Please

19

I set the bowl of ramen down in front of Shoto, who sat quietly over his food.

"Be careful it's hot." I warned gently.

"Okay. Thanks Sis." He said.

Natsuo was gone, and he'd be back in a few days, while Keigo texted me a few hours ago telling me he had an important meeting with the Hero President. I wished him luck, but I was bummed out slightly.

I sat down in the chair across from him, my mind pondering on what to do next. Shoto had asked to stay at my house personally, and I agreed instantly. Shoto has only been to my place once before, and that was when dad came with him, so he didn't get to see much. And I was happy that my youngest brother seemed to want to spend time with me.

"How's school? Are you making any friends?" I wondered.

"Schools good. I have a few friends." He told me after slurping his ramen up.

"Any girls I should know about?" I said jokingly. However I froze when his cheeks reddened a little and his jaw clenched. I gasped, "So there is a girl?"

He awkwardly coughed into his fist, "Maybe."

"Who is she?" I smiled softly.

Shoto's face flushed and he dropped his chopsticks; both of his hands under the table and I could guess he was fiddling with them. "Her name is Nariko Igarashi."

"Tell me about her." I scooted closer. I faintly remembered that name from the sport festival, I remembered thunder and Lightning.

"She likes to talk a lot. I like to listen to her. And she convinced me to see mom, and I did." Shoto hummed softly, "She told father he reminded her of a flaming character who burned to death the first time she saw him. She's good at gymnastics, and math."

"She sounds nice." I smiled. "So, you went to see mom?"

Shoto nodded, "Yeah. I missed her; I was happy to see her though."

I stood up, walking around to him and ruffling his hair, "I already texted Natsuo, you can sleep in his room tonight."

"Okay." Shoto said.

"If Flynn Rider annoys you too much, push him away. He'll understand." I glanced down at the ash-blond color of my dog, who was sitting beside Shoto's feet, tongue logging looking at his food.

"I like him. Dad never let us have pets anyways." Shoto reached down to let him.

"Ah, that's why I got him." I winked down at my brother.

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KEIGO POV

I landed in the abandoned building where me and Dabi usually meet. I just got done with a meeting from the Hero President, and I wanted nothing more then to just go home and sleep. I was already worn out by all the secrets, why do I need more to keep?

"Dabi. I know you here. You don't have to hide." I said coldly.

I heard a thump of a cane and a figure who looked nothing like Dabi walked up and out of the shadows. "Hello Keigo Tamaki."

My eyes widened as I took a step back, "Keir. How do you know my name? What are you doing here?"

"Isn't it obvious? I'm having a meeting with you." She said, her voice dull.

"How did you get Dabi's phone?" I narrowed my eyes.

Keir shrugged her shoulders, "I have my ways. You have yours."

I have a forceful smile.

Play along. Play along and nothing goes wrong.

"So, what do you need?" I asked "You probably went through a lot of trouble getting to me, so here I am."

"As you know, me and your little intern's brother had a run in."

"Ah, yes. Where you attacked Sei." I sheepishly chuckled.

"I didn't attack him. If I did, he'd be dead." Keir replied.

"Right." I gulped. "So what did you have to do with him?"

"I had nothing to do with him. I knew very good he had no connection to the Hero President. I met him to rise panic in him and others. I needed to talk to you anyways." She sighed, walking up to me, we were almost the same height, her only a few inches shorted then me. Unlike Yukino's heigh, who barley brushed my jaw.

"About what?" I asked. "You have my attention."

Keir reached in her waistcoat, when her gloved hand came back, there was a card in her hand. "Do you know what this is?"

My eyebrows furrowed, "The Queen?"

"Yes. And I am the queen of this city. I know everything about everyone, Keigo Tamaki. I know about you and the Hero President. I know who Dabi really is. I know who is leaking information to the League, I know who has a certain power. I am the Queen." She spoke, her voice threatening and low, I shivered.

How could a seventeen year old girl be this threatening?

"And as Queen, I need to eliminate what's causing my city trouble." Her brown eyes glinted.

"Let me guess. That's the Hero President?" Playing it off, trying to cover up the hardness of my voice. Please don't make me be another spy.

I don't know what I'll do if I'm forced to be a spy for someone else.

Keir grinned, something that looked strange and didn't reach her eyes, "Correct."

My wings fluttered behind me softly, "What're going to do? Kill her?"

"Ultimately yes." Keir said, walking away and too a wall, where I didn't notice a nice chair was placed. She sat down upright, posture perfect and eyes staring into my soul. "But as of now, I have other things to attend to."

"Like what?" I asked. I had to get more information. I had to tell the Hero President.

"I wouldn't tell you if I didn't want to Hero President to know." She smiled.

I flinched. "How did you...?"

"I know who I'm talking to. I know you're the Hero President's new pet. Her new favorite. You are hopelessly wrapped around her finger. And I know you'll tell her everything I just told you."

"I'm nobody's pet." I venomously spat.

"That's what you want to believe. And yet, why are you here again?"

I clamped my teeth together, what to I do? I was trapped.

"New pet? So I'm going to guess you were her old pet?" I inquired. If I was t going to know anything else about her plan, I was going to get something about her.

"Not anymore. I'll never belong to that women again." Keir's voice sounded angry, and I was surprised to hear such hatred in someone who looked dead.

"Why are you so determined to kill her?" I stepped forward, my eyes slits under my yellow tinted glasses.

I caught a flash of sadness in Keir's brown eyes, but it was gone so fast I thought I imagined it. "Let's just say she took someone whom I loved more then life itself, and killed them right in front of me. I'm determined to do the same. Put a gun to her head and blow her brains out."

And with that, she threw a smoke bomb down, and disappeared.