## Preface

Baby bird
Posted originally on the Archive of Our Own at http://archiveofourown.org/works/45715372.

Rating:
  Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning:
  No Archive Warnings Apply
Category:
  M/M
Fandom:
  僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
Relationships:
  Dabi | Todoroki Touya/Takami Keigo | Hawks, League of Villains & Takami Keigo | Hawks, Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko & Takami Keigo | Hawks
Additional Tags:
  Quirk Accident (My Hero Academia), Villain Takami Keigo | Hawks, Takami Keigo | Hawks Acts Like a Bird, Takami Keigo | Hawks is a Little Shit, Protective Dabi | Todoroki Touya, De-Aged Takami Keigo | Hawks, Kid Fic, Established Relationship, Crack Treated Seriously, League of Villains as Family (My Hero Academia), League of Villains Shenanigans (My Hero Academia)
Language:
  English
Series:
  Part 8 of Villian!Hotwings
Stats:
  Published: 2023-03-13 Completed: 2023-04-15 Words: 8,807 Chapters: 3/3

# Baby bird

by TheOtherHalfOfTheShell

Summary

> Touya has walked in on a lot of weird shit in his life, especially after receiving an emergency text from another league member.
> He'd already started mentally preparing for anything when he walked into the main living area of the league's wing in the PLF mansion.
> Shigaraki attempting to negotiate with a child while the rest of the league watched from behind the couch was far from what he was expecting.
> *****
> Hawks gets hit with an age regression quirk and the league gets to babysit.

> Part of villian!Hotwings

Notes

> Hi I'm back
> This is probably gonna be 3chps? Pt 2 is 99% done and part 3 is 40% so I'm gonna try and finish this one quickly.

> As always ignore my grammar like I ignore cannon

See the end of the work for more notes

## He's so tiny

Years ago The League, i.e. Hawks implemented a codes system when it was determined that some of the members (literally everyone except Kurogiri) didn't know what constituted an emergency.

It was a pretty simple color system followed by the code name for whoever it pertained to; Yellow, come help when you can. Orange, come help immediately. Red, drop everything and get here. Black, brink of death.

They had to use the codes for each other pretty often, being accident prone and wanted criminals.

Shigaraki stared down at the golden eyed child swimming in Hawks uniform, "do you think this is a yellow or orange?"

***

Touya has walked in on a lot of weird shit in his life, especially after receiving an emergency text from another league member. He got a red text from Shigaraki once because the store stopped selling his favorite brand of coffee and he couldn't get ahold of Hawks to talk through a replacement. On the other end Twice once texted him yellow because he, Toga and Spinner got stuck behind a police barricade and the other two were convinced they could fight their way out, they couldn't.

So Compress' text of 'yellow bird' followed five mins later by 'orange bird' had the fire user on edge.

Keigo didn't have emergency texts, /Hawks/ didn't have emergency texts. Keigo was strong, fast and capable of getting himself out of any situation. If Keigo was in trouble it was normally losing his shit over someone hurting Touya, but he'd already be there to fix it.

It's not a red, or spirits forbid black, text so Keigo is relatively okay, Touya had to reason with himself.

He'd already started mentally preparing for anything when he walked into the main living area of the league's wing in the PLF mansion.

Shigaraki attempting to negotiate with a child while the rest of the league watched from behind the couch was far from what he was expecting.

A small blond toddler size kid sat in a pile of clothes in the middle of the floor, red feathers littered his hair, wings the same shade tucked close to his back poking out of Hawks' flight suit. His little tear streaked face was tucked behind his knees, gold eyes rimmed with black stare at their leader.

This was new. And that kid was definitely a very young version of his mate, "what the fuck."

"Finally!," Shigaraki groaned, "make him stop being weird."

Touya needed to stay calm, he didn't know what was going on but losing his temper wouldn't help anyone, at least that's what Keigo would tell him. He took a deep breath, "what happened."

"Do you think if I knew I wouldn't have tried to fix it by now?," Shigaraki growled, "he came in like normal, and before he could tell us why he was off so early he just fell to the floor and started shrinking. I tried to ask him things and he just started crying and chirping."

Touya slowly walked towards the cowering child, he was so small, smaller than He remembered the bird ever being, "he might not understand you, I can't be sure but he's definitely younger than when we first met."

Touya crouched in front of the miniature hero, moving slowly to not startle him, might as well start with the most consistent method of speaking; Touya cooed softly.

The little bird turned his head, cooing back in question, Touya returned the noise but a little louder and firm. He had Keigo's full attention now, but he still seemed distrustful.

"Okay, Keigo, can you understand me?," Touya asked, drawing on all his memories of Keigo's first dialect. He practically forced the other to teach it to him after learning the commission had told him not to use it because it made him sound 'uneducated'. They start only conversing in Keigos native Hakata-ben whenever they could, a small act of rebellion.

Keigo nodded his head, chirping in question rather than speaking.

"You're safe, we're not gonna hurt you," Touya continued hoping it was getting through, "I'm friends with adult you, you can call me Touya."

Keigo relaxed, little wings loosening from their tight hold against his back.

"Do you mind if I touch you?," Touya spread his hands out, trying to appear as non threatening as possible till Keigo gave a small nod.

"Thank you Kei, I'm gonna lift you up so I can make sure you aren't injured, okay?" The little one chirped his approval and Touya gently lifted him out of the pile of clothes, the top of the flight suit hanging off his shoulders like a night shirt.

Touya had never had baby fever before but holding up this miniature version of his mate was sending him into a deadly case, holy shit this fucker was cute. He had to focus on the task at hand first, make sure Keigo isn't injured then privately go insane over maybe having a kid.

Touya kept talking to distract Keigo as he glanced over him to make sure he was uninjured, "Do you remember anything, birdie"

Keigo's wide golden eyes looked up at him, not quite trusting yet but not as guarded, he chirped at Touya asking something Touya couldn't quite place, something about his smell maybe? Baby bird talk was not something he was well versed in. He nodded anyway giving him a little coo of encouragement that the baby bird preened at.

As he moved to check over the child's back he heard some of the league members gasp, Touya glanced down to see the bright red fluff of tail feathers at the base of Keigo's spine.

Oh shit he still had his tail, they're definitely gonna have some questions later.

Satisfied that he wasn't in any major bodily harm Touya fixed the shirt back over the child. His head was reeling trying to think over what he should be doing first, obviously getting Keigo into clothes that fit rather than the flight suit that was falling off his shoulders. Okay so kid clothes, that shouldn't be too hard, "Toga, think you can bully the meta losers into finding some clothes that'll fit him?"

"Okay but after that I demanded payment in the form of snuggling the baby, I wanna pinch his little cheeks," Toga said happily skipping behind the pyro, "Hawkies I didn't think it was possible for you to get cuter!"

Keigo studied Toga in the unblinking bird like manner the commission could never beat out if him, taking in the crazed fanged smile and slightly blood stained clothing; he glanced past her to the rest of the league finally coming out from behind the couch, slowly so as to not scare the child again.

Kurogiri and Compress were trying to hide it but they wanted to get their hands on baby Hawks as much as Toga did, Shigaraki and Spinner looked just shy of terrified; Twice seemed to be the only calm one, but he was that master of riding out the chaos.

Touya saw the little bird's wing flick and pull close to his body and knew to open his arms so Keigo could jump into his lap and burrow into his coat.

The league had failed the vibe check.

"Calm down guys at this age he's probably only ever been around his shitty parents, he's gonna need space," Touya wrapped a protective arm around his little bird, as he'd dubbed the child in his head, "clothes, Toga."

The girl pouted, mumbling about favoritism "Fiiiine, Twice field trip?"

"Hell yeah! GO ALONE COWARD," he shouted following Toga out of the room anyway.

Shigaraki bent down digging through Hawks flight jacket now that it had been vacated, finding the inner pockets, "okay work phone and real phone."

He tossed one to Touya and started going through the other, "looks like he was on his usual patrol route, eight arrest this morning, gross, and then paperwork, boring," Shigaraki skimmed through the hero's texts, "ah, he stopped a bank robbery and got thrown into a child with an unknown quirk, they want him to report back any side effects."

Touya nodded seeing a text half typed out unsent to him from Keigo's phone saying the same thing, but with a lot more colorful commentary about HPSC sketchy doctors trying to get there hands on him, "I'll text Sparrow and let them know he'll be out for a couple days at least." Sparrow was Hawks first sidekick but they all agreed they were more of an overworked personal assistant since they did majority of Hawks scheduling and general management of the office; they were also the only one who'd ever spoken to Touya although they think he's just Hawk's very introverted spouse.

"I have to ask and I know I won't like the answer," Compress hesitated, "the tail…"

"The Commission decided it didn't fit the hero mold, they had them removed a couple years after I joined the program," Touya had started unconsciously running his fingers through Keigos hair, "they couldn't detach and be controlled like his wings so; thankfully the feathers in his hair lost their red so they stopped plucking them."

Compress grimaced, coming over to kneel in front of them, "Hello, I'm Sako, would you like to see a card trick?"

Keigo glanced up at Touya, then nodded once he saw Touya's encouragement.

After a few minutes of watching the colorful cards seemingly flying through the air Keigo had re-emerged from Touya's coat giggling quietly at the magician.

Toga came back with an arm full of clothes and picking out an outfit that wasn't revolting was almost as hard as wrestling the bird into it, Keigo had decided that he didn't like anything they offered him and only wanted to wear his flight jacket. Touya knew it was just so he could be surrounded by the fuzzy warm lining.

They finally settled on a Hawks themed pajama set that was still too big on him, back cut out for his wings and the flight jacket on top.

Touya wouldnt say it out loud but he couldn't deny it was the cutest fucking thing he'd ever seen, and he'd seen the actual Hawks so his standards were high.

Slowly but surely Keigo warmed up to the other league members, never straying too far from Touyas side but interested in all the people moving around them. He watched intently as Kurogiri moved throughout the room jumping when he pulled a juice box through a portal for him. He did his best to talk to the other league members, Touya translating through the accent and chirps.

Soon enough the day caught up to the child. Letting out a yawn he curled closer into Touya's side for a nap.

"Can we keep him like this?," Toga asked, taking a handful of pictures of the sleeping hero, "he's just so cute!"

"The only person here capable of raising a child is Kurogiri," Touya snorted, telling himself as much as Toga.

"It can't be that hard," Toga said.

"I will agree with you that young Hawks is adorable, but I would rather not raise any more children," Kurogiri said, "I just barely survived the first three."

"We weren't that bad," Shigaraki argued.

"You once dusted our entire base cause I made fun of your puberty voice," Touya teased.

"Fuck you, like you didn't burn one to the ground once cause you lost at monopoly," Shigaraki shot back.

Touyas phone rang, cutting off the argument before it could start, "what?"

Touya gently nudged Keigo off of him and onto the couch, walking down the hall towards the balcony for what was sure to be a long loud phone call since he did leave in the middle of a meeting with no explanation. He didn't want to accidentally wake up Keigo since he always ended up screaming at the incompetent PLF members.

He was on the phone for what seemed like ages, getting absolutely no where when Kurogiri appeared next to him, "we require your assistance."

Touya hung up immediately. Following through the swirling black portal into the mess of their common room.

The couch was flipped and hiding most of the league members, sharp red feathers were stuck in various places around the room.

Touya scanned over to where Shigaraki was locked into a staring contest with a larger but still not adult Hawks, "I'll ask again, What the fuck."

## Lunch, nest and take your spouse to work

Chapter Summary

> They have a very active day

"And I'll say again, We. don't. fucking. know. He woke up and panicked a little, probably because he couldn't see you and then he dropped and now he's bigger. He saw me and asked if I was his new handler and what I wanted him to do, that dumb fuck," Shigaraki motioned to Twice, "told him I was definitely his handler then screamed that we were all deadly villains and when I said his actual name he freaked out, started slicing us up with his feathers and wouldn't stop till I called him Hawks, then he froze and started saying he's ready to comply."

Touya grimaced, "yeah they did a number on Keigo pretty early on, also your suit looks a lot like the ones they wore in our early years."

"And you never thought to tell me I was dressed like your abusers?," Shigaraki questioned, Touya shrugged, "It didn't seem important at the time."

Touya moved to take Shigarakis spot in front of the shrunken hero, "Hey Birdie."

The child flicked his eyes over to him and gave a small sniff, "Tou?"

Conflict read clearly in the child's otherwise dead eyes, "yeah Kei, I'm Touya. Do you know what happened to you? Or do you at least remember earlier today?"

Avian eyes narrowed at him, "you smell like Touya but you're too big."

"No you're just small, " Touya argued, Keigo continued to glare, "okay if I'm not Touya how would I know that we met at the Hero commissions training facility and we got to be roommates?"

"That information would be available to any commission agent above Bravo clearance," Keigo responded, eyes flicking over Touyas face lingering on the scars and staples but not venturing to ask.

"Fair point. Okay, if I wasn't Touya how would I know that you're having trouble talking to me 'cause I'm so shiny, pigeon?," Touya grinned, seeing the child's eyes go wider at the sparkling metal and his least favorite nickname.

Keigo snapped out of his gazing, "good heroes don't get distracted by silly bird instincts." He was almost mumbling it to himself.

Touya frowned, he'd all but forgotten how they drilled so much self-hatred into his mate, "how old are you, birdie?"

Keigo stared him down longer, still debating on if he could trust them or not, "I'm nine."

Touya heard the league's grumbling behind him, Keigo had always been small for his age so he knew it was hard to believe but it looked about right since Keigo didn't really start looking his age till he hit puberty. Something was trying to connect about Keigo at this age in the back of Touya's mind but he couldn't quite remember.

"Alright well something only I could know is your favorite color is blue, you stole my gray sweater and keep it under your pillow and that you got that scar on your shoulder protecting me from our handlers," Touya listed off some of the tiny details he could remember from that early on, "you like to chirp little songs when we're alone and you think it's hilarious that I can't coo properly; and I know that I'd already promised, I'd never lie to you."

Touya leans down to make eye contact with the little bird, bringing up his pinkie, "what'd ya say Kei? You believe me?"

Keigo wrapped his pinkie around Touyas, "okay"

Nice, crisis averted; well kinda his mate was still a child, apparently aging at random and they didn't know how long he'd be like this.

"Oi! Is the hellspawn contained?," Shigaraki yelled from behind them.

Keigo chirped in surprise diving for Touyas lap, "Really Shiggy?"

The league came out from hiding, making a little semi-circle around Touya to gawk at the newest version of Hawks.

"He's still so tiny," Toga whispered in glee.

Kurogiri nodded, glancing around the trashed room,"So small, yet already capable of so much damage."

"Yeah, he could probably still go into work. A mini Hawks arresting you would be so embarrassing," Spinner laughed.

"Oh my God, could you imagine the photos of him on patrol? Still bossing his sidekicks around while being two feet tall?," Toga gasped, "Dabi please let him go to work, I need to see this."

Touya shook his head, "absolutely not, little bird is staying here with me till he's grown."

Internally Touya wanted nothing more than to see baby Hawks sassing back at the other pros for being callous towards villains or at his desk with a much too large can of coffee.

Keigo had been slowly adjusting himself in Touyas arms, fluffing his wings when he deemed himself in the most comfortable spot, and gazing up at Touya, "I have a patrol? Does that mean we really became heroes?"

Touya looked around to the other league members for help and found none, "um well, you're currently ranked as Japan's number two hero." Good, not a lie.

"What about you? You've been using your quirk a lot, " Keigo said, running his hand over Touya's scarred forearm, "why hasn't the commission figured out how to make it stop."

Fuck, of course, he wouldn't be satisfied with just knowing he's an amazing hero, "no I'm not a hero, they never figured out how to heal me." Keigo started to ask more questions, "little bird, I can't explain everything to you right now and I'm not gonna lie to you, so can you agree to just trust me? We're both very happy and safe."

Keigo seemed to mull over his request, "okay, I trust you Tou."

***

Lunchtime came with new issues.

As normal they sat around the table stolen from a meeting room set with various odd dishes; cricket stir fry, blood sausages, spicy udon, some American cereal Shigaraki had gotten hooked on and a huge slab of raw meat.

Keigo had zeroed in on it as soon as they entered the room but immediately corrected to ignore it for a more 'hero-like' option.

Touya plopped Keigo in his chair, noticing the added pillows so the little hero could still see the rest of the table, "go ahead and dig in, Kurogiri gave up on us having table manners a long time ago."

Keigo nodded, but didn't move, still examining the table, so Touya pushed the plate of meat closer, "you good little bird?"

Touya examined how tense his wings were, pulled in close and twitching against his back, his eyes flicking from the meat to all the people surrounding them when it hit Touya, "oh right, shit."

"Did you forget that he'd reverted back to a very traumatized child soldier that wasn't allowed to be himself in front of others?," Shigaraki asked, mouth full of artificial-colored cereal.

No cause that would make him a bad mate and husband Touya thought, "Kei, everyone here is safe, no one's gonna care about how you eat or what you eat, it's okay."

Keigo glanced up at him, whispering, " you're sure they won't tell on me?"

Touyas vision overlapped with a memory of Keigo asking him the same thing, with a much meaner glare after he'd accidentally heard Keigo chirping the first time. Fuck the commission for having them police eachother, children shouldn't be constantly on the look out for who was going to stab them in the back.

He swallowed his frustration.

"Positive, the commission doesn't rule your life anymore, you don't have to hide any part of yourself here," Touya assured then reached over and picked up a smaller piece of the meat popping it in his mouth to prove a point; knowing that one, he could cook a piece this size in his mouth easily and two, no one would comment on it after learning all the anti heteromorphe conditioning Keigo had lived through.

Keigo's eyes widened at Touya's boldness, looked around the table to see that no one cared, and took a piece for himself.

Lunch went on as normal after that, growing louder and rowdier as time went on, Keigo observed quietly growing bolder once they started telling him carefully edited versions of all their adventures.

Touya grinned widely sneaking glances at the young hero, his face a mess of blood. If they had kids he hoped they took after Keigo, he's just so adorable.

Keigo saw him staring and offered Touya a piece, cooing happily when Touya accepted.

"Hey, Hawksie! Want to try some of my donuts? I get them from a special store that fills them with blood," Toga grinned widely.

Keigo nodded his head, then checked to see that Touya was okay with it, "go ahead little bird."

The others returned to their conversation, Spinner coming to take Keigos vacated spot so they could discuss a joint attack on a hate group, heads duck close together so they could actually hear.

A series of angry chirps alerted them to Keigos return, the child launching himself back into Touyas lap, smearing sticky blood all over the others shirt, "Don't sit next to my Touya! He's mine!"

Oh yeah, Touya thought, this was when Keigo's bird brain started taking over.

Spinner immediately jumped back, not willing to argue with baby Hawks any more than adult Hawks.

Touya chuckled, ruffling the little bird's hair, posessive baby Keigo was gonna make his heart melt. His little talons clinging to Touyas shirt wings all fluffed in agitation, ugh he could die; instead he chose to tease the angry ball of feathers, "Oh I'm yours? Why do you think that little bird?"

"Your - you're not?," Keigo asked, eyes already filled with tears, voice wobbly, "were best friends thought, you said we're gonna be together always."

Abort, abort, oh Spirits he looked so devastated.

Touya backtracked immediately, regretting joking with him, "No no no no baby bird calm down! I was just playing, please don't cry."

"Knockin' this one outta the park, staples," Shigaraki commented, enjoying Dabi's torment way too much.

Dabi chose to ignore him in favor of comforting the child. Keigo's bottom lip still trembled, "Kei, I swear I'm yours, we're even married now see!"

Keigo didn't know enough about his biology at this age to understand mates, even though his Raptor brain had already made the decision, the commission only informed them after the first time Keigo went feral over Touya.

But he'd understand married, right?

Touya held up his hand so Keigo could see the bright red ring, "you've got one too, you just don't wear it to work. Come on, don't cry."

"So you're mine?," Keigo sniffled, "we're still best friends?"

"Yes, of course little bird," Touya assured him.

Tears stopped rolling down Keigo's face, "Can I see my ring?"

"Of course little bird, how about a bath first?," Touya sighed in relief, crisis averted.

"No bath, I don't wanna get my wings wet," Keigo argued.

Touya sighed, "you have to take a bath, adult you will be upset if you get blood in the nest."

Kegio's face lit with excitement, "We have a nest? A real one? Does it get to stay all the time?"

"Yep, it's huge, never gets taken apart unless we have to move," Touya tells him, "Let's get you washed up and then you can see it, deal?"

Keigo nodded his head vigorously, jumping up to hurry Touya along.

Bath time goes much easier than Touya was expecting, Touya remembers the hell that was getting his siblings bathed with their elemental quirks.

Touya relented to letting Keigo drop his feathers, he'd preen them later and adult Keigo could deal with it if they had any dried blood in them..

He managed to snap a picture of Keigo being swallowed up in one of the extra large towels they had for his wings. Fucking adorable, Touya didn't know how much more his heart could take.

"Can I see the nest now?," Keigo asks, his excitement barely contained.

Keigo may actually be happier than he was on their wedding day when his eyes land on their nest. His wings puffed in his joy and uncontrollably trilling as he launched himself to the middle. He rolls around searching through the material and sniffing everything he's collected through the years.

Touyas face was splitting with his smile at Keigos happy trills and chirps whenever he found a new treasure tucked into one of his many hiding places. His ring was quickly found, along with the gray sweater Keigo refused to part with.

Touya was pulled from watching his baby bird playing in the nest by his phone going off again, "what?"

"Did you forget about the meeting? You're Late," Skeptic asked.

Fuck, yeah he had. What is with these assholes and their meetings? The league didn't have this many meetings and they have taken over most of Japan's underworld.

"Not gonna make it," Touya said, "reschedule or do it without me."

"Need I remind you that you are the lieutenant of this operation and we can not move forward without you," Skeptic growled from the other side, obviously as pissed with Touyas involvement as he was.

Touya dragged a hand down his face, "fine give me twenty minutes."

Time to find a babysitter.

********

Touya trudged into the conference room with Keigo in his arms followed by compress, grabbing an empty chair from the end of the table and dragging it next to his spot at the head, dropping baby Keigo into the seat and handing him a coloring book from the bag Toga put together for him.

They quickly realized babysitting was not an option when Keigo nearly had a panic attack the second Touya left the room. So take your kid-size spouse to work day it was, Compress volunteered to come with them as he was able to distract Keigo when he got too fidgety.

He gave Keigo a brief run down before coming in that no it wasn't hero work but it was helping save people and to only refer to Touya as Dabi around anyone that wasn't a league member.

Touya leveled everyone in the room with a hard glare after they settled, "do not ask."

The meta members present had enough sense about them to move along with the meeting.

Touya continued to pull things out of the bag for Keigo. Another coloring book, a puzzle, a couple of small balls, a set of blocks, a Rubik's cube; setting them where Keigo could see and chuckling to himself as the feathers quickly overtook them and began playing with all of them at once.

Compress let out an impressed laugh, watching Keigo effortlessly complete every task given to him, "amazing."

Touya almost let a fond smile slip out, "gotta keep him occupied, a bored Hawks is a dangerous one."

The meta members couldn't help but sneak glances at the child but didn't comment as they went over the plans to ambush a prison transfer.

Touya let them set out their plans silently picking away at them, holding his tongue till the end. It was easier to list out their stupidity for them to see rather than argue every point.

Keigo surprised him by saying, "that's not gonna work."

All eyes went to the little bird, he had moved on to the puzzle letting his feathers finish up his coloring pages.

"What?," Skeptic asked.

Keigo finally looked up, meeting the other's stare, "your plan won't work," he turned to address Touya, "unless they switch the metals they used to make the armored transport vehicles?"

Touya grinned, "Nah, little bird. Still Hafnium carbide."

Keigo nodded, turning back to his puzzle.

"Are we just supposed to scrape months of planning because a child tells us to?," Geten sneers, he'd grown cocky since the injuries Keigo left him with had healed.

Keigo's gaze snapped up to meet him, Touya could see the ice user tense up. Keigo had him fixed to the spot unblinking before declaring, "I don't like you."

Touya and Compress both fail to hold back their laughter, "Birdie you're killing me."

"The league is gonna love this," Compress laughs, already texting them.

Touya tries to calm himself, "why don't you tell 'em why their plans won't work."

Compress quickly starts recording.

Keigo breaks his stare, glancing up at Touya, shrugging and returning to his puzzle, "S-class armored transport vehicles are made with an exterior of titanium-carbon alloys, their melting point being around 700° to 1500°c and an interior of Hafnium carbide with a melting point well above 4000°c. Dabi's flames start at 2500°c and need a couple of minutes to work up to 5000°c, even with him being at his hottest it will still take fifteen to twenty minutes to melt. You attack the convoy and they will immediately send for back-up, which at the latest will take ten minutes to arrive, unless you're wanting the person inside cooked, someone will have to be cooling the vehicle at the same time that Dabi is melting the doors which will extend the time needed to melt through."

The meta members were silent through Kegio's explanation, ticking off over half of Touya's complaints with their plan in a much nicer way.

Touya breaks the silence, "so any questions."

*******

They finally make it out of the meeting and back to their wing much later than Touya would've preferred, Keigo had been kept occupied through the rest of the planning pointing out any flaws he saw in their plans much to Touyas amusement.

They spent the rest of the evening with the league lazing about their living room, having dinner while watching a movie, and snapping as many pictures as they could of Keigo. Toga was going to make a baby book.

Touya finally called it when the little hero couldn't fight back a yawn, "come on baby bird, bedtime."

Keigo went without a fuss, the league giving various send-offs.

Touya contemplated letting Keigo sleep in the pajamas Toga had found but switched him to a large shirt instead, in case the quirk changed him again while they slept.

He tucked the Birdie in snuggly, pulling the threadbare sweater out from under Keigo's pillow and watching Keigo's eyes light up.

He let Keigo snuggle up to his chest, wondering once again if you could die from cuteness.
******

Keigo couldn't sleep.

He woke up warm, in a nest with someone who smelled like Touya but looked much bigger and shinier.

He investigates the nest finding lots of his feathers, and most importantly Touyas sweater.

This was his nest, and that was his Touya.

He let himself preen in excitement at how large their nest was, better than any of the little nests they'd made in their dorm.

Keigo felt around in the nest finding a phone, much more advanced then the ones he'd seen their handlers using. He tapped the screen lightly seeing the date had him years ahead of what he remembered.

Quirk accident, he decided.

He knew he wouldn't be getting back to sleep soon so he gently moved out of the nest, slipping from the room quietly, and made his way down the hall.

After minutes of exploration, he comes to a room with the door cracked open, light and noise spilling out into the hallway.

Keigo crept closer, peering in to see a white haired man staring at a TV with colors dancing across it, he had something in his hands fingers moving rapidly over it.

"You can come sit with me and watch if you want," the man said.

Keigo tensed, almost running back to the nest but the show was pretty, curiosity got the better of him.

Was this their new handler? Did they even have a handler anymore? Nothing about the building he was in seemed like a commission ran operation, to lived in and it smelled like home.

Touya was here, and their nest was here. Maybe it was safe.

The man glanced over at him, "you grew again."

Keigo didn't know how to reply, it did add to his quirk accident theory.

"Make yourself comfortable, adult you likes this game. Says it's relaxing," the man moves over to give Keigo space.

They sit in a comfortable silence, watching as the colors glide across the screen, a fish and bird dancing in tandem and blending colors into shapes and patterns that calm Keigo.

"you smell familiar, kinda like Touya," Keigo says.

The man snorts, "makes sense, adult you says I'm part of the flock."

Keigo accepts this, going back to the screen.

The man breaks the silence this time after noticing Keigo's twitchy fingers, "do you want to preen my hair? Adult you says it's calming."

Keigo hesitates. Hes not supposed to preen, heros dont have bird traits. But Touya lets him and the white haired man smells safe like Touya, so maybe it's okay.

Keigo nods.

Touya finds them some time after, used to his birdies midnight strolls, the familiar sight of his mate braiding Shigarakis hair while they're both mesmerized by the video game. He slides in next them, smiling as Keigo starts to thread his talons through his hair.

## Sweet sixteen

Chapter Notes

> Hii its here, only like a month (!?) late. This chapter fought me the entire time but its got a couple of my favorite bits in it.

See the end of the chapter for more notes

Touya woke up to someone whisper screaming his name, "Dabi…Dabi!"

He grumbled, curling further into the nest and burying his face in Keigo's hair.

"Dabi, please wake up it's important!," the screeched whisper continued, "do not make me wake up Hawks!"

Touya internally groaned, his poor Birdie never got enough rest and he would not be the cause of him losing anymore. He untangled himself, noticing Keigo was the same age as when he found him last night. As quiet as he could he went to the door where Spinner was glaring at him.

"What?," he asks, closing the door gently behind him.

"Emergency meeting, there's been a breakthrough or something and I can't find Shigaraki," Spinner says.

Touya rolls his eyes, "as if they know what an emergency is." He looks back at the closed door, Keigo would probably be asleep for a little longer, "ugh, that sentient skin flake owes me, he's probably holed up in the media room he commandeered from Skeptic; someone needs to watch Birdie in case he wakes up before I get back."

Spinner nods, turning away, "I'll grab-,"

Touya catches his shoulder, "You woke me up, you get to babysit."

****

"Okay so from the Intel we've managed to grab we plan on…," the man dragged on. Touya didn't even know what they were talking about anymore, certainly wasn't a fucking emergency. Maybe he'd have Keigo implement the color system to these idiots, and get some damn peace for once.

He'd been here for well over an hour and all he could think about was smashing his head against the table. He missed Keigo, everyone here was so useless they weren't getting anywhere and for some reason, no one would listen to him unless he was on fire.

The chair next to him scraped across the floor as someone plopped down in it, "That's a really dumb idea, like on a scale of one to ten your common sense must be in the negatives. Do you really think you just stumbled upon an open air duct into the HPSCs main building? It's a trap, and not even a good one."

See Keigo gets it, wait shit Keigo? Touyas eyes snapped open and over to the newly occupied seat containing, oh spirits teenage Keigo, "what are you doing here?!"

Keigo raised an eyebrow, "looks like I'm saving you from dying of stupidity alone, is Shiggy really this desperate for people that were just letting anybody join? Also a mansion? Daddy dearest is really spoiling us."

"No, go back to our room. I'm not explaining this right now," Touya said, his mate is a menace to society on a good day, teenage him was an unstoppable force of nature hell-bent on annoying the shit out of everyone around him.

"What's to explain? I got hit by a quirk that de-aged me a bit. Or you got hit by a quirk that made you hella fucking sexy, because damn firefly I can't even concentrate when you look so good."

Touyas face flushed bright as Keigos wings he couldn't even think of a response as Spinner came running into the room panting, "You fucker! I am not above stabbing a kid if you don't sit the fuck down."

"Hey, you finally caught up," Hawks easily dodged Spinner's hands, "if you don't mind I'm just gonna hang here with Hot stuff, he needs someone that isn't using all their brain power just to breath and no one here seems to meet that requirement."

"Hawks, please go with Spinner, I am busy and you can't help with this," Touya groaned rubbing at his temples, contemplating a second death or at least torturing Keigo when this shit wore off.

"Hawks? Excuse me? Whom'st the fuck do you think you're talking to?," Keigo gave an offended squawk, "since when do you call me Hawks? I didn't even think you knew my hero moniker. I will be addressed as birdie, pretty bird, baby bird, dove, princess-,"

"Okay, pigeon," Touya stopped him before he could really get creative, "I get the point, Go. with. Spinner."

Keigo grinned, ignoring Touyas tone, "Nah, views much better in here, would you mind standing up? I wanna see if you got as tall as I was hoping you would. Tall, dark and dangerous is so hot."

What did Touya do to deserve being sexually harassed by a teenager?

Probably all the murder.

There was no way they'd make it through this meeting now.

"Come on starlight, are you really gonna tell me that I couldn't help even a little?," Keigo asked, "I can just shoot down all the incredibly dumb ideas?"

Spinner nearly choked, "starlight!?"

Touya glared at Keigo, knowing it wasn't a staring contest he'd win. Nine-year-old him had been funny tearing down the meta members' ideas, and it was probably safer for the population at large to keep him next to Touya, "fine."

"What? You can't possibly think we're going to run plans past a child in hopes of approval, " Re-destro said, "I can admit Hawks is a formidable strategist, but I can't say the same for his younger self since all he seems capable of is flirting."

"I'd say I'm also capable of fucking your Mom, but that seems like a waste of dick," Keigo snarked settling in next to Touya, "she as ugly as you? Or is all that greasy hair and poor posture a choice?"

Touya took a steadying breath, ignoring Spinners cackling laughter. This was about to be a very interesting meeting but it couldn't get worse.

The door bangs open again, Shigaraki trudging in followed by an unimpressed Kurogiri, "I'm going! Not gonna be a real emergency anyway…"

"Dust bunny!," Keigo yells.

Touya joins Spinner in his laughter over that long forgotten nickname.

Shigaraki snaps out of his complaining to stare in horror at teenage Hawks, "Nope no, fuck that. Meeting canceled. 'Giri get me the fuck outta here."

Hawks tackles him as he tries to turn out the door, "hey! You got stronger! Normally you fall over when I jump on you. And your voice isn't cracking anymore. Did you dye you're hair? The blue was so pretty, change it back! Damn you got tall, Oh my spirits, it's like you're a real adult."

"Agh!, Get off you stupid fucking chicken! What do you even mean of course I'm a real adult! Dabi, come get your bird!"

"I dunno, " Keigo shrugged, still clinging to the other's back, "kinda figured you'd always look like twelve? Ya know scrawny and pale and severely lacking lotion for someone who looks like they spend all day alone in their room."

Shigaraki finally manages to get a handful of Keigos shirt yanking him off and holding him like a scuffed kitten, "Listen here Tweety, I've seen those toothpicks you call ankles enough to know you shouldn't be talking, Twenty- three and you barely scraping 5'6-"

"Children!," Kurogiri interrupted, "now is not the time."

"Fine," Shigaraki turned to find Touya, presumably to hand over the problem only to find him gone, "where the fuck did he go!?"

"He walked out while you were squabbling," Kurogiri informed him, "we'll 'walked' is generous, he ran out."

Keigo, who seemed content to let Shigaraki dangle him until then perked up, "oh! Lemme find him! I love hide and seek! Tomu go hide!"

Shigaraki grins, letting him go, "I'll pass but, tackle his ass for me."

Keigo doesn't need to be told again, bolting from the room.

"Sir? The meeting?," Re-destro ventures.

Keigo pops his head back into the room, "oh don't bother with any of this boss man, they found a commission trap and refuse to believe it."

Shigaraki nods, "cool, meeting adjourned."

****

It didn't take Keigo long to locate Touya, tracking his mate like a bloodhound.

"Touya!," Keigo plasters himself across the others back, "why did you leave? We coulda had so much fun, I could already see the blood vessels in that guy's forehead! Are all the recruits that gullible? Or are they just bodies? Oh, what are you making it smells so good?"

Touya rolled his eyes letting Keigo adjust his position to hang off his back without getting in the way as he rambled, just like they used to after Touyas death, like they still do when Keigo has the morning off.

"My turn to cook breakfast, the others should be up soon," Touya answers, lifting a spoon to his shoulder so Keigo could taste.

Keigo cooed around the bite, "you're such a good cook, Tou."

Shigaraki, Kurogiri and Spinner come in a little after. Shigaraki gives Touya a well earned smack to the head as he grabs a cup of coffee.

"Don't you saddle me with that demon spawn of a child again, I lived through his teenage years once I will not do it again."

They ignored said child's offended squawk.

Touya rolled his eyes, "oh boo-hoo you got manhandled, I was sexually harassed by a teenager in front of most of the commanders."

Keigo shrugs,"I, for one, am having a great time."

"Shut it, chicken shit."

"Zip it, Birdie."

Spinner cackles, "I'm with Hawks, that was the best meeting yet."

Keigo grins, "he's my new favorite, fuck you guys were gonna make our own crime empire, only heteromorphes allowed."

Spinner cheers him on.

"Catch me up!," Keigo says when the other two stop grumbling jumping onto the counter so he can talk to the others without being too far from Touya, "how did we manage to get this big?"

"How old are you? I don't know how much you know yet, and I'm not bothering telling you shit you already know," Shigaraki asks.

"Sixteen."

"That doesn't narrow it down much, we got into a lot of shit at sixteen," Touya chuckles and Shigaraki agrees.

"Okay, um I remember the Commission sending me out on infiltration missions and sending the good ones our way and feeding the lame ones to the commission, if that helps? And were living in that apartment complex with the bar attached," Keigo offers.

Shigaraki nods, "that does narrow it down some, have you started laying eggs yet?"

The blood drains from Keigo's face as he stares at Shigaraki, then over to Touya, "...have I what?"

"So that's a no to the laying eggs yet," Shigaraki sighs, "so you must've just turned sixteen."

"One of you had better say sike right now."

Keigo looks between the two, panic growing with their silence, "Touya what the fuck? I lay eggs? For what?! Why? How often?"

Touya tries to hold it together as Keigo falls to a panicked bird screeching, the moment he looks at Shigaraki slowly sipping his coffee he loses it.

He might have popped a staple laughing so hard, "Fuck, birdie calm down. No you don't lay eggs."

Kegio smacks him with a wing still visibly upset, "why would you tell me I lay eggs? My quirk has done so much weird shit. I hate both of you."

"Revenge," Shigaraki cackles.

Keigo turns to him, sending a couple feathers to smack him as well, "Revenge for what?"

"The fucking ostrich egg."

"That explains nothing!," Keigo whines, "if anything I have more questions?!"

Touya finally catches his breath, "when we were like seventeen maybe? You got tired of all of Dusters 'bird flu' and 'mother hen' jokes and somehow got your hands on this bright red ostrich egg. So you made scrambled eggs with it and, " Touya cracks up again, "like mid bite Shigs says that the eggs taste off and you just calm as ever."

Touya can't say anything anymore so Shigaraki picks up, "you fucking shrug your shoulders and say 'yeah probably cause I laid it' and move so I can see the big ass egg shell on the counter while eating the eggs. I still can't eat scrambled eggs without gagging"

"That's why you don't eat scrambled eggs?," Spinner gasps between laughs.

Keigo falls off the counter shaking and squawking, "that's so fucking funny, oh spirits I can't wait to do that to you, how long did you think I actually laid it?"

"Too long," Shigaraki grumbled.

"Even more disturbing," Compress adds, coming into the room, "Dabi never stopped eating the eggs even after Shigaraki fled the room to vomit."

Touya tries to breathe so he can defend himself, "I had just been through a week of bird flu, I was asleep on my feet!"

"It is amazing you three didn't end up killing each other," Kurogiri sighs.

"Yeah if you had hair, it would all be gray," Touya teases, "you should retire before the next wave of villains need a dad."

Kurogiri chuckles his agreement.

"Okay, my amazing prank aside, and cheeto-dusts cruel very bad joke," Kegio says sticking his tongue out a Shigaraki, "what happened?"

Shigaraki waves a hand nonchalantly, "eh, kept with the original plan for a while, just absorbing smaller gangs and spreading our influence, picking up strays, made a pretty good name for ourselves to but then Master wanted us to kidnap this kid and started talking about poaching the younger heros so we collectively decided to dip."

"I knew he was shady," Keigo grumbled.

"Yeah, yeah what a surprise the bird was right," Shigaraki continues, "so we were re working the plan to take out all of that dicks influence when the meta Liberation wherevers -,"

"Quirk supremacist, following Destros ideology," Dabi added, knowing where Keigo's next line of questions would go.

"Fucking nabbed Giran and goaded us into a war. We won, obviously," Shigaraki finishes, "oh and All for One threw a hissy fit when we left, got into a fight with All Might and landed his ass in jail."

"We were in a war!?," Keigo shrieks.

"Not exactly, you were in America when it went down. Some guy tried setting off a series of bombs that were going to Kickstart mass mutations and pretty much end the world."

"What!?"

"Can you stop with the screeching? Yeah some kinda quirk singularity bullshit, who fucking cares? You and the rest of your Stupid hero buddies took care of it," Shigaraki says.

Touya runs a hand over Keigo's fluffed wings, "it's already happened, no one's hurt. No need to worry, feathers."

Keigo might have kept arguing but a gleeful Toga came careening into the room, "it's Tuesdaaay, and you know what that means!"

The grown league members groan.

"That's right! Time to slut shame Hawks!," Toga cackles smacking the newest issue of HERO weekly on the table.

"Oh! Oh I wanna slut shame Hawks!," Keigo laughs, fluttering over to see the magazine.

Toga gasp, "Hawksie! You are so cute! Like normally you're stupid hot in an unattainable model way but now? You're Like so boy band homecoming king pretty. It's unfair, you had to have been ugly at some point, right? How old are you now? Because you look my age. How long are you gonna be this age? Do you want to be best friends and go to the mall and talk about our crushes and cute boys!?"

"I have no idea what half of that means, but you seem fun," Keigo says, not losing any of his enthusiasm, "I'm pretty sure I'm sixteen, I don't know how long I'll be like this, Touya and Shiggy are already my best friends, what is a mall? And If by 'cute boys' you mean Touya, then yes I absolutely want to talk about cute boys."

"Oh Spirits there's two of them," Compress mutters with the fear they all feel.

Toga squeals, "we are going to have so. much. fun. First lets see how much skin you're showing this week, Twitter says there's a picture of you after a fight shirtless and pants all shredded covered in dirt and blood, it's gonna be gorgeous. "

Toga flips through the magazine finding the image easily, Keigo whistles when he spots it, "damn Touya, you let me leave the house like that?"

"Yeah as if you listen to me, be useful and help me move this to the table," Touya motions to the finished breakfast dishes, "You two get one more shriek before you get banished to the meta losers side of the mansion."

"So grumpy," Keigo coos at him, helping to bring over all the dishes as asked.

"The grumpiest," Toga agrees.

"So annoying," Touya replies.

Toga gets a mischievous glint in her eyes, "Hey Hawksie do you wanna see a video of when Touya got drunk and started telling everyone about how amazing and hot and in looove he is with you?"

"There is nothing I have ever wanted more in my life than to see that video," Keigo says.

"I wasn't drunk! I got hit by a quirk," Touya says.

"Quirk, drunk either way I have the video," Toga sing-songs.

Touya rolls his eyes, settling in for a very loud breakfast.

*****

Keigo wakes up snuggling a wall of pillows.

Weird.

He blinks, trying to remember exactly why he would have rearranged the nest like this but his memory was fuzzy, the last clear thing he remembered was a bank robbery…

Oh, quirk accident.

He'd gotten thrown into the crowd and nearly landed on a kid, scared himnenough to set off his quirk though. He felt around for his phone wondering how much time had past his jostling must have woken Touya.

"Pigeon, I swear if you don't keep your hands to yourself I will make you sleep on the couch," Touya warned.

"Damn I got demoted to pigeon, what kinda quirk did I get hit with, hotstuff?," Keigo chuckles.

Touya sits straight up in bed on the other side of the pillows, "Keigo?"

Keigo nodded, "last time I checked."

Touya quickly breaks down the pillow wall jumping on Keigo, "thank fuck you're back to normal."

Keigo welcomes Touyas embrace, "seriously Firefly, what happened?"

***

"And this is you at dinner, and this is you at bath time and this is a video of you shredding the PLF, " Toga swipes through her phone showing Keigo all the photos they'd managed to snap of him during his short accident, "oh! This one's my favorite!"

Touya looks over Keigos shoulder, the photo is of him smiling down at the youngest Keigo wearing the flight jacket, he's trying to talk Keigo into changing into something that fits better and the baby bird is having none of it.

"Tou, can we have a baby?," Keigo asks eyes locked on the photo.

Touya sighs, shoving down another wave of baby fever the picture brought up, "we've been over this Kei, were both biologically male, if you could get pregnant because of you're mutation it probably would've happened by now and finding someone with a quirk that could make it a possibility isn't sensible until after we've rebuilt society. Ya gotta let it go."

Keigo nods looking up at Touya, "consciously I know you're right and that makes sense, but raptor brain is telling me that if I try really really hard I could get you pregnant."

They have a silent conversation, Keigo brings the phone into Touyas line of sight, before he sighs, "Okay let's do it. it's not gonna work but it's been a long couple of days and I deserve to get my back blown out."

They get more than a few pillows and expletives thrown their way as they stumble out of the room, Touya laughing the entire time.

Chapter End Notes

> Thanks for reading! More to come~

> The pillow wall was built because teenage Keigo refused tonlet them sleep separately and Touya didn't trust him to be on his best behavior.

## Afterword

End Notes

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