~9 years ago~

My bare feet quietly padded on the floor, my wings dragged behind me, still to big for me. There was someone rummaging through the kitchen. I silently hoped it was mom, she wouldn't get angry if i was out of bed at this time, and even if she did get angry she wouldn't do anything to me.  I turned the corner to the kitchen and i was met with the back of my father, his wings bigger than mine but nearly the exact same. The colour of his wings were a shade darker, like blood. I frowned as I noticed actual blood, I thought it was coming from his side, the dark liquid was smeared across his white shirt. I looked down to the floor, and I only now noticed the trail of blood on the floor. I looked back up just in time to see my dad's head turn, blood on his face and red glowing eyes. He turned his body further around and i noticed the dagger in his hand, covered in blood too, he took a step toward me and--

I sat up in my bed with a gasp feathers flew up with me ready to defend me. I was sweating and out of breath, like I'd run a marathon. I was more than glad to notice i was still in my familiar dorm room. I hadn't really had any nightmares since the first year i started this school and i had hoped it would have stayed that way, but of course not. I scoffed, it's kinda pathetic that 15 year old me is still scared of something from my youth, something that isn't even there anymore. I touched my hand against my face, to wipe the sweat off and to, metaphorically, wipe the dream away. It's all in my head, i told myself. My hand was shaking. Every time i closed my eyes i still saw him. I realised not only my hand was shaking but my entire body was trembling with fear.

"Bad dream huh?" A voice next to me spoke up. 
I snapped my head towards my dormmate and stared at him. Toya was still lying on his back, he had only turned his head to me. 

"Wanna talk about it?" he asked.
I slowly lowered my shaking hand away from my face, "No. I'm fine," I took a deep breath to steady my face "Sorry i didn't mean to wake you up."

He sighed and turned his head to the ceiling, "Don't worry about it."
It seemed like he went back to sleep, i looked at my hands and glanced at Toya again. I was debating whether i should go back to sleep, could i though? I was scared that I'd have a nightmare again.

"Toya," I said carefully and before i could chicken out i continued, "I really don't wanna bother you, but would it be okay if i slee--"
"Yeah sure you can sleep here, just don't drool on my pillow okay?" Toya interrupted me before i could finish. I smiled a little at him and got up taking to steps before crawling underneath the covers of his bed. He turned his back to me and i did the same. Our backs brushed against each other slightly, which comforted me.
"Goodnight," I whispered. "Night."

"Don't you ever think about running away?" Toya asked as we sat on the rooftop of our dorm building the moon was full and the stars shone brightly. Toya loved to sit on the roof, he liked the wind in his hair and the ground far away from him, he had told me he was jealous of me because i knew how to fly.

 "All the time when i was young, sometimes still but not much anymore, you?" I threw a stray twig that was on the roof, down, looking at it as it twirled to the ground below until it disappeared in the darkness. 

"All the time." he confessed.

 "Why don't we just run away together then?" i suggested, it was nice to think about it even though we weren't really gonna do it. Where could two minors possibly go?
Toya smiled and nodded, "Good idea."

~present~

"I was wondering this since, i flew with you to my apartment the other day. " 'the other day' already felt like ages ago while it was just a few months, "Since when are you scared of heights? As teenagers you always wanted to get on top of the roof. "

We were alone on the porch of my mom's house, smoking a cigarette, the sun had just started to set. We had said our goodbyes to Shigaraki not so long ago after we finally  got downstairs. It seemed like he waited for us just to be furious and throw a tantrum. It had been an entire mess honestly. My bottomlip was bleeding from the fist i had flying to my face and had noticed to late too dodge and Dabi was clutching his hand to his side to the recent, still healing, stab wound where Shigaraki had, a dirty trick, kicked him.

Twice was inside knocked out cold and the others were getting him upstairs to the bed. I could have easily helped them with one of my feathers but i couldn't care less to be honest, the other's are able to handle it just fine.

"Funny that you ask that." Toya said and he stayed quiet for a while. 

"Yes?" i asked when it was quiet for to long. "You know the old building where you saved me from few days ago?" i nodded, "That's where i stayed when i had just ran away."
"Right underneath the police their noses." i said impressed, he managed to stay out of sight from the police when he was only a few hundred metres away from them.

"I-- Sometimes the burning was so bad I'd considered, you know, making an end of it all?" he was stammering slightly, he looked away. The cigarette between his fingers slowly neared it's end without having had a drag taken from it. "I would go up to the roof and I'd be ready to jump. I chickened out everytime, though it made me develop a fear of heights."

I looked at him, I had already expected that it would have an explanation as heavy as this one but that was different from actually hearing it .
"Sorry, i just made everything so depressing." he still didn't look at me, i wasn't sure if it was from shame or sadness. It did give me a free ticket to look at his side profile, I noticed that his roots started to show, his hair was so thick and spiky that it was barely there but specks of white were forming there.

"Ha it's fine, i mean look at us, we're a fucking mess." I said. "One of us is bleeding," i pointed at me face, then gestured towards the bruise on my cheek from the kick to the face from Endeavor. Dabi finally looked at me, there was a small streak of blood coming from the patch underneath his eyes.

"Oh I mean two of us." I said and i swiped the blood away with my thumb.

He scoffed, "You're weird."

"You're just catching on on that or was it a statement?"

"A statement you, idiot."

"Good, it would be odd if you didn't know it yet after all these years." I said with a slight grin, hee pushed my shoulder as we both laughed quietly.

~10 years ago~

I stood behind Toya awkwardly, i hadn't known why he had me come with him to his house but i felt awkward now i was finally there.

"Your dad's not home right?" i asked again, i hadn't ever met him but he was the one who arrested my father, i didn't want to face him. "He's at work, like i said like twenty times already, it's just mom and my siblings." The fourteen year old said as i followed him inside.

There were quick footsteps approaching before a girl flung herself into Toya's arms.

 "Toya i missed you! Why don't you visit more often?" the girl with white hair and dots of red in it said as she held on to her older brother tighter. 

"I'm sorry, school was busy." Toya said, which wasn't really the truth, he just didn't want to go home because of his father. I had heard Endeavor puts a lot of pressure on Toya's youngest brother, he's scared that one day one of them, his siblings or mom, will snap and try to stop Endeavor. With the temper Toya has, he thinks it'll be him and he doesn't want to get in trouble.

"Ooh right you brought your friend!" the girl said and she turned to me with a smile.

 "I'm Fuyumi." she looked like her brother, both the messy white with red hair though the red in Toya's hair was fading. She also looked a lot more sociable then her older brother.

 "Keigo Takami, nice to meet you." i greeted back and she grabbed my wrist. "Come on you need to meet the others." she said as she dragged me further inside i looked back at Toya, he followed with his hands in his pockets.

"You know this is the first time Toya has had a friend over, we thought he was a loner." Fuyumi said still with the bright smile on her face, 

"Shut up Fuyumi." Toya mumbled and i chuckled at that, without me Toya would have probably been a loner. 
"Fuyumi please go easy on our guest." a woman appeared, she had a warm motherly smile, the one my mother lacked, "Sorry Mum." Fuyumi finally let go of my wrist and the woman approached us. She had her long white hair tied back in a ponytail. Toya walked up to her and wrapped his arms around her waist. She hugged him back and kissed the top of his head whispering something in his ear which i couldn't and didn't even try to hear. 

"You're Keigo right?" Toya's mum turned towards me, "I'm Rei, Toya wrote about you in his letters. I hope you feel welcome, please make yourself at home." she smiled again and i just now noticed how tired she looked. Suddenly two boys appeared one looked a few years younger than Toya, with white hair. The other boy was around five years, he had half white half red hair. The first boy introduced himself happily," I'm Natsuo!" he said excitedly.
The other boy clutched at his mother's leg, pearing behind from it with his big two coloured eyes.

Rei put her hand on his head, "Now Shoto say hi to our guest."
I smiled and crouched down and reached my hand over to the kid, i have always been good with kids. "Hey there, I'm Keigo. I love your hair, it's very cool." i said as i stretched my wings slightly. Shoto looked up at his mom before stepping around her leg . 

"You- you have big wings."
I stretched one of them out towards the boy, "It's my quirk, you have a cool quirk too right?"

I noticed how Rei flinched and i realised that i made a mistake mentioning the little guy's quirk. Toya must have realised the mistake even before his mother flinched because he was already grabbing the back of my shirt and pulled me up. 

"How about we play a card game?" he suggested and we went to the living room.

We were back at our school dorm late that evening, it had been fun at the Todoroki's until Endeavor arrived, Toya and I had left quickly after that but it was honestly weird how a atmosphere could change so fast just because of the presence of the father.

The next day was a bad day, Toya got a phone call which carried bad news: his younger brother got burned in his face, his mom was the one who poured boiling water onto him. She was being send to a mental hospital.

Toya burst out in total anger and started throwing things right after he heard it. "It's not her fault!" he yelled before he grabbed something else to throw and i grabbed his arm to stop him from either accidentally hurting himself or smashing our entire dorm up. To summon it up; the rest of the day was an eventful day and i ended up with a black eye and a crying boy in my arms.

The next day he refused to get out of bed. "What do i have to do to get you up? " I asked as i tried to, literally, push him out of bed, i succeeded but he stayed on the ground. "Kill me." he grunted from his spot on the floor.

"Jokes on you, not gonna happen."
I said down, crossed legs next to him in the floor.

 "I'm just gonna sit here and annoy you till you get up then."

"You'll miss class," Toya replied, 

"So will you." i retorted and i grabbed a book from my nightstand. "Should i read it for you?" i asked. I got no response so i started to read out loud. Halfway through the fourth chapter, Toya sat up. "--You're feeling better?" i said, mid sentence, he scoffed, "Gotta pee." he said and he pushed himself off the ground. I smiled to myself, at least he's up and walking now. 

I hadn't realised at that moment a few years later that I  could get a phone call that would make me not want to leave my bed. After his 16th birthday Toya disappeared and a few weeks later the police claimed he was dead, Fuyumi called me on the stormy night and told me the news.

I couldn't speak as she sobbed into my ear, telling the news that shattered my heart. I couldn't, i wouldn't believe it. He couldn't have just died? They would have found his body. His fire quirk, was the police their excuse. He couldn't burn himself to crisps right?

I wasn't able to come out of bed for anything else except to pee. The school gave the students in my year, the 10 others and me who were still left, a week off. In that time Rumi came and brought me food every morning and evening, even though i didn't eat it. She stayed with me, talked to me, even though i didn't speak back. On one evening though, i finally decided to speak as she was talking about Toya again.

"I get why you're down, but you gotta--"
"I don't think you get it." i snapped my voice was raspy from not speaking for such a long time. I was angry, I wasn't  angry with her, she was only trying to help. But i was angry at the police for giving up, on myself for not noticing that Toya had it so rough that he wanted to disappear for ever. 

I continued, "He was my best friend, the one person that was the closest to me. The person I love," Rumi stayed quiet, she understood what i meant and i realised she had known i liked him. I felt tears in my eyes, i hadn't cried yet and i didn't want to. Mom said only weak people cried. 

"I love him and i didn't even get the chance to tell him that because i didn't realise it before until now!" i said and tears started to stream down my cheeks.

I pressed my hands against my eyes harshly, trying to stop the tears from coming. Rumi's soft hands grabbed my wrist and pulled my hands from my eyes.

 "It's okay to cry Keigo, let it out." She said, her own eyes sad, her ears hanging down.

"You've bottled everything up long enough." she continued, something so different than from what my mother would have said.

She wrapped her arms around me and i became a shaking and sobbing mess in her arms. She cried with me as i started to tell her more things i hadn't even told Toya just because i didn't want to burden him, that my mother told me i was weak when i cried and other things she had said and Rumi probably realised mom had been mentally abusing me, which i hadn't realised untill after graduating, i told her slightly about my father not much just the most obvious.

When i went home the evening of my graduation ceremony I found my mum in my room. My room was in shreds, everything from my childhood torn apart and the worst part of it all was my mother on the ground against the bed, cluthcing her knees against her chest. She called me my father's name, my stomach turned at that nearly making me want to gag, i knew i looked like him a lot.

 "Come here, you shouldn't go outside, what if the police catches you?" she said. Oh she's imagining me as him after the incident huh? I thought. I walked towards her and crouched down next to her. "Mum it's me, Keigo, not," i swallowed, i didn't want to say his name, "not that man."

Her sweet mannerism changed when she heard that. 

"It's all your fault you know? Him getting arrested, everything is your fault!" She screeched at me, "I know, I'm sorry." I bowed my head down. She hit me, the first and last time she hit me. I didn't let her do what she wants like i let my father do when i was younger. I was older now, i am an adult, i was taller and stronger then her. I grabbed her wrists tightly, i didn't hurt her, i would never hurt her, but she wasn't going to hurt me too. I just restrained her.

"Enough," i said, "It's enough, you can't hurt me anymore, mentally or physically." i should overcome my own fears before helping others, i had learned that, that day. Later that evening she was in my car, quietly with her head down. Her feather like hair fell in front of her eyes. I said goodbye to her once we checked her in at the hospital. I know this wasn't what she deserved, but it was what was best for both of us, she was a danger to herself and others.

I watched her get taken away by doctors and she disappeared from my sight, that was the last time i saw her alive.

"Gosh responsibilities." i said to Rumi, no Pro hero Mirko, right after the first day of patrol. My hero debut was that day, I'd saved 15 people from a burning building. There were no death's and no one seriously hurt. People found it a miracle that a hero, just 18 years old, saved so many people so fast. They asked me who i was working for and when i told them i had started my own agency they were beyond surprised. And my fame started to rise from that point on and at the age of 20 i was in the top 10 of best heroes, Mirko followed a little later than me but still nearly as fast.

We couldn't go out on the street without being recognised and soon people started to think we were a couple. We kinda were, a couple of idiots but not anything else. I layed the rumours to rest by coming out, which was accepted pretty easily, i don't think people could say something about it with Mirko right there next to me all the time, she was plenty scary enough if someone went to be homophobic. Though life did became more hectic after that and i even hooked up with male fans a few times, it was an absolute mess but i managed to keep up my appearance.

I frequently met up with Fuyumi after graduation to talk, but that ended after a while too, it was hard to see her without telling her i was still searching for her brother.

Then after a year in the hospital my mother died, unexpectedly. I hadn't cried when I got the call, i shut my feelings off for these kind of things after Toya was gone and i didn't care enough about her anymore to be sad.

The funeral was small, my mom didn't have any family or friends. She had shut herself off from her family when she married my father. I had invited Rumi, but that was more for support on my side because i didn't want to go alone. Rumi was the only person that i could call family now.

"Work together with a shrimp like you? Don't make me laugh." Endeavor scoffed, i smiled a cocky grin, underestimating me like always. There's a reason I'm the number 2 i wouldn't have been if i wasn't good at what i did.  Mirko was sitting next to me on the couch, watching this conversation.

"You expect you can maintain the number 1 place now All Might is gone? You're a strong hero but you lack social skills." i said as i sat back and crossed my arms.

"And i suppose you're gonna help me?" Endeavor said. 

"Well yes, plus i have a plan." I said as i flashed him a smile.

"Kid just go home." Endeavor said and he stood up, he turned around to the door. In a flash i was in front of him again, this time slightly annoyed.
"Don't underestimate me, I'm smarter than most of the heroes out there and also faster, most people say I'm too fast."

Endeavor scoffed again but this time his frown turned into a slight smirk, "What's your plan?"

Mirko smirked at me.
"To infiltrate the League of Villains," i answered.

This is kind of a long chapter haha. Most of it flashbacks.