The worst kind of butterfly effect... [Tenko x Tomura]

[NicTheDjinn]

The school day was finally over and it couldn’t have come soon enough! Tenko and Nana had convinced their parents to let them go play at a friend’s house today! While this was exciting enough on its own, it was particularly exciting this time because it had been a little white lie. They were going to visit the friend they said they would and would probably be playing eventually, but that wasn’t the real reason they were going there. There was an All Might special airing today and they were going to go watch it there! She’d been so sad that she would miss it, but Nana was always so clever! Best big sister ever!

Pulling the yellow strap of his bag over her head, she rushed out of her class, stumbling to a stop and scampering back to pick up her yellow hat when it flipped off her head in her haste. Hat plopped back on her head, she continued to hurry to their meeting place, if a little more carefully this time. Her excited smile faded as she slowed to a stop, staring at a man standing under the tree Nana would be at when she was done helping clean the classroom. He looked like a hero… Why was he here? Hesitantly, she approached as she still needed to wait here. Why was he looking at her like that though…? He looked so sad…

”Tenko-chan? So small…” Murmured the man, pushing off from the bark, approaching and kneeling down in front of her. The little girl was a little skittish, but it seemed she still had that blind trust in heroes many small children held. He reached out to rest his hand on her little shoulder. “Tenko-chan… I’ve heard you want to be a hero, right?” The man got a shy nod in response, his heart aching for this poor child. What went wrong? How had they failed her so spectacularly…? “Well, Tenko-chan, you get to be a hero right now. You’re going to help me save all of Japan.” The commission slave felt a part of himself die as he forced a natural smile as the little girl lit up, stars in her eyes. There. That connection would do. “I… I’m so sorry, Tenko-chan… Please, forgive me.”

That eager smile dropped in confusion, grey eyes darting back and forth between the other’s as she attempted to understand why the sudden change of tone game. She didn’t have long to worry about it though as he suddenly shoved her and the entire world lurched. She barely had time to cry out before her back was knocking into a set of black clad legs, flailing, then flopping onto the ground next to a set of red sneakers. She looked up fearfully at a man she didn’t know, hands clutching all over him, a mop of light blue hair, and ruby eyes meeting grey ones between deathly grey digits. Where was she?! Who was this?! Fear lanced through her, trembling, and frozen in fear as one this was absolutely clear to her young mind. This was not a hero.