A cold night comes, a little boy trembles.

Touya shifts on his bed, turning from the left to right, humming as his body twitched every three seconds. Dreaming of flashing images...

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He mumbles in his sleep, "Mom..."

"No...!"

He whimpers in fear.

A different object appears out of nowhere.

In this dream, he outstretched his hand to try and reach it. Yet it only resulted in him falling deeply into a spiral portal.

Then something flashed for one second.

He screamed and jolted up with eyes wide awake. Breathing heavily to catch his breath while sweat and tears dripped to the bed.

The lights switched on. He whimpered quickly held up his arms in defence. Not until he hears the voice that calls his favourite nickname, "Dabi?"

"Onee-san..." His fast-paced breathing starts to slow down while Homusubi smiled tiredly before sitting on top of his bed in front of him.

"Did you have a nightmare?"

He looked down while wiping his snot, he sniffled, "Yeah... I don't like it... Some parts or my nightmare keeps on coming back every night."

"... Which part?" She grew serious.

"It's a place. Filled with--with nothing but darkness and fire. I don't like it there..." His voice shook as he crawls closer to her. She accepts him with open arms, "I can't sleep anymore..."

She held him in a hug that she hoped could bring him comfort in his experience, "It's okay, we can sleep together if you want."

"I'm sorry for waking you up..."

"Hey, it's fine! I promised to protect you, even if it means protecting you from your nightmare."

A soft smile formed on his lips while he buries his face on her shoulder, "Thank you..." But the smile faded away as a pot of sorrow fills up his heart, 'You're always so selfless... even at times like this.' 

• Next Morning •

"Alright. Come on! Let's go to the bathroom to brush our teeth!" Homusubi leads her 3 younger siblings: Fuyumi, Natsuo, Shoto from behind with Touya walking beside him. After understanding their father's busy situation without a wife, she starts to become the one who will act as their parent.

When waking up, she gets ready first, cooks their breakfast, wakes up others, then helps them get ready for the day.

Natsuo yawned while brushing his teeth in front of the mirror, together with the rest of the Todoroki siblings. Shoto looked up constantly at his biggest sister beside him, trying to see if he's toothbrushing the correct way by copying her. After that, they'd share a bath, because why not? They're siblings!

Although this is Shoto's first time bathing with them, he felt a little shy and constantly stuck beside Homusubi. The boy still couldn't speak, but he can understand the human relationship. He knows he still does not have a great bond with his siblings, except for Homusubi. He was cut off from playing with the bubbles on his own baby bathtub when Fuyumi suddenly splashes water at him, causing him to pout and look up at Homusubi with big puppy eyes.

Homusubi chuckled while applying shampoo on top of his mixed colour hair like icing on a cake. She starts to massage his hair and baby Shoto felt even more relaxed while silently pretending like the squeaky duck and the toy boat was a shark about to eat a yacht in half.

After that, since it's currently summertime, they made a loud ruckus just making their way to the shared room to play. The elder siblings noticed that Shoto was playing by himself across the room, so picture an image of them trying to convince him to play with their different stuffed toys.

In the end, the boy coldly turned his head away from them and continue playing with his ABC's. Natsuo, Fuyumi, and Touya sulked in defeat on the ground as Shoto hummed innocently and looked at them while pouting with his chubby cheeks.

"Come on, why won't you play with us? We're your siblings aren't we?" Fuyumi asked as if the poor boy could understand.

"Yeah! Siblings! Si-blings." Natsuo smiled brightly, having high hopes he'd accept their offer this time.

"..." Shoto turns his body towards Homusubi and points at her with a stoic expression, "Ma... ma."

Everyone was shocked with a thunderbolt in the background.

But the one who's even more surprised than the rest was non-other than Homusubi Todoroki. She slowly points at herself with both eyebrows raised, "M-M-M-Mama?"

"Mama!"

"That's his first word and I should be happy but instead I... am disturbed." Fuyumi hissed with a doubtful expression.

"He thinks you're his mom?" Touya asked while choking on his saliva.

Natsuo blinked a few times, "Whaaat?"

"Well... This is awkward." She muttered under his breath while watching the little toddler wear an aloof expression.

"Mama!"

Homusubi sighs while running a hand down her face, "Seems like we can't change it until he understands. Heh."

"Hahahaha! Mama Homusubi~!" They started to torture her all day with teasing.

• Later that night •

"U.A... Huh?" She muttered to herself while going on a night stroll and drinking chocolate milk at the same time.

The fresh memory of her father talking to her over the phone regarding her enrollment to this Japan's best high school/academy. He already had this planned for her forever since she decided to become a hero. She's heard about this school here and there so it's popular is undoubted. Yet the girl can't help but stop for a moment and look behind the long path she's gone through to reach this part.

'And I'm still 15 years old at that.' She scoffed with a smile, 'There's like 80 more years before I die. I wonder what events will happen in that time. Well surely... I've already erased that Yama god from existence.'

A memory made her stop in her tracks, the sad memory that made her hesitant to go to U.A.

"I won't be attending there." Said Rumo

Both Tsuki and I were shocked to hear this. We already planned that U.A. will be our next destination as heroes-in-training. We were supposed to be together, the incredible trio, the Powerpuff heroes...

"But... Why?" I asked.

She didn't even look at me in the eye for the whole conversation. The strong breeze on top of our school building blew her hair away. For a second, I could see her eyes glaze before turning to face her back against us, "Some things... Some things never stay forever."

'I'm worried about her...' She nervously bit on the star while grumbling to herself.

A painful groan from the alley to my right caught her attention. She swiftly turns in that direction and stares deeply into the darkness. Until she could make out two figures, a guy kicking another guy against the wall while tying him up in what seems to be a bandage.

"You've learned your lesson." The attacked threatened in a deep voice before disappearing into darkness up into the top of the building.

Her breath hitched as she wanted to follow that guy, but hesitated while glancing at the 'victim'. She heaves a sigh and patted his shoulder in reassurance that he'll be okay. So the courageous girl makes her way to swiftly climb up the walls with a pipe and reached out for the metal emergency stairs. She froze for a moment when she felt a pain shot through her side, where her rib surgery was, and she heaves a sigh when it went away, 'I need to be careful.'

After a while of climbing up, she finally sees the guy, standing on the edge of the building while holding his goggles up. With the dark sky, the bright moon didn't fail to give light to his appearance. Enough for her to make out his all-black clothes and scarf around his neck.

The man jumped off of the edge out of her sight. She gasps and ran towards where he went and looked over to see if he's okay. But then he came flying back up to swiftly grab her arm, turn her around and pin her against the ground. The sudden moves that she couldn't even react to knocked the wind out of her.

"State your identity."

"Ah-Ow-Aw-OUCH! It hurts!" She wriggles her wrist that he held in a tight grip.

"Are you a villain too? Note that I will know if someone lies." He growled dangerously.

She laughed awkwardly and blurted out, "Ooo you're a hero?! That makes me want to train under your wings even more!"

"Huh?" He could hear the genuineness this girl held. So he sighs, hopes that she's not a great actor, and gets off of her, "Who the hell are you in the first place?"

She smiles shyly while dusting off her jacket and shorts, "Sorry... You must've thought I was stalking you for your good looks." She proudly held out her hand with a grin, "I'm Homusubi Todoroki!"

'This girl?!--' His eyes widen for a second before turning to his neutral state, "Eto... You said you wanted to train under me? But... Why me? I mean there's a lot of other guys out there with ten times higher value that your father could afford."

"First of all, I've never ever seen anyone use a scarf as a weapon." She stared at the cloth around his neck, "I want to learn how to use it too!!! SO PLEASE TEACH ME, SENSEI! (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧✧✧"

He sighs and slowly pulled off his scarf and smacked a nearby fly with it, making her to drop her jaw in awe, "It took me six years to master this, so I was only 14 years old when I started. Are you sure you still want to learn it after hearing that?"

Her grin beams under the moonlight, "IT'S ALRIGHT NOW! Why? BECAUSE I--"

"Stop. You're not All Might."

She lowered her shoulders, "Hey, come on, I'm not too much to handle! I swear I'll just be on your back to learn that weapon and then after I'm done-- POOF!!! I'm gone. You won't ever see me. You can even name your price!"

"This is getting out of hand--"

"Anything to learn that weapon!" This time, she wasn't smiling in determination. This time, she's dead serious. "Please! Give me a chance!"

He sighs in distress while giving his heavy eyelids a massage, 'She's an interesting one alright... It might be my chance to pass down this technique. And... how in the hell is she so bright in the night?'

"Fine." He grumbled in his deep voice while turning around to leave, "Meet me at my agency next week."