Butterfly Kisses Part 1

Chapter 36: Shadows and Thorns

"Tancho hurry up!" Thorns rattled deeper into her face making her more angry than before.

"Yokina, I can't hurry up when my ribs still hurt this much." Tancho kept on walking extremely slowly, black hair covering his eyes, hands in his hoodie's pockets and staring at a man in a white suit on the other side of the street.

"Mitsudo's gonna be so pissed if we're late, and I'm blaming it on you."

"Yeah, whatever." Tancho looked back towards Yokina, smiled, and would've turned back to the man in the suit but he disappeared, "Hey, did you see where that guy went?"

"Uh, no, why? He's probably just one of the businessmen who live here."

About fifty feet in front of them, strong gusts of wind rushed through a street, followed by earthen pillars erupting from the ground.

"You're really good, mister!" A childlike voice somehow boomed out from where the fight started. One young man was sent flying out of the street, almost into a car, when Yokina's eyes widened. Tancho sighed.

"Mitsudo!" Thorns ejected from Yokina's arms, drawing blood, and flew towards the newest pillar of earth.

"That's not fair!" The same voice shouted. A man levitated out of the street. A man in a white suit, wearing a theatre mask and top hat.

"Yokina, that's the guy." Tancho sank into the ground, the shadow underneath him turning completely black once he was fully submerged. The shadow ran along the ground and up a nearby brick wall, Tancho reappearing on the roof. His arms outstretched and the shadows around the 'gentleman' caved in on him. Thinking he was trapped, the trio relaxed, but the criminal appeared behind Tancho seconds later and threw him into the concrete.

"Who wants to die first?" The man asked, pointing his finger at each of them, "You do."

He rushed towards Mitsudo, who was somehow unable to move. Yokina dove between them trying to slash the man with her thorns. She missed and was tossed into Tancho, who was just recovering from shock. Yokina's thorns immediately dug into his skin but he didn't make a sound.

"I've changed my mind, I'm going after him." A little boy tripped over as he was running away and was crying. His parents were too afraid to move and help him. The same car that Mitsudo almost flew into levitated into the air and rushed towards the young boy. Mitsudo immediately phased through the ground to reach the boy first, held the boy tightly into his chest and changed the density of his body to be harder than lead. The car split in half, glass spiralling everywhere.

"Are you okay?" Mitsudo asked, smiling at the young boy.

"Yeah." The young boy ran over to his parents who were still froze with horror.

"Ugh, whatever, I don't need to waste time with you." The man clicked his heels and disappeared in a flash of light.

After a few minutes of talking to the police and Tancho getting mended by the doctor, Mitsudo went over to apologise for the destruction of the car.

"I'm very sorry for destroying your car. I'll pay for the new car as soon as possible." He bowed apologetically.

"He's too nice." Yokina smirked, Tancho pulling his hood further down to cover his face.

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"Are you two okay?" The woman who saved Hiko and Mockingbird turned to greet them.

"Yes, thank you Haru," Mockingbird thanked her swiftly, "but I can't talk right now so I'll have to leave you two."

"Wait a minute, you're the librarian!" Hiko hugged Haru in thanks.

"Are you okay? You look hurt." Haru tried to hide her motherly love from Hiko and it barely worked.

"Oh yeah, don't worry about that. Recovery Girl will fix it." Hiko shrugged.

"I see. So...what's your quirk? I've shown you mine so it's only fair that you tell me yours."

"Oh, right. Well...I have antennae, as you can see, and orange butterfly wings usually sprout from my back but, well, they're kinda damaged right now. Oh and I can also use pollen to do different things!" Hiko didn't know why, but she felt so safe around the librarian.

"That sounds like a great quirk. Mine isn't really as beautiful, I just enchant non-living things to do whatever I say, like when I made the fire and wires disappear." Haru smiled widely.

"Hiko!" Koneko and Mitsuki ran around the corner, out of breath.

"Thank you very much for keeping our friend company. She seems to attract danger, like when The Dragon's Table attacked us at our training camp last year." Mitsuki shook Haru's hand but as soon as he mentioned The Dragon's Table, Haru's grip became extremely tight.

"They're extremely dangerous. Children like you shouldn't get involved with them."

"I understand miss. I'll keep Hiko safe, you have my word." Mitsuki smiled.

"Hiko, you need to be more careful. I thought those antennae of yours worked." Koneko laughed loudly.

"They do." Hiko replied.

A darkened alleyway lit up, sparks flying everywhere. The silhouette of a man with a wolfish tail passed through it and disappeared.

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"You two, here, now." Lobo ordered. The two people who attacked Hiko were immediately at his side.

"You failed in your mission, Kitty. You were clumsy. I'm disappointed in you." He growled.

"I'm sorry Lobo, it won't happen again." She replied.

"Your 'friend' there did not help." Lobo stormed towards the other female, picked her up by the collar and pinned her against the wall.

"You're useless. For a student at U.A, you're pathetically weak." He spat. A knife shot out from the girl's palm but Lobo dodged it and punched her in the face, knocking her to the ground.

"Akihari Tokeyashi, was it?" She nodded in response, "Either leave or do your job properly."

"I understand, Lobo." Akihari's eyes were pitch black, stars filling them. Unlike her usually bright eyes, they were dim.

"Kitty. Don't disappoint me again, understand?" Lobo asked.

"I won't, I promise." He grinned.

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Thanks for reading this chapter of Butterfly Kisses. I'm going to update Butterfly Kisses at least three times every week since it seems to be very easy for me to write these chapters and I have until...March 27th? to get them all released. Meh, if I don't get them all published by then, then I'll have to postpone watching Season 5 of My Hero Academia.

Anyways, see ya!!