18 Long Time No See

Since I had some time to spare after reaching school, I thought about taking Hana out for a walk. Since I couldn't come and pick her up at her school as I usually did, So I went to her room in search of her and knocked.

"It's me, Hana."

"Come in." As soon as I heard her, I opened the door and went inside.

She was sitting at her table and drawing something, so she peeked from her shoulder and saw that she was drawing a girl with wings flying through the air, very childishly, of course.

Seeing it, I smiled a little and asked her, "Is that you, Hana?"

"Yep. It's me after I get wings like a brother." With a cute smile, she replied.

Hearing that, I just messed up her hair with my hand and said, "Come on, let's go for a walk."

"Can we get ice cream?"

"Sure, anything for you."

"Yay, let me change."

So I went outside her room and told mom and dad that we're going out, and they gave me extra money to buy ice cream for them also.

A couple of seconds later, Hana came out of her room. Looking at her, I said, "Alright, let's go."

And we left the house hand in hand.

We walked quite a bit and reached the ice cream shop, where I brought two ice creams, one strawberry for her and one chocolate for me. After eating the ice cream, we continued our walk down the street.

As we were walking, Hana spoke to me, "Brother, will I ever get a quirk?"

"Of course you will; why did you ask that?"

"Well, some of my friends started to avoid me after knowing I'm quirkless."

"Ah, that's a problem." I thought about my days at the orphanage, where other kids just bullied me for the fun of it.

"I still have two friends, but I'm afraid that they'll leave me too."

"Look here, Hana. All the kids just do that, mostly because of their parents. Or bad upbringing, or just pure pride. Whatever it is, just avoid them, okay? They won't be a good friend to you in the future."

"So?"

"So, wait until you get your quirk, see who left as a friend to you, and be his or her best friend for life. Because that kind of friend will be with us even in our down time, okay?"

"Okay." She looked at me and asked, "Did you have someone like that?"

"Umm, I had, kinda. But I'm not sure now. He's older than me, and we haven't seen each other for almost ten years, so I don't think so. But I got mom, dad, and you to rely on, right, Hana?"

"Yep. And I have a brother too."

After walking a couple of rounds around the block, we started to go back home. On the way, we bought a tub of ice cream to eat at home with dad and mom.

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A fairly tall, pale young man of a slim, somewhat fit build, looking to be in his early twenties, He has white hair with a few red streaks at its crown that spike upward around his head, hanging low over his eyes, which are thin and turquoise in colour. He is standing in front of the Night Bakery with a headset in his ear, which is connected to his phone in his pocket.

A couple of seconds later, he spoke into the mic of the headphones. "Are you sure this is the bakery that she likes?"

{Yes, she's a frequent visitor to this establishment.}

"Who's running this place?"

{An old couple and their kids' A boy and a girl. The boy is fifteen years old, and the girl is only nine years old this year.}

"Anything on the couple?"

{Just their name and age.}

"Alright," he said, saying that he cut the call, stood there for a second, and entered the bakery.

"Welcome to Night Bakery; what can we get for you?" An old woman asked him.

Looking at the old woman, he said, "I'm here to order a cake for the day."

"What kind of cake do you want?"

"Cheese Cake."

"Alright, do you want to write anything on it?"

"Yeah, it should be this, 'Congrats Shoto'."

"That can be done; at which day do you want it?"

"Day after tomorrow?"

"Sure, you can pay half the price now and the balance when you come to take the cake. So the total will be 1800 yen."

"Here you go." He handed out his credit card.

As the old woman was going to take the card, the doorbell chimed, and the voice of a little girl was heard: "Mom, we got ice cream. Let's eat it."

"Sure honey. Haru, please take care of this young man."

"Sure mom." Saying that Haru came to the counter and took the card from the table, swiped it on the machine, typed in the rate, and gave it to the young man.

But the man just stood there frozen, looking at Haru, and said, "Haruto?"

"Yep," he replied.

When he heard that, he said, "It's me, Touya. Don't you remember, from the Sekoto peak?"

"Yeah. I remember."

"Where were you? I couldn't find you there at all."

"Ah. Well, I got adopted by them," pointing at Sho and Hina, "so I moved from there."

"Oh man, you have no idea. I've been trying to find where you were a lot of time, but I couldn't find anything about you after this incident."

"Well, I changed my name after all."

"Yeah, so what are you doing now?"

"I'm at U.A. in the hero course."

"Cool. My brot.... Wait a minute, that day you said you were quirkless?"

"Late quirk manifestation, at the age of twelve."

"Good for you. So what about you?"

"I haven't seen them since they left me in the orphanage. But I met with my sister, who experienced the same thing as me." He pointed at Hana and hit his chin.

Looking at Hana Touya, she asked, "She was also abandoned."

"Yep. Luckily, mom and dad had kept an eye on them, so as soon as she was in the orphanage, they adopted her too."

"Ah, they're good people, huh?"

"Yep. I couldn't ask for better parents. Speaking about that, what happened with yours?"

"Ah. That's been resolved. Something happened with dad's work, and during his down time, he realised what he did wrong and started to change slowly."

"Good for you."

"Yeah. Oh, I almost forgot. I'm a hero now!"

"Really?"

"Yes., I'm Blaze."

"So you are Endeavours, son?"

"Yep. And you said you are in the U.S., right?"

"Yeah"

"Then you might have seen my youngest brother. Shoto. Shoto Todoroki."

"Yeah. We're in the same class."

"I know he's cold to other people. But he's warm in his heart."

"Yeah, I can see that."

"How?"

"Well, a brother of yours might be like that, right?"

"Yeah totally. So anyway, see you, man. I've got to go. Hero duty."

"See ya."

"See you, Haruto."

As he left the bakery, Touya called Fuyumi.

*Ring... * *Ring... * A couple of rings later, she picked up and said, {Hello.

"Hey, do you know who I met today?"

{Who? }

"Remember that kid I used to talk about?"

{Yeah, the one who talked you out of your stupid quirk training}

"Yeah, him. His name is Haruto."

{.... }

"Hey, Fuyumi, are you there?"

{What's his name again?}

"Haruto Kageyama. His parents own the Night Bakery."

{..... } *beeeeeeep*

"Ayish. Connection lost. But whatever, I finally met him. Long time no see, friend." He said that, looking back at the bakery.

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