Chapter Text
Sakura Chūgakkō (Cherry Blossom Middle School)
The bell tolled, signalling the end of school, followed by great bellows of children's laughter as they rushed out of their classrooms.
Groups of children discussing the daily useless gossip as they went about their ways, having finished the supposed great labour of class studies and teachers lectures.
In this Quirk-Dominated Society it was no longer an unusual sight to see giant children hunkering down in the hallways, some others possessing razor sharp limbs which could slice into steel, those that exhaled frost with each breath and so much more.
"Hehe I am going to the amusement park today!!!"
"Really!? Man that's so lucky, Mom always just makes me study!"
"Holy hell, there is a robbery going on just across town, Look someone is live-streaming it!!"
"No way!? Let me see!! Wooh!!! That guy just melted the entire building!"
A group of 5 girls walked out of one of the classrooms.
It was always a curious sight to witness how quirks changed many people's appearance, in this group existed a girl with fluffy unruly shrub-like hair which had 2 smooth horns poking out, another with a long neck, magnolia colour skin and pentagonal ears which gave a alien-like appearence, a normal good-looking girl with smooth long hair who could comfortably compete for the elegant silent school beauty position plus two others, one with a fringe cut and shoulder length light dirty blonde hair and another silent one with an ordinary bob cut.
"Did you hear Suki has a crush on a guy in high-school!?! Someone saw her talking to one in the evening by the park."
"No way! Seriously?! I knew she behaved oddly whenever we passed that high-school building but I had no idea it was because of the older schoolboys!"
The shrub hair girl remarked to the one with bluish skin.
"Ha! I knew she was always a loose one, it was obvious cuz she always dolled herself up like a slut, right Himiko?"
The girl with long hair snorted as she joined into the conversation immediately shattering her elegant atmosphere as she opened to ridicule the girl in question and sought support from her friend with the fringe cut.
"Huh? Oh.....yea you're right Kana"
The absent-minded girl responded to one of her friends in confusion, unsure of even the subject of the conversation.
Her fingers nervously fidgeted in her long sleeve school blazer with her heart beating wildly as she pushed down her daydream deep into her subconscious.
Himiko Toga looked at her friend whose hair and face shone with a glossy like radiance from an abundant use of beauty products with her mind racing to find a change of subject.
"Kana you said you were tell me something important about Akkun from the class next door yesterday, what was it?"
"Huh?! What do you mean......did I really say that?"
"Wait really Kana?! Tell us too!!"
The girl stroked her chin in confusion as she thought about yesterday as she was surrounded and pressured by the other girls, one of her go-to tactics to throw off her friends was to talk about other popular people's love affairs or either the latest crime against a woman victim.
That should throw her in a loop for a bit.
Himiko secretly let out a breath in relief at successfully holding out one more day of 'Normalcy' and diverted her eyes from Kana being hounded by the other two to the emptying hallway and caught sight of someone who made her blood boil in joy but her face freeze in terror, not from fear of anyone else but herself.
Her crush, Saito.
One of the most popular boys in the school, he possessed wide expressive eyes, a mess of fluffy hair and a soft, kind face.
The cheerful boy moved clumsily in the hallway, surrounded by his friends as they marched down to the stairs.
Saito-kun!!! I wanna talk to him!I wanna see his smile as he talks to me!!! Oh he would look even cuter blee-.
"Hey Himiko, Earth to Himiko!!! Why the hell are you spacing out, we're leaving!"
Himiko's blank stare immediately zeroed back in on her friend's face as her well-conditioned reflex kicked in.
"Oh sorry, I am coming, I just saw a bug flying around and-"
"Aaahhh!!! A bug?! Where!?! "
Kana freaked out, grabbed Himiko and ran swiftly in the other direction followed by the other three.
"I hate bugs the most! Eik!!!!!"
"Slow down Kana!!!"
"Woh!! Slow down you guys!!"
Bugs were also an effective tactic, especially against Kana.
And so another day passed in the school life of Himiko Toga as she reached home.
The Toga Residence was definitely one of the finest homes in the neighbour-hood, made with a traditional interior but modern exterior and showed tasteful decor at every home.
It had all the modern amenities available, an automatic main gate with camera surveillance to guarantee safety, automatic garage doors for the family car, a video intercom on the entrance, the garden side of the house were even fitted floor to ceiling glass windows and door to let one enjoy the natural scenery cultivated by the owner.
"I am back!"
Himiko shouted as she took off her shoes and set them in the rack.
Her mother didn't answer as she worked in the kitchen, the girl stared briefly at the cold back of her loved one, having grown used to this so she quietly went to her lonely room on the upper-floor.
Putting down her bag and taking off her school blazer, she slowly walked to her bed and fell onto it back first laying her right arm over her eyes.
She slowly stretched her sock clad feet to the edge of the bed which was clearly too small for her, leading to a rather uncomfortable experience as she tried to relax.
From downstairs she heard other voices.
"I'm home Mom!!! Dad!!!"
She heard her Mom rush out the kitchen and Dad rise up from the sofa in the living room.
"Taro-chan how was your day?"
"It was nice, I scored 2 goals while playing football!"
"Rin-kun, come read the newspaper with Dad, it's a nice habit to develop."
"What!? No way reading the paper is so boring!!! Mom I want hamburger for dinner!!!"
"Jeez with you it's always either burger or pizza"
"Please Mom!!!"
"Ok fine, but you have you have to wash up first!"
"Yaaay!!!"
The cheerful noises of a joyful family,Toga Rintaro, her little brother truly was the beloved child of the family.
A family she wasn't ever gonna be a part of, no matter how much she wanted to.....
Slowly lifting her left hand to her face she harshly bit her fingertips, which leaked small drops of blood on her sharp canines which she then used the tip of the tongue to taste.
One by one each fingertip bled out drops of scarlet essence as she imagined herself also being a part of the family downstairs, her dream of being happy with her parents and little brother.
Aahhh, Mom I want Red Katsu Curry for dinner, Dad I wanna read the paper with you.......Taro-chan big sis will also play the new PS 7 with you.
It was a ritual she engaged in every few days, reality disappointed her so she often indulged in her delusions.
The voices from below slowly drowned out as she sunk deep into her mind, replacing reality with the world she wanted.
She imagined the dinner table where the four of them sat, and as she sat down with the rest of her family for dinner her mother abruptly stopped her.
The lights in the luxurious false ceiling shone a comforting glow in the entire room and the complete family.
"Himiko-chan, pass us the knives please."
She saw 2 knives lying in front of her, hearing her mother's request she did so and then her mother and father stood up and brought the knives savagely down on their palms, impaling their hands on the table!
As they twisted the lodged blade in their palms blood spurted from the wound almost like a fountain as Himiko's heart sped up.
"Taro-chan come and show your big sis how much you love her"
The mother beckoned to her son.
Rintaro groaned in frustration and reluctantly put down his burger.
"Okkay"
The mother then gently used the knife to make a sharp small cut on his palm
"Owiee!"
The young boy moaned out in pain but soon stopped and looked towards his parents for the go ahead.
The father, Toga Seiji, nodded towards his wife and son, his squarish face adorned with a kind smile as he did so.
They reached with their wounded palms across the table towards Himiko as a blush crept onto her cheeks rapidly with a dopey wide smile splitting her mouth.
Ahhhhh, the colour is so lovely!!!
She leaned forward and then used her tongue to lick her parents dripping palms tasting the heavy metallic flavour.
"Dad, you were drinking again weren't you? You know I can tell, yuck!"
She said as she opened her mouth, biting in the hands offered to her and started drinking the overflowing life essence.
Even though she complained she never stopped indulging in the oozing liquid, for her it was like a child giving a kiss to their parents and complaining of the smell of cigarettes on their breath.
"Again honey?! You promised you would quit!"
Her Mother,Toga Akiko, immediately admonished her Father.
"Oh sorry Akiko, I promise it won't happen! it was just one time at yesterday's meeting, you know how it is with those guys."
Seiji gesticulated with his free hand, trying to extinguish the burning rage in his wife's eyes.
The thick scarlet liquid overflowed from her mouth, running down her chin to her throat as it dripped on the once pristinely clean wooden table.
"Onee-san! Here!!"
Himiko finally stopped and looked downwards to her right, her brother couldn't reach over the table so he had walked to her side and splayed out his palm towards her.
"Taro-chan!"
The older sister squealed in delight, bending down and gently took her little brother's hand bringing to her mouth.
The sight was horrifying, a young girl with blood dripping from mouth reaching towards a young boy, wearing clothes on which drops of the scarlet red liquid spread like red camellias, like a demon had crawled out of hell and had entrapped a poor innocent little boy as her prey.
Himiko nuzzled her brother's little hand, his blood staining her lips like liptstick, her eyes shook with joy as she exclaimed.
"I love you all so much!!!"
Having had her fill of blood she put her hand to her mother, who placed the bloody knife in her palm, the schoolgirl then cut a red line from the tip of her finger to her wrist creating in a instant a gash which spouted bloody immediately.
She offered her bloody hand to her family who smiled, bringing their uninjured hands over to their daughter's wound, staining them in red and then licked it clean.
This horrifying image filled Himiko with ecstasy as they all sat down finally to partake in the food, Katsu Curry which had taken even more of ghastly red hue due to the horrifying ritual the family had conducted.
Himiko slowly scooped up the curry with her spoon, the flavour of normal food mixed with blood was indescribably delicious.
So tasty!
Himiko took a bit of the fried pork cutlet as she kicked her feet in delight under the table.
So yummy!!
She took a glance at her family, the blood never stopped, their wounds never closed and the dark mahogany flooring was slowly covered with a red finish.
So lovely!!!
A scene which wouldn't look out of place in hell, a complete family laughing, smiling, telling jokes and enjoying dinner all the while blood continuously flowed from gaping wounds.
Knock! Knock!
Her fantasy was abruptly disrupted as she heard someone knocking.