Little Stars

Chapter 18

Thursday

Their terrified faces kept replaying in his mind, not wanting to stop. Their screams would hunt him throughout his whole life.

Why wasn't he fast enough?

There was a burning pain in Aizawa's chest. His eyes were on fire. The whole of him hurt, but his eyes and his chest hurt him the most, It was the same pain he had endured when he had lost Oboro. He had promised himself that nothing would happen to anyone whe loves, he wouldn't lose them like he had lost Oboro, but it was a forlorn promise - he had lost Keigo and Touya.

Were they even alive? And why did the villains kidnap them? Did they want to take revenge on Keigo because he was Hawks? Or Dabi had wronged them before? - Aizawa thought. More importantly, how did these villains know about this trip and its place?

Aizawa suspected that there was someone at the school who informed the villains of their whereabouts or someone from the police station, maybe it was someone from the station because the underground hero was sure that neither his students nor the teachers would endanger Touya and Keigo, not after they got closer to them.

If only Aizawa put his hands on whoever kidnapped them, he didn't know if he would be able to refrain himself from committing a murder.

But what if Keigo and Touya were dead now? While Aizawa did nothing to save them - the thought reeled through Aizawa's head and made him panic even more.

What if they lost them? He had promised that nothing wouldn't happen to them, that he would keep them safe and look at what happened, now they would die before even age back to their older self.

They would die like Oboro - Aizawa thought.

The ride back to U.A. was silent, so silent that the only thing that could be heard was the bus' engine and the honks of the other cars because the bus driver was driving too fast to take Tokoyami to Recovery Girl (she was better than a hospital because Aizawa trusted no one near his student) and that's was the only reason Aizawa was on the bus, he wanted to make sure that Tokoyami would be fine. - So, Aizawa was holding his student and refused to leave him. He knew that no one would hurt Tokoyami, but he wanted to keep holding, to protect him from anyone.

Aizawa knew that he should be with his other students because surely Touya and Keigo's kidnapping had affected them, especially Shoto, but Aizawa felt empty and his mind stopped working to tell him what to do.

Both of them are like Eri to him - Aizawa thought and he panicked for a moment because he needed to see Eri, to make sure she was safe.

Shoto wasn't faring better than Aizawa, he had lost his brother after he had found him and it was his fault because he left Touya at this place, thinking he was safe, that no harm would come to him. Shoto had failed to protect his brother, the last thing he had heard his brother saying was that he could fight with them, that he was worthy enough to fight with them.

Shoto had promised Touya he would be safe, but his brother wasn't safe and Shoto failed to keep him safe.

"I am sorry I had left you, Sho." Touya had apologized after knowing what he had done to his family - leaving them with the monster.

"And I won't let you leave me again, you are stuck with us, Nii-san."

And now Touya was not here with him, Shoto had lost him again.

Shoto felt so small and lonely as he had felt on the day when Touya was presumed dead and the only thing he wanted was to cry like how he had cried in his silent room at the Todoroki's mansion. But no tears came out of him, he was still in shock from what had happened.