"What do you want to do first?" I asked with an excited tone to Momo who is currently sitting in front of me with her legs crossed
"I...i don't know." She replied with a flustered and panicked tone
'Never thought that Momo in her childhood is this shy, though this version of her is even cuter than her original.' I thought to myself silently
I noticed her expression and it gave me the feeling of sadness, being the 'adult' I am, I asked her
"Why are you sad?"
Momo suddenly jolted and started stuttering, now her sad expression is replaced by that of fear, I didn't expect things to go this way!
"I...I'm not sad, please don't punish me!" She immediately cried out, begging for forgiveness...
Things just got worst from there on, I can't seem to shake her out of this cycle, anything that I said is like a whip, lashing onto her and she kept begging for forgiveness.
Seeing that nothing that I say can calm her down, I decided to just let her calm herself down first as I had never encountered this kind of situation before in my 20 years of life, heck, in those 20 years, I had probably made less social contact with people than in these 5 little years (Though Most of them are with my Mom and Fuyumi-nee.)
5 minutes later, Momo seemed to have calmed herself down as tears had stopped flowing through her eyes.
"Are you okay?" I asked carefully as I don't want to see that sad scene again.
She sniffed once and then answered "Ye..yeah, sorry."
"Its okay." I paused then continued "Why did you cry?"
She hesitated but answered nonetheless, "It..its because of my father, whenever I showed any kind of weakness, he seemed to hate me and immediately punish me...*sniff...*sniff*."
One thing that comes to my mind is 'Her father and Mine is kind of the same in a way, Are every father in this world like this?!.'
I looked at the sniffing little girl once more and my heart clenched, though I've had killed tons of people on my path to the heavens, I always avoid killing Innocents, especially kids and powerless women as they already have unfairness on their side.
Leaning towards her, I pulled her into my little embrace and caress her hair slowly, softly while whispering encouragement words to her.
"Don't worry, I will be by your side when you need me, I know you can get through this though predicament of your life, I know you will!" I exclaimed, I want to help her get through this phase of her life as I kind of know how hard is it for a kid to get through this kind of shit.
I can't even imagine the pain and suffering the real Shoto would've to endure in his childhood, his mom poured boiling water onto him just because his right side resembles her shit husband, on top of it, she gets mentally unstable
Then his father, as if didn't care, i think he really didn't care, he pushed Shoto to train harder and harder just to complete his foolish goal.
I know he had to go through a lot of shit in his life to be the strong man he should be, I know from experience, afterall, Me and Shoto isn't really that much different.
'Enough of that, I already have a new life ahead of me, no use thinking of my shitty old one.' I thought to myself, still caressing Momo's soft black hair
I pushed Momo away gently to see her current state of emotions and i saw a confused look
"What's wrong?" I asks
"What's a predi...cament?" Momo asked with an innocent face, I then remembered that she is just a child and laughed a little.
'How can she change emotions this fast? Well, It's good that she's not sad anymore, that's all that matters.' I thought as I pinched both of Momo's puffy cheeks, earning a glare from her, a cute one at that.
Meanwhile, outside, Rei is currently holding a glass and put it on her left ear, trying to hear the conversation that is happening between her son and his new friend.
'Did she just cried?' Thought Rei as she heard sounds of sniffing in there, she continued listening and then heard her son consoling the little girl. Rei smiled and then stopped what she is doing, she walks towards the sofa and started watching TV.
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"So do you understand what predicament means?" Shoto asks as he stare at Momo's eyes, trying to read her thoughts
"Un...kind of." She nodded with a little hesitant face
"It's Ok, you're smart so I'm sure you'll understand it in no time!" I ruffled her hair again and laughed at her pouty expression, Now I understand why both Mom and Fuyumi-nee likes to do this to me, it gives me some kind of nice feeling.
Seeing her now carefree expression, I decided to ask her one more time. "So, why are you sad?".
This time Momo didn't immediately said sorry and began explaining. "My Mother told me that today I'm going to meet her friend's son and from my previous experiences, I never liked these kinds of meetings."
"Why?" I ask once more
"Because most of the boy I meet is really bad, they always scream at me, try to order me around and do bad stuffs that I never liked to do, though some of them is good but most of them are bad, and then after i got home from meeting, I need to do a lot more things." She answered, before i could reply, she continued
"But I like you, you're very nice to me and....it makes me happy to talk with you, you're very different from the other boys I've met." She looked at me and smiled as she finishes her sentence.
"Then you could just visit me again, I would love you being here with me." I murmured to which Momo replied with a big giant yes.
"Well, what do you want to do now?" She asks me, I began thinking on what should i do to have fun, there isn't really that much that we can do right now as we are in a pretty small room with no TV whatsoever
The only thing i can came up is to play with our quirks and realized that is was a good idea, it also kills 2 birds with 1 stone, We get to spend time together happily and enhance our control on our quirks.
I pretended not knowing what her quirk is and asks her what it is, she then told me that her quirk is called creation and her only understanding is that she can make anything as long as she know what it is and it's materials
'Guess she haven't known about the fact that she need to wear less cloth for her ability to be more efficient' I thought to myself
I sat down on the ground, away from the bed and asks Momo to sit in front of me, she seemed confused as to why I move far away from our initial place but still followed me.
"Ready?" I ask while opening both of my palm
Momo became even more confused and asks "Ready for what?"
I smirked as I answer her question with my actions, In both of my palm appeared a small fire in the shaped of a ball, Momo was really startled and is worried about me, asking if my body is okay.
I calmed her down and then started juggling the ball of fire after making the third ball, I've never made a ball of fire nor juggled before but it is pretty easy.
With each passing minute, I added 1 more ball until finally it reaches the 6th ball , I decided to stop there and do something else. For the ending, I made all 6 balls explode and turn into a small firework, surprising Momo.
"Do it again! Again!!" Momo exclaimed enthusiastically
I ruffled her hair and said Ok as I can't resist her cute puppy eyes, I make a hoop of fire, around 20 centimeters diameter and hold it up with my left hand.
With my other hand I created a cat made out of fire, around 10 centimeters tall jumping around the ground happily, which is then followed by the little Momo mimicking it's moves.
I laughed at the sight which makes Momo sat back down with a shy expression, I continued the private show by making the Flame Cat jumped into the hoop gracefully which receives a series of clapping from Momo.
Next, I dismissed the flame hoop and made 4 more flame animal with 3 of them half the size of the cat, this time a pig and changed the cat into a Wolf, for its dark fur, I added more concentration of fire to it, making it look darker.
"What do you want to do with it?" Momo asks curiously
"What do you think is going to happen?" I asks back with a smirk
Momo thought for a while and then answered, "Are they gonna fight?" She said with a sad tone
"Yes and No, do you want to hear their story?"
"YES!" She answered excitedly
I then began recounting the tales of "The Three Little Pigs" to Momo, This is one of the tales I remember Mom used to read me when i was around 3 years old and now, I'm going to narrate it to her.
"There once exist a mother pig and her 3 little kids, since there are not enough food, the mother pig wanted the 3 of them to go out to the world and find their own way. After they were old enough The 3 pigs go their own ways and each made a house"
While recounting the story, I motioned the flames to act like an animation for Momo to watch and it takes me some time to have perfect control while doing it but it worked out nonetheless.
"The first pig is very lazy and made his house with straws"
I then made a house out of Ice with the materials being shaped like straws, startling Momo as she didn't knew I have ice powers
"The second pig is somewhat hard working but is lazy too so he made his with sticks"
Another house then appeared behind the 2nd pig, this time, it is shaped like sticks
"The third pig however worked hard all day and made a sturdy house with bricks that looked like it can withstand the strongest wind."
The last house appeared, now made out of bricks
"The next day, a wolf appeared and....
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"Again! Again!!!" Momo gushed at me, She really enjoyed hearing and watching my animations on the fable of "The Three Little Pigs" and wanted more of it, I decided to entertain her with my best and told her 3 more stories which are "The Little Red Riding Hood", "The Town Mouse & the Country Mouse" and the "The Boy who cried Wolf"
2 hours had passed since then and now I'm currently huffing on Mom's bed as I'm really tired, This is the first time I've had used my quirk for a long period of time which easily exhaust me a lot.
'I really need to train on my quirk more, I'll start tomorrow, combined with awakening my Black : Void.' I thought to myself, still gasping for air whilst enjoying the feeling of the soft bed below me.
I was startled as Momo came up to Mom's bed and snuggled onto my chest, seeing the cute little girl happily resting on my chest made me somewhat happy.
"Thank you for showing me...everything." Momo said with a happy tone in her voice, It's so sincere and pure that I can almost see the happiness she felt in the air.
"No worries, I told you that I'll be there for you, always." I replied, My right hand went towards her head and caresses it gently, feeling her soft hair kneading through my fingers.
We stayed silent for a couple of moments until I fell asleep due to my tiredness, soon enough, Momo fell asleep too, still in my embrace.
From a third person view, one could see a beautiful scene of 2 children, 1 Boy and 1 Girl of the same height sleeping in each other's embrace and on their face, one could see a very pure, peaceful and calming smile on their faces.
Rei come inside 10 minutes later to check on both of them as she didn't hear any sound from inside after 10 minutes of 'waiting', when she saw the scene happening on her bed, she smiled the biggest smile she had ever smiled in her live, ever.
She reached the phone on the table in the living room and immediately took 10, 20, 30....100 photos from various angles of her son hugging the little girl, she can't help it but to be obsessed by this sight right now.
"Mom, I'm home." Suddenly, from outside of the room, Rei heard a call from Fuyumi, she was startled and then seeing both Shoto and Momo's face twitch a bit made her flustered.
Rei went outside of the room in a hurry to close Fuyumi's mouth with her right hand before Fuyumi could say anything and brought her to see the magical scene.
Fuyumi, the same as her mother smiled as big as she can and then whispered to Rei's ear softly as to not disturb their little angel.
"I think I'm going to have a little sister very soon." She snickered
Rei laughed softly and nodded at Fuyumi, still enjoying the sight in front of her.