Burn me then you turn me (On Hold)

Chapter 16

Obsessed.

<Dabi's POV>

You know that saying 'The silence is so loud'? Yeah, well it's bullshit. The silence is shit. The silence is literally silent, awkward and quiet.
Kirishima and I have been sitting in silence for many minutes now as he works the dye through my hair. Occaisonally he will hum to himself or start up some small chatter but it's been silent for a while. It takes a couple more minutes of silence until the red headed boy wraps my hair up in some plastc wrap and then sits down infront of me with a grin.

"so."
"So?" I say confused looking at the boy who is grinning ear to ear and rocking slightly.
"So, Why don't you just use permanent hair dye if you dont want to show our natural hair?" He finally asks. Sighing I just give him the same automatic answer I gave Eraser Head;
"My hair is to fragile to use permanent hair dye because of my quirk" It's now his turn to look at me confused.
"But why? How does your quirk effect your hair?" I contemplate on my answering for a minute or so just deciding what I tell the kid and what I don't before giving a decisive hum.
"I had an incident when I was younger that led to me burning basically all the hair off my scalp and melted the skin off my body" I say carefully and gesture to my facial scars while looking at the boy, watching as his smile falls before I continue.
"When my hair eventually grew back it was extremely brittle and would constantly fall out or break. It took years for it to get where it is today but it's still to fragile for something as strong as permanent dye"

The boy sits there for a minute in thought before nodding with a look of understanding.
"That makes sense, sometimes people dont talk about the backlash of some quirks enough," He smiles at me somewhat hesitantly "It should be taught more to kids when they're young. I get how much it sucks about your quirk man but hey at least you're alive and getting healthier" I let what kirishima said sink in for a moment then stare at him in question,
"How would you get anything about defective quirks?" He without a doubt senses my disbelief as he gives me an unsure grin and scratches his head nervously.
"The first time my quirk menefested as a kid it was while I was scratching my eye," he states as he points to the scar going from ontop of his eyebrow to below his eye "My quirk had sliced across my eye and I was rushed to the hospital by my parents" Kirishima states with a laugh.
"The doctors weren't sure if I was going to end up blind in that eye or not but it all ended up ok, sometimes it gets a little blurry but it's mostly fine. For years later my quirk wouldn't activate properly, I could never harden my entire body at once and It was never in use for a long period of time"

I sit there quietly listening to the boy tell his stories from his childhood waiting for him to finish. When he finally does I ask one simple question.

"Does your quirk still cause trouble? Or does it eventualy go away if you try hard enough" Before he even answers I already know, I've spent years hoping for a cure and even longer realising there isn't one so I dont even know why I bothered asking the foolish question. Kirishima however just looks in thought for a few seconds before giving me a small smile.
"Something like that doesn't really go away completely. Over the years I learnt to control and adapt to my qurk more and eventually strengthen it, However I do still have occasional trouble with it. Sometimes my quirk will activate while I'm asleep or if I'm not fully prepared to use my quirk it will injure me but trust me it gets easier to manage with the proper training"

I look at him slightly surprised by the answer I recieved. My entire life I have been told that defective quirks were a lost cause beyond hope or repair. So far I havent found anything to contradict those statements either yet here I am, sitting face-to-face with a boy not so much younger than me and hes telling me that there is hope. I feel lied to, whether it's by him or everyone else in my life I'm not particuary sure but either way I feel like my life has been a lie. My very existance was a lie. Touya's suffering could have been avoided if Endevour just cared. Touya's death could have been delayed if Endevour cared enough to train him to work WITH his defectve quirk not against it. Touya's pain, Touya's suffering, Touya's cries, Touya's abandonment.