A walk. That's all this was supposed to be. A simple peaceful walk with the kids since I haven't spent a lot of time with them. We would've went to the park and picked flowers. They were supposed to tell me how school was going, how living with Aiko is, all the cooking adventures, that one boy they all managed to become friends with. Maybe we would've gotten ice cream too, or cookie dough because of Koji. That's it. That's what was supposed to happen. It wasn't supposed to be like this. It couldn't have ended like this. We shouldn't be here. All Might I'm so scared.

"I told you to come back how many weeks ago?" His hands tighten the ropes he threw around my chest. I whimper at the feeling of them rubbing and burning against my bare skin. No matter how much I may cry, he won't care. He finishes off the knot, "HOW MANY?" He screams in my face and before I knew it I felt a burning sensation on my cheek. The rings he has on his hands feel as if it's cutting through my skin. He's only upset because I didn't answer. But how can I? My tears running down my face make everything blurry and I know that I'll sound pathetic if I do answer, but that's what he wants. He wants to know that I'm defeated. And I am. I give up.

"I'm sorry!" My voice is strained as if I've been screaming. My whole body is aching in pain. The ropes tied so tightly that I can barely move in them. I probably look ridiculous with me blabbering all over the place with my face full of tears and snot. I can't look at him. I stare at the ground. I just want this to stop. I want him to stop. This is all my fault.

"Wrong answer." He grabs me by my throat and starts to slightly choke me. With his other hand he yanks my chin up so I'm forced to look up at him. His smile is sinister and his eyes pierce through mine. The look he gives me is awful. Just god awful. My breathing starts to pick up as he continues to look at me without saying a word. All Might I don't know what to do.

"Denki!" The sound of her voice pulls me away from his gaze. Sumie called me from where she was sitting on the other couch with the boys. The look on their faces is absolute horror. I can't even begin to imagine what their thinking. All they see is their older "brother" being tied to a couch with only his boxers on. They don't usually see me getting hurt, they always go to their rooms to avoid it. I tear myself away from them. I can't look at their crying faces.

"Sumie? Sumie sweetie, can you stay quiet for me? It'll be over soon okay?" I try to tell her but honestly I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't understand a word I said since my voice is so wobbly and choked. Mr. Akagi gave me one of his smiles before letting go of my throat. I glare at him before he smirks back.

"Don't worry." He chuckles. "I didn't forget about you brats." He pivots around slowly and begins to walk towards the kids. No. NO.

"No! No you promised! You promised you wouldn't hurt them! YOU PROMISED ME!" I pull at my ropes but they don't budge. I watch the kids' faces come into realization of what might happen. "YOU SWORE YOU'D NEVER TOUCH THEM!" My throat aches. It burns so much. But it doesn't matter. It's what I deserve. He's going to hurt them and it's my fault. I can't let him hurt them again. Hurt me instead. Please. Please. Somebody. Anybody. Help them.

"denki?" Sumie practically whispers it this time as she watches Mr. Akagi get closer and closer to them. I can't look at this. I don't want to look at this. But you have to. It's your fault. You're the reason why this is happening. You're the reason why they're here. LOOK AT YOUR MISTAKES DENKI.

"Since you're the talkative one, how about you go first huh?" He tugs Sumie off the couch by one of her pigtails which causes her to fall on the ground. "Come on Sweetie." He mocks me by calling her nickname. He's wearing an amused face and I just want to rip it off of him. My breathing hitches when I hear her whimpering on the ground. The boys look at her terrified. They're probably stuck between the thought of helping her or staying put because even though she may be the ring leader to them, she's still the youngest. She's still the baby.Their baby sister.

"DON'T YOU DARE LAY A SINGLE FINGER ON HER! LET GO OF HER NOW!" I shout and cry for him to stop, but he's not listening to me. Why won't he just listen. He'll just let me beg and cry, yet he won't even try to hear a single word that comes out of my mouth.

"Relax. I already have one little slut, what would I do with more? You're perfect enough for me. I don't have time to be redoing everything I taught you to someone else. You're only disobedient, but that's okay. We can change that. I'll just teach you a lesson you wont ever forget." He lets go of Sumie's pigtail before walking away from her. He goes to pick up something from my couch.

"What are you doing?" I turn my head to follow his movements. He's planning something and I can't figure it out.

"Well, as you know I am your guardian for the time being."

I tsk

I'd be surprised if he knew all our names.

"Which also means I know all your information including your quirks and why you ended up here." My eyes widen at his statement. No. He's not going to do what I think he is gonna do, right? I watch as he grabs some more rope and a blindfold. I try to piece together what he's doing. Sumie's eyes are basically burning right through the floor. Then it clicks. I know they have PTSD, it doesn't take a genius to figure that out. I know that their previous homes were just god awful. I remember when they all first came, they weren't like themselves. They were quiet, reserved, and unfazed. They finally got out of their shells and I can't just sit here and watch him revert them back. I can't watch him use their trauma against them.

Mr. Akagi pulls Sumie up by her arm and drags her to a corner right next to the couch where the boys are sitting. He grabs a chair with him while keeping the rope and blindfold on his shoulder. He yanks her to face the wall and nothing else. Her legs lay in front of her as he ties her hands to the back of the chair.

"denki? denki i'm scared." Her voice sounds so broken that I sob to the sound of it. Sumie is afraid of being left alone. "i-i i can't see you anymore. are you there? denki? DENKI!" I sob louder. She's even kicking her legs against the wall and struggles with the rope on her hands. I can't take this anymore.

"Let her go! Please PLEASE!" I wail hoping that she'll recognize my voice, but I know she won't believe it.

"But where's the fun in that?" Mr. Akagi chuckles before tying the blindfold around her eyes. Now she wont be able to see us even if she turned her head. She won't have actual proof that someone is here with her. She'll just think that she's imagining our voices. She always did have a big imagination.

"Sir. Sir, please. Just let her go, have me instead. You can do whatever you want to me! I'll stay at home with you for the weeks I missed! I won't go back to school! I-i I won't see anyone I promise, so please!" I'm bawling and this is absolutely terrible. I don't want to think of what he'll do to the rest of them.

"Shut up! I don't want to hear your pathetic whining. I said I'd punish you for what you did so this is your punishment. You should've thought of the consequences before you left. Not so much fun is it?" He walks away from Sumie wailing and back to the couch where the boys are.

My cries only get louder after hearing him say that. He's not done. Oh All Might he's not done.

He grabs the twins' hands and yanks them off of the couch and onto the floor. They both look up at him in fear. Their brown curly hair almost blocking their eyes.

"God I hate those fucking eyes." He lets go of Toshi's hand only to kick him in the stomach causing him to jerk back. Making him be farther away from his brother. Don't separate the twins.

"No, you can't YOU CAN'T! I tried letting my quirk out but it didn't work. He must've brought quirk cancelling ropes. I pull on them instead but to no avail. I'm useless. All I'm doing is sitting here and watching the kids get hurt because of my mistakes.

"Oh shut up!" He scowls. "Do you want me to make it worse for them? Do you? You're lucky they're just getting off with only this." He kicks Kai in the other direction causing him to throw up his breakfast onto the floor. "Disgusting" Mr Akagi presses his shoe to the side of Kai's face making it get smothered in the vomit. He coughs a bit before giving in.

"Kai!" Koji practically jumps off the couch and rushes to the smaller twin's side. I watch Koji tries to calm him down even though that Mr. Akagi's shoe is still pressed on his cheek. His trembling just worsens as time goes on. Toshi is slowly losing oxygen, and hes starting to panic. His eyes fill up with tears and he's holding a pained expression as if he's asking for help. He stares at me as he shakily presses his hand to his throat, taking in another deep breath before hacking.

"Did I say you could touch him?" Mr. Akagi pulls Koji up by grabbing his hair. He takes off the foot on Kai's cheek and places it back on the ground.

"N-no sir." Koji's slight accent and stutter doesn't go unnoticed.

"Worthless American. Did you want me to send you back? Did you want me to leave you on the streets like they did? Want to get kidnapped again? Maybe you just won't come back this time." It's true. Koji was kidnapped when he was a baby. I don't know what happened after, he never talks about it. I just know he was shipped to Japan around a year ago and they sent him to us. He has some PTSD from it, I'm sure. Because once every while when he's reminded of it he goes back to this.

"No sir. I'm sorry for disobeying, it won't happen again." He stops crying and his face goes dull though the tears keep flowing. I hate this side of Koji. The almost robotic side of him that only follows commands or rules. The side that wouldn't think for himself, and if he was told to he wouldn't know how. He's not the bubbly energetic kid who wears glasses and the a silly older brother when he's like this. Though he might not look like it, he's having a panic attack. Mr. Akagi triggered it when he said he would send it him back and let him get kidnapped. Though he was an infant when he got taken away from his parents the experience with his captors must've been traumatizing. He rarely feels safe because of it. This is your fault. You triggered it.

"Last and most definitely least. How can I forget you? I mean you've been here the longest." He lets go of Koji's hair to which he collapses on the floor in response.

After a moment he begins to crawl over to Kai. He isn't fully himself right now, but he can still see that his siblings are hurting. He lets Kai rests his head on his lap even though the vomit messes up his pants. He holds his shaking hand in his and starts to pet his hair. He watches the boy's twin slowly lose oxygen. Toshi is almost heaving for air on the floor as he desperately scratches his throat as if trying to make it work. He's trying to live.

He's too young to be going through something like this. They're all too young. As if it wasn't bad enough already that they all came from abusive homes, but now they have to fight to survive? Your fault. They wouldn't have to do this is if it wasn't for you.

Sumie is hysterically crying in the corner. Her legs now curled under her. She just keeps repeating my name over and over and over again. I would respond, but she won't hear me over her own crying. It's terrible. "p-please denki. c-can i see you n-n noww? i'll be good, i promise i will." I bite back a sob at her pleas. I can't let him hear me cry anymore. That's what he wants. He wants a reaction. He wants to see me hurt.

My eyes go back to Kai and Koji. Kai's trembling has worsen, terribly. He's crying now. Tears roll down his face as he spasms. His whimpers are barely audible, but they're still there. None of this stops Koji from petting his hair though. No matter how much Kai might jerk in his hands he still holds his hand. I know he just wants to be there for Kai, to help him calm down, but it's futile. Only his brother can do that, but he's currently fighting to breathe. It doesn't help that Koji is distressed either.

I look away from them to stare up at the ceiling. I can't even try to look at Toshi, I'm afraid he might not be breathing the next time I do check up on him. I chuckle sadly. I did this. I caused this. We were supposed to go out for a walk. I haven't hung out with them in a while expect for the occasional lunches Aiko forces me to have. I thought this would be good for everyone. especially Aiko, she'd be given a break for a day. But of course she took it hesitantly, constantly telling me that we could all go out or maybe just stay inside for the day. I should've listened to her. But I was selfish. When am I not? I wanted them all to myself for the day. Could you blame me? I missed them. I was so excited for this. It's the day before Koji's birthday too. I knew I coulg handle the kids. I've been doing it for years anyways. Yet when we were walking back to the library becausestupid Denki forget his wallet, he saw us. He was sitting outside on this new chair. Almost as if he was waiting for us to walk by. He told us to go inside. Do as your told or Aiko would get hurt if we didn't, so of course we complied. We couldn't risk losing one of the best things that's ever happened to us. Then before I knew it I was being choked out on a couch, hearing all the things I've done wrong as he tied me down. I'm training to be a fucking hero yet I couldn't save the people that mean the most to me? I couldn't save the kids. I should just drop out. I'm obviously not cut out to be a hero. I should just leave U.A. and give the open spot to Hitoshi. He deserves it way more than I do. He has a real reason to become a hero. He has people to prove. I don't have anything. I'm worthless. Pathetic. I should just die. This is all my fau-

"stop stop stop, stop it stop it please, please just stop it, please please." I freeze at the sound of the voice. It's all scratchy. Unused.

Haru

My head quickly goes down to look at him screaming on the couch. He's curled himself in and is covering his ears with his hands. I can't see his face since he buried it in his knees, but I bet it shows a pained expression. Not knowing what happened before I look to Mr. Akagi for some sort of answer. I can see him smirking yet he isn't doing anything, he's not touching Haru at all. His quirk.

Just hearing him repeat the mantra over and over again just breaks me. Especially him. Not even because he doesn't use his voice that often, but because he trusted me. He trusted me to protect him from Mr. Akagi after he got hurt last time, but I failed him. Watching him, watching all of them being tortured like this is heart breaking. I tug on the robes with more force. Stop. Someone stop him. Please stop.

Mr. Akagi chuckles before walking to where Koji and Kai are sitting. This time he lifts Koji by his throat. "Stay here."

"Yes sir."

He laughs hysterically like a maniac while patting Koji's hair. "Good boy." He smiles before slapping him across his cheek. Koji doesn't move.

It might just be me, but Toshi seems to be closer to Kai than he was before. It must be true because he's slowly breathing now, but every time he exhales he pauses for a couple of seconds before starting up again. His neck is full of scratch marks and some even look like they drew blood. I can tell that Kai threw up more of his breakfast since the puddle is larger than before. It's now even in his hair. I don't know if it's because he's not used to eating this much or it's the spasms. Though they aren't as violent anymore.

Mr. Akagi is standing in front of me though I didn't notice before, "please help them." I whisper. Though he hasn't done anything physical to me, I'm still somehow drained. I don't want to feel this anymore. I don't want to be here.

"Help them? Isn't this what you wanted? Didn't you want to see them hurt? That's why you didn't come back home right? It's because of them." He brushes my hair away from my eyes before grabbing my chin and forcing me to look up at him.

"N-no, I don't want this." Tears continue to roll down my face as the whimpering of the kids haunt me in the background. Sumie repeatedly calling my name, Toshi's harsh breathing, Haru's pleas, and the occasional hitting of the ground.

"No?"

"No." I croak. My voice is hoarse from the crying, the yelling, the sobbing. Though judging from the look in Mr. Akagi's eyes, I know for a fact that he doesn't care.

"I do so much for you yet you continue to treat me like this? Here I am teaching you a lesson yet you won't accept it." He yanks his hand away from my face before turning around. "Maybe the punishment needs to be more severe."

"NO! Please PLEASE! D-don't hurt them anymore! Have me instead! You can hurt me all you want! USE ME! DO ANYTHING YOU WANT! I'LL COMPLY! I WON'T FIGHT BACK! I-I-I'LL LISTEN! I WON'T TELL ANYBODY, I PROMISE!" I wail at the top of my lungs causing him to pause and look back at me."

"We tried that last time remember? We made a deal, yet you had to ahead and break it. Now I got three heroes breathing down my back. Is that fair to me? When this is all your fault. And all you have to offer is what? Your body? What about food? Money?"

"I-I'LL GIVE YOU THE MONEY! YOU CAN HAVE MY PAYCHECKS! ALL OF THEM! YOU CAN HAVE WHATEVER YOU WANT! JUST LET ME HAVE ENOUGH MONEY FOR THEIR FOOD AND CLOTHES THEN THE REST IS ALL YOURS! I PROMISE YOU PLEASE!"

"You're pathetic you know that? Just like your whore of a mother." He glares at me before going over to Toshi. He picks him up by his shirt and there I can see that Toshi's fingertips are slightly blue though there are some in which are hidden from the slight amount of blood he must've gotten on them from his scratching. Mr. Akagi drops him right next to Kai, to which he quickly scoops up his brother in his arms, thankfully moving him away from the vomit. He lets Kai curl up in his chest as he leans back on the couch's feet. His breathing is slowly but surely returning back to normal and Kai's trembling has been brought down to a shiver. I let out a sigh of relief knowing they're both alive and with each other. Thank All Might.

"Shut up!" He yells at Haru's crying and though he doesn't stop he does lower his volume down a bit. "And you go help the damn girl. Her whining is starting to irritate me." He slaps Koji on the back of his head as if that's a jump start to every little thing he does. He jolts before walking over to her.

"Yes sir." He kneels to take off her blindfold first before untying her hands. She looks around in confusion for a bit before her eyes eventually land on Koji's. Immediately she rushes to hug him. Eager to see someone.

"ko-k-koji" She continues to cry into his shoulder and he lets her, but he doesn't comfort her either. He doesn't move, reciprocate the hug, nor does he seem like he wants to. Hes just there, kneeling next to her. Letting her use him as a tissue. It just isn't like him.

Haru is still curled on the couch, though he's not talking anymore. I can tell that Mr. Akagi stopped his quirk since Haru isn't holding his hears shut anymore, but he's still suffering through the after affects. His body is shaking.

Before I could even process what he was doing, the rope that was once previously tied around my chest was dropped on my knees. I stare at it in confusion for a moment before realizing that Mr. Akagi untied me.

"Lets go, we're headed to my room." He waits for me to stand up, but I don't.

Instead I look up at him, "Let me help them first, please. They're hurting."

"I told you already, let's go."

"Please! PLEASE! LOOK AT THEM! LET ME JUST HELP THEM RECOVER! YOU CAN HAVE ME AFTER! JUST PLEASE! PLEASE!" I lunge to grab his shirt. I curl my fists into it while I let my tears stain the front of it.

"Useless slut." He pushes my head off with enough force that I fall onto the floor. I can slightly hear him grumble underneath his breath. So I decide to stay in that position until I can hear the door open and slam shut right behind him. After that I let out a sigh of relief.

I push myself off the floor to a sitting position. There I can see that Haru is still on the couch. I stand up and slowly make my way towards him. It's then that I can hear his hiccups. I pet his hair even though he flinches at my touch.

"I'm sorry. So very sorry that I did this to you. You didn't deserve it." It's pointless since he can't hear me, especially not now.

I bend down to where the twins are leaning against the couch. Toshi's eyes look up at me tiredly. I lift him up while his brother is still in his arms and place the tired twins right next to Haru who still hasn't lifted his head.

"It's my fault. This is all my fault. I tried to get help when I shouldn't have. I tried to leave, but it's better if we just stay here. It's whats best." I'm not talking to anyone in particular. I'm not even sure if I'm talking to myself.

Sumie is helping Koji get up from the floor before directing, dragging, him over towards me. Tears run down her face and her usual upbeat chipper smile is gone. Koji's face is still mundane as he looks up at me. He's waiting for something. He's waiting for a command.

"It's okay Koji. He's gone now. He's gone. He's not going to hurt any of you anymore. I'm here now. Denki is here." I wrap him in a hug to which at first he did not acknowledge, but slowly I could feel his arms wrap around me. He must be more comfortable after hearing his first language instead of Japanese.

"denki" He whispers in awe back to me.

"Yeah Koji, it's Denki."

His arms tighten for a bit before I break away from him. I give him a smile before lifting Haru up from the couch and into my lap after I've seated myself. Toshi then rests his head on my shoulder while still cradling his brother in his arms. Koji takes the other shoulder as well as an arm as he wraps his small arms around mine while Sumie leans her head on his shoulder.

"Denki. Koji. Toshi. Haru. Kai." Sumie repeats our names over and over again. Not necessarily calling us nor does she expect any of us to answer, which we don't. It's more like she's verifying everyone in the room. She's trying to make herself believe that we are all actually here and not just a figment of her imagination.

Koji is tracing random English letters and shapes onto my arm with his fingers. I know he's trying to control his emotions since if he accidentally lets his quirk go off he can make everybody go in a panic. I don't know if he's completely calmed down, but he is better than before.

Toshi's breathing has gotten better. Though he's not focusing on himself, rather he's focusing on his little brother by continuously petting Kai's hair. I'm assuming Kai's asleep or at least almost is. He looks rather peaceful now.

Haru is still sobbing into my chest while I rub his back as support. He'll probably fall right asleep after this. They probably all will. This was definitely a mentally draining experience.

I rest my head on the wall behind the couch. Letting out a sigh I go over everything that just happened in my head. This is all my fault.

Never again. I wont do it ever again.