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Keigo’s been struggling with being a hero in the daylight and a villain at night. He’s being pulled in two different directions, and he’s honestly lost sight of where his place is. He’s trying not to lose sight of Keigo Takami now that he’s found him again after so many years of being unable to just be Keigo.
His world is ripping at the seams, splintering in two in such a way that Keigo isn’t sure he’ll even be able to heal from it. He’s supposed to meet Dabi in the warehouse five blocks from his condo, but he’s cocooned in his wings, breaking, and trying to breathe instead.
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“You have to be a hero, not let these foolish villains get away. You’re a hero during the day, you know that. We don’t care about anything except for figuring out Shigaraki’s plans and connections to AFO. Do your job or be stripped of your hero license.” sneered Amie, the newest HPSC commissioner as she glowered at Keigo darkly.
“Yes ma’am.” said Keigo quietly before he left the office and made his way to the room, flying home feeling numb.
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His wings wrapped around him the moment he reached his room, and he crumbled as tears fell down his cheeks. His sons clawed their way out in ugly heaves of breath that echoed in his room. He’s already decided that he’s not meeting with Dabi, and he’s not patrolling tomorrow either.
He’s getting out of this mess, he has to.
His cheeks are tacky from the tears, throat sore from the sobs, but his feathers still attack the moment his bedroom door opens.
“Woah, pretty bird. It’s just me. Not that I’m not enjoying this because I really, really am. But I’m already in quirk-cancelling cuffs, did you have to pin me to your wall?” asks Dabi with a huff, tone coming off amused.
Keigo forcefully opens his cocoon, standing from his place against his closet to see Dabi held against his wall. He looks hot as always in his normal get-up, the only thing different is that he actually does have quirk-cancelling cuffs on.
“What the hell is going on, Dabi?” asks Keigo suspiciously, golden eyes narrowed at those shining blue orbs.
“We gave ourselves up. AFO told crusty to do something that he didn’t like, and he called a meeting. We all decided to give ourselves up.” rambles Dabi as Keigo’s feathers release him from his place on the wall as his eyes narrow while they trace over Keigo’s face. “I approached Eraserhead about it because I know his patrol route for Thursdays. I asked him to bring me to you first because you never showed up. Why are you crying?”
“It doesn’t matter, are you okay, Dabi?” asks Keigo quietly, his barely hidden crush flaring to life.
“Ah, about that, pretty bird. As much as I love hearing that name from those distracting lips of yours, my name is actually Touya Todoroki, Keigo Takami. And I’m sorry ahead of time because Todoroki is not who you think he is. Yo, ‘raser, I’m ready!” replies Dabi, no it’s Touya, as he knocks his cuffed fists against Keigo’s bedroom door.
“Wha-Huh? Don’t you walk away from me, hothead!” calls Keigo as Touya walks out of the room, quickly following after him. “Eraserhead, he doesn’t leave until I’m done talking to him!”
“Hawks, you can’t order me about. He asked to see you, and he said he’d holler when he was done.” says Shot Aizawa, Eraserhead, with that same tired drawl and an added eye roll as he holds Touya by the arm and guides him to the door. “I’m only being lenient because Shouto told me who he was before my break was up. He’s done here, so I’m taking him in.”
“Aizawa, I still need to-” starts Keigo seriously as Shota opens the condo door, nudging Touya through it with his hold on his arm.
“He’ll be in a quirk-cancelling cell at Tsukauchi’s station once we’re done talking to him. I’ll make sure you’re notified when he can be visited, but we’re leaving now Hawks.” says Shota sternly as he cuts Keigo off with a firm look.
“Love you, pretty bird, please don’t visit me.” calls Touya before the door shuts behind them.
They’re gone before Keigo can even think of an argument, and he finds that there isn’t one as he stares at his door. Keigo is confused, pissed, and happy, but he has an idea of what he wants to do while he waits for the call to go deal with his hothead.
There’s a villain reformation Center, and Keigo has spent some time there off and on. One of the offers the Center has is housing a reformed villain until they are able to support themselves in society. Present Mic is the one who announced it when Nezu founded it and opened the Center officially. Keigo knows that’s Touya’s next stop.
Keigo is tired of being a jerk under the HPSC’s thumb, so maybe he can be a hero another way. Izuku Midoriya has talked to him on several occasions about quirkless and mutation quirk discrimination, and Keigo has some of his own opinions about it that he shares with Izuku. Maybe this is what Keigo needs to do, and that’s why he puts himself to work.
The first thing he does is make sure all of the money he has is moved out of the HPSC bank account and into the one he’s the sole controller of. He’s going to need it to find a new place and support his plans. He sends in his already typed resignation document, and he’s glad the timing works out because his contract is already up.
This is the final nail in that coffin.
Finally, he settles on the couch for the long-haul project of drafting up plans, goals, and added research to figure out how to do everything he wants to do.
Keigo has a twenty-page bullet point list of everything he can think of that he might need for his plans by the time his phone rings from its place in his pocket. Keigo pulls it out and answers the call without looking.
“Hello?”
“Visiting Touya is now possible.”
“Ah, thanks Aizawa.”
“Yeah, you’re welcome. Bye.”
Click.
“That man really needs to sleep… Am I actually going to go confront Touya for his confessions and the thing about Endeavor?” mumbles Keigo as he stands and heads for the door, freezing with his hand on the doorknob before determination curls through him. “Yes, yes I am.”
He’s flying to the station before he can think to check his appearance, something he regrets the moment he drops down in front of the station and his name is screamed. Keigo hurries into the station before anyone can get close enough to stop him.
“Hawks, to what do we owe the pleasure of having you visit us?” asks Tsukauchi with a knowing smirk.
“I’m here to see Dabi.” replies Keigo shortly as he heads towards the cells room that he knows Touya’s in.
“Last one on the left!” calls Tsukauchi with laughter in his voice.
Keigo waves a hand over his head to show that he heard him before walking through the door to the cells room. He makes quick work of the semi-short walk thanks to the full stretch of his wings, and then he’s standing in front of Touya’s cell.
“I told you not to visit.” says Touya seriously as his blue eyes go wide in surprise and panic. He’s lying on the bed, and he initially had his eyes closed before Keigo cleared his throat.
“We need to talk, so I’m coming in.” replies Keigo lowly as he punches in his code so he can step into the room, breathing deeply to calm himself when it locks behind him.
“Pretty bird are you going to tell me why you still look like you were crying?” asks Touya lightly, nervously, as he sits up on the bed and twists to press his back against the wall and press his knees to his chest as he looks at Keigo.
“I resigned. What the hell did Endeavor do to you?” asks Keigo as his hands ball into fists at his side when Touya flinches at the name drop.
“He’s an abusive prick, that’s all you need to know. Sho says he’s trying to change, but I still want nothing to do with him. I’ll deal with all of that when I go through the Reformation program. Now, what do you mean you resigned?” replies Touya quietly as he moves forward to plant both feet on the floor, digging his elbows into his knees.
“I mean, I resigned. I’m no longer a hero, now I want to talk about you saying you love me before I go beat Endeavor into a fucking pulp.” says Keigo through clenched teeth as he fights the urge to march out of the cells room and fly to the Todoroki estate.
“Pretty bird, I love you. That’s a simple fact that I’ve been fighting since you first contacted me. Don’t worry about that, and don’t worry about Endeavor. He’s not important to me anymore.” whispers Touya nonchalantly, like his words hold no weight at all.
“You say you love me, yet you act like it doesn’t matter… explain.” demands Keigo with an offended tone as he crosses his arms over his chest.
“I love you, pretty bird, but you could never love me. That’s why my feelings for you don’t matter because you shouldn’t love me. I don’t want to lose you as a friendly acquaintance, even a friend maybe, but I’ve resigned myself to the simple fact that it will never be more.” explains Touya hesitantly, almost uncertain even though his words sound true.
Keigo doesn’t know why he does it, but he’s quickly straddling Touya’s knees and wrapping himself around Touya moments later.
“I love you too. Have for too fucking long, but everything told me it was impossible because you were a villain, and I was a hero sent to infiltrate your band of villains.” rambles Keigo wetly as tears slip through his closed eyes while he hides his face in the crook of Touya’s neck. He doesn’t move as Touya twists around to be fully on the bed, hands falling to Keigo’s hips. “But then I got to know you, and I just fell in love with your attitude, your sarcasm, your wit. The way you care, and yet you hate when it’s pointed out to you. I fell in love with you, and I haven’t stopped falling. So, please don’t say it will never be more because I really want it to be more.”
“Okay, okay, pretty bird, Keigo, I won’t say that. I’ll say it’s a maybe. But only because I have to go through the program, and I don’t know how long it will take for them to let me go.” replies Touya quietly as his hands brush up and down along Keigo’s spine, fingertips brushing over feathers in a soothing manner he’s done a few times with Keigo.
Keigo pulls back to look Touya in the eye and says, “There’s a chance for people to offer to house those in the reformation program, and I can do that. You could come stay with me.”
“Would you really want to see me every day?” asks Touya in surprise, even as delight spreads across his face in the form of a soft grin.
“I- I would, but we could see about someone else doing it. And we could still do dates and be together. Either way, there’s a chance for us to be together, and I want you to be mine as much as I am yours.” replies Keigo in a vulnerable way as he tips his head back into its hiding place as the nerves shut him up.
“I’d love that, pretty bird, I truly, truly would. So, you get yourself on that list, and we can see how we can swing it, so I end up with you. Can I see those pretty golden eyes, pretty bird?” asks Touya softly, happiness dripping off his tongue as he pulls himself away enough to try to catch those eyes.
“Are we together, Touya? Can I say you’re mine?” asks Keigo shyly as he looks up at him with wide eyes, want and nerves battling in those golden orbs.
“Hell, yeah you can, and I’m gonna tell everyone I have the prettiest boyfriend in the whole goddamn world.” replies Touya brightly as Keigo’s hands come up to cup his face, warming him even more than his quirk ever could.
Keigo wants to respond, but the want to feel those lips against his is far more intense as he watches that pink tongue swipe along the bottom lip slowly, almost teasingly.
“Kiss me, Kei.” whispers Touya knowingly, yet Keigo can hear that he wants it too.
Keigo leans in to softly brush their lips together, then he pulls back to see Touya’s eyelids flutter open, and he can’t help himself. Keigo kisses Touya hard, all the want and desire fueling him as Touya opens up to him with ease, but then Keigo’s whimpering when his tongue is sucked on the moment it slips into Touya’s mouth. The feel of his hair between Keigo’s fingers grounds him as Touya teases Keigo, twisting their tongues together and gripping his fingers in feathers.
“Don’t make me come in there and separate you two.” comes the sleepy drawl of Shota Aizawa over the intercom.
Keigo and Touya pull back immediately, both of their faces a deep red, panting as they both look at the camera in the corner with sheepish smiles curving on their puffy lips.
“You’d better go before Eraser decides he’s not going to play nice.” says Touya with a light pout at his own suggestion.
“I’ll see you again soon, Touya, promise. I love you.” whispers Keigo as he quickly presses a kiss to those lips again before sliding off of Touya’s lap.
“Love you too, pretty bird.” says Touya as Keigo walks over to the keypad and punches in his code.
As Keigo leaves the station moments later, he feels free and happy. He’s doing this, and he’s going to have the love of his life by his side.