My Hero Academia Imagines

{Soulmate AU} Timer (Dabi)

Dabi:

00:00:00:00:05:03

One for seconds. One for minutes. One for hours. One for days. One for months. One for years.

And the countdown timer on your wrist was quickly narrowing down to the last five minutes until you and your fated lover would meet. After so many years and sleepless nights alone and suffering, you only had a few more measly minutes until you could finally share your life with someone.

Another quick glance, a flutter of your heart, then turning back to watch where you were walking on the street. Anyone up in front of you or behind you or about to turn a corner could be your soulmate! Oh, it was so exciting to think about!

You eagerly waited for the crosswalk to change, stealing another look at the timer on your wrist. A large smile enveloping your face as you saw the numbers again, seeing that time was flying back so fast.

00:00:00:00:00:30

Thirty measly seconds! The red hand changed to a glowing man and you started walking forward, not noticing the man crossing in front of you. His cerulean eyes looked up, seeing you absentmindedly smiling to yourself and looking at your wrist.

He smirked, seeing this as a perfect opportunity to do what he came out in public to do in the first place. With this girl not paying attention to her surrounding, he quickly grabbed a hold of her purse, tugging enough to snag it from her arm.

However, something unexpected happened the moment he glanced up to make sure the girl wasn't going to fight back. His eyes glanced at her for a moment, her own eyes rising in shock that this guy was attempting to steal from her in broad daylight.

Then a soft ping.

00:00:00:00:00:00

Dabi blinked, stealing a glance at that pesky soulmate timer. He had long forgotten about it since he took up this new identity, the clock being long forgotten and covered away under his own clothes. Yet... was that the sound of his timer running out.

"You!" The girl shouted, shoving his hand off of her purse and then tugging him to an alleyway near where they had just met.

Dabi rolled his eyes, seeing that he might as well get this over with and let the girl know he had no interest in her or the soulmate system. He was much too preoccupied with the League to truly take on or worry, let alone care about a soulmate.

He pressed his back against the brick wall, watching aloofly as the girl he had just attempted to rob glanced at him, knowing she must be gathering her own opinion of him. He sighed, poking her away and glaring down at her.

"What do you want, little girl?"

"You tried to steal from me... didn't you. And also! I'm twenty!"

"You're still shorter than me, so you're a little girl."

You narrowed your eyes and he laughed. "What? Expecting an apology too?"

"Well we're soulmates, you might as well apologize."

Dabi snickered, tossing a hand to the side and shrugging. You puffed at your cheeks towards this jerk who someone happened to be your fated lover and other half. Your mind was already coming up with all sorts of words to describe this guy... and none of them were pretty.

"I have no interest in a soulmate. But if you're so into them, I won't take any of your money. That's my gift to you, soulmate."

He turned, starting to walk away. Your eye twitched and you lifted a hand forward. No way was he going to be such an asshole to you and then walk off like none of this meant anything.

The two of you were soulmates and were going to talk this through, no matter what. And no matter if he wanted to or not.

Dabi collided with something in front of him, his face recoiling in pain and his voice sneering loudly as he turned to look at the girl behind him,

Your arm was softly illuminated and you held a smirk on your face. You pressed your free hand on your hip and flashed the scarred man a wink. His eyes narrowed and he came forward, only to ram into another invisible wall when he attempted to grab you.

"The hell is this?!"

"It's my quirk." You smiled. "Invisible trap."

"You're going to have to let me go eventually. And if you refuse, I'll force you. I'm not someone you want to mess with, little girl."

"As scary as you look. My walls are quite hard to break, so until you and I talk about some things, I have no issue keeping you trapped inside this cage like a little rat."

Dabi's eyes narrowed, but his chest pounded slightly. He had assumed you would be some easy pushover, easy to break regular civilian. But as he stood there, trapped by your quirk and watching as you forced him into your demands... he couldn't help but feel his interest in you grow.

Things were getting interesting now, so he might as well stick around for a little bit longer.