A Trio of Thieves

Meet The Boys

"Zuzuuuuuuuu~, come help me up~" 

A small man dressed in black scoffed and shook his head. "Nope, you got shot 'cause you wanted to flirt with the pro." 

"They were hot, okay! You can't lie to me, you were eyeing those abs too~"

The man on the floor turned his head and stared at the knife embedded next to his head. "Zuzu! Did you see that?! Tenko tried to kill me!" 

Zuzu snickered. "And?"

"And? And?! I could have died! I almost had a heart attack!"

"The smile on your face says otherwise, Touya."

The man on the ground didn't even try to hide the teeth showing grin he had on. "True, true," he hefted himself off the ground and plopped down on the table. "Now get this bullet outta me before I sue it for penetrating me without consent." 

Zuzu leaned back in his chair and looked at the gray-haired man that was retrieving his knife. "It's your turn, Tenko."

Tenko sighed and put the knife back in its sheath. "Can't you take it this time? I did save your ass back there." 

Zuzu pulled the necklace he had in his hoodie out of his pocket. "It was so pretty, I couldn't help it. Besides, it was just sitting on that old lady's neck, it'll do a lot more good bringing in money from the market than gathering dust." 

"Yes, but did you have to steal it while a pro hero was watching?"

Zuzu focused on putting the necklace around his throat. "It was more fun to make them watch."

Touya groaned from the table. "You're fun got me shot." 

"No, no," Zuzu corrected, standing up and pulling out the tweezers from the medkit. "That wasn't my fun, you were the one who decided that the best option would be to pick me up and openly flirt with the pro."

"It was a busy night and I needed to relax! Those bastards down below aren't the prettiest." Touya barely flinched when Zuzu dug into his side to retrieve the bullet. 

"Your job, your problems. Where's the book?"

Touya motioned towards the bag by the door. "It's in there in its usual spot, you think after years on the job I'd just let something happen to it?"

Tenko moved to double-check and plucked the book out of the bottom of the bag. "Why is the bag so sticky?"

"Some sludge villain decided to be a bitch. Thought he could get his money back after he got his information."

Zuzu hit Touya on the head. "Hold still, this needs to be stitched up." 

"Izuku! That hurt!"

"Your head bashed through a brick wall once and the only thing you said was that the metal was shiny." 

"I was high." 

Tenko huffed as he read through the newest additions to the book. "Izuku, give the oaf some of the special pain meds so he'll konk out and shut up already."

Touya used a hand to poke at the finished stitches carefully. "Rude, is that any way to treat your older brother?"

Tenko set the book on the table and flicked Touya on the head. "It is if said older brother is as pathetic as you, Ram."

"Hey hold on one fucking minute-"

"Shut up! I'll get Touya's blood all over the phone if I can't hold it properly."

Tenko and Touya turned to see Izuku carefully maneuvering his fingers around the ringing phone. "Hello?"

A whispery voice echoed through the speaker. "Do you want to play a game?"

Izuku, Touya, and Tenko simultaneously pushed the phone onto the ground. 

"Fuck that," Tenko said, grabbing his clothes from the box he kept them in. "We're moving again." 

Touya was already throwing a non bloodied shirt on and grabbing their bags out of the closet. "No arguments here. If that bitch could find us again then the pros will be here any day now."

"Who do you think it'll be this time?" Izuku asked, casually throwing a gun into his backpack. "I want to bet on it being one of those new heroes, maybe Kan- what was it? Kamui and Mt. Lady." 

Touya threw his make-up into a small purse. "What do we do if it's either of them?"

"Well," Tenko said, folding his favorite hoodie with the utmost care. "If it's Kamui, I'll deal with it, if it's Mt. Lady, you deal with it." 

"Sounds good to me."

"Alright!" Izuku said, clapping his hands. "Bags are packed and on our backs, now for sanitization time!" 

"By bomb or by hand?" Touya asked, reaching towards the pouch on his side. 

"Bomb, we need to go." 

"Whatever you say, Little bro."

Tenko held the window open as Izuku jumped down before tossing his bags down to the short man. "Be quick." He told Touya before disappearing down the ladder. 

Touya, now alone in the small apartment, smiled even wider than before. He dropped the small square and pressed the green button. "I love it when things go boom."

He jumped out of the window dramatically and ruffled Tenko's hair. "You both ready to go?"

Izuku nodded his head. "Yup!"

"Then let this big brother show you our next living quarters, it'll be nice~"

"Touya I swear to Kami if we end up in one more pervert's basement-"

Touya threw his arms around his younger brothers and laughed the threat off. "No way, I don't want our precious Tenko to sleep with a sex doll that was taller than him for a pillow."

Touya dodged a knife that headed for his arm and hastily stood on the other side of Izuku. "A regular cab should do, then we can walk from there."

"Yes, yes, I and Zuzu can take the cab and walk the rest of the way, you must have the misfortune of walking."

Touya closed his eyes. "If that's how it's going to be then me and Zuzu will take the cab while you walk."

"Why should Zuzu be stuck with you when you can't even dodge a bullet?"

"Well, why should he go with you when the only thing you can do is run away?"

Izuku went to the main road to signal a cab while Touya and Tenko shook hands behind him, both had large bumps on their heads. "Get in losers." He said, shoving his bags in the back. "We're moving." 

"That's not who the quote goes..." Tenko murmured under his breath. 

He yelped as Touya hurriedly shoved him into the backseat. "No time for talk, let's go, let's go, let's go-"

"What did you do that for?" Tenko demanded. 

"Zuzu was right, Mt. Lady and Kamui are on their way to our old place." He pointed out of the back window as if they were gawking at animals in a zoo. "Good thing we didn't waste any more time." 

"Really?" Was the question, followed quickly by a 'Fuck!' as Izuku noticed, the Detector Hero: No Scope was there too, and that she had just spotted them. 

"Hey, hey, Mrs. Cabbie," Touya said anxiously to the driver. "How much to get you to drive down below?"

The cabbie turned around and smiled at them with big lips while readjusting her glasses. "A fellow villain in need is a villain in need. Where to?"

"The nearest red-light district," Izuku told her, his eyes targeted on branches that filled their temporary home.

"Right-o." The cabbie hit the gas and within moments they blended into the crowd. 

"Damn," Touya said, relaxing into the seat. "Who knew our lives would progress so fast?"