Art || Todomomo

Chapter 16

"W-what are you saying?" Momo's voice trembled, her eyes shifting from this blue man to Shouto,

What's going on? No please no.

"Oh my, you didn't know?" He paused, "This is Touya's little brother Shouto Todoroki, did you not know that Touya was a Todoroki?" The man almost cackled,

What? Touya's brother is Shouto? This can't be, what's happening?!
My head. Hurts.

"That's enough." Shouto's cold voice interrupted her thoughts, his eyes were fixed onto this man, "I don't know what you want but leave us alone."

"So harsh, just like your father." The man looked at Shouto, smiling sarcastically,

"I don't know who you are or how you know my father but I don't care." Shouto deadpanned, "Come on Yaoyorozu," Shouto grabbed her hand, ready to walk away.

"Ume Yaoyorozu, that was her name wasn't it?"
Shouto and Momo froze.

Momo looked at this man, fury in her eyes,
He knows Aunt Ume?!

"What do you know about my aunt!" Momo almost yelled,

"Only that the woman you 'supposedly' poisoned that day was her." The man smirked.

"W-what? You liar! That wasn't aunt Ume! I didn't poison her! I didn't poison anyone! I didn't even know who died that day! It was him, it was Touya! He was responsible for this! He lied!" Momo was on the verge of tears, not knowing that a growing crowd was gathering.

The man smiled, "Stop playing this game Yaoyorozu, we all know it was you. You were the only one during that scene and you conveniently dropped the poisoned drink just as the people came rushing in. You think you can get away just because there wasn't solid proof. You don't have solid proof that Touya did it either! Are we supposed to believe the words of a stupid, bratty child! You think that if you show up after ten years, that people will just forget that you're a MURDERER!" He shrieked.

Momo was rooted to the grounded. She wanted to run, she wanted to run away so badly but her legs just wouldn't move.

No, no, no, no.

"She's definitely responsible."

"I heard they never told her the victim that she poisoned."
"That's impossible! She has to know who she poisoned!"
"I know right!"

"She's just hiding underneath that innocent face."

Those piercing gazes, pinning her down.

She looked at all those eyes, judging her, watching her every move, ready to pounce at any opening.
The voices growing louder and louder with every second.

The room was shrinking.

Everything was spinning,

It was like she was fading in and out,

Her heartbeat fast yet unnaturally steady,

One beat,

Black.

One beat,

Reality.

One beat,

Black.

One beat,