Little Stars

Chapter 35

I wanted to thank everyone who's been with me so far. It really means the world to me that you're reading and enjoying this fic.

I hope you will enjoy this chapter.

Trigger warning : mentions of child abuse.
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Detective Naomasa Tsukauchi was an earnest, hardworking individual. The man was practically married to his job and determined to do it perfectly. So, it was hard for him to not arrest Touya as soon as he returned to his actual age or to hear about the alliance with the League of Villains without doing anything. He had let them roam freely and accepted the conditions Nedzu laid because the principal knew nothing could help the society other than that. 

Also, Touya being a villain (or a formal villain like All-Might stated in all of their meetings) didn't stop him from dismissing the child abuse Touya had suffered nor his siblings. It wouldn't be fair for Touya to be held accountable for his crimes and Endeavor not. He knew it was difficult to build a case against Endeavor, but Detective Naomasa Tsukauchi was determined to do his job.

And of course the other case against the commission.

He felt horror gripping him as his quirk confirmed that Keigo wasn't lying. Every word the winged hero said was true and the detective felt helpless and useless for not knowing what was happening and still happening behind closed doors. 

Naomasa Tsukauchi always viewed heroes as the people who protected them from evil, but he wasn't aware that the same heroes were the main evil.

For the greater good, Keigo said and Naomasa Tsukauchi began to hate these words. The greater good shouldn't be achieved by abusing and controlling anyone as if they were a tool, not humans. No one should have gone through all of what Keigo had gone through.

There are children still going through the same training. – his mind supplied him with images of children being abused and hit and locked away for the greater good –

Because they were children no one cared about. They would be forgotten and people's lives would move on without their presence, but most importantly, they were children that he failed to save.

How could he be so blind? 

How could they be so blind to what was happening?

He was also aware of the commission's approval of Endeavor's actions.

Listening to Todoroki Shoto and Todoroki Natsu's confessions while he interrogated them was like lodging a knife in his heart. They had failed them, all the heroes had failed them – they let an abuser be the number one hero without knowing what he really was. He wished to remove everything he had learned, to live the life they were living; where heroes were heroes and villains were villains – black and white with no grey between them. But he knew from the moment they discovered Touya's identity that heroes weren't the same people they trusted.

Detective Naomasa Tsukauchi hated this so much.

He sighed for the millionth time that day. The headache that gripped him this morning was still there. It felt like it was digging nails into his head and it didn't matter how many cups of coffee he drank. 

Touya was sitting in front of him in the same room where they held a meeting with Keigo. He looked as if he wanted to be anywhere but here. 

The feeling is mutual, Touya – the detective wanted to say because even though he was Touya now, he was Dabi; the Aronist of the League of Villains.