A Dance to Death

Past is past

I was hanging out in my room when Pandora came bursting in.
"The heroes are attacking!" She shouts.
"What?"
"The heroes are attacking right now! Get up and help us!"
I race out of my room, taking off my shirt.
Too much weight; my bra and pants will have to do.
I smelt something burning. I stopped and sniffed again, sending a shadow out to find the scent. Once it found where the scent was coming from, I ran to the direction I felt it was at. I stopped as I looked at Hawks on the ground, burnt, beaten, and overall in a bad state. I looked at a boy with a bird head, and a human body.
Tokoyami I think his name is.
The boy flew away as I ran over to Dabi.
"Dabi, what happened?"
"Look at Twice and see if that explains."
He moved out of my way and what I saw sent a wave of rage down my body. Twice was cut up, bleeding, and had a big stab wound in his chest. I raced over to him.
"Jin, you'll be okay! We'll find Odessa and she'll heal you. Stay alive, okay?"
There was no answer. I looked at his stiff, cold, lifeless body.
"Jin?"
I felt tears swell in my eyes.
"No, no, you can't do this! We can't lose another.  You can't leave us, Jin!"
There was still no response. I held his bloody body close to me.
"I knew we shouldn't have trusted Hawks, I knew you shouldn't have been so close to him. We should have stopped him before he did this to you."
"Pey, I don't think Odessa can get to him on time. She's downstairs healing others."
"They can't keep getting away with this. Jin didn't deserve this."
I place his lifeless body down, closing his eyes.
Rest well, Jin. We're going to miss you, buddy.
I stand up.
"I think it's time, Touya."
"I think so too, Ushy."

I ran outside of the base, everyone was fighting. I looked around at all of my comrades, some near dead, some still fighting. Pandora was throwing bombs of stone. Explosions surrounded her.
"Pan!" I yelled
"Yeah?"
"Jin is dead."
"What."
Pandora stopped. She clenched her fist.
"Who did it."
"Take a wild fucking guess."
"Hawks..."
"Ding ding ding! I told you guys, and no one believed me."
Pandora didn't say a word for a moment. It was like her world went still.
"2K ran into the woods if you want to find her," She finally said, throwing a stone she turned into a bomb.

I raced to the woods.
I don't know why I'm going after her. It's just Kimiko. A selfish hero. Why am I going after her?
I see her blonde hair with blue, red, and pink stripes.
"Kimiko!" I yelled.
Kimiko stopped running and turned around.
"Peyusha."
I walked closer to her.
"Kimiko, Hawks killed Twice."
Kimiko looked away.
"I know. Tokoyami told me."
"Do you not care?"
"Of course I care! But you didn't care when you killed innocent people."
"So you admit Twice was innocent?"
"He wasn't innocent."
"Neither are the people I murdered."
Kimiko stared at me like she didn't know me.
"You left for a man that you claimed you loved. I didn't know this man would be a villain. You didn't even tell me to my face, you gave me a fucking letter!"
"I couldn't do it to your face."
"Why? I thought that you loved me! The first time seeing you again after seven years was so painful! Now seeing you again months after, I don't even know where to start with how much pain you caused me."
"I did love you!"
"Clearly, not enough."
She started to walk away.
"No, you don't get to do this to me, Kimiko! You heroes always think you can play with our feelings and make us feel bad! Guess what? I'm not letting you!"
I heard sniffling from her.
"I have always thought highly of you, Ushy," Her voice was breaking, "But I didn't realize how low you truly think of me."
She turned her head to face me, tears rushing down her face. She ran away as quickly as her tears flowed.

The day I ran away, I sent a letter to Kimiko. Some might call it a love note, some might call me selfish, but I say it was a warning. I knew I was going to fall into the deep end.
I watched in the shadows as Kimiko opened the letter, her face dropping with sadness.
My letter was laconic, but even with that I saw a wave of emotions from her.
Happiness when seeing the letter was from me, confusion when she started reading it, sadness when she found out I ran away, rage when it was with a man I love, and then her rampage. She screamed, throwing the letter. She started messing up her bedroom, ripping pictures of us off of her wall, throwing pillows across her room, kicking her bed, kicking the walls, then she started crying.
"How could she do this to me?" She yelled, her voice raspy and full of sorrow.
Her dad held her.
"It'll be okay, Kimiko."
"I thought she loved me! She replaced me! I was never anyone's first choice! I'm useless!"
"Don't say that, honey," He shushed her, holding her in his arms as she hysterically cried.