Little Stars

Chapter 20

Trigger warning : Violence.

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The woman was about to ruin everything Asahi had worked for. If he didn't come to collect Hawks today, everything would have fallen apart.

He watched as Nikushimi's men took the Todoroki boy away to God knows where, but he didn't care, the commission only wanted Hawks - the Todoroki boy had died many years ago, there is no harm in his disappearance again.

"Your woman has caused a lot of trouble, Nikushimi." Asahi spat, relative or not, Asahi was angry and he wanted to kill the man in front of him and wipe that smirk off his face.

"You got what you wanted, Asahi," Nikushimi motioned at Keigo, who was sitting on the ground, staring at nothing - it was an unsettling sight; those eyes that looked like no life in them.

Asahi glared at his relative more. "Let her know her place." He had always hated Ania, he didn't know why a man like Nikushimi had married a woman like her. She was so fragile, not worthy of a leader of the organization.

"None of your fucking business, Asahi." Nikushimi sneered.

"It is my business when it involves Hawks!" Asahi sneered back at him.

"Leave, Asahi." Nikushimi felt the anger flare inside of him even more, his quirk wanting to be let out and hurt the man in front of him. "Leave before I do something I would never regret."

"Are you threatening me, Nikushimi?" An ugly laugh came out of Asahi. "Don't you -

"What are you gonna do, Asahi?" Nikushimi. "You are just one of the commission freaks, your life is nothing to them." A smirk appeared on the leader's face as he got closer to Asahi until he was merely a few steps away from him. "It is stupid of you, coming here alone to take Hawks with only one man," He said and looked around him at his men that were ready to kill Ashai with only a signal from their boss.

"Nikushimi, you are making a huge mistake -"

"You are the one who is making a mistake here," Nikushimi said, his smirk vanishing from his face. "I could expose the HSPC for what they are." He spat -allying themselves with villains, leaving their dirty work for villains to finish.

"You couldn't -"

"Leave before I kill you, Asahi." Nikushimi cut him off. "You got what you wanted." He continued, looking at Keigo (who didn't move or even twitch his frozen body) "Sorry-" not sorry. "For roughing him up."

"You will regret everything, Nikushimi." Asahi glared at him, but Nikushimi didn't care - just empty threats, the commission couldn't do anything to him for fear of exposing them.

"Hawks." Asahi said and Keigo looked from where he was sitting, but the latter didn't move, he was staring at his handler with the same glassy eyes.

Keigo felt like he was drowning, he didn't feel anything around him.

Asahi loosened the effect of his quirk on him a little bit and he grabbed Keigo's wrist tightly. "Get up!" He ordered and Keigo did what Asahi said.

And then the quirk's effect increased again, making Keigo not aware of anything again.

(Keigo was suffocating. There was no air to fill his lungs; there wasn't anything. Tossed and turned by dark waves, he was completely lost. There was no direction as he drowned. He was helpless to do anything, desperately wishing for the storm to cease. It didn't.

He was drowning in the black, not able to go out.)

Asahi turned his back on Nikushimi. "You will regret everything, Nikushimi." Asahi said, calmly and he dragged Keigo, making the teenager stumble with every step they took (because he wasn't processing anything or feeling anything.)