow at 7am, Recovery Girl will look him over then you'll have breakfast with him."
He nods, he'll have to bring breakfast for the three of them. Hawks has always enjoyed his cooking.
"Don't say anything to the press" he continues, "Those vultures are going rabid over this."
Rumi snorts "Over the number 2 hero being a Prince that was sold 16 years ago? Can't imagine why, totally a normal news story."
Tsunagu nods in agreement to her, this is going to be the biggest news story of the decade
Aizawa makes a agreeing sound, "There is another matter. The Princess is back, she wants to talk to you two and Hawks."
Tsunagu frowns, "Hawks is barely speaking with us. I don't think letting his aunt in there is smart."
"Neither do I" the Underground hero agrees, "But she won't listen to me."
"But as his best friends you think she'll listen to us" Rumi sighs, not looking happy with the task.
Tsunagu doesn't want to do this either but nods anyway.
There are twice as many guards than there were this morning but in the waiting room, the same as earlier is only Crown Princess Yamaoka Yasuko and the head of the Guard Yagami.
"Your Highness" Tsunagu bows to her, Rumi bowing at his side.
"I want to see him" she demands, not bothering with the niceties.
"I understand that Princess, however Hawks is not in a place where it would be welcome" he explains carefully.
"The Detective tried for three hours, he didn't say a word" Rumi adds.
"I heard he spoke to you two" she throws back.
"We're his best friends" Rumi throws straight back, "And we didn't bring all this BS up. If you go in all you're gonna get is silence, Princess."
Yamaoka growls "We spoke this morning. I brought up the idea of Keigo being brainwashed. He said….." she looks to the Head of the Guard, who if Tsunagu remembers right, has a Perfect memory Quirk.
Yagami speaks, his eyes glowing green as he repeats "'Sometimes the cage with invisible bars is easier to stay in than risking true freedom' and 'If he is half out like that then Keigo knows about the hunt for him and his owners do too. What your offering is different and like a fairy tale come to life. I mean he's a literal missing Prince, it doesn't get more fairy tale than that. He's not going to risk such a public unknown when his cage, though painful, is still a safety net.'"
That gives Tsunagu pause. So Hawks is aware how wrong his life is but is too scared to risk changing anything.
"He's scared to try" Yamaoka continues seriously, "Being a Prince with all the media attention and him being the Number 2 just makes it worse but I can help provide a new safety net through family and our resources."
"You can" Tsunagu acknowledges, "But I don't believe he would accept the help."
"Hawks doesn't trust easy" Rumi agrees, "Took him years to let us in and he kept all this bullshit to himself. Plus all his experience with blood family is shit I doubt he'd want to rely on blood family not to poison his dinner let allow help him through all this."
The Princess droops, knowing their right "Well what can I do?"
"Have patience" Tsunagu answers, "And allow Miruko and I to be his safety net. When he is ready then you may try and be his family but as things stand Hawks is not ready."
The Princess doesn't look happy but nods "Very well. I am trusting you in this."
Hawks sits at the table in the interrogation room trying to block out the Detective and therapist.
Rumi and Tsunagu left a half hour ago and these two came back in pretty fast, asking about the flogging and who did it.
He's been ignoring them for a hour now, his own thoughts swirling.
They were pissed on his behalf, they think he should be able to use any name he chooses.
What I want doesn't count for anything, he thinks automatically, the Commission decides everything for him…but he doesn't like being called Hawks, its just a reminder of his slave status.
What would it be like to use his own name? To not get punished for it or answer to the Commission?
No.
Those are bad thoughts, he cannot think like that, he has a mission here, make it through til the release him without giving anything away. After that deal with the press and hope his Handler lets him live.
HAWKS REFUSES TO TALK, NUMBER TWO HERO BRAINWASHED!
WORD FROM POLICE IS THE BIRD WON'T SING.
BRAINWASHED HERO WON'T HELP HIMSELF!
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Hawks doesn't sleep well, being in the cold concrete cell that is too close to his childhood room doesn't help, the little he does sleep is filled with nightmares from training.
The next morning they bring him back to the interrogation room at 7am, Tsunagu, Rumi and Recovery Girl are there waiting for him.
"Hello Hawks" the old woman greets with a kind smile.
"Hello" he nods to her wondering why she's here.
"If it is alright with you, Recovery Girl is going to look at your back," Tsunagu explains.
Hawks bites back an immediate no, they already know about them, one more person seeing his scars won't change anything.
It doesn't take long but he's even more tired when she's done, so he's grateful when Rumi hands him a large cup of his usual coffee order as the old Nurse leaves.
"Thanks Ru" he smiles gratefully.
"You look like shit" she replies dryly, "Here I was hoping a night without your work-phone would mean sleep."
Hawks scoffs, taking a seat next to Tsunagu as the older Pro lays out breakfast (yes! He fucking loves Jeanie's Tamagoyaki!) "In a cold concrete cell with a metal stab for a bed? Do you know…." he hesitates, giving stuff away is bad but there are his friends, and he wants to bitch about it, he should be able to bitch to his friends. "Do you know how many childhood memories that brought back? I couldn't sleep a fucking wink."
His friends share a odd look, "I suppose that would" Tsunagu agrees sounding like he wants to say something else
"No shit" Rumi scoffs, grabbing her chopsticks and food "I'll tell the Detective where to stick it and get something else figured out for tonight."
He shoots her a grateful look.
"So" she continues "Who wins the bet?"
He blinks blankly "Huh?"
"Remember dumbass? We bet 10000 yen who'd find the Prince first."
Hawks snorts grabbing his own chopsticks, "Totally me, I found 'him' like 12 hours before the bet!"
"But I brought 'him' in" she throws back "That makes me the winner."
They pause, sharing a glare "Tsunagu!" they ask their usual mediator.
Tsunagu doesn't look up from his meal "The bet is null and void as Hawks had prior information."
Rumi and Hawks stick their tongues out at each other "I'll win the next one" Hawks vows.
She scoffs "Over my dead body."
KNOCK KNOCK.
The door opens and a cop Hawks doesn't know pokes his head in "Sorry to interrupt but Hawks your Manager is here. He's demanding to speak with you."
The chopsticks fall out of his hands, his face going white. Oh shit, he's dead.
A hand lands on his shoulder making him jump, his wings flapping nervously.
"Hawks" Tsunagu stares into his eyes worriedly.
He leans into his hand nervously "I-I" what can he say? He doesn't want to see him, his reaction was fucking bad Rumi and Tsunagu are gonna guess "Did I ever tell you what my mangers Quirk is?" he whispers, so quiet only the man next to him and the woman across the table with rabbit ears can hear "His hand turns into a whip."
Rumi's eyes blaze, she throws her chopsticks at the wall and hops over to the door.
"Rumi!" he protests, fuck! He shouldn't have done that!
"Rumi wait" her jacket pulls her backwards, as Tsunagu holds out his hand.
"Don't fucking stop me Tsu!" she glares.
"Rumi" he glares back, "I understand this desire but you cannot do this without Hawks's consent."
That gives her pause.
Hawks awkwardly looks between them, Tsunagu looks just as pissed but is holding himself back.
God why is he being so open about this all of a sudden? He's never had a problem with keeping this secret before! "Please forget I said that" he asks before looking at the nervous officer "Can you make up an excuse? Tell him I'm not allowed any visitors?"
The officer looks between the three of them and nods, leaving the room.
"Ugh, I get that you got stockholm or whatever but fuck I wish you'd relax and let me hit that guy" Rumi huffs.
Hawks puts his head in his hands and groans "Ugh my head is a mess. I don't know what I wanna do."
Tsunagu rubs his shoulder "I know I cannot begin to understand what this is like for you Hawks, but I can tell you how I feel about this, I feel that you shouldn't have to put up with this abuse, that you should be allowed to use the name you choose, that you should be free to make your own decisions."
"He's right nugget-head" Rumi walks closer "We want you to be happy and not getting whipped by some asshole."
Hawks stands up, stepping away from the table and moving to the back corner of the room "I need some time alone" he asks, not looking at either of them.
Aizawa is there when they leave the room. "We put a tail on the Manger and tapped his phone."
"Good" Tsunagu furious, if Hawks is not ready to tell them who owns him they can find out themselves and hopefully shut them down before Hawks is allowed to leave.
"Should put him in a room with me" Rumi growls, "I'd get what we need."
Aizawa shoots her a look "You and I both know that would have ended badly" he changes the subject "Hawks seems on the verge of a breakthrough, we're going to delay the day's first interview until 11am to give him time to think."
"Or a breakdown" Tsunagu argues, worried for his friend "Hawks is under immense stress right now. I'm not sure if more time alone with only his thoughts and a 'cold concrete room' is a good idea" he repeats Hawks's words from earlier, as they replay in his mind.
Aizawa nods "We're having an on-call room converted to have locks and adding cameras now."
Rumi smirks and takes out her phone "I'm gonna have some stuff added."
"Do that" Aizawa agrees, "We don't want him having another night of nightmares because we stuck him back in his childhood trauma" he looks pissed at himself for not foreseeing this. "As soon as its ready we'll move him there and do all interviews inside as well."
An hour later Tsunagu and Rumi walk Hawks to the new room.
It's fairly plain with off white walls, space for two sets of bunk beds, one having been removed and replaced with a table for the interviews, the bedding on the bottom buck is clearly Rumi's touch, the bedding has a drumstick and wing design, there is also a large rug shaped like a cartoon chicken on the floor and a number of chicken themed toys, while Tsunagu had a number of board and card games that can be played with one or three people and some books he hopes Hawks may like placed on the bookshelf.
Hawks takes one look at the room and laughs, "You two are the worst" he grins picking up a toy stuffed chicken drumstick from the bed.
Rumi's answer is to throw a blanket at him….a blanket shaped like a tortilla "Chicken wrap" she explains with a laugh.
Tsunagu laughs, perhaps he should have coordinated with Rumi and added to the joke.
Hawks flips her off but puts it on the end of the bed, "Thanks."
Hawks doesn't talk much but the three play card games until his first interview, where he once again says nothing and tries his best to ignore the Detective and therapist's existence.
Hawks lays on the bed after the Detective and therapist leave staring at the chicken shaped rug.
Everything is too goddamn confusing.
Does he want to stay a slave? No, but that's not optional, nothing in his life has ever been a choice and everyone acting like it is here is crazy. Besides, even if it was a choice, what would happen after? He'd tell the truth and they take down the government? Yeah fucking right.
But he is sick of the lies, of keeping so much from his friends. Its not like he can just be open to them and keep the rest of the world out of it, Rumi and Tsunagu are heroes even if this isn't their case those fuckers will stick their nose's in his busniess.
KNOCK KNOCK
The door opens and a officer steps in, "There's a visitor for you, someone named uh….." he looks back "Tokoyami?"
Hawks jumps up in bed, wings puffing up happily and a smile on his face "Visitors" he corrects, never one to let that side "I'll see them."
The officer looks confused by his correction but steps aside and lets them in.
Tokoyami walks in with Dark Shadow resting on his shoulder, both looking at him worriedly.
As soon as the door closes Hawks gets up and lets out a reassuring chirp to the pair.
Hawks isn't allowed to show his more bird-like traits but he made an exception for these two early on, only doing it when the three are in private, they are baby birds, acting ashamed of his bird side around them is asking to give them issues with their own avian sides. (Yes he knows they aren't really in private, that the cameras are watching but he can't not when they look so worried.)
Dark Shadow trills back her disbelief, not buying it for a minute.
Hawks lets out a more forceful coo, promising that he is fine.
"If that were true you would not be here" Tokoyami throws back with his own disbelieving trill, "Nor would you be the top story world-wide as the missing Prince."
Hawks sighs, okay yeah lying is pointless here. "Okay fine I'm a mess" he admits moving to the table and taking a seat.
Tokoyami takes the seat next to him, "Your sight is clouded with darkness, that makes it harder to see."
Hawks sighs again and wraps a wing around them pulling Tokoyami close, he takes off his gloves and gives his talons a stretch before preening the feathers on his head, "Yeah it is, I'm trying to deal with it but everything is confusing right now."
Dark Shadow moves to preen his wings like she normally would when they do this and let's out a upset chirp, "What's with the fabric?"
"They don't want me using my Quirk while locked up" he explains.
Both teens frown, "Your feathers will be a mess by tomorrow" Tokoyami replies.
Hawks snorts, "No kidding, its gonna take hours to preen them."
"We can help" Dark Shadow offers.
He let's out a thankful chirp. "Thanks Shadow" he runs a hand over her feathers.
"Hawks" Tokoyami starts, voice hesitate, "You told me that you do not show your more avian side publicly because of the social stigma of being a heteromorph would lower your ranking which would affect your ability to help people. That you do not have any shame in it but understand how the public views Quirks like ours."
"I did" he agrees slowly, knowing he's not gonna like where this is going.
"That was a lie wasn't it?" He presses, "Your owners don't allow you to show any heteromorphic trait that isn't your wings?"
This kid is too damn smart. Hawks just nods..
"That's bull!" Dark Shadow trills, she stares him in the eye, "Hawks you told us that because you know they are wrong about our bird traits" she takes his hands, touching her non-solid fingers to his talons. "You shouldn't hide them."
Hawks smiles, he loves these kids….he tosses his gloves into the bin in the corner.
Tokoyami crosses his arms and stares.
Hawks huffs and takes off his shoes and compression socks letting his non-human feet out, they look pretty bird-like with three toes pointing forward and one backwards, and scale covering his feet and going up the ankles before smoothly merging with regular skin.
Tokoyami doesn't let up on his look, in fact Dark Shadow joins in.
Hawks groans and glances at the cameras watching him, "Really?"
They say nothing, just keep staring.
He lets out a annoyed trill and stands up, undoing his pants and pulling his tail-feathers out of the special holster in his pants, they are pretty ragged, feathers bent and ruffled from being stuck in there for so long, but they're still beautiful, being a dozen shades of red, orange and yellow. He makes a hole with his talons to stick the tail-feathers through and does his button again and sits down.
"Now I am happy" Tokoyami lets out a pleased coo.
"Good for you" he grumbles embarrassedly, Tsunagu and Rumi are going to make him talk about this.
Tokoyami let's out an upset coo, "I understand you have not yet decided to cooperate with the investigation or not, however if you want my opinion I believe you should. No one who cares for you wishes for you to be hurt, or to hide part of who you are."
Hawks let's out a unsure trill as Shadow leans over and starts preening his tail-feathers.
Tokoyami sighs, "Hawks think of this from another perspective. If it were Dark Shadow and I who had been revealed to be slaves, would you want to stand by as we choose to stay with those who hurt us?"
"Of course not!" He snaps, the very idea of his little brother and sister in all but blood being slaves making his heart break.
Dark Shadow smirks, "You'd destroy them and get us out."
"Of course I would!"
"Then why is it different for you?" Tokoyami asks, making Hawks's walls shatter.
They're right, if he was on the other side he'd be trying to help whichever friend it was, he'd be their support. He needs to let his friends support him, trust them to handle this for him, if he does he can be free.
Ha-Keigo hugs Dark Shadow and Tokoyami, "Thanks fledglings… I'm going to have to cut this visit short, I'm ready to talk to the Detective."
Tsunagu watches the camera feed as the teenagers speak to Hawks. He has never heard his friend make bird sounds like that before, hell he didn't know he could.
As he watches he grows more surprised as the gloves that Hawks never take off are removed revealing talons and scaly skin. As they continue to talk and preen he sees Hawks open up more, and at the teens pushing show more Heteromorphic traits Tsunagu never knew he had.
When Hawks asks Tokoyami and Dark Shadow to leave, declaring he's ready to speak to the Detective, there is a rush in the surveillance room to find the therapist who is on a lunch break and get the two in there.
They can't find him so Detective Fukuda turns to Tsunagu, "Can you come in with me? We need someone to connect with his emotions during the interview. We can't risk waiting and having Hawks change his mind."
Tsunagu shares a look with Rumi who looks jealous, "Of course" he agrees.
Tokoyami and Dark Shadow are leaving as they approach the door, the teenagers bow to him, "I wish you luck. I believe Hawks is ready to talk now."
Tsunagu nods back, "Thanks to you too."
The teen smiles proudly and keeps walking.
They open the door and find Hawks still sitting at the table, his tail-feathers puffed up nervously, not looking at either of them.
(Can he control those feathers as well? No, probably not, his owners would not force him to hide them away if they were 'useful.')
Fukuda takes a seat on the other side while Tsunagu sits next to him, "How are you feeling Hawks?"
He glances up at him, "...I think I wanna use Keigo" he whispers.
Tsunagu lights up, smiling softly "Alright Keigo."
Keigo smiles back, "So" he looks to the Detective, "...Its the Commission. The HPSC bought me."
The government bought him? Tsunagu thought Keigo was so close to the Commission because he's been assigned to give information from them, not the other way around.
"I was bought for the Legacy Program. The Program is designed to craft the heroes of the future, heroes loyal to the Commission."
Keigo talks for two hours, listing illegal programs, names, training techniques no one in their right mind would approve of, illegal missions he has been forced to do, spy work, honeypot missions and assassinations. By the time he's done there are tears running down Keigo's cheeks and Tsunagu is hugging him tight.
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Keigo lets out a sigh of relief when his wings are freed from Mt Lady's gloves.
They kept him the full 48 hours to give themselves time to plan the HPSC raid, apparently telling reporters and everyone else he still wasn't talking, but the raid happened this morning and went well so now he is allowed to leave.
Keigo thinks he made the right call, he trusts his friends and so far everything has gone to plan, he's gotta trust it'll stay that way.
He looks at his feathers and groans, god its gonna take forever to preen them.
"Keigo" Rumi opens the door "Come on, I grabbed your shit from your apartment. Its time to go nugget-head."
He nods, guess preening will have to wait, (He'll have to text the Fledglings, see if they wanna come by Jeanie's and help) "Where'd Tsu go?"
Rumi rolls her eyes "Arguing with your Aunt again. she's trying to convince him you should go back to the Palace."
Keigo snorts "Hell no."
He's not going back to 'his' apartment since its part of the crime scene/was never his/lots of trauma happened there, so Tsunagu offered him his guest room. Sounds like the Princess doesn't like that.
They round the corner and find the Princess and her guards arguing with Tsunagu.
"-y thanks for getting him out of his head but there's still the threat on his life from the HPSC. The Royal guards can keep him safe in the Palace" Crown Princess Yamaoka Yasuko argues.
Best Jeanist raises a eyebrow, "And you are saying I can't?"
"That is not what she means" Yagami tries to sooth the number three Hero, "But you are one man. One man who is still recovering from the battle with All For One. Prince Keigo will be safe in the Imperial House."
"It is Keigo's choice" Tsunagu glares at both of them, "He has had very little of those in his life and he chooses to stay with me. Besides that it will not just be myself, Miruko will be 'stopping by' so often I imagine my other guest room will become hers within a month."
Rumi shrugs in a 'he's not wrong' way.
"Besides that I have set up a Guard rotation of my sidekicks."
"He is a member of the royal family, my family. I want to help him" Yamaoka pleads.
Keigo steps forward so she can see him "Princess" he bows to her.
She makes a face, "Please don't Keigo" she pauses at her own presumption at using his first name.
He waves that off, its not like he has any others names he wants to use (Though he has been thinking about a new hero name, would Red Wing be too on the nose?) "Yamaoka, I know you want to help but I'm not going to live at the Palace. This is my choice" he stresses, still feeling weird making one. At the face she makes, he offers a compromise: "Tsunagu's sidekicks can't hang around me all the time, they'd be bored to tears. If you want some of your Guards can shares shifts with them…and I'll do a family dinner."
A smile lights up her face, "Okay, thank you err Hawks."
He smiles back, "Call me Keigo."