#fiitw sneak peak

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Hitoshi sighed deeply before lifting Izumi onto the counter, caging her with his arms while looking down at her.

“I could kill you right where you stand,” she pouted.

The underground apprentice smirked, his voice dropping as he whispered: “I'd like to see you try, Princess.”

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“My preferred payment method is kisses and cat pictures.”

~Hitoshi, after bringing Izumi a latte.

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“You two are hopeless, I see that now. Luckily, I’m here to help.”

~Keigo, at some point.

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He glanced back, the cheerful tune he had been whistling dying out when he saw that Izumi had stopped in the middle of street. She was staring down at her phone, her delicate brow furrowed.

“Hey!” Keigo called out, walking back in the direction of his baby sister. “What are you doing slow poke? We’re gonna be late…” he trailed off, noticing the tears pooling in his sister’s eyes. “Izumi?”

Izumi was trembling, her eyes not looking away from her phone.

“ ‘Zumi…” Keigo cooed, cupping her tear stained cheeks. “I’m here.”

The dam broke. Tears flooded her vision and she let out a broken sob. Keigo wrapped his arms around her smaller frame, bringing her to his chest.

“Let’s go home yeah? Boba can wait.”

Keigo let his wings form and grabbed Izumi, holding her in a princess carry as they soared through the skies.

The flight wasn’t long, maybe four blocks at most but it was the quickest way to get them both back to the teacher dorms.

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Izumi didn’t say anything, handing him her phone instead. Her messages were displayed, the ones between her and Hitoshi, the last message from the sleepy teen being a photo, a photo of him hunched over someone else.

If Keigo had to guess, it was moments before a kiss took place. Or maybe after, if the tips of Hitoshi’s ears were any indication of his emotional state.

The girl in the photo looked familiar.

“Is that Uraraka?” Izumi nodded, still silent but no longer crying. “I’m gonna kill him.”

“No,” she whispered, voice sounding raw and broken.

“What do you mean no! He hurt you!”

“He’s my friend. I want him to be happy. If she makes him happy, then there’s nothing more to it,” Izumi argued.

“No, you two were supposed to end up together! You two are a match made in the stars.”

“The stars were wrong.”

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“Keigo…” Hitoshi started, his words slurring from the alcohol. “Did we just pregame a m-meeting with the president of the Hero Com-commission?”

“Shut up and act sober. This is a trying time,” the avian hero scolded, golden eyes hidden behind a pair of sunglasses.

“I am!”

“Seriously,” Izumi chided with a giggle, swaying as she walked. She was dressed casually, in ripped black jeans and one of Keigo’s hoodies. She didn’t seem to mind the large slashes in the fabric that was meant for her brother’s wings, even though it was near freezing outside.

“I don’t even—”

“Better listen to him, Sphinx. Any meeting with the President is best to be done while inebriated,” Aizawa advised, taking a drink from his silver flask. Mic nodded in agreement, his green eyes overshadowed by blown pupils.

“I swear you Takami’s are fucking wild.” Hitoshi shook his head, trying to clear the fog from his brain as he followed his family and friends into the office of the Commission President.

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“Maybe we should get red and blue slushies and make people question why our tongues are purple,” Izumi commented offhandedly, pointing towards a shaved ice stand in the middle of the park.

Hitoshi eyed it before locking eyes with the girl beside him.“Who gets the red and who gets the blue?”

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“She’s in Fukouka.”

“What!?” Hitoshi screeched, whirling around to face the avian hero. “Why?”

The blonde cocked an eyebrow, his arms crossed loosely over his chest as he leaned against the balcony railing. “Do you want to find her, or do you want to stand here asking stupid questions?”

“Thank you, Keigo.”

“Hawks. You lost that privilege when you went all kissy face with the leech,” Hawks spit out, venom leaking from his words.

Hitoshi lowered his head, ears burning in shame. “Right. I deserve that,” he murmured.

“What you deserve is to be eviscerated but Izumi would kill me.”

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“Keigo,” Izumi whined, having just woken up from a nap. “Where are we going?”

“It's a surprise.”

“I hate surprises,” she mumbled, stifling a yawn.

I know,” her brother replied, amusement clear in his voice.

Keigo walked her to the Heights Alliance, before taking her hand and leading Izumi in. He walked past the common room, heading for the elevators. Izumi slumped against the railing with a huff, her mind still hazy from sleep.

When the doors opened on the fifth floor, Izumi was a bit more awake and started to notice her surroundings. They walked to the end of the hall, where Hitoshi’s room was and coincidentally, where Hitoshi and Eri were waiting.

“What’s this all about?” Hitoshi grumbled, rubbing at his eyes “I just got done with my patrol. I’d like to try and get some sleep before the sun comes up.”

“Relax Tosh. This’ll be quick, I promise.” Keigo held out his hands to Eri, who happily grabbed onto the blonde. Hitoshi gave them a questioning look but didn’t say anything, instead going over to Izumi’s side, and leaning against the shorter girl.

“You okay?” he asked, voice low.

Izumi nodded, wrapping her blanket tighter around her. “Yeah,” she sighed. “Just tired.”

Hitoshi hummed and wrapped an arm around her, pulling Izumi to his chest. “Me too. Whatever this is better be worth it.”

“It will be!” Eri sang, having heard her older brother.

“You should be in bed, little miss. If dad or papa find you here…”

Keigo chuckled, his shoulders shaking with his failed attempt to keep quiet. “They know she’s here.”

“What?”

“Yeah, they said it was okay to wake up before you got back so she could be a witness.”

Hitoshi stared at the hero, confusion overtaking the tiredness of his face. “A witness to what?”

Eri giggled while Keigo’s grin morphed into a smirk. “This,” he said before stepping to the side, revealing a closet door.

Izumi blinked, looking between her brother and the door. “Kei, what are you–”

She was cut off when her brother pushed her towards the now open door, Eri dragging Hitoshi by his wrist after them.

“Eri! What are you doing?! Let go!”

The two of them were thrown into the enclosed space and heard the sound of the lock clicking into place.

“Hey! Let us out!” Izumi screamed, now fully awake.

“Not until you two work this out!” Keigo called back, voice muffled by the door.

“There's nothing to work out Bird Brain!”

“Tell that to the countless hours I've spent waiting for you two to confess!”

“Confess what! Takami Keigo!” Izumi yelled, pounding on the door. “I swear to the gods that when I get out of here you're gonna regret being born!”

“Can't regret what you don't remember Starling!” Keigo cackled.

“Oi, feathers!” Hitoshi growled, slamming his palms against the door, “Open the door. Now!”

The birdman only laughed, as did the little girl perched on his shoulders. “You don’t scare me Toshi. You’re just a little sleepy kitten.”

“Open the door! I’m gonna count to three!” Hitoshi threatened.

“Ooh, I’m scared!” Keigo taunted, while Eri’s eyes widened.

“Maybe we should let them out Kei. Toshi sounds really mad.”

“Nah, it's okay, Dove. He’s just upset that we’re hijacking his five-year plan.”

Eri didn’t look convinced, but didn’t say anything else.

“One.” Hitoshi ground out, his voice low as if he was a predator about to strike. Keigo stopped laughing, the tone of the teen’s voice like ice.

“Two.”

“Three!” Hitoshi roared, slamming his body against the door. The door broke into large pieces, with gaps big enough for a slim hand to reach through and unlock the door.

Slowly the dilapidated door opened, revealing two glowing sets of eyes, and a pair of very pissed-off teenagers. Keigo took a step back, his hold on Eri tightening in fear.

“Run,” Izumi whispered, body glowing pink as a pair of morphix wings formed. Hitoshi, who still had his capture scarf on, (how had Keigo missed that?) gripped it with intent, ready to cast, smirked, as if a cat was stalking its prey.

With a shriek the hero ran, narrowly missing the pink knives and ropes of a capture scarf being thrown at him.

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So I’m bored and have been scrolling through my outlines. (One of them is over 30k words)

I figured it be fun to post some mini fics of my AUs. What this means is that it could be a chapter that gonna be posted waaaayy off in the future, OR it is something that’s written out but doesn’t fit with the main fic.

Since I’ve got a long way to go story-wise for most of my fics, I thought this would be fun.