Ultra Blue Violence (Dabi)

Chapter Fourteen: Shooting Stars

The day after her meeting with the League of Villains that extended well into the night going over plans and a priority kill list, as well as a Nomu, Miya travelled back to Yokohama City, her birthplace, to visit her parents like she promised. This may be her last chance to see them one last time before this mission and she was announced to the nation as a Villain.

(Maybe it's not too late?)

Miya stepped off the train onto the platform once the doors came open. She doesn't have a choice in the matter anymore. 17 years working and training under The Commission has brought her to the tipping point.

She has had enough.

Miya caught a bus which brought her to the suburbs of Yokohama City. She wondered where the bar was? From her parent's front yard she could see the skyscrapers in the near distance and the infamous feriswheel. She knocked before entering the small house she was born in. She slid off her sneakers in the front entry way of the door hearing chatter circling down the corridor; the voices of her parents and someone else.

"Hello?" she called out curiously.

"She's here!" her mother's voice shouted, excitedly. Hurried footsteps came into the corridor where her mother smiled brightly at the view of her daughter in the doorway. "Miya!" her mother ran forward with arms out wide to bring her daughter into a tight hug.

"Hi, mom." Miya returned the tight hug happy to see her mother again.

Yui tucked a loose strand of her daughter's blonde hair behind her pierced ear to examine her tired face. "My, has The Commission been letting you get any sleep these days?" she cupped the warm cheeks of her daughter and ran a thumb over her cheeks.

(It was the League of Villains not letting her get sleep.)

Yui turned Miya's head both ways to examine for any injuries, despite her trying to wriggle free from her grip. "Mom." groaned Miya.

Yui spotted the fading red welt on the side off her temple. "What happened there?" Yui motioned to the spot.

"I fell." was her quick reply.

Yui's lips pressed into a thin line knowing that was a lie. Her mother still looked the same as always since Miya could remember. A few inches shorter, a chubby build, happy smile, and bright hazel eyes.

"Is that a nose piercing?" her mother scolded holding her head in place to examine the black hoop in her right nostril.

"You're doing it again, mom." Miya pointed to the three floating orbs produced by her mother.

Yui laughed reeling her hands away and nervously pushed back her dark hair. Then she saw her right hand, when the sleeve of her jacket fell back. A soft red in odd shapes clotting the surface of her wrist and ravelling into the sleeve of her jacket.

"Your hand, Miya." Yui reached for her. "Do you need ointment?"

Miya reeled her hand away, hiding it behind her back and smiled. "No, it's fine. I already treated it. It was just hot water. It's fine, really." she assured, seeing her mothers concerned face.

"We have some guests over, I hope you don't mind." Yui guided her daughter down the short corridor passed the first room on the left which used to be her bedroom as a child and into the living area of the house. Around a chabudai table sitting on cushions was her father and the Winged Hero Hawks.

"Keigo?" Miya greeted surprised to see him sitting opposite of her father. "Why are you doing here?" her heart was in her throat. Just the thought of confronting her father was nerve racking enough, now Hawks was here too.