Predestined [Katsuki Bakugou X OC]

seventy-one

A few minutes after Natsuo left, Hiraku politely--and quickly-- excused herself. She was worried about Natsuo and she wanted to say a few things to him.

"Tsuo!" Hiraku called out, opening Natsuo's door in his room. "Hey, you okay?"

Natsuo looked like he just finished changing his clothes and was preparing to leave.

He sighed and sat down, muttering, "How could you and Fu-nee-chan stand to be in the same room as him?" Natsuo looked at Hiraku with pain and anger in his eyes. "He abandoned us! He– he kille– Tou-nii-san is gone because of him..! How could yo–"

Hiraku smiled sadly, sitting beside an agitated Natsuo and placing an arm around him.

"Look," she started to say, "I don't know if I can say this, but I understand how you feel, Tsuo. I mean I'm not really a Todo–"

"Hey," Natsuo interrupted. "You're a Todoroki, alright? I don't care if we don't have the same last names, but you're part of the family."

Hiraku smiled and hugged the older boy, saying, "Thank you, Tsuo."

"Have you forgiven him, Ku?" Hiraku could only nod, not having the courage to say it. She was not sure how Natsuo would react with that fact. "You're a kind person."

Hiraku let Natsuo go so she could look at him and say, "You don't have to forgive him, yah know."

Hiraku did not know whether she was saying the right things. After all Touya was alive, and she also knew that the biggest reason why Natsuo could not forgive Endeavor was due to Touya's supposed death.

"But I still feel that Tou's death shouldn't just be blamed on him," Hiraku said. "If I didn't leave then he'd probably still be here."

Natsuo embraced the girl, the two quietly sobbing and mourning the past that they knew was long gone.

Things had changed; the five smiling children running around the Todoroki household was no more.

"You're not gonna stay tonight?" Hiraku asked, letting the older boy go. "I can just open a portal to your dorm if you don't wanna be late tomorrow, yah know?"

Natsuo shook his head and said, "Nah, it's okay. I gotta clear my head."

Hiraku nodded and hugged the boy one last time before going out of his room. She sighed as she closed the door silently, her eyebrow raising when she saw Katsuki and Izuku whispering a few meters in front of her.

"Kacchan, you knew about everything?" Izuku asked in a hushed voice.

Hiraku instantly knew that they were talking about Shoto's circumstances.

"Huh? You guys were talking about it right next to me." Hiraku could only see Katsuki's back but she had a hunch that he looked irritated.

"You were listening!?" Izuku whisper-shouted.

"Either way–"

"Hey, what're the two of you gossiping about?" Hiraku laughed out loud when she saw the two boys' reaction. Izuku looked like he just had a heart attack and Katsuki looked like he had just been caught stealing. "Ha! You should see the look on you– Ow! Katsuki, that hurts!"

Katsuki gritted his teeth as he pulled Hiraku's cheek, saying, "Stop popping out of nowhere, you idiot!"

Hiraku rubbed her cheek that Katsuki finally released and said, "I didn't pop out of nowhere! You two just didn't notice me!"

Before Katsuki could grab the girl's cheeks again, she quickly jumped on his back and kissed the boy's cheek while saying, "I love you so much in the whole entire world, Kat!"