Everything's Not Okay

I'm Done

If it weren't for the nagging fear that one of them would wake up, I would be asleep right now. Nightmares aren't common, but that doesn't mean they don't happen. They live with a literal demon, I wouldn't be surprised if they got one or two a month. I know I still have them.

The sun is already rising. If this was a weekday, Bakugou, Midoriya, or Todoroki would already be up taking a morning run before classes. But it's the weekend, so they sleep in a little longer.  Staring at the window for hours isn't my favorite thing to do to pass time, but it's better than staring at kids sleep. It felt wrong no matter how close I am to them. So I stayed in the common room. Surprisingly no one has came down here and if they did then they're quiet as hell cause I didn't hear them. While continuing to look at a bird poop is fun and all, I have to wake up the kids. I'd rather get them fed and everything before anybody comes down and scares them. I don't want a repeat of last night. 

Even though no one is awake, I make sure not to make a lot of noise. For all I know Tokoyami could just be awake the whole time, or there's an insomniac lurking. Sadly it wont be the one I want. 

After opening the door to my room I can see all five kids still asleep. Aw, they're so cute. Now to wake the "little shits" up. 

"Haru, wake up. It's morning." Haru is the lightest sleeper, though I'd put Kai in a close second. It's just that Haru's sense of touch is stronger than the others. So even though it's pointless to be calling his name, it wakes up Kai which will wake up his brother and all I had to do was shake and call the name of the deaf kid. I am the best big brother. The same big brother who lets them starve for days. Or not. I should find them something to eat.

"Are we leaving now?" Toshi rubs his eyes before yawning. Sumie is still sleeping next to his brother. She doesn't share a room with the boys, so she doesn't know how their mornings go. It's a bit chaotic, but fun.

"No, we're gonna wake up Koji." I smile and I can see him and his brother grin back. Haru is already standing up and the twins get off the bed. All three of them are standing right above Koji. "Pounce him"

In an instant Haru and Toshi are cannonballing right on Koji while Kai just flops on his legs. There's a second of silence before we all wince. Well I guess that means Koji is awake now. He's such a heavy sleeper that it would take all morning to wake him up. We learned after a while that he waked up a lot faster when he's going through some kind of emotion. Though the kids all jumping on him at first hurt a bit, he always laughs hysterically after which puts everyone else in a good mood. It's a great start to the morning and so much better than splashing water on his face only to feel a shit ton of embarrassment after.  We only stopped that because Mr. Akagi found out we were using the water in the house to wake him up. We were banned from drinking any of it for a month. Wasn't very fun. Getting side-tracked. 

Right

Sumie

I walk over to the bed to find that she's still asleep. I don't know how she does it. "Sumie, it's time to wake up." She stirs a bit before slowly opening her eyes. She blinks her sleep away and sits up on the bed. She takes a look at the boys still laughing on the floor and smiles before joining them. She opts to just lay down on Koji instead of jumping on him. 

"Not very nice!" Koji jokes in English. He's still laughing which just warms my heart. I could just watch them be actual kids for hours. There's never any hesitation when we're alone like this unless something happened beforehand. It's refreshing. 

"Come on, grab your bags. We're gonna go get cleaned up." I pick up Kai's bag and my makeup bag before walking to the door. I wait for the rest of them to grab their stuff and follow. I know I have to be quick with this especially since I'm about to bring Sumie to the boys' bathroom. I push the door open to fortunately find no one there. The sinks are too high for them, but Koji is able to reach it while standing on his toes so I let them be. I'll help them once they need to rinse.