Expect the Unexpected: Mei Hatsume x reader (BOOK 2)

Epilogue

Mei sat in the garden, picking flowers and placing them gently in a basket with string.

"Mom?" A soft voice asked as two heads gently peeked their heads out of the house. "Who are those flowers for, you never give them to anyone."

"They're for a very special person Amaya," she smiled softly, nimble hands away at work as she collected more.

Once she had enough, she headed inside and began to thread them into a beautiful flower garland.

"Woah, mom, you're making a pretty necklace!" The second girl awed, watching as their mother worked away craftily, her skills in technology being put to use in something as beautiful as the arts.

"Is it for that pretty lady mom? The picture!" Amaya guessed, eagerly jumping about with her twin.

"Yeah, you promised you would tell us her story when we were older!" Amaya's sister cheered along.

"I did, didn't I?" Mei smiled softly. "Well I hope you don't mind me making this necklace while I talk."

The two girls looked at each and nodded, sitting down in front of the chair Mei was sat at.

"Shirakumo Y/N was her name," she began, the story of her first and last lover being one that was very precious to her. "She wanted to be a hero and save everyone."

"Mom you help the heroes, right?" Amaya's twin asked.

"That's right Yukie, I make them costumes and help them defeat villains with them," she smiled. "Y/N was one of the people I made a costume for, it would always help her whenever she needed it most."

"Woah that's super cool!" Amaya awed.

Much like her mother, Amaya's quirk wasn't suited for the hero course, it was suited for the support department. The quirk High Memory allowed her to remember things since the day she was born, a mutant quirk that couldn't be turned off in any way.

Her sister, on the other hand, had a quirk called Manipulator in which she could change memories of others and herself at her will. This of course, made her the perfect candidate for stealth missions in the hero course.

"Can we see the drawings?" Yukie asked, excited. "I wanna be a hero too one day!"

"I will show it to you two later, but only if you promise to be heroes safely," Mei warned, hoping they would stay away from danger unlike the mother they could've had.

"We promise!" The two chirruped to Mei's satisfaction.

"Good," she nodded, threading in a piece of metal inbetween the flowers. "I was supposed to marry her, everything was supposed to work out and you two would've had the most loving mother ever. She always asked to adopt kids you know? But then there was a huge fight between the heroes and villains."

The two girls gasped in horror as they heard that, already anticipating what could have happened.

"Y/N nearly died, I thought she did, but she came out alive with a smirk on her face," Mei laughed, remembering the first time her girlfriend had walked into U.A after the war.

"Oh that's amazing, I'm glad she's ok!" Yukie sighed in relief, not realising that this tale too, ended unhappily.

"She blamed herself for the huge fight and didn't listen to her friends who wanted to help her," Mei sighed. "I left her as well, not realising she needed me more than ever."

Yukie instantly stopped smiling at the revelation, the ten year old girl not being able to believe that her mother would do such a thing.

"Yukie, the next part gets sadder," their mother warned. "I know you're both getting older but if it hurts you tell me to stop or ask Yukie to alter your memories, ok?"

"Yes mom, I'll do that," the girl nodded fervently, wanting to hear more about the lady who could've been her mother.

"Now, Y/N soon began abandoning her friends, for they were too awkward around her and they could only see her supposedly dead body," Mei continued. "This only got worse when the U.A traitor was revealed and she continued to blame herself for not realising."

"But mom didn't anyone tell her that she couldn't have done anything?" Amaya asked, to which Mei's hands froze as her eyes darkened with grief.

"I did. Multiple times but she didn't listen," she explained shakily. "I then left her and would you know it, less than a month later she'd jumped off a building."

"You blame yourself for not being able to be there for her," Yukie gasped, gently pressing a kiss onto her mother's nose. "That's why you make the garland every year, to apologise."

"Y/N was my everything, I loved her with my whole heart," Mei nodded in reply as she finished the garland.

"But why don't you accept a night out from anyone else?" Amaya asked innocently as Mei hung the garland around a picture of her fiance.

"Because, my darling, I was cursed to love a fairytale, no matter how much it hurts," Mei replied, a sad smile on her face as her golden eyes glinted with tears.

And as the small family left the room, light shone through the window right onto the small lump of metal in the necklace. The lump had now been identified as the ring Y/N carried all those years ago, mangled to the point where the inscription was changed.

For now, instead of the happy message it once carried, it became a symbol of her departure.

'Broken Promises'

A/N: and here is the promised epilogue! It hasn't been proof read at all so there's pretty much no plot or anything

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