𝕮𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖉 𝕺𝖋 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊

• 1 • His Touch

[Warning: Puke]

"Anything Homusubi needs, make use of this card." Enji held out a bank card towards the nanny he had hired. Because Rei was unintentionally injured by the baby during labour, she'll need a few months of healing and rest.

"Y-Yes, sir!" She bowed down out of respect while holding the card dearly like a dragon's treasure.

The man gave one glance at the sleeping one-month-old baby in the crib before walking out of the room to go to his daily patrol as a hero.

He had to prepare everything in the house for her to be able to be brought home. Because she was still not in the mental age to control her quirk properly there were constant outbursts of her fire quirk, and especially when she's crying that resulted in her to burn anything that touches her: towels, people, blankets, even the whole hospital floor because the fire spreads. She's one hell of a baby.

So Enji had to take precautions and make her bedroom made of fireproof materials.

She already cost him a lot of expenses in just a span of one month. But she is still his child, and he will do anything for the development of her quirk so she can become a better hero than him and All Might.

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The cries of the baby wailing filled the entire house every single time he comes back from the day. Once he checks up on her room, there she was, being taken care of by the nanny and trying to be fed with milk before he goes back to his room to change into his casual clothes and work from home.

However, the poor new father has a hard time sleeping with the baby always crying until midnight. Unfortunately for him, after 9 PM is the time the nanny will be off duty. He'd just have a hard time, shifting around on his bed, covering his head in between the pillows, and curse his life.

It was the 14th night, he couldn't take her blaring cries anymore. At that time, he grumpily made his way to the baby's bedroom to check up on her.

With eyes piercing through the small gap in the door he made, he caught sight of the baby who was glowing from the burning fire that clothed her entire body while she was in the dark. Crying for help, asking for attention, yearning for a fathers love.

He was a bit hesitant to enter since he didn't have the experience to deal with children. He tends to avoid them his whole life. However, with him having the responsibility to take care of one, his parenthood instincts told him to just grow a pair and check her what made her cry.

So he did. He turned the lights on and entered the room to approach her. She remained to cry loudly, even with the lights on, so maybe it wasn't that she's afraid of the dark.

Then what could be the problem?

"Why are you crying? Child?" He stared at the infant while standing still by the crib.

The baby cried louder than an ambulance. Her tiny knuckles almost turning white because of how tight her fists are.

He leans down closer to the crib, "... Did you... have a nightmare?"

She responded with more crying.

"Stop. Stop it. Stop crying."

But sadly for him, it's not like babies can understand human words.

His eyes narrowed, "Stop it, you're so loud."

Yet another failed attempt. What on earth should he do?

He was a bit hesitant to reach his hand out toward the baby because noting but a fiery fire covered her, yet she remained to be immune to her own fire. However... His body took the risk and held one of her fists.

He braced for the painful burning feeling he imagined whenever he overuses his quirk, yet it didn't come. Even if his hand just went through the fire of her daughter, he mainly felt the warm heat and her smooth-baby skin.

'It's not burning?'

With the feeling of her father's touch that she was longing for this whole time... her cries finally died down.

He lets go, and she cries louder again. He quickly ripped off a part of his shirt to test it out. He hovers it over the fire that covered her, and it burned to cinders in less than a minute.

His eyes showed amazement, 'But... it did hurt other people too, not just material things...'

Could he be...? Immune to her flames?

He reached out again, this time to gently touch her small forehead with his fingertips, leaving a trail across one of her eyebrows and down to her chubby cheek.

The cry died down in an instant with the contact and was exchanged by a small babbling of the baby.

He rests his arm on the crib with his face on top of it. One thought subconsciously appeared in his mind. How can a baby be so mesmerizing and cute at the same time?

He didn't intend to smile, but he did, as his hand lightly pinches one of the chubby cheeks of the baby.

She cooes before reaching her tiny hands out to grab his large ones and slightly nuzzle her face in his rough palm.

He felt his heart do a flip at the baby's response. He noticed her fire slowly disappearing, so he lets her nuzzle into his hand until the fire completely disappears.

He deems it was now safe so he takes back his hand softly.

The baby cried again.

He squints his left eye as he cringed at that loud noise. 'I need to do something.' Without a second thought, he pulls off his shirt, showing his toned body-- but that's not the point. And hesitated for a minute to pick her up from the crib.

He holds up the burning baby in mid-air, and her cries died down again. Her knees bent as she nibbles her toothless gums on her hand. By now he had realized that she stops crying when they have contact. Is this normal for baby's and parents?

He thought for a few seconds before gently holding her against his chest with a hand set behind her head to rest it on his shoulder, 'This is how I hold a baby, right?'

He pressed his lips awkwardly, not even stopping to think as he climbs in the crib and lay there with his long legs dangling at the end. 'Is this alright?'

But at least the baby's cry died down with his touch, then the burning baby in his arms didn't burn anymore and finally became a normal baby.

He let out a sigh after calming the baby down from its whimpers. He pats and rubs her back, hoping he would at least comfort the baby.

But... Instead, far more than what he had expected, he hears silent puke came out of her.

"Did you just...?!-- Oh f*ck!"