My Angel

A Brother

I was the older one. I was the center of my parent's lives. Until he came... At first, I didn't like him at all. Always crying, always needed to be looked after, and always made my parents tired. Why should there be another one? Wasn't I enough?

Somehow... As he grew, something changed.

" It's you again..." Yuusuke rubbed his eyes as the door of his room clicked open and from behind it peeked the tear-welled eyes of Yuu. " What? Can't sleep again?"

The boy nodded and Yuusuke sighed, nudging to the side of the bed to make room. " Come, you can sleep here tonight." And little Yuu climbed right beside his brother and hid under the quilts. " How troublesome. We should do something about this Quirk of yours. Else I'll have to look after you until I die."

Some strange sensation of responsibility, as the older brother... It was a burden...

" There... can't you even tie your shoes the right way? You're such a kid." Little Yuu looked down and fumbled with his fingers. " Right, and you can't even talk yet. And to think you even got your Quirk before me. How annoying."

He couldn't do the simplest thing ever since he was a child, it even took him a great deal of time to start talking.

" Alright, alright." Yuusuke put down the dishes he just finished washing and looked at the kid tugging on his shirt. " I'll have your dinner ready. Have some patience. Jeez, I'm an elementary schooler. Why should I look after you?"

Because my parents were busy with work, I was the one who ended up taking care of him most of the time.

" It's alright! Because I'm here now!"

" All Might! You're awesome!" Yuusuke's eyes sparkled at the TV. " When I get my Quirk too, I will be a great hero like you!" His eyes flicked back at the kid who sat on the corner. He stopped playing with his cubes and was staring up at the ceiling, his face contorting, about to begin crying. " Oh, not again..."

Even though I was in elementary already, My Quirk didn't manifest yet. It wasn't because I was Quirkless, but rather because I was a late bloomer as they put it. I didn't like that my younger brother, at the age of 3, had already got his while I was yet waiting... until...

" Calm down... I know it hurts but calm down!" But the kid was bawling loudly, tears streaming down his eyes, and clutching his knee where blood was trickling down. He had fallen off the stairs. Yuusuke wasn't sure what to do, he was just a kid himself, so why should he be laden with the burden of taking care of the child his parents refused to even look at?

It was then that he saw it, something like a mist, flowing within the kid's body, linking several glowing points. One of them was throbbing around the area of the injury. " What in the world..." And as soon as he touched his leg where it was throbbing, he felt tired, as though all of his energy was sucked out of him. But at the same time, Yuu's wound mended itself.

" Wha..." Yuusuke looked down at his hand, not yet getting what happened. " My Quirk..." He looked back at the kid whose sobs slowed and stifled, but eyes still wet. " You feeling okay? It doesn't hurt anymore?" And the kid shook his head. " Oh my gosh! It really manifested! But, what..."

Yuusuke ran his hand through his hair, feeling exhilarated but all the same confused. It was then that the kid toddled over to him and held on to his shirt. " Nihan..."

" Eh? What did you just say?"

It was a burden I didn't want to shoulder. But at the same time...

Yuu looked up at him. " Nihan..."

" Nih... you want to say Nii-san. What the heck you can't even say it probably."