Little bit of Candy Cane spice

~Eraser~

Dabi had gone up in flames and everyone moved away in a rush, "Hey! What are you two doing here?! And why the hell is he on fire?" Law rushed over and questioned.

"We followed you here, I was asking him some questions, and I guess I pushed too much. He started having a panic attack and this happened when I tried to calm him down." Informing with a sigh 'Some teacher I am.'

"What's going on?" Smoker came over as Law explained. "How do we stop him?" He questioned.

"I can stop him from using his fire but we need to re-" My plan was quickly interrupted by Dabi yelling as he ran towards Vergo, the man was saying something and was about to do something when he was socked in the face with a powerful blow. He fell as Dabi sat over him and pounded his face into the ground, screaming until his voice started cracking and sounded like a scratched record.

It seemed like he thought Vergo was someone else, It took me a few minutes to free myself of the shock. Quickly activating my quirk as Dabi's flames dissipated, Running over to him "Dabi!" catching his falling figure in my arms and grimacing at the image. His body was covered almost head to toe in burns and he was bleeding like there was no tomorrow, all in all I think Vergo's face looked the worst.

It was nothing but mush, I didn't even think pounding someone's head to mush with one's bare fist was even possible. Even Law and Smoker looked away with sick expressions, Dabi was muttering something but his voice sounded too broken to hear. Thankfully law was able to fix him up somewhat, though he said his vocal cords would need time to heal by themselves since he nearly broke them with all his screaming.

Thankfully I had accidentally pulled Dabi's coat off when he went into his panic attack and pushed me away, since the rest of his clothes, minus his boots, went up in flames. I'll have to ask him where he even got those, and why he didn't get the rest of his clothes fire proofed. I wrapped the coat around him before picking him up, Law got his heart back before returning to his previous plans.

A voice interrupted from Vergo's corpse, Law talked with him as he made some grand speech before cutting all of the S.A.D containers open. After that was finished we followed Law someplace where he told us we needed the large cart, the two of them pulled it and along the way Law gave Smoker his heart back. To which the man was surprised but thankful, we made it to a room where Luffy and the others were waiting.

"Tra-guy! Smoky!" He smiled and waved before his eyes widened at me "Dabi?!" We walked over and studied Dabi's appearance. "Did something happen?" He looked up at me in question, sighing in exhaustion.

"He'll be fine, just got over-excited is all." Reassuring as he hummed and nodded before talking with Law, looking down at Dabi as his head slightly jutted back and forth. He mumbled something incoherent and slightly shook, he wore a frightened and worried expression. 'He's having a nightmare, what was it that Shoto told me about Touya? He apparently died in an accident, but he looks very much alive to me. What exactly happened back then?'

Dabi's previous expression when I was pushing him to answer my questions was still very clear in my mind, he looked like he'd seen a ghost, like what I was saying was the most terrifying thing ever. This definitely goes deeper than just Dabi and Shoto…

Shoto didn't tell me much about life at home but he obviously didn't enjoy some part of it, sometimes it seemed he wanted to stay at the dorms and school rather than back home. There's definitely some unpleasant history behind the Todoroki family and the story of Touya's death...

~Dabi~

"Alright, show me again." …

"Like, this-?" …

"Put your hands up like this, lower your center of gravity, and swing hard." …

"Right...I definitely have it this time!" …

"You're going to end up breaking your thumb if you do that." …

"Oh come on! I had it though, right?" …

"Yeah, you're on your way to becoming the best ballerina." …

"Hey! Not funny, Touya." …

"I thought it was funny, I mean. If ballet doesn't suit you then you'd make a great punching bag, maybe you'd manage a few hits back and be upgraded to training dummy." …

He crossed his arms and turned his head away. "Hmp! Punching bag, yeah right." …

"I'm joking Natsuo, don't get so upset." …

"I knew that, and I'm not upset." …

"Yeah right, you're butt hurt. Come here you ballerina idiot." …Waving him over with my arms spread open.

"No, get away from me you ass." …He pouted.

"C'mon, my arms are open. I'm practically defenseless." Chuckling.

"We both know that's not true, but fine." …He sighed and entered my embrace.

"You know I'm a softy." …Resting my head atop his.

"Uhuh, totally. What is your specialty, cuddles?" …

"Who knows, maybe." …Smirking as my hands trailed to his sides.

"...Hey, you aren't…" …He tried moving away.

"Definitely not." …Saying before starting my attack.

"H-Hey! -ha-hahe- No!" …He wormed around gasping as we wrestled in the dirt.

"What? Never said tickling was off the table." …

"S-stop! -haha-he- I-I can't...breathe!" …He pleaded as he tried to push me away.

"That's because you're laughing your ass off." …I chuckled.

"M-My sides hurrrt! C-C'mon -hahah- no more!" …

"Touya! Let him go, dinners ready!" …

"Aww, but we were bonding, Fuyumi." …

"Like when he was four and you convinced him to eat some of the mud pie he made?" …She crossed her arms.

"I said he could eat the cake I bought! Not his sludge creation!" …Darting my eyes away from her.

"Uhuh, so the words "It's chocolate." was meant for the supposed lemon cake you said you and Natsuo ate by yourselves?" …

"You've gotta admit, he was pretty convinced it was chocolate until he actually ate it." …Shrugging.

"I still taste it, bleh." …He sat up and stuck his tongue out in disgust.

"That's because you got some in your mouth while you rolled around trying to escape." …Shaking my head, noting the dirt covering our clothes.

"Oh...That explains why it's dry." …He hummed, rolling my eyes and chuckling.

"Hey Fuyumi, where's Sho?" …Standing up and helping Natsuo before walking over to her.

"He said he needed to go to the bathroom." …She had some sort of emotion in her eyes and she seemed a bit tense.

"...Okay, I'll go check on him. You two can start eating in the meantime, we'll be out in a bit."

…Glancing at her once more before leaving to find Shoto.

Knocking on the bathroom door, moving my ear close to it.

"Hey bud, you alright in there? Fuyumi made your favorite."

…Quiet sobs could be heard from inside.

"Sho, could you open the door for me?" …

"N-No."

…He denied my request while sniffling, pressing my forehead to the door and sighing.

"Bad day?" …

"W-Why are you guys different? Why won't dad ever let me play with you?" …

He questioned as a tinge of pain hit my heart. Biting my lip, closing my eyes and taking a deep breath.

"Because we're failures, but you Sho. You're the diamond in the rough dad always wanted, so someone could fulfill his selfish desires. So much so that he tried four times, stupid bastard. He tossed us away and tries to force you to become his little dream achiever since we failed, we aren't different. Just tossed away experiments, and you can always play with us. I'll take the heat from dad, you don't have to worry."…

"B-But...Why? You don't have to, I don't want you to get hurt."

….He hiccupped, chuckling lightly at the stupid worried question.

"Because you're my baby brother Shoto, what kind of older brother would I be if I let my baby brother get hurt on my watch?"

…Small quiet footsteps walked up towards the door, lifting my head off of it as he unlocked the door. It opened as my eyes scanned the teary-eyed four year old, putting my hands on my hips and tilting my head with a soft smile on my face.

"We should clean you up a bit, don't want Fuyumi thinking I made you cry again."

…Chuckling when he suddenly ran and hugged me, he sniffled a sob in my shoulder. Letting the shock drain out of me.

My arms wrapped around him as I rested my head against his, holding back the tears threatening to fall. Taking a deep breath before attacking his sides with a tickle, he laughed and wiggled around as I managed to slide my hands under his armpits and lift him up.

"You little candy cane, what am I going to do with you?"

…Shaking my head slightly with a smile as he giggled.

"C'mon, we better hurry before the food gets cold."

…Grabbing a towel and dampening it in water before cleaning up his face and fixing his hair.

"Maybe we can go and get ice cream tomorrow, just the four of us."

…Offering the thought as his face lit up.

"Really!? Can we!?"

…He shook with excitement, my bottom lip quivered slightly at the thought of what he would do when he found out.

"Yeah bud, Fuyumi wouldn't mind treating us."

…Ruffling his hair and anxiously picking at my nails as we headed back to the dining room….

….

The memory faded, now I was left sitting in the empty darkness.

"Damn, s-stupid tears. Sho was so happy the next day, we even went to the mall. Though Fuyumi refused to needlessly buy with dad's card, not like it would matter much. We probably wouldn't have hit the budget for quite a few years with just clothes and food, too bad I couldn't buy a bunch of crazy expensive and pointless houses and cars. Guess you can't sign contracts and stuff when you're only 11, too bad…"

"I haven't seen Sho that happy in years, I guess all dad's forced training and my "death" had quite the toll on his emotions. Can't say I'm surprised, I myself am not very emotionally stable. To be fair, nobody in our family is completely emotionally stable. I'd be more shocked if someone was, that's one hellish struggle."

"I think you should earn some sort of emotional support trophy if you did, at least then you can question your existence while holding onto it for some sort of support. That or console it, though you wouldn't get an answer, unless you do...Then maybe dad would stick you right along with mom in the hospital."

"The Todoroki family, great genes, bottom deck of destiny, terrible emotional stability, mommy and daddy issues, and childhood trauma. Might even throw in some spice of insanity if you're lucky enough! It's laughable really, one would think the number one hero's family would be peaceful and perfectly stable. Oh boy would everyone be shocked to see behind the curtains, think there was a song about that...Dollhouse? Perfect on the outside but a nightmare inside..."

Sighing and laying back, staring…up? Possibly, maybe down even, but either way, into the darkness. "Eraser's found out my secret, too bad. He's going to confront me some time, probably take his time though. Even I didn't expect to explode like that, who did I even deface? I don't think it was Eraser, honestly I don't care much about the other two. And Law probably trusts me even less than before after that little show, again, don't care. But still, we're going to be on a ship together for a while, so I'd at least like for it not to be too terribly awkward."

"When am I going to wake up? Being stuck in your own consciousness isn't great, 'specially if you have so many suppressed memories you don't want to dig up again...Might as well be playing shogi with Natsuo, at least then I'd have some entertainment…"

"Dabi." …

"Dabi!" …

"Are you going to keep sleeping?" …

Slowly cracking an eye open, staring up at the hazy figure of Eraser. Brining a hand up to my head and groaning while closing my eyes, pressing my palm to my forehead. "Shit, my head hurts." My voice came out in a cracked whisper, it burned slightly and felt unbearably dry. Opening one of my eyes, looking at Eraser again, my brows furrowed, noticing he was unnecessarily close. I nearly punched him after realizing he was actually carrying me, rubbing my temple with a sigh. "So who did I deface?" Swallowing harshly, 'First thing on the list is finding some water.'

He raised an eyebrow at me before rolling his eyes, "Vergo." he replied.

"Ah, better than you or the other two. To be fair, he did kind of deserve it. Don't think Law was too happy he didn't get revenge though."

"Eh, he seemed happy with just cutting the S.A.D containers and mocking Joker on Vergo's transponder snail." He glanced over towards Law as my eyes followed.

"I guess that's better than having him hate me and be a nuisance." He slightly nodded as we awkwardly looked everywhere else but each other, "Ugh...Are you going to put me down now?"

"Ah...Yeah, sorry." he apologized as he set me down.

Wobbling a bit before regaining my stability, taking a moment to study my appearance before looking at Eraser. "Did my clothes burn off?" He rubbed the back of his neck and nodded, responding to his answer with a sigh of annoyance. 'Great, at least I have some on the ship, but still. I feel a draft where there shouldn't be and it's bothersome and uncomfortable.' Shifting the coat around uselessly. I hadn't exactly gotten a coat that was meant for this kind of situation...

Law and Luffy's voices entered my ears, my focus turning to the situation, Nami stood up and used some sort of wind staff to part the gas as we passed through. 'Wait...Where even are we? How long was I even asleep for?' Looking around realizing just now that we were in a large metal cart speeding down a tunnel to the outside. 'So does this mean Luffy and Law completed their goals?'

The cart tipped causing me to tumble into Eraser, quickly grabbing onto the side with him, "Not- again!" Holding a hand over my mouth as the cart bumped and skidded to a stop, "Bleh, why...couldn't I have slept, through this part-..." Laying on the bottom of the cart, desperately trying to keep my stomach intact as acid doused my dry throat, grimacing as Eraser lifted me onto his back, everyone cheering ""Yeah!"" at the same time for some reason.

Something happened with Nami and Usopp as they fished some people out of the ocean, Sanji started work to make lunch as the Marines drew a line splitting "Justice and Evil" as Smoker talked with them. Luffy had his own conversation with Brownbeard 'When did they get so close? I feel like I missed something here, no, I definitely did.'

After successfully finding some water, my eyes scanned over to the frozen bodies, arms crossing while walking over to Caesar, 'Damn, wish I could've punched him more. He'd probably break if I did right now, too bad.' Sighing before kicking whatever gassy leg he had under the blanket, walking over to Eraser as we watched whatever events were playing out.

There was sudden yelling as Chopper screamed about someone being a murderer, to which Brook turned to check the commotion but knocked the porcelained samurai over causing him to shatter. He screamed he was also a murderer as Luffy questioned Chopper on who the murderer was, then came the reindeers cry of "It's Law!"

'Well that's interesting, though not really, I guess he is a pirate. But who did he apparently murder?'

Brook started freaking out over his apparent murder of the already porcelained "Kin'emon." To which Luffy and Sanji also started freaking out, as the three argued, the porcelain continued to crack as a very alive Kin'emon broke free of the confinement. All the while screaming "Momonosuke!" causing the three beside him to freak out. Then Sanji kicked him and there was a sudden shout of "Father!" to which a small naked boy appeared from orange smoke.

'What the hell is happening? First Law being a murderer, then all this? My head hurts…' Rubbing my temple and sighing at the fast paced events, walking over to Luffy, who apparently realized the situation. Chopper seemingly sorted things out with Law, and the others sorted out things with the marines. Sanji started handing out food as some drama happened with the father and son duo, it seemed they maybe thought the food was poisoned or something. Which would be very shocking since cooking is the first most important thing to Sanji (Though rivaled by his love for women) and poisoning it would be like smashing it into the dirt, then his face, before trying to serve it.

Taking a deep breath of the mouth watering aroma coming from the bowl, sighing in content before digging in, 'Seriously, Sanji's cooking is quite frankly amazing. No offence to Fuyumi, her cooking is good, but she would definitely have a hard time beating this.' Eraser sat down on the crate next to me as we ate in silence watching as Luffy announced that someone was after us and we had to hurry. Before announcing that this was a banquet, 'That kid, I almost feel sorry for Law. Almost, we are technically in the same boat as him after all. Though I think I enjoy Luffy and his crew's chaotic antics more than him and Eraser, probably because I'm kind of used to it. I do work with a lot of chaotic nut jobs after all.'

Everyone cheered, chuckling brokenly and shaking my head, coughing a bit at the uncomfortable feeling in my throat. Looking over at the father and son duo as Luffy cheered up Momonosuke with his weird and strangely hilarious antics. Hoarsely laughing at the idiocy, glancing over at Eraser who was giving me a strangely soft look causing me to stop laughing. Clearing my throat uncomfortably before looking the opposite way, 'Is something wrong with his face? I hope he hasn't forgotten I'm still a villain, he should know better than to let his guard down just because he knows a tiny piece of information about me…'

Glancing over at Law and Smoker who were talking in between their shared tension, 'Why does that seem familiar?...' Looking at Eraser before returning my gaze back towards the other two, 'Ah, now I see...I guess the four of us aren't too different, Heroes, Villains, Pirates, and the Marines. We aren't all that different, just fighting with different morals for different goals. After all, heroes tend to be the ones who create the villains. That and the school system…'

Sighing after finishing the rest of my food, watching Luffy cheer and be an idiot, 'Just what new adventures will you drag me on? What adventures will I drag you on? Will we have more adventures? It's a mystery, I don't want to leave, but I do...What a mess, I don't even know if I'll be able to say goodbye…' Holding back my tears while standing up, returning the bowl to Sanji before heading to the ship to finally get some real clothes on...