Thicker Than Blood (A My Hero Academia Fanfic)

Admitting Faults

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"Scaaaarleeeet........Scarlet!" I felt a slight push from my right side. I whipped my head around to see who it was. "Oh, hi Echo," he pouted. "That's all I get after you've been ignoring me for five minutes. What are you looking at anyway?" My memory was really hazy, but I looked down to see a dead mouse. "It died," I frowned, and he stood up, picking up the mouse. "Well let's fix that shall we," he cupped the mouse in his hands and focused real hard. He opened his hands and set the now alive mouse on the ground. It scurried around and went into a hole in the wall. I smiled warmly at echo.

"There's that smile," he pinched my cheek, and I pushed his hand away playfully. "Hey! Just because you're a few years old than me, doesn't mean you can bully me!" I huffed. He rubbed my head. "Well now then, it seems you're back to normal, let's play hide n seek," I nodded but then we heard voices and key noises upstairs. "Oh no...," I looked to echo, he was worried but quickly put on a smile for me. "Don't worry I'll figure out some way to lock the cell. You just need to hurry upstairs before they know you were down here," I nodded and sprinted to the basement door. I slid the key under the door then pricked my finger.

I pulled enough blood to teleport to the other side. I fell on my butt from dizziness. I pulled all the blood from the ground back into my body. Just before they entered the house I grabbed the cell key and put it in my dress pocket. "Scarlet? What are you doing by that door?!" Father asked angrily. "I heard a noise and wanted to make sure no one got out. So I was looking under the crack of the door," Mom got down on my level and grabbed my wrist. She pulled my arm to her and I fell forward. The key in my pocket made a loud clunk sound.

She tighten her grip on my wrist. "What's in your pocket?!" She screamed in my ear. I cringed and grabbed the key out of my pocket. She opened her hand and I placed the key in her hand. She finally let go, I rubbed my already bruised wrist. She handed the key to my father and he clinched his jaw. He then back handed me, I fell down on the ground again. "Up!" I quickly scrambled to get up, I knew he'd kick me if I stayed down. He grabbed my face with both his hands. "You know, I love you Scarlet," he rubbed the hand print he just placed on my cheek. "You know that right?" I nodded. "Good because now it's time to tell us how you managed to get down in the basement,"

I told them how I did it and looked down at the ground. Father darkly chuckled. "How long have you been able to use your quirk? You're not even five yet," I shrugged my shoulders. "I...I," my mother slapped me. "Answer your father now, no hesitation!" Tears streaming down my face as I shouted. "I don't know! Two days ago I fell and didn't want you guys to be mad that I fell! So I wished really hard it would just go away and it went away!" More tears fell down my face. Father reached for me and I braced myself for another hit for crying.

No hit came, I opened my eyes and watched as father opened the heavy basement door. "I'll be right back, keep her there," mother grabbed my arm. I knew better than to run so I felt this wasn't necessary. Father returned with echo, blood was on his mouth. I started to get angry, my blood began to boil. "Ow!" Mother let go of me. Father looked at me surprised. "What did you just do to your mother!? Hold him!" He threw echo to mom and she held a knife to his throat. Father touched my skin and instantly retreated.

"Stop that right now or your friend will stain this room," I was trying to calm down but couldn't. "One," I started to panic. "I don't know how to stop it!" "Two," I started to cry again. "Please I don't!" "Three!" He yelled and flung me over his shoulder. He carried me down the basement with mother following behind with echo. They threw both of us in a cell. Mom gave father her knife. "Since you wanna use your quirk so bad let's see how well you can use it," he grabbed echo by his hair and placed the knife at his stomach. "He's no use to us anymore! Can't even sell him, so he'll be used as your first quirk training!" I stood up and ran at father. "Nooooo!" He drove the knife deep into echo and threw him to the ground.