#because once again someone is blatantly picking /shouto/ over him. but this time it's /jin/ HIS long-term lover)

[intersexdabi]

au where shouto suddenly realizes he doesn't want to be a hero and enji loses his fucking mind. there's a huge fight, with fuyumi trying to interject and calm things down. natsuo shows up (bc fuyumi called him for backup) and he tells shouto to grab a bag and he'll take him out of there.

at some point, endeavor says something like, "what did touya even die for" which almost makes fuyumi so sick to her stomach she feels like throwing up

nat doesn't have a place for shouto, but says he knows someone that does. and after acting kind of strange (which shouto chalks up to the fact that they really haven't had the chance to communicate almost at all bc endeavor lol), natsuo eventually says he'll explain things but it's complicated and he can't ever tell endeavor about any of it

anyway. they end up at an apartment in a part of the city that shouto has never been to. and when natsuo knocks on the door of some apartment, a man with light blond hair and deep set eyes answers. he looks happy to see natsuo, at least, but looks kind of panicked when he gets a sight of shouto.

eventually natsuo introduces him to jin, who, uh, happens to be, hm, touya's partner. yeah, that touya, our older brother, the one that died 11 years ago. he's alive and in a long-term relationship with a former criminal and, no, endeavor and their mother do not know about this at all and, btw, you were never supposed to know either so you have to SWEAR you'll never say anything, even to mom, got it?

nat leaves (half because he has a final exam that he cannot afford to fuck up on and half because he's a lil cowardly in the fact that touya is not someone to be trifled with and he does not want to be there when touya pops his lid) and touya shows up with take out, bc both he and jin knew nat was stopping by (just not what for). so shouto gets something to eat, at least.

but touya is very much pissed about all of this. shouto only sees him briefly when touya's head pops into the doorway with a look of fury. (and shouto doesn't remember his face, only knows what he looks like from photographs, but some of his questions are answered when he sees the obvious skin graph job wrapping around his lower face and remembers the jaw bone that was found)

touya takes his meal in his bedroom. shouto at least has jin for company. jin is kind, but his loyalty to touya outweighs that aspect, so he gives sparse details about shouto's older brother, really only telling parts that have to do with himself (how they met, how they operate, etc.). anything else he insists that is not his business to tell.

the thing is, it's one thing that touya not try to kick shouto to the curb for one night. but the question that nat and fuyumi have to ask themselves is what they're going to do when endeavor is so angry and considering his track record.