My Hero Academia: Mizumi's Story

Scare

1st Person
About a week after such a wild night with my boys, I come up to Denki and Hitoshi as they cuddle on the couch without me. I can't hide the tears in my eyes as my voice trembles. "I have something to tell you..." They both sit up to give me their full attention. "I'm late..." I whisper nervously.
"Late? What do you mean?" Denki asks.
"I was supposed to start my period yesterday. It's not usually late..." I bite my lip and wrap my arms around myself, trying to stay as calm as possible.
Hitoshi's eyes widen as he immediately understands. "You mean, you think you might be..."
"I better not be! I've been on the pill this whole time so an accident like this doesn't happen!"
Denki gets up to hug me. "Okay, so what do we do? Should we get a test to make sure?"
"Yeah, good idea. There's a convenience store not too far off campus. Will you both come with me?"
I look over to Hitoshi, who is already getting his shoes on. Denki and I rush over to do the same, then the three of us bolt out of the building and all the way to the store.

"Okay, the box says it takes five minutes to get the results, so I'm gonna set a timer," I say as I come out of the bathroom. I grab my phone and set a timer for five minutes, then take a seat on the couch between Hitoshi and Denki.
"Whatever happens, we're gonna be here for you," Hitoshi says.
"Yeah, we're gonna support whatever decisions you make," Denki agrees.
I smile a little, still breathing hard from all that running to and from the convenience store. As comforting as they are trying to be, it doesn't stop me from getting up from the couch and pacing back and forth across the living room as I wait. "Thanks, but I'm not sure what I would do, honestly."
"For what it's worth, I think you would be a wonderful mother," Denki says softly. "You're really good with Eri, and I can tell you would be even better with your own kids."
"Dude, seriously? I have no maternal instincts. And you know how my mother was. I wouldn't know the first thing about being a good parent..."
"Kitty, you're not going to be like your mother. You are a hero, and you know better than anyone how a kid should be raised so they don't turn out like..." Hitoshi trails off, stopping before he can say anything hurtful.
But I know exactly what he was going to say, and I don't like it. "Like what, Hitoshi? Like me?"
Denki wraps his arms around me, trying to keep me calm. "It's not like that. You turned out just fine, and you know it."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that. I meant, like what you were going to be if your mother had her way." Hitoshi wraps his arms around us both, nuzzling his face into my neck as he apologizes.
Before I can answer him, my phone rings, startling all three of us. At first I thought it was my timer going off, but I see my brother's name on the screen. I quickly hit the ignore button and put the phone down. "My brother can bite me. This is more important."
Hitoshi chuckles. "Wouldn't Sosuke want to know about this? It's kind of a life changing situation."
"If my brother finds out about this, he's going to kill me, even if the test is negative. He wants to think I'm still an innocent little girl, so he doesn't know that I am sexually active. And if it's positive? He might just kill the two of you as well."
Denki looks terrified. "Yeah, remember how mad he was when he found out about me? I'd rather not go through that again..."
Denki and I cling to each other in terror as the timer finally goes off. Hitoshi breaks away from us to check the test himself.
"It's negative."
I'm so relieved that I feel lightheaded. I let out a breath as I practically faint into Denki's arms. He picks me up and sets me down on the couch as he breathes his own sigh of relief. "So we get to live another day?"
I giggle, already feeling so much better. "Yeah. You have very narrowly avoided death at the hands of a cute girl's overprotective big brother."
"We could have taken him. We're trained heroes, so we know how to fight. If your brother ever does get upset over something like this, we can protect you," Hitoshi laughs softly as he joins us on the couch.
"Yeah. Besides, we're gonna get you pregnant for real someday anyway," Denki laughs. "He's going to have to get over it."
My smile disappears at the mention of actually being pregnant someday. I made the decision a long time ago that I don't want to have kids, ever. There's not a maternal bone in my body and I don't exactly trust myself to become a parent. The abused will always become the abuser. "There's no way I'm having kids. At least not any time soon. I have worked too hard to build this hero life for myself and I'm not going to give up my future. I actually like being a hero and I'm not gonna give that up for a kid. That's the whole point of me being on the pill."
"That's not a decision we have to make anytime soon. We can discuss it in a few years," Hitoshi says, gently petting me to calm me down. "But for now, let's just focus on the hero part of our future together. That's the most important thing right now."
I let myself relax into them as we lay on the couch together. After what just happened, I am really grateful that neither of them make an attempt to get frisky with me for the rest of the day.