What Could've Been (Villain Deku Au) (discontinued)

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The trio wandered, well Dabi and Izuku wandered into the fourth clothes store in three hours and Toga hopped and skipped ahead of them.

Needless to say the two boys were exhausted, the younger one was tired but still enthusiastic wears the older was fed up and annoyed.

"Hey Deku, you should totally pick out a new outfit! Come on I'll help you!" She tugs at his wrist pulling him over to the men's section, Izuku glanced over at Dabi giving him a sympathetic look, he just glares and walks off the other way.

I'm determining to talk to him about what I saw with Toga before we left at some point today he whispers to himself.

"Okay so I think this'll look good, what do you think?" She squeals picking up some white overalls, a blue space t shirt and some random non branded shoes.

"Uh, It's a little bit childish isn't it?" He says nervously not really wanting to make her angry. He isn't used to having friends yet.

"Hm, oh wait! I forgot to ask how old are you Deku?" She smiles putting the clothes back on the appropriate racks.

"Fifteen" he replies.

"Same! Okay then what about something like this?" She holds up a dark red button up shirt, a black waiter best and some black dress pants.

He takes the hanger from her hands and holds it up against his body "I'm just going to try it on, I'll be right back" he walks into the changing rooms locking the door behind him.

Izuku leaves both Dabi and Toga in an awkward silence neither of them feel like breaking, usually Toga has no sense of boundaries or personal space but even she can feel this one.

"You should get something new too" she breaks the silence looking down blushing madly.

"How about no" he scoffs also looking away from her doing his best not to make eye contact.

Not a moment after Izuku comes out of the stall in the new clothing, and it suited him perfectly.

"You look so cute!" She squeals running over to him.

"Thanks-" he begins but is interuppted  by Toga shoving her hands into his hair and messing it up, not that he really spends hours doing it anyway.

"There now I think you just need one more thing" she scrunches her face up, thinking about what else he needs.

"I got it! How opposed are you to piercings?" She smiles evilly. Izuku looks taken aback but then smiles.

"Not opposed at all" his smile grows into a smirk, he's never really thought much about body modifications like tattoos or piercings but supprisingly he doesn't hate the idea.

"Great! Let's pay for these then head over to the piercing parlour!" She says pushing him back into the changing room.

"I guess the boy really is one of us now isn't he" Dabi states quietly smirking finally accepting that Izuku has joined the organization.

"Yup!" Toga bounced exited to finally have a new face around.

Once Izuku had exited the changing room the group of three paid for the clothes both Toga and Izuku had gotten and exited the clothing store.

They wandered over to the piercing parlour where they were all greeted and asked to take a seat while they were registered.

"What do you want pierced Deku?" She asked excitedly curious to know.

"I think I'll get very small gauges, the top of my right ear and a single lip ring" he decided finally after a few minutes of consideration.

"Ooh good choice!" She grinned. Izuku nodded also getting as much of an approval as he can from the eldest of the three.

They waited for about ten minutes before he was finally called.

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"Wow if that were me I would have been in so much pain" Toga said in awe as they walked to the cafe to get coffee before we leave.

"I was in pain but I actually didn't mind it" he breathed looking up at the clouds.

"What do you mean?" Dabi asked finally joining in one of thier many conversations, Izuku looked over at him then back up.

"I'm not really sure, I guess it just made me feel something. Almost as if the pain was reminding me that I'm still alive and I'm not completely numb to emotion yet" he sighed knowing how ridiculous he probably sounded.

Dabi didn't reply but instead just nodded in understanding, choosing not to force Izuku to elaborate.

"Well I'm going to get the drinks I'll be back in a few" Toga walked over to the counter whilst the two boys sit down at a table for four, even though there are only three of them.

Now's my chance to talk to Dabi about what happened before he thinks to himself.

Without thinking Izuku blurts "Do you happen to like Toga by any chance?"

As soon as he hears those words his face burns into a deep shade of red and little blue sparks start to become visible.

"N- oh what the hell. Maybe I do but whats it to you?" He says defensively not even trying to cover it up.

"Nothing man just curious" Izuku help up his hands.

"What about you, there must be someone that you like?" He scoffs trying to find some way to change the conversation.

"Not really..." he trails off as he spots the same beautiful boy as before entering the coffee shop. Izuku's heart starts hammering in his chest and he becomes noticeably nervous.

Dabi smirks "so there is, they're here aren't they?" Izuku looks down to his lap not answering him.

"Izuku?" A voice asks walking up to the table. The smaller boy freezes up and starts to sweat nervously.

"H-hi Shoto" he stutters making an effort to look up at the other and smile.

"I was wondering if I could get your number? Not to be weird but you seem cool and we don't have any other way of communicating" he smiles messing around with his soft two-toned hair.

"S-sure" he blushes hard pulling his number up on his phone and calling it out to Shoto.

"Thanks I'll text you later okay?" He asks shoving his phone back into his back pocket and re adjusting his light grey jacket.

Izuku nods and they say their goodbyes.

"So you've got a crush on my little brother?" Dabi grins at the now flustered and surprised Deku.