"Your older brother…" said Midoriya, looking at Fuyumi, while across the table Bakugou watched me.
"You didn't tell them?" Asked Fuyumi.
"It's not exactly a conversation starter."
"Natsu and Toya were so close," said Fuyumi, adjusting her glasses. This was the most I'd heard her talk about him in a very long time. "They were always playing together. It was shortly after mom went away. Her condition somehow got even worse, to the point that Shoto couldn't even visit her. But she's overcome all that. Shoto's visiting her now, and our family's looking toward the future more and Natsu can't seem to let it go. He believes that father…killed Toya."
"That explains the look on his face," said Bakugou, surprisingly quietly.
My Old man walked in. We all stopped talking right away.
"I gotta bring the boys back to school."
We stood outside, bundled up and ready to leave.
"Thank you so much for the meal!" Said Midoriya with a bow.
"Gimmee that Mapo tofu recipe," said Bakugou.
"Sure!"
"I'll have her text it to you."
"Sorry, I meant to ask more about your school life.
"Fuyumi," said my old man, "Thanks."
He got in the car. Fuyumi turned to MIdoriya.
"Midoriya?" She took his hand between hers. "Thank you for being Shoto's friend."
"Well, I mean - the pleasure's all mine!" He stammered and blushed out." I scratched my face, trying not to blush myself. I almost felt the urge to say something like "Siiiiis," like 'come-on', that defensive sort of thing normal kids did when their siblings or their parents made a big fuss over their friends.
Instead we got in the car.
"You boys gotta get stronger fast. In addition to weekends, you're to report in at least two days a week if you can shift your class schedule around." My old man, never one to let a party last.
"That's how it was for Uraraka, Kirishima, and everyone last time," I asked Midoriya.
"We also gotta study for finals…help me out with English, Todoroki?" Said Midoriya.
Bakugou meanwhile had his head stuffed out of the window as if he was choking for air. "Shouldn't the number one hero get a bigger car!?" He demanded.
"Complaining about being chauffeured around?" Said our chauffeur. "Kids these days! Endeavor, since when do you give rides to slacker students!?"
"Since I was placed at the top."
"Paah! Are you saying one's position can change a person? Hm?"
He had spotted something - something in the road - a villain. He was wearing dark clothing, and bandages were spinning all around him - holding - a hostage?
"Nice house you've got back there - Endeavor!"
A hostage - Who was -
"That's Natsu!" I shouted.
"Boss!" Cried our chauffeur, spinning the car around. "Hold tight, slackers!"
My old man had blasted out of the car shouting "Let him go!"
"Remember me, Endeavor!?"
"From seven years ago. You're that violent offender I took down! I remember you gave yourself your own villain name and everything. You're -"
"Yes, yes! Amazing! I'm tickled pink you remember! That's right, I'm -Ending! Sorry, Endeavor, but you gotta understand, no matter what I did, you always had so much I never could attain! I looked up to you! But I never had anything to protect! I'm gonna kill this kid, so please, Endeavor, do the job right this time! You gotta - kill me!"
Get your freaking bandages off my big brother.
The villain was still ranting, with a deadly arrow pointed at Natsu's throat. "Even in the worst of times, heroes don't have the option to you killed that Nome, right? And I'm just like that puppet - not alive, not dead, somewhere in between! So rest easy! Use those dazzling flames of yours to Bakugou had blasted out of the car before the villain's wrappings could lock us in; I followed, Midoriya behind me.
"Forgetting something, slackers!?"shouted our chauffeur.
"Kacchan! Shoto!" Midoriya shouted. I caught the suitcase with my costume inside, Bakugou his. I pulled on my regulator and yelled, "Natsuo!"
"Trainees, huh?" Said the villain. "But Endeavor, kill me right this time! You're my only hope!"
The old man had frozen in place, and we blasted past him.
"Oh, flames of hope! Still playing the good and decent hero? Even with your own son's life on the line!?" The villain was screaming.
My flames were activating as I seethed in rage.
"Give. Me back…"
Focus to a point. Build up
"My brother!"
Release!"
"Quickly now, kill me!" The villain shouted. He was tossing cars around. "Cuz if you don't, more will die!"He was tossing Natsuo at a car -
But Bakugou had him. "More will die? Nope!" He shouted - Midoriya was catching the falling cars with his new quirk. "That's right. No one's dying. We won't let them! Otherwise all our hopes won't come true!"
I was on the villain at last, setting the finishing blow. The move had worked, perfectly. He was down for the count.
Meanwhile, my old man had grabbed Bakugou and Natsuo and was holding them close.
