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VII

y'all i'm so excited for deadpool 3 next month i'm going crazy

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"Let's get some breakfast before we go to the dojo, have you already eaten?" Yuna asked as she started up her car.

"Yeah, I had breakfast with Hyoseop."

"Well, you can just get a coffee if you're not hungry. Hyoseop and Jinyoung actually asked me to have a talk with you about something..."

Aeri grimaced and slyly side-eyed her cousin to gauge her facial expression. "What about?"

"I'll tell you when we get to the café. Do you want the aux?" Yuna pulled out of the estate and began cursing at the sight of the busy roads, obviously not expecting the morning rush.

Aeri nodded and pulled out her phone to plug into Yuna's aux cable, playing the first playlist that appeared on her Spotify so she wouldn't have to fuss over choosing a song. 'Unknown/Nth' by Hozier was the first song that played and Yuna gave an approving hum.

"I love Hozier, I went to see him with Eunseo last year." Yuna smiled at the fond memory, then immediately began honking her horn and yelling at a car that cut her off. Yuna's road rage could rival Aeri's dad's.

Aeri hummed. "Yeah, I saw your Instagram posts about it."

"I'd move to Ireland for that man any day." Yuna let out a dreamy sigh and then began singing loudly in broken English. Aeri wondered why Yuna didn't spend more time with Hyunjin when he was in Korea, they were like the same person but different genders.

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"Okay," Yuna cleared her throat. "Before we start, I just want you to know that none of this will be repeated to your brothers if you don't want it to, I'm on your side and they're being weirdos about the whole situation... but I do agree that it's an important thing for you to know."

"Don't tell me you're about to give me the sex talk..." Aeri snorted and raised an eyebrow at her cousin.

"I was going to, yes..."

"You're about 4 years too late, Aunt Miyeon gave me the sex talk when I was in middle school. And even if she didn't, don't you think a 17-year-old girl would've figured it out already? I'm less than a year away from being an adult."

"That's what I said! But Jinyoung insisted, I don't think I've ever seen him look so embarrassed." Yuna snickered and sipped on her iced americano. "Well, have you and Bakugou had sex?"

"Not recently, we've been a bit busy fighting a war, Yuna, we're both a bit too messed up in the head to be fucking on the regular and, I don't know if you recall, but my dad and Jinyoung forbade us from seeing each other. So you can tell him that, yes, we have, and it's none of his business because I don't see him pouring the same energy into Jungwon's sex life, he wasn't interested in Hyunjin's either, so he can stop being a hypocrite and start focusing on the fact that he's 27 and never been in a relationship longer than 3 months."

"Damn girl, how long have you been keeping that in?" Yuna looked impressed as Aeri angrily chugged her iced latte.

"He thinks he's so subtle with his little jabs at Bakugou but I'm not dumb. He can't say he's fine with us being together and then change his mind a couple months later."

"I agree, he's way too grown to be acting like a 6-year-old with a grudge." Yuna nodded. "Was the sex good at least?"

"No." Aeri laughed. "Neither of us knew what we were doing and you know how much it hurts the first few times."

"I know this sounds like a really stupid question, but are you at least using protection?"

"Yes, we're not stupid." Aeri held out her arm and made Yuna press two fingers to her bicep. "I have the implant and we use condoms as well."

"Great. Let's never talk about this again. I'll tell your brothers that you're a virgin and thinking of becoming a nun and we can move on with our lives."

"Perfect. Let's go to the dojo and pretend the dummies are Jinyoung," Aeri said. Yuna laughed and agreed.

"There's actually one that looks exactly like him, I'll tell the sensei that you want that one."

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"Aeri," Jinyoung started as his younger sister entered the house coated in sweat and new bruises from their cousin's lethal kicks. "Come here."

Aeri gave him a weird look and took off her shoes before following him into the living room. "What's this about?" She spotted Jungwon perched on the couch with a kitten in his lap before Jinyoung could answer and she froze, not knowing how to react without triggering her twin.

"Hi." Jungwon smiled. Seeing his sister's hesitation, he gently nudged his kitten off his lap, stood up and opened his arms wide. Aeri wasted no time and clomped him into a tight hug, the tears fell a second later.

"I missed you," they said at the same time. Hyoseop and Jinyoung left the room to give them some space to catch up.

"Who's that?" Aeri asked as they broke away, wiping at her eyes. She pointed to the little ginger tabby cat that was grooming his paws.

"Akio. Dad bought him for me after I was discharged." Jungwon reached up and rubbed the scar that stretched from his cheek to his collarbone.

"He's a cutie, can I pet him?"

"Why are you asking? You're being weird."

"He might be a nervous cat." Aeri played it off and let Akio sniff her hand before she scooped him up into her arms.

"Um... so, why are we here?" Jungwon asked.

"Like, in Jinyoung's house or Korea?"

"Korea. The doctors said I wasn't allowed to see anyone but dad and then I get released and go home expecting you to be there only to find out you've been shipped off to Korea." Jungwon sat down on the couch and Aeri plopped down beside him, letting Akio climb back into Jungwon's lap. "Then dad tells me that you got sent to the hospital because you were refusing to sleep and then they decided to move you away."

"It wasn't that bad. I'm fine." Aeri said reassuringly. "Why are you here though? I didn't even know they'd let you out."

"Well, they got me to eat, sleep and talk, prescribed me with a bunch of meds and then released me, then dad said it was best for me to be with you and put me on the next flight over here."

"They did that to me too. Told me I'm not allowed to be around Katsuki until I learn to not be so obsessive with his well-being and shipped me off to Korea to go to Seoul Hero Academy."

"We're going to SHA? But Korean high school is brutal, they're basically sending us into the viper's den." Jungwon blanched and his eyes began to dart around the room.

"We're too popular to be bullied, and we have each other. As long as we behave and show improvement, we'll be able to go home soon." Aeri shook her head.

"But what if it happens the other way around? And we're bullied because we're from a famous family or because we're UA students and we're half Japanese? You know how big the bullying problem is in this country, Aeri, and they're sending us to school here like they don't know it too. We're not gonna recover like that."

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