I can't take it anymore. The darkness spreads out on the floor and I'm able to just slip into it. It's almost like opening the doorway that I usually do but instead of falling into another space it was just a pool of darkness. I could feel the pull of both the hospital we were just at, and our daughter's bedroom, the two places I was connected to still and I felt my heart start to slow. My mom is humming a lullaby and rocking Aiko now, it looks like she just finished feeding her a bottle but I don't feel overwhelmed anymore. And in the other, Kacchan was sitting on the cot still surrounded by all those people and I felt my heart jump, quickening at the stress.
"Calm down Deku. I'm fine," I heard Kacchan whisper but it still hurts. I took deep breaths, trying to force myself to calm down and gradually I did.
I could feel my muscles relaxing in the pool of darkness as if I were floating. All the pressure disappears so it doesn't feel like I'm being bruised every time I'm touched by anything at all and the sounds from both areas were muffled so the pain in my head slowed to a slight ache instead of the piercing pain of before.
The hospital was kind of like a bad silent film that wasn't really silent, the words weren't matching up to the people speaking and at best it was like watching people in slow motion. The audio recorded separately and somehow not timed right with the video. All except for Kacchan. I could see him, he looked shocked and a bit confused but where everyone else was panicking about me disappearing he relaxed.
"I'm sorry, it was just so much. I couldn't take it anymore," the words were meant to be a whisper but I don't think sound works the same here as anywhere else. I couldn't hear my voice at all and to make it more confusing I don't even know if I opened my mouth at all. Not that it really matters, not between Kacchan and I.
"Are you better now?" He asked, I saw everyone in the room turn towards him but he ignored them all and only focused on the thoughts in my head, waiting on an answer.
"I don't know. I've never done this before but it is so much less now," I answered and I saw him take a deep breath, is he calming himself? Did something happen while I was too overwhelmed to notice? Did he somehow get hurt? Did I do something wrong?
"Deku, you sank into the floor as if it were made of nothing. You scared the hell out of me," he chuckled, he sounded slightly hysterical but mostly relieved.
"I'm sorry," the words came out, out of reflex but it didn't make them any less true.
"Maybe you should take a nap. I'll chew Dick out when you feel better," he groaned and I can't help smiling. A nap huh? Can I sleep here? I tried to look around myself but there was nothing but darkness. There were literally only two points of light and one was Kacchan and the other was our daughter. Still, relaxing into the dark void of the endless space should have been terrifying but instead it was soothing. The stiffness of my muscles from what was probably a too extreme of a workout softened and the headache I had before all of this had disappeared.
I could still see Kacchan, though he wasn't at the hospital now. He was with our daughter, humming a lullaby while her little eyes lowered.
"Deku? Think you can take me back to our room, I'm really horny," he whispered, laying our daughter down in her crib. The next moment Kacchan's hand was in mine and I made sure our bedroom was locked. How long was I in the darkness? Did I actually fall asleep? How did I get so lucky to have Kacchan by my side?
"Shut up and kiss me. We have another baby to make," he gave a teasing smile and suddenly there just isn't enough time in the world.
***
"What the hell happened?" Aizawa demanded, not bothering to pull us out of class or away from everyone else. Apparently I had been in the darkness for several days before Kacchan called for me, over a week.
"He needed to recoup after what happened. I already told you this!" Kacchan snapped back at him and the fact that he had a very obvious hickey on his neck where the collar couldn't quite cover it up made me feel a little bad. We had gotten pretty rough last night but he kept demanding more and I couldn't think of anything but him at the time. I averted my eyes to try and not cause more problems for Kacchan. At least not right now while my thought process is about as streamlined as Tetris.
"What does that even mean? What happened?" Sensei demanded and I just let out a sigh and walked to my desk instead and put my head down. Sensei had started to use his capture scarf but Kacchan had blocked it while threatening his manhood if he touched his husband with that disgusting thing and I couldn't help smiling. Time had been much more sluggish than before and I don't really know or understand why. It was kind of nice while I spent my time either playing with Aiko or fully appreciating my husband. It's kind of dull otherwise.
"Why won't you let him answer himself?" Aizawa Sensei snapped when Kacchan interrupted him again.
"Because he doesn't need to answer you," Kacchan hissed, ignoring his seat in front of me in exchange for my lap, surprising me somehow at the simple gesture. He held my head to his chest so I could hear the strong heartbeat in his chest and I let out a long sigh.
"Remember to breathe," his voice reached my ears and I took a deep breath. That's been happening a lot recently. Forgetting to breathe. How is that even possible? I find myself holding my breath a lot, as if I forgot how to breathe altogether but what can I really do?
"Sorry," I whispered and he hushed me. I focused on matching my breathing to his and when I did I felt the dizziness start to fade. I was probably holding my breath a long time before Kacchan reminded me.
Class eventually started and Midnight only teased us a little about being so loving but otherwise ignored us. Huh, now that I think about it, was she even alive at this point in time the first time around? It's so hard to remember certain details but at the same time a lot has changed.
Aizawa Sensei's eyes were trained on us though. Turns out that after the accident or standoff or whatever you wanted to call it, there was a nation wide alert sent out about the two villains and they were now in custody being questioned on what it was that they did to us. And they are keeping silent.
Kacchan played with my hair for a while and I guess when he decided that I was fine he got up and went to his own seat before he started taking notes and leaving me to cope on my own. I know that I need to, I really do but at the same time I just want to curl up in bed and forget the rest of the world.
Lunch arrived with more damage than I expected but only because Principal Nezu arrived with Lunch Rush behind him. "Perfect, you're here! We really need to figure out the end of our match!" He announced as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. He pulled out a small virtual display and our last 3d chess match was portrayed. "I've been waiting weeks!" He chittered excitedly and I smiled at the normalcy of it. Lunch Rush apologized, set down our trays and quickly left again just for the entire class to disappear behind him. Kacchan made the next move and I took a bite of the first real meal I've had since my quirk went haywire.
This is kind of nice but we should probably bring Nezu in on the mission soon. Now that we have a baby, life will get much more difficult but also much more essential to their future. When are we going to France again? I don't think the prince said when so we should probably look into that. So much to do and so little time.
"Checkmate," Kacchan answered smugly and Nezu crinkled his nose in that way he does when he loses on purpose, usually to ask a far too personal question but neither Kacchan or I have called him out on it yet.
"Are you two expecting to have another child while still in school? I know that quirks happen but as far as normal family planning goes?" He flipped a switch to reset the board not caring that lunch would be over soon.
"We're not against it, we don't really want Aiko to be too much older than her siblings," Kacchan smirked as if it were a perfectly normal train of thought. I wonder if Nezu thinks that way though? Or if he'll make things difficult for us.
I watched him nod as if deep in thought and he moved his first piece of the new match. "I would appreciate you informing me if you come across such news. Thanks to the history I can make it less of a media nightmare if you wouldn't mind, unlike last time," he let out a tired sigh and I smiled.
"I would personally like to have another baby before we graduate but I don't know if we want to actively try or not. время покажет только," I added as if I didn't already know he was perfectly fluent in Russian. Kacchan answered as if we had been speaking the foreign language the whole time and even asked Nezu a few questions. We have made our language skills perfectly visible for everyone to see but we haven't really spoken to anyone outside of each other like this before. A fact that Nezu seemed to grasp right away.
"We should talk soon but not too soon," Kacchan added, his eyes glancing at the doorway that our classmates were already starting to come through. "We have a lot to talk about," he added, his tone unhurried or showing any stress.
"Yes, a lot," I agreed before moving a piece into checkmate and smiling at our opponent. "Checkmate," I added back in Japanese and he looked all flustered. "you should really pay more attention when you are playing. If this were war you would have died more times than you can count by now."
I saw his fur ruffle but he quickly smoothed it down before leaving with another teacher that I didn't notice until now, quickly grabbing the trays before following him out again.
"I don't think he caught what we were saying," I said when Kacchan chose to sit in my lap again and I let out a sigh, hugging him to me. I frowned at the obvious difference.
"Kacchan-," I started but he covered my mouth with his hand.
"We can talk about it when we are alone," he frowned, but he reverted back to Japanese anyway. I narrowed my eyes at him anyway before pulling him back into my arms.