Tomura Shigaraki x male reader

22.

The Void continued to rush around the room. You'd given up all attempts to talk to him and now you were just sitting and waiting for him to calm down. It was starting to get on your nerves.

"Look, maybe I'll go" The Void stopped in the upper left corner of its room and abruptly rushed at you. You reflexively waved your hands in front of you, dissecting it's body, if there was a physical shell at all.

A whole bouquet began to sprout from the wounds. The Aloe flower as a sign of grief was intertwined with sorrow in the form of a purple hyacinth. The bush was entwined with thin stems of columbine - anxiety. The dark shell trembled from the weight of the flowers and collapsed into dead petals on the floor, leaving only a stooped figure in front of you. Now it was definitely Tomura.

He was trembling slightly and looking somewhere through you. His hair was disheveled, and his face expressed fright. The fright in front of himself, your actions hadn't affect him.

"Ten- Tomura?" You came closer and touched his shoulder. Shigaraki twitched but did not recoil. "I'm sorry."

"It's nothing" His voice sounded ragged. His downtrodden look made your chest tighten.

You looked around for distraction and reassurance. And found it. The distraction was the environment. "Hey, let's clean up your room. We'll calm down a little and get it together." Tomura looked around his room with the same frightened look and agreed.

Shigaraki was making up the demolished bed while you were picking up things, that had fallen off the shelves, from the floor. You came across several comics, discs with games, figures of characters from the same games. When you put everything in its place, you suddenly noticed that there was one missing figure under the table. It was a figure of the All Might. "Didn't know you had one."

"I don't. Sensei threw it away when he took me in. It exists only here, in a room created by my subconscious." You looked at the figure from all sides. Not a scratch. The rest were worn, slightly dilapidated from time. "I thought you hated All Might."

"I did and I still do. But I just can't help admiring him. He was my idol. It's quite difficult for me to forget what was once important to me."

You put the figurine on the shelf and spent a few seconds in silence. You turned to Tomura and asked. "Would it be easy for you to forget me?"

"What do you mean?"

"You know what I mean."

"We've had this conversation before." Tomura straightened up but still didn't look at you.

"Yes, we did. And we'd made a promise that you broke."

"I was protecting you."

"You've only made everything worse."

He turned his head sharply towards you, and his eyes were full of regret and guilt. You continued. "You should have told me everything. You disappear for months, then I find out that you've been in the basement of some hospital all this fucking time, then you start coming in my dreams-"

"You're the one who's coming. These are my dreams."

"Shut up! I can't even help you in any way. And I never could!" You were screaming, tears streaming down your face. You were terribly angry at him for his fucking protection and at yourself for being powerless.

Tomura took a step forward. "Why are you crying?"

"Because I care about you!" That's it. You finally said it. "More than a friend."

Tomura stiffened. "You what?"