Cool Ice (IzukuxFuyumi)

21: The Toughest Obstacle

"WHAT?" Endeavor gawked, the flames of his chest slowly beginning to flare wildly as their glow brightened against the stone walls. "You, you DARE approach me and declare this foolishness to my face? This, this ABSURD STUPIDITY?!"

"Yes!" Fuyumi confidently nodded, holding strong against her father despite the intensity of his flames. Her hands clutched tightly onto the strap of her purse to keep them from shuddering, but even with her grip on the leather she felt her fingers twitching at the ever seeping toxin of fear in her body. Just what kind of relationship was she going to have with her father from this point moving forward? She didn't know, but she was set in stone to tell him of her feelings either way. "Whether you are willing to live with or deny them it makes no difference. Just as I've told Mom, and Natsuo and Shoto, these are my feelings! And I won't change anything about them no matter what it is you have to say!"

"TchgrrRR!"

*WHAM*

Endeavor punched a heavy right fist into the wall beside him, the impact slightly cracking away at the mark as he kept his knuckles pinned to the wall. "You irk me, child. First you gossip to this student about the privacy of our family, and now you come before me and declare these ridiculous sentiments?! Are you simply ATTEMPTING to stoke issues beyond your capabilities?!"

"I'm not doing any of this because of you Dad, I'm doing it because this is how I really feel. Do you really think I would go out of my way to get into something just to be petty to you?"

"From what it seems on the surface, you already have."

"And who are YOU to get mad at me for something that YOU caused? If you and the boys didn't have to be so-...S-SO-...IRRITATING, I wouldn't have found somebody I can trust and vent myself to in Izuku! You and the boys are ALWAYS at each other's throats 'Shoto this Natsuo that Dad this Dad that' it's just always back and forth back and forth back and forth between you three and I just get so, so TIRED of constantly having to deal with you three. Every day always has to be something SOMETHING no matter how small or insignificant the issue is it's always something between you three. And that just, just...it FRUSTRATES ME!"

"Hmph!" Endeavor scoffed as he pulled his fist away from the wall and crossed his arms. "You managed to be quiet about the issue for this long, and yet this student out of U.A comes along and all of a sudden you decide to develop a spine for once in your life."

Fuyumi huffed while readjusting her grip on the strap of her purse. "I'd like to think I can credit Izuku for helping me find that. Because of him..."

Hearing that you're making the effort to try and stitch things back together shows how amazing and strong you are...

"I can gather the nerve and tell you about these feelings of mine the way I am now.

Listen, Dad. I-I...I don't, wanna shut you out from my life, the way you shut us out. Everything can change, the entire world can change as fast as a pin can drop and everything we know will be different. Left will be up, down will be right, but in the end no matter how much can change or how much doesn't, you're still going to be the person that I look to when somebody asks who my dad is. I hate looking back at our history, with Mom, Toya, Shoto, all of it. I hate looking at all that we've been through because for so much of it you've let your greed and your goal of being better than All Might get in the way of what we are, what we're SUPPOSED to be.

A family.

With the way things are now between us things are erm, screwed up, putting it simply. Shoto and Natsuo hate you, Mom probably has her own well of resentment that's been collecting over the years and she might have a lot of her own words to say to you herself. But, even with the way things are now between us I, still want all of us to try and see if there's a way to make things better. Because you know what really hurts, Dad? You know what really hurts me right now even after the things I've seen and been through? What really hurts weren't the nights of you yelling at Mom for not looking after Toya, or the endless days of you taking Shoto away from us just so you can train him until he couldn't stand.