#1 - Life's Not Fair(Was It Ever?)

3 - Reflecting

02:45 at night. 4 years after getting his quirk, Miyo's 10 years old.

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Miyo's parents went to bed three and a half hours ago. Miyo went to his room a whole hour before them, but he still hasn't managed to fall asleep. He tried lying on his back, sides, and stomach, and he even tried sleeping in his mist form. None of them have worked.

Ao huffs beside Miyo, frustrated with his lack of sleep. Miyo copies him and shoots up into a sitting position. Miyo gazes around his room stupidly as if expecting it to tell him how to sleep properly. He doesn't get an answer to the sleeping problem, but his eyes find an old notebook; it's tucked just underneath his desk. Miyo slips out of bed and kneels down to reach the notebook; the cover is a faded red with scattered stars and moons all over the cover.

He opens it cautiously, half expecting it to fall apart in his hands; two names are written on the first page.

Tenko and Miyo

They're written scratchily, messily and splotchily, the ink pooling at connecting lines.
Under the names is a photograph of two male children; it shows the first one as being around the age of eight or nine, with jet black hair, brilliant grey eyes, a small beauty mark under his right lip, and what appears to be dry and irritated skin, mostly on his neck and the area around his eyes.

The second child, who appears to be five or six, is practically hanging from the first. Only just reaching the first's shoulder to lay his head down, with pale skin, soul-piercing silver eyes, short white hair with a blue tint, and an almost unnoticeable beauty mark right above his left eyebrow.

Both boys are wearing matching bracelets, red and black in colour, with 'T' and 'M' in silver on them.

Miyo looks down at his left wrist; his bracelet stares back at him. The 'T' on it causes a smile to rise on his face. He touches it tenderly; a distant fog-like memory comes into his mind, giggling, and a familiar face with a huge, joyful grin set across it.

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Flashback: 4 and a half years ago. Miyo's 5.

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Tenko Shimura... he's his best friend. His mother, Nao, is Miyo's mother's best friend, making her his auntie; she asked Miyo to call her Auntie Nao. Miyo spent nearly every day at their house; he had to stay with them during the day because of his parents both working at different hours.

(His mother hated when Miyo was left alone with his father; the few times that happened, she had come home to find Miyo locked in the hall closet with already healing bruises, raw cuts and scrapes, and he ended up being dehydrated, which caused Miyo to pass out while inside the small, crushing, dark, and silent space.)

During weekdays, Miyo would be collected at school by Auntie Nao; she would bring him to her house, Miyo would do homework that he had, and then he would go and play with Tenko until his mother came to bring him home.

Miyo enjoyed playing with Tenko; he was like an older brother to Miyo, and he didn't get a quirk the same as him! He was always fun to play with, and he gave the best hugs! Tenko was around or about four or five years older than Miyo, he thinks? So that would make him nine or ten.

He has a skin problem that makes his neck and eyes extremely irritated and itchy; it looks very sore. For his birthdays and other holidays Miyo would try to find a special skin cream for the itching, but he wasn't able to find any that worked for Tenko.

On Friday nights Miyo was normally allowed to stay at Tenko's house for a sleepover. They would play games, colour, draw, and talk about heroes! Tenko was really good at breaking down and explaining heroes fighting styles, how their quirks worked, how the heroes relied on their quirks, the quirks weaknesses and better ways to use them and so many other things!