A Spy Among Them (ShinsoxBakugoxDabixAizawaxReader and more..)

Ch. 52 For real, where's my underwear?

The connecting room was an office. Dabi had closed the curtains and was rifling through the desk drawers when I walked in.

"You know," I started to say, "I could help you look if I knew why we were here and what the point was to all of this."

Dabi stopped and took a few books off the shelves. I knew he was trying to find something, and he seemed to be growing more and more frustrated the longer we were here.

"This is the weirdest house."

"Hm?" Dabi absentmindedly hummed, still scanning the bookshelves.

"Do people actually live here?"

"A minute ago you were worried about someone walking in, now you think no one lives here."

"I don't know what to think since you won't tell me anything."

"All right. Fine. See these?" he asked, holding up a couple thickly bound books. A small fire came from his hand and they turned to ash. "And these?" More books, another fire, and they were ash on the floor as well. "Photo albums. Precious memories. Now dust." He took another, and another, until several shelves were emptied. Noting the anger in his eyes, I didn't move from where I was.

"Damn," I said, a little taken back, when it seemed that he was finished. "That's cold. Why destroy those?"

"To make a point. Let's go." Dabi stuffed some papers into his bag and quickly walked back the way we came.

Hurrying to follow him, I ran up the stairs to the room we had first entered. We were about to go back out the balcony when he suddenly turned around, picked up the vase with the flowers and threw them on the floor, shattering the vase and sending purple flower petals all over the floor.

"Fuck those flowers," he muttered before heading back onto the balcony.

Dabi called Kurogiri to bring us back, and soon we were standing in Dabi's room once again.

It seemed like he had accomplished something, but he was still so angry. No celebration for completing a mission, just frustration and anger.

I knew it wasn't the right time to ask, but I needed an answer on a very important question.

"Dabi, where's my underwear?"

"Hm?"

"Dabi."

He turned to me and smiled. "Oh yeah. That. I left it on that bed."

"You did what?" I asked, feeling my own face start to heat up in anger. "Now some stranger is going to find a pair of underwear and know someone was in their house. And be totally grossed out."

Dabi didn't look disturbed. In fact, now he looked proud of himself, a smug smile on his lips. "The first part yes, the second part no."

"What do you mean?"

"Kid," he said condescendingly as he walked over to sit next to me. "Doll. My sexy little health insurance policy..."

"You make that sound so sexy," I said rolling my eyes. 

"You are not the brightest bulb, are you?" he asked, stroking my hair.

"As if you're some genius," I scoffed, pulling away.

"You honestly didn't know where we were today?" I shook my head. "Damn. He really did keep you on a leash."

With his hand, he turned my face to look at him, and slowly cupped both of my cheeks in his hands.

"Today was one small part of my plan. A plan you have quite the role in now."

Plans. Yes! That's why I was here in the first place. I needed him to spill it.

"Burning family photos is part of your plan? Scattering girls' underwear? Please, tell me more about this plan. If I'm being honest, it doesn't sound very villainous at all."

His hands pressed harder against my face, obviously trying to decide how angry he should be.

So I kept going. "Oh are you mad? Did I hit a nerve? Maybe if I knew more about the plan, I might think it didn't sound so stupid and petty."

With a forceful shove, he threw me back against the bed. But I wasn't done.

"If you were really a villain, that would have hurt more."

I heard a growl forming in his throat. Tiny blue sparks appeared in each of his palms.

Shit. Maybe I took this too far.

He slowly crawled up my body, tapping my legs with the sparks, each one sharply searing my skin. Dabi looked like a predator about to devour his prey.

Yeah. Too far. Definitely too far.

"I'll let you in on my plan, little girl," he said once he was finally eye to eye with me, his blue eyes sparkling and dangerous. 

"I am going to completely destroy my father."

His father...

It was the eyes.

How had I not connected the dots earlier?

I pulled back and stared at him, my own eyes wide, but not from fear anymore.

It all made so much sense now. The burns... Hawks... the blue flames... the recent attacks... those eyes.

Holy shit.

"Dabi... is your father... Endeavor?"