𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑽𝑬𝑫 𝑨𝑭𝑭𝑬𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵 ➣ Dabi

flames

Touya smiles, his forehead pressed against yours, his hands rubbing soothing circles along your body. After a warm shower with him, he carried you back over and put you in his sweatshirt. Now you lay curled in his arms, his body and the covers keeping you warm.

You hum and snuggle closer to his chest, wanting more of him. You could quite honestly spend all your time here with him. It doesn't feel like you have to talk or say something to keep him entertained, the silence is comforting enough. Just being in his arms is refreshing.

You never thought you'd finally find someone that makes you so happy. That gives the affection you craved for so many years or knows exactly what you need when your heart aches. He's given you the confidence to finally be who you've wanted to be. He's given you hope. Hope for a better life. Even if that means you'll be a villain. At least you get to surround yourself with people who would die for you, with people you would die for.

Touya breaks the silence with a kiss on your forehead, his fingers entangled in your hair, massaging your head. "I want to give you something," he whispers.

"Oh?"

His smile excites you, but you listen when he says to close your eyes and wait. You feel him move, pulling away from you but quickly returning back to your embrace. You wonder what he wants to give you. You'd be happy with anything. Just the fact that he thought about getting you something is enough to make you burst into happiness.

"Open," he says.

He holds two rings in his hands. One's a midnight steel black, with a band of blue circling the center of the ring. It's been designed to look like blue flames and the way they made it fascinates you. The other is smaller, more petite you'd say than the other. Which leads you to believe the small one is meant for you. It's also black, probably made from the same black steel as the other, but this ring breaks off into smaller branch like pieces to hold the blue gem in place. Looking at it, it looks like flames engulfing the stone. There are smaller blue gems leading up to the larger stone that pull the whole look together. It's. . . well it's perfect. It's so perfect, you want to cry.

"Look," he murmurs, showing you the engravings on the inside. The smaller ring has Touya engraved in it, while the bigger ring as your name engraved.

You press your fingers to your trembling lips, your eyes beginning to water as you look up at him. His smile deepens when he shows you the inside of his ring finger on his left. Your name. Your name. Your name is tattooed on his ring finger.

"Touya," you choke out, not knowing what else to say.

"Commitment scares me, love. I never planned on settling for someone. Hell, I never planned on getting a girlfriend for longer than four months." He laughs, shaking his head in astonishment at his own actions. "But I don't want to live without you. And I know that's fucking cheesy, but I don't know how else to say it, Mouse. I love you. I fucking love you and I'll be damned if I let you leave."

The tears don't stop. They spill down your cheeks, your hands held firmly over your mouth to muffle your sobs. Each word that left his lips was like him turning the faucet on your tears. The more he talked, the more the tears came. Your heart grows each time he says he loves you. When was the last time someone said they loved you? Months ago? Years? Decades maybe? But they never meant it the way Touya means it now.

You used to hate those words. I love you. People would throw it around so carelessly. Granted, you hadn't known what love truly felt like till Touya. Maybe that's why you hated it so much. To you, love was sacred. It still is. Love wasn't something you could just say to everything. But people would. People would throw love around everywhere. You wondered if they truly meant it. If they were true to their words or if they were just saying it because everyone else did. But you get it now. You love Touya. You love Shiggy. You love Toga and you love Twice. You love Compress and Spinner and Magne and Muscular and the whole League.

But you love Touya more than anything. And if it weren't for him, you'd never know what love was supposed to feel like.

"Mouse," he says nervously, trying to pry your hands away from your face. "I'm asking you to marry—"

"Yes!" you squeal, throwing your arms around his neck. "I love you, Touya. I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you! I mean it, I love you! I do!"

He lets out a sigh of relief and quickly returns the hug. "Oh, thank fucking god."

Together, you sit up in bed, giddy smiles plastered on both your faces as he slips your ring onto your ring finger. You do the same for him, kissing the inside of his wrist just as he cups your face and holds you close, his lips pressing against yours softly.

He opens his mouth to say something, but he's interrupted by the sounds of mock gagging. You turn your head to see Shiggy, Twice, Toga, and Compress stepping out of Kurogiri's warp gate. Touya quickly frowns, his vulnerable smile with you now becoming the cold look he keeps up front.

"The fuck are you guys doing here?" he asks, his hands tight on your hips.

"It's time for her to go back," Shigaraki grumbles.

"Already?"

"Dabi, it's been eight hours. You said you only needed her for two."

"I lied."

"No shit."

"Y/n," Compress says, interrupting Shiggy and Touya's death glare, to lay your altered villain costume on end of the bed. "We fixed it up a bit. Should be much better than the last one."

You smile brightly at him. "Thank you."

He simply nods but you know he's smiling too.

Touya cups your chin and guides your face to look back at him. "Are you ready to go back?" You quickly nod. "Want to leave me that bad, huh?"

"No, of course not. I just want to get these two days over with, silly." You smile softly. "I want to come back to you for longer than just eight hours."

That makes him smile, and he can't help but pull you close to his chest. "Then let's get you suited up."

Touya does that for you. He refuses any help from anyone else, since you can barely walk at the moment, and takes you into the bathroom to help you change. The costume is basically the same, missing the cloak and the purple accents. Instead, it's got turquoise accents. Starting from the cuffs on the sleeves and going up to your mid-forearm are turquoise flames. It's the same black leather but more of a body suit now. It's fitting and you feel comfortable in it, more so than the outfit the heroes gave you. You just pray the heroes let you keep it.

"Wanna see something cool?" You don't know why he asks when he just shows you anyway. He presses his hand on your abdomen and lights his hand up in flames. You try to jump back but he doesn't let you. And to your surprise, it doesn't burn. "It's fire proof."

"Woah."

He plants a kiss on your forehead, muttering a soft, "Cute." You smile and hold onto him as he leads you out of the bathroom.

A new warp gate opens when Shiggy presses a few buttons on his phone the moment you step out with Touya. You quickly go over the plan for the next two days, but there isn't much. They said it's best you not know everything in case the heroes were to suspect you for working with them. But you are to relay to news to Todoroki so he's aware.

Then, Touya gives you a tight squeeze, a kiss on your forehead, and a smile, before gently shoving you through the warp gate so you fall into the heroes base, making them believe you've been treated wrongly by the League. Which is exactly what you want them to believe.  

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