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TOKOTSU!!!

MHA Tsu

Tsu was nervous. She had just had her third monthly checkup with her prenatal physician, and during the sonogram, she’d received a surprise her husband was surely going to pass out from. She was going to need to butter him up before she told him.

Her husband, Masked Donut, was a Quirkless Pro Hero from the United States who had moved to Japan after they’d met. Four years later, they had two children, and couldn’t be happier. But now—Tsu rested a hand on her pregnant belly—more children were on the way. Masked Donut wasn’t due to get home for another three hours since he was on a rescue mission, which would give her plenty of time to make his favorite meal. 

After her appointment, Tsu then picked up their twin four-year-olds from daycare. Her son, Jacen, was hopping around, showing off his frog jumps while his sister, Eliza, was giggling and trying to keep up with her brother. “Jacen, wait for me!!”

Jacen slowed down and waited for his sister and mother. “Hurry up, Eliza, gero!” He continued to hop around but stayed in place. “When will you get your Quirk, sis? What kind of Quirk will it be?”

Eliza looked at her brother sadly. “I am not sure if I will get a Quirk. I haven’t shown anything yet.”

“There is a chance you may be quirkless, but so is your father, kero.” Tsu smiled comfortingly at her daughter. “He is a Pro Hero in his own right, without a Quirk. It’s proof you don’t need one to make a name for yourself, kero,” Tsu replied before wrapping her tongue around Jacen who jumped too far. “Besides, keeping an eye on your brother is tough enough. What did I tell you about jumping right into traffic, kero?”

“Sorry, Mommy, gero…”

—

“Babe, I’m home!”

“Welcome home, Daddy!” the twins yelled as they ran/jumped toward their father. He had just finished a week-long rescue from the landslide in Saiko and they’d missed him. “How was your work, gero?” 

“Did you save a lot of people?”

Masked Donut chuckled and let his children climb all over him. “The rescue went well. Luckily there were no deaths, just some injuries the survivors will recover from. I had to make sure some of the ships that sank from the landslide boulders had no oil in the tanks or pump the tanks to avoid polluting Kyoto’s main water supply.” He felt a muscle twinge in his back and stretched while the twins held on to his arms as he lifted up. “Selkie is an awesome man to work with; he knew the lake from the top down.”

“Yes, kero, and he is cute when he acts childish,” Tsu replied, giggling as her mate pouted. “Dinner is ready, I made your favorite.”

Donut lit up like a kid in a candy store. “Tacos!? I haven’t had good ones in ages! Don’t get me wrong Lunch Rush was amazing providing us with nutrition but one does miss good tacos.”

Tsu chirped and smiled before putting a hand over her stomach. “Oof, we got a kicker, I think we may have another frog Quirk baby coming.” She rubbed her stomach. “I think that one will be more active than Jacen by the way it lurched.”

Donut smiled before picking up what she’d said and frowned. “That one? What do you mean, that one?” He walked forward and put his hand over her hand, looking at the bump. “You look bigger than when the twins were brewing at three months, are we expecting more than one?” He smiled as he too felt the kick from his future child, rubbing his wife’s belly as he had a mixture of excitement, nervousness, and euphoria that tears were now flowing down his eyes. He was going to be a father of more little tadpoles.

Tsu grabbed a sonogram photo with her tongue and showed it to Donut. “I went to the perinatologists today and had a sonogram done when I noticed like you said—bigger than my first pregnancy. Take a look at what the doctor found.”

Donut swallowed and took a look at the black and white photo. It showed three black holes, each one with a small white blob, and one had two small masses like one of it was a hand saying hi to the camera.

“Daddy is nervous; he is starting to smell sweet, gero.” Jacen laughed, hopping around Donut again. “What is it, Daddy? Why are you scared, gero?”

“I-I…,” Donut was stunned. What he saw in the photos was making his stomach churn like butterflies, and his heart was fluttering like no tomorrow. Once he got his voice back and his brain fully processed what he was seeing, he yelled, “TSU! WE’RE HAVING TRIPLETS!!??”

All Tsu did was smile and nod, rubbing her three-month baby bump while Jacen and Eliza were jumping and running around their father. Donut just stood there, trying to process again on having to raise three more children plus the two and having to spoil the five of them rotten. The next thing he thought brought him somewhat down to earth: the apartment they are currently living in will not be enough for a future family of seven.

Suddenly, Jacen noticed another piece of paper inside Tsu’s bag, with something pinkish orange printed. He jumped off his father with his Frog Jump Quirk and picked up the paper. “Mommy, why do I see four pink circles, gero?”

“Wait…what did you say?” Donut asked his son, the butterflies in his stomach becoming cold like ice and his legs starting to feel numb as realization slowly hit him. Jacen hopped toward his father and turned the photo so he could see, pointing at a small blob barely showing from the three others in front of it. “Is this inside Mommy’s tummy? Why are there four, gero?”

Eliza giggled. “I think Mommy is getting us four sisters.”

“F-four?”

“No, I want four brothers. Gero!!”

“Triplets…plus 1?”

“Jacen, Eliza, the genders will be a surprise, whether they will be all boys, all girls, or a mix they will still be your siblings. You two will be big brother and sister, kero.”

“Okay!!” they both said before a thud was heard behind them. 

Masked Donut had passed out when he put the pieces together of now becoming a family of eight. 

“Gero, Daddy must have been tired—it is typhoon season.”

“Yes, but Daddy has never passed out like this before. Is he sick?” Eliza asked, poking at Donut’s cheek to wake him up. He didn’t even budge, even when she tried tickling him. 

Tsu arrived with a pillow and comforter. “He was just surprised, kero. He’d only just processed having triplets when Jacen discovered my hidden photo. Four is a lot more than we were expecting.”

“Oh, so it’s Jacen’s fault?”

“Nu-uh, gero! It’s Mommy’s! She has them in her belly!”

Tsu giggled and pinched both their cheeks. “That’s right, kero. Mommy is making babies so be prepared. We have about six months left before they arrive.” She looked at her husband who was now snoring soundly. “For now, let Daddy suffer a bit; he did start the cooking, after all, kero. Now, let's eat dinner and we’ll save some for your father when he wakes up.”