Little Stars

Chapter 21

He was cowering away from the man, afraid of what he was about to do, ( I will make you taste something worse than pain – the man had said ) Touya was so afraid and he didn't know what happened to Keigo after Asahi ordered him to be at his side, everything was blurry after that and now he was cowering from the man in front of him. 

He tensed, even more, when the other person entered the room (after crumbling the door) , both he and Agawa were looking at each other and Touya felt grateful for a moment that the attention wasn't on him. Was he one of the villains? But by looking at Agawa, Touya suspected that both of them were on good terms. Maybe he was a hero and the hope flared inside of Touya because it means DadZawa found them. But it was a forlorn hope as the man smirked and Touya felt something pulling him, then –

Black was everywhere, clawing at him. It flooded his lungs, ridding them of air. Breathe. He couldn’t breathe. Consuming, devouring black overtook everything. 

Touya closed his eyes as he felt the panic surge through him and he felt himself on the verge of having a panic attack.

Was he going to die? 

Suddenly, everything stopped ; the dizzying and the crawling sensation all over his body, the air that was rushing through his bones. His eyes shot open, gasping for air, his mouth was dry, throat felt like he swallowed glass. 

Everything hurt.

He could feel the tears pricking his eyes, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry — he kept repeating, he was fucking fifteen for God's sake! But everything he had gone through was too much for him.

He could see three persons through his blurred vision; a teenage girl with blonde hair, a man wearing a grey mask with white eye sockets covering the upper part of his face while the lower half covering his mouth was black and another man had dark purple mist as a face, but his eyes were glowing yellow. The mist man was so familiar to Touya, he remembered seeing this face before.

"I could make you like him." Touya looked through his blurred vision at where the doctor was pointing at — a purple mist was all he could see. "I made his body stronger, more alive." The doctor continued, but Touya didn't hear what else he was saying, his eyes were closing until he surrendered himself to unconsciousness.

Sometimes he saw the mist man in the tank and sometimes he saw the tank empty.

Even though his mind was foggy and dazed the whole time, he was sure he could recognize the mist man easily.

"DABIIIIIII!" He flinched violently when he felt someone's hands touching him, Touya squeezed his eyes shut, expecting this girl to do something to him, but the girl simply pulled him into a tight hug.

He didn't want to be here, he didn't want to go back to the doctor.

"Ms. Toga, you are overwhelming him." One of the men said calmly and Touya didn't know who, he continued to close his eyes, not wanting to see any of them.

Please, don't take me back to him — he wanted to plead not to get back to the doctor. He was sure these people were working for the doctor. 

"But, Kurogiri." The girl whined, pulling away from the hug. "I missed him." She sounded like on the verge of crying.

"Woah, is he fucking crying? Really?" Said an angry voice. "Please, don't cry, Dabi. You are here with us." The same voice continued, but he wasn't angry anymore.

"Huh Crying? I have never seen Dabi crying before." The girl said and Touya felt her invading his personal space again.

He wasn't fucking Dabi .