His Stalker (DekuBaku)

part 31

I guess last night tired me too much because 5 minutes after promising Kacchan I wouldn't, I'd fallen asleep.

"Deku! Hey! Wake up!" I shoot up only at a short yelp. What I see is: Shadow chasing Kacchan around the bar.. Wait bar? I thought we were at a playground?
"Shadow, stop that." I groan Annoyed. Looking around, I'd been laying on the wrecked couch, a thin blanket covering my legs.
"Took you long enough." Ace groans, I see him sitting at the bar with a cup of coffee.
Shadow comes to sit back next to me.
"ꁴꐇꀗꐇ ꆂꀗ? ꌚ꓅ꂑ꒒꒒ ꓅ꂑ꒓ꍟꁕ? (Zuku ok? Still tired?)" I shrug him off, still confused as to how we got back to the bar. Almost as if reading my mind Ace and Kacchan explain that after our mini versions disappeared Ace had called Kurogiri to pick us up, but they didn't want to wake me up.

".. I see." I was trying to remember what I had dreamed about today but my mind was just blank.
"You ok Deku?" Kacchan questions at my blank expression. I nod distantly and get up to grab my mask. Just then I realize it wasn't on the coffee table like I thought.
"Where's my mask?" I muttered, now looking up at the other two. 
"In your room." Ace states shortly, still looking somewhat concerned. I nod and stand up, though the moment I try walking I felt my knees buckle under my weight and Ace can just catch me on time before I fall to the ground.

"Yeah.. I was about to say its not a good idea to walk right now." Kacchan mutters. I look at him curiously and annoyed he made me embarrass myself. That's when they explained that Dabi had an accident with his quirk while I was asleep and fire lashed out at some of us, including me. It mostly hit my legs and a small part of my face, but nothing lethal.
Dabi helped treat everything as he should and to my surprise even apologized for it.

"Great. I'm matching scarface then?" I tried touching my face but the moment I hit the spot where the fire had hit me I pull my hand back at the stinging pain.
"Yeah. It hit my arm." Kacchan mutters, he seems more scared of just telling me then saying it in general. He rolls up his sleeve and shows a nasty looking burn.
"You ok?" I question, sitting back on the couch and inspecting the wound. Kacchan just nods but flinches when I twist his arm the wrong way to see the rest of the burn.
"Better then you." He smiles painfully. I crack a smile and look around, its still just us three.

"Where is everyone?" I question. Ace shrugs. "Dabi is on house arrest, Toga went out killing, and the rest is in their rooms I think." I nod, still with a somewhat blank mind. The burns might explain my throbbing headache, but I felt nothing in my legs.
"You alright kid?" Why do they keep asking that? I'm fine just have a headache. I just nod and sit up more properly.

After talking for a while I notice Ace groaning and rubbing his head.
"You ok?" Kacchan now also noticed it and looked at Ace somewhat confused. "Yeah, just a headache." Kacchan hesitates.
"Didn't you get a call from the Doctor earlier asking you to stop by. When you came back you were all twitchy.." He mutters. I look at my friend curiously. Just then I notice him focusing strongly on something.
"I'm fine." He states again. Neither me, nor Kacchan were convinced. I push him slightly, breaking his concentration and causing him to start twitching profusely. At some point I swear I saw some kind of black goop coming out of the corner of his mouth and his arms.

"Jezus Christ, Ace what the hell?" Ace just glares up at me and sits back up with some difficulty as the twitching doesn't seem to stop completely.
"New quirk. The ticking is a side effect." I poke a bit of the black goop that's now on the floor and it stays sticking onto my finger. "That's disgusting.." I mutter, wiping it off onto the couch.
"That's also a side effect that comes with it.. It is bloody disgusting yeah." Ace agrees, taking a small piece of cloth out of his pocket and wiping away the goop. Just then Kacchan asked the question that had been lingering in the air for some time.
"What's the new quirk?" Ace hesitated, but then rolled up his sleeves and made miniscule tentacle grow out of his arm.
"I can make them bigger but Doc says I need some more training with it before attempting." He states, letting the inky things lower back into his skin. "Holy shit- Your boyfriend must love you now." I cracked a smile when Ace obviously reddened.
"Kei doesn't know about it, he only knows of my main 4 quirks." I thought about that for a moment.
"I thought you had five permanent quirks?" Kacchan nods in agreement.

"I do, but Kei and well.. everyone else thinks I have 4, they tend to forget the manipulation one. Just like I tell them to." I nod, just then realizing what that meant. "That's just depressing." Kacchan states sympathetically.
"Shut up." Ace stands up and starts making his way to the bar. he grabs a glass, opens the fridge and pours himself a drink. Right as he's about to make his way back to us his hand twitches and he drops the glass.
"Shit." He manages to catch it with one of those tentacle things reaching out of the tip of his fingers. It wraps around the glass right in time before it hits the ground. "... Should we be concerned?" I question, seeing the same inky goop drip onto the floor around the bar. Ace grabs the glass with his other hand as he shakes his head.

"I said I'm fine. My only problem with it is that I can't really hide this from Kei.. That's gonna be a bitch." I nod, same thing with the burns Dabi had given me and Kacchan. We're gonna have to hide that from U.A.