(Todoroki and Izuku start a legal process against Enji Todoroki, accused of harassment against his family. He also beat Izuku during their wedding for he never wanted his son to be gay)
"We had a goldfish," Todoroki said as his voice trembled as his hand resting over the chair he was sat on.
"And they went around and around in the bowl on the table."
He kept talking as his hand reached for his broken lip, still aching with pain.
Izuku looked over him as he set at the counsel table, near their lawyer. Izuku too had a swollen lip and a burning mark along his right cheek that cut through his eyebrow.
He still remembered that day, the day of their marriage. A lonely tear left Izuku's eyes as Todoroki stopped himself just to look over him. How can a man cause so much pain?
"I-I am sorry I need to take a pause" Todoroki muttered to the judge as he left his side and went towards Izuku, falling to his feet and crying. It was the first time Izuku saw him crying like when they were just kids, it was desperate and those tears pierced through the fresh burning mark over him.
"We will listen to him in five minutes" The judge spoke as he got up and left the court. Enji was there looking at his child hugging another man, he spat towards him but the police blocked him and forced him down.
"Sho..." Izuku murmured as he dried his tears. "We will win the cause; you will never see him again. Just finish your witness and I will tell mine"
Todoroki got up looking at the burning scar over Izuku's face: how his right eye was somewhat paler than the other, how Izuku was becoming blind by that eye. That swollen lip adorned his face in some sort of twisted art.
"I love you," Todoroki muttered to him as he entwined their fingers, the rings shined upon those pale hands.
The judge entered the court and everyone got up, Izuku helped himself with a crutch as Enji beat him that day, in front of Todoroki.
Todoroki went near the judge and started talking again, his voice weaker and weaker.
"My mother, poor fish, always smiling, wanting to appear happy, she always told me, "be happy, Shoto,"
He smiled remembering his mother who was now at the hospital.
"And she was right: it's better to be happy if you can be but my father beat her two or three times a week while raging through his 6 foot two frame because he couldn't defeat what was attacking him." He said with venom in his voice as he looked over him, his tall and desperate figure.
"My mother, poor fish, poor goldfish, poor nothing fish, wanting to be happy, being beaten two or three times a week and telling me to be happy: "Shoto, smile! Why don't you smile?" He dried another tear, as he trembled, not wanting to show anything to his father.
"And then, she always did to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw upon the earth, like hell and hell and hell and hell, and nothing else. It was the hell he put us through: my mother, my brothers and sister and my husband..." he said as he looked with his sad eyes to Izuku.
"You FAGGOT! YOU ARE NOT MY CHILD!" His father shouted and the judge silenced him.
Izuku saw the sad smile Todoroki was wearing and it resembled the sad smile upon his mother's face. The saddest smile upon the earth.
"Thank you, Mr. Todoroki"
"Mr. Midoriya, please" Todoroki said as he bowed slightly towards the judge and left the chair only to sit near Izuku.
"We have our last witness, but the situation is already clear." The judge muttered as he saw Izuku getting up. Todoroki helped him to do so, his trembling body was somewhat miserable to look at.
Izuku sat near the judge and thanked him.
"I am Izuku Midoriya; I married Todoroki Shoto three days ago. It was during that day that the man sat in front of us beaten me and burned my face," he said as he got up and showed his face, tucking some strands hair behind the ear.
"I walk with a crouch, as I have a second-degree burn over my right leg"
"He beaten me as he did with Shoto's mother and Shoto himself. I could do nothing and Shoto tried to protect me but ended with a broken lip."
"People just are not good to each other, one on one. I am afraid of loving the man I love... because who would want to become like me? I am almost blind by this eye," He said as he showed the almost white eye.
"I love him with all my heart and I want nothing bad to happen to him"
"I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your records, your books, our morning coffee, our noons our nights, our bodies spilled together sleeping, the tiny flowing currents, immediate and forever. Your leg, my leg. Your arm and my arm. Your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again. Because Enji Todoroki ruined our wedding and our bodies but he also ruined my husband's life and his family's life. We need justice; we don't even ask happiness, just a little less pain." He said as he trembled among that crutch.
Todoroki got up ignoring the judge's words and run to him hugging him.
"I felt like crying but nothing came out. It was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you cannot feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. But I think I have known it pretty often, too often." Todoroki added and finished their witness.
The judged nodded and asked for silence. "The court will take a short recess to consider the matter," he said as he got up and left the court.
Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It is real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you have suddenly become an idiot. There is no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help. Todoroki thought to have found that someone in Izuku and he was sure about it, as he saw him hugging him so tightly it almost felt painful.
They both needed someone.
The judge entered the court again.
"I plead him guilty. He abused his family and his son, he beaten his son's husband almost to death just because they were gay. I plead him guilty, life imprisonment," The judge stated
"YOU CAN'T DO THIS! SHOTO, THIS IS LIKE KILLING ME! IF YOU DO THIS YOU ARE NO BETTER THAN ME!"
"SILENCE!" The judge said and Enji sat down.
Todoroki trembled under those shouts as he was remembered of when he was a child; Izuku hold his hand.
Enji Todoroki was sentenced to life imprisonment.
"We have won! Shoto we have won!" Izuku said smiling as his broken lip opened again. He kissed Todoroki in a spurt of joy.
Todoroki said nothing; he sat there looking at his father being pushed away by the police as he spat venomous words to him. He covered his ears with his hands, as if he was child again and muttered: "La, la la".
Izuku's hands over his shoulder calmed him down.
He turned his body to face him: Izuku was smiling and it was the saddest smile he ever saw upon the earth.
[Picture not mine, found it on pinterest]