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home was safe, feni knew that much at two years old, and that’s all her parents wanted her to know.
keigo was pressed close to touya, both speaking in low tones to one another while they watched feni with shouto.
feni giggled as she pulled back shouto’s hair, tiny fingers attempting to pull it into pigtails.
the five year old didn’t look too impressed with the toddler pulling on his two-toned hair, but he sat still. he watched silently as fuyumi sat down with his brother and keigo. watched as she carefully handed keigo and cut of tea and spoke softly, the blonde’s eyes filled with tears and touya huffed in annoyance, letting his forehead fall against his lover’s shoulder, hugging his middle tightly.
“papa?” the toddler babbled, attempting to crawl towards her dad. shouto sighed, leaning forward and pulling his niece the toddler into his lap. touya looked up, his blue eyes were sad as he glanced at his baby bird.
she laughed happily and wiggled around so she could poke shouto’s face, black wings fluttering with excitement.
“shouto, take feni outside, please.” fuyumi told her little brother quietly.
shouto nodded, moving the smaller girl off of his lap before standing and grabbing her hand, leading her to the backyard to of hawk’s home.
“feni, do you know why you stay with auntie fuyumi?” shouto whispered quietly, sitting on the grass with the little girl.
”daddy says that grandpa is a bad man, and that if he ever knew about me, him, and papa, he would take me away.” feni explained, chin high like she knew everything in the whole world.
shouto only hummed, patting the girl’s hair.
”will you braid my hair, shouti?” feni asked quietly.
“of course.” shouto replied, letting his fingers run through the long white hair.
little did they know, just inside, touya and keigo had to make a plan to get feni away from endeavor. because he knew.
it was supposed to be a normal day. daddy had walked feni to school that morning, holding her hand and kissing her head before she walked into school to greet they boys.
she was supposed to leave school with kacchan and izuku and go to see auntie inko. then she was supposed to go home with kacchan, where daddy would pick her up when he and auntie mitsuki got home.
but that didn’t happen. she got called out of class exactly two hours early, her teacher lead her down the hall, a deep frown on the older woman’s face.
papa was waiting in the office, wings wrapped tightly around himself and his foot tapping the floor anxiously. when he say feni, his eyes welled up with tears and he scooped her into his arms, hugging her tightly.
“let’s go home, baby bird.” keigo whispered, thanking the teacher before walking out.
she didn’t really understand why daddy couldn’t come home anymore. papa wouldn’t tell her why, and every time she’d ask, he’d get this sad look in his eyes and just shake his head.
a big man come over one day, he was angry looking with bright red hair and he looked at feni like she was a treasure. feni hid behind papa’s leg when the big man squared down to greet her, tucking her wings close to her body as she hugged her dad’s leg.
she didn’t go to school anymore, but she was still allowed to go see izuku and katsuki on the weekends. endeavor, her grandpa, she learned, was a mean man. he yelled at feni and shouto whenever they got too off task. when shouto would tuck his chin, feni would scowl at her grandfather, making him raise an arm. but he never struck her, maybe it was because she looked too much like the son he killed or maybe it was because of her papa’s sharp and fierce eye that was always on the three.
katsuki was not a softie.
feni was just so fucking stupid, that’s all! the ten year old huffed, lifting the seven year old into his back.
“stupid feni. that hell were you thinking?”
“they were hitting you!” the girl cried out.
”your papa’s gonna kill you.” katsuki tsked.
”no! don’t tell papa!” feni flapped her wings and laughed as katsuki ran towards his house.
“oi, ma! i’m home!”
”i’m here too!” feni called out as she hopped off of bakugou’s back, running to the living room where keigo and mitsuki were talking.
“papa! don’t listen to a thing kacchan says, okay?” she cried out, plopping down on her dad’s lap.
”feni! where did you get that bruise!” hawks gasped, moving his hands to hold his daughter’s face. examining the bruise on her cheek.
“she got into my business, ended up getting knocked in the face by a kid with some rock quirk.” katsuki tsked as he sat next to his mom.
”kacchan!” feni whined.
”feni!” hawks gasped at his daughter.
“papa, it’s not a big deal! they were picking on kacchan! using their size and age to overpower him! just like you know who! i wasn’t gonna let that happen.” she pouted, crossing her arms.
hawks eyes softened a little, sighing he pulled his daughter into a hug, “okay, i’m not mad. but next time maybe come up with a plan before you go in guns blazin’, yeah?”
“okay papa!”
izuku was feni’s best friend. and she always made that very clear to him. he was the closets in age to her compared to all of her other friends from her neighborhood. she clung to him like cling wrap whenever they were together.
feni didn’t quite remember when katsuki got so mean. she knew he had an attitude, but as they all got older, katsuki just got meaner.
izuku showed up at her doorstep one day, tears falling endless down his cheeks as he babbled about meeting all might and how kacchan had told him to throw himself off of the school’s roof and how “i’m gonna be a hero, fen.”
the last part stunned the younger girl, but she laughed happily and hugged izuku tight.
”i knew you would be! it’s just like when we’d play hero’s with shou! we’re all gonna be an amazing team one day!” she hugged izuku closer, smiling as the boy wrapped his arms around her neck and cried into her shoulder.
”izuku, why don’t you invite your mother over for dinner? we’re having KFC.” hawks had asked when feni brought him into the house, still crying.
izuku nodded and pulled out his phone, along his mom and asking he if they could have dinner with feni and uncle kei, which he got a very enthusiastic yes to.
“pops, i didn’t realize you were off tonight.” feni said past a spoonful of mashed potatoes.
”well, tonight is a special night-“
”shit! is it your birthday?” feni exclaimed.
”first of all, language, second of all, no. i know you’ve been working hard to complete your studies so you can attended high school with the boys.”
feni nodded, resting her chin in her hands as she listened to her father talk.
”so, i pulled a few strings, had some friends, and myself, send in recommendations... and, feni you’re going to UA with shouto and hopefully katsuki and izuku next year.” hawks smiled at his daughter, who’s eyes filled with pure delight.
“no way!” she squealed, using her wings to launch herself over the table to hug her father, “thank you, pops!” she cried.
“woah, fen. chill, food on the table and guests.” hawks laughed.
”sorry!” feni apologized to the midoriya’s.
“don’t apologize feni! give me a hug!” izuku laughed, wrapping the girl in another hug.
“we’re going to UA!”
feni could understand why the press wanted her and shouto to be together so desperately. their fathers are long time business partners and her and shou were both pretty attractive, if she did say so herself.
if only they new my dad was his dead brother.
she shook her head and smoothed out her golden dress that matched her eyes perfectly. shouto was dressed in a sleek suit and had looped his arm with feni’s as they posed for pictures on the red carpet of the annual hero banquet.
”feni! shouto! over here!”
“i hate these things.” feni sighed, the 13 year old used her free arm to adjust her snow white hair while the other stayed hooked with shouto’s.
”at least you get the choice of coming. my father makes me come to every single one.” shouto muttered, waving at some of the cameras.
the annual hero banquet was a place where all hero’s could come to celebrate successful careers and get more publicity. feni had just started attending three years prior, after begging her pops to take her to one for five years straight.
shouto, on the other hand, had been attending since he developed his quirk. making him endeavor’s only plus one since the death of his oldest son, touya.
but this year, they were both here for the sole reason of publicly disclosing their futures.
“shouto! where will you be attending high school this year?” a reporter called out.
talk about perfect timing.
”feni and i have both been accepted into UA under recommendation and look forward to the coming school year.” shouto replied smoothly, smiling at the reporters before politely stating the he and feni will not answer any further questions. which, of course, caused an uproar of my questions.
”shouto! they birthday of your dead brother just passed, how is your family?”
”feni, shouto! how long have you two been dating?”
”is your relationship arranged?”
“talk about vultures.” feni scoffed, moving to wrap her arm around shouto’s waist.
shouto laughed and slung an arm over her shoulder, “i wish kacchan and izuku were here.” she sighed, leaning into him.
“you know they would hate the press more than we do.” shouto smirked at the thought of poor little izuku getting bombarded with press while katsuki yelled at them to fuck off.
feni and shouto laughed quietly as they made their way to an empty table in the back of the banquet hall. it was such a rarity for feni to see shouto anymore, after he developed his quirk, endeavor swooped in and started his training. leaving feni, katsuki, and izuku one friend down. feni really only got to seen shouto on birthdays and the banquet.
”so, sho. how have you been?” feni asked, leaning forward.
“touya’d birthday just passed, so natsuo, fuyumi, and i went to go visit mom.”
”how is she?” feni said quietly.
shouto sighed and shook his head, “she just keeps getting worse. but seeing as she was thrown in that hospital for no good reason, it would make sense that it’s getting to her.”
“yeah, pops looks more and more tired every year. he really loved dad.”
“they were together since they were fourteen, according to natsuo. they might’ve only been together for four years before you but they were madly in love.” shouto smiled, remembering the good stuff about touya was always nice.
“what do you think really happened to him?” feni whispered with a frown.
”i think dad trapped him in that shed. touya wasn’t an idiot, he wouldn’t trap himself in his own flames without having a way out.” shouto muttered.
”pops says my flames are just as hot as his. it would make sense that there were no remains. but what about his jewelry? i don’t remember much about dad but i do remember his earrings and how he always had chains on. those couldn’t have just disintegrated.” feni shook her head, “sorry, i know i shouldn’t try to theorize. he’s dead, been dead for eight years.” she huffed.
”he wanted to be a good dad. not like endeavor.” shouto whispered.
”shou, you really don’t-“
”i want to.” shouto cut feni off, he rarely got into details about touya, no matter how much feni had asked when they were younger.
”when he found out him and keigo we’re gonna have you. he was scared shitless. he came to fuyumi one day while she was watching me in a frenzy.” shouto smiled, “i wasn’t old enough to remember at the time, but it’s fuyumi’s favorite story of touya. he was so fucking scared, he was crying, though, fuyumi says he always denied it. he didn’t wanna be like endeavor, he wanted you to have a good childhood where you didn’t have to worry about living up to standards.”
feni sniffled, grabbing shouto’s hand, “you can stop if you need to, shou-“
“i knew he was gonna be a great dad. he was always so protective of me. a few weeks before the accident, endeavor was pushing me too hard in training, i fucked up, then snapped back at him. he hit me, the first time he had ever done that, and touya was there in an instant, tackling him to the ground and growling in his face.” shouto laughed, “it was such a touya move.”
feni laughed to, it was wet, her mascara was absolutely running down her face.
”he would’ve been so proud of you, feni. so proud of the hero and the woman you’re becoming.” shouto said, squeezing feni’s hand.
”let’s make a promise, that no matter what happens, we make it through UA and become top five hero’s, for dad.” feni smiled and held her pinky up, shouto hooked his with hers.
”for touya.”