Marionette and the Blue Demon (Rewritten)

Chapter 35 Fire

-Airmid-

-1 month later -

As much as I didn't want to face the group. It was time, too. Dabi kept us hidden for about a month to let things cool down. We never left the apparment unless we had to. But it was time to face the music, with the LOV. I I wore my jean shorts and my halter top that I normally wore and Dabi with his iconic leather jacket.

I pulled my hair up in a tight ponytail but kept my bangs out to keep my face hidden from on lookers. We both stood at the door waiting, debating, fighting ourselves to step a foot in.

I was the one who broke first and placed my hand on the door handle. Dabi quickly pulled my hand away and glared at me. "I'll go in first in case someone wants to act a fool." I could feel his normal aloof look was more than it let on. He was worried for me. He was worried that either I would break under the pressure, or maybe someone would actually hurt me.

I ended up softly nodding under his gaze and removed my hand from the door knob. With a click, the door opened.

What was only a mere few seconds felt like a few millennia. My heart pounded in my ear as eyes slowly moved over to us. None of the pair seemed hostile until the red pair finally landed on me.

Shigarki's face scrunched up before turning into a glare. "Well, look who crawled out of the crawl space." His words were nothing but an empty threat. "The fucking hero who was on TV and then set the forest on fire."

He jumped from the bar stood with a slouched back. His eyes glued on to me. I could feel goosebumps start to form from the tension growing in the air.

The one thing I didn't want to start was a fight with the leader of this, or at least not become an enemy. I just wanted a place to belong. How this was going was I was gonna be turned in.

I could feel my chest pound as the slouched man creeped forwarded. I could feel my knees wanting to give out to make myself small. I wanted to scream sorry, like I normally did when people started yelling at me.

But I couldn't. I couldn't even speak, my mouth slightly opened and gaping. "Tomura Shigarki." I could her Keroguri trying to grab his attention. But nothing stopped the man from his prey.

Dabi tried to push in front of me. But I couldn't hide from him. I couldn't sit there and hide behind people anymore.

"I...I" finally words finally poured out. "Look, I am sorry. I had never done this type of stuff before." I shifted my weight, trying to be closer to Dabi. "Being the only person that store made it difficult for me..." Before I could finish, his hand moved over and gently wrapped his gloved fingers through my ponytail. His red beady eyes are looking over me.

I could feel everyone was growing on edge. They all grew worried over what he was going to do. I kept my eyes down, only looking through my lashes at him.

I was falling into old habits of trying to become small. I could feel heat growing from Dabi.

"Look, hero, that's all you're good at is being a hero and nothing more. You'll never change." His words were jabs at me. But I can be more than just a hero. I can be both. I can play the part he wanted and still help others.

I batted his hand away and locked eyes with him. "I might be more help as a healer than you. After all, I'm the cleric. Remember? I didn't mulit class into a Rouge. Hell, I might as rolled a nat one while doing into this." His eyes showed a little spark. He slowly grew a smirk and dropped the ponytail.