No way this was real. It couldn't be. Could it? No... Maybe? Dabi stumbled backwards, "Wait... This can't... How did you-."
"We didn't know when the right time to see you would be." Fuyumi spoke.
"So we decided now would be better than never."
Dabi put up a front and scoffed, "You should have never came to see me. There's no point. Now go." He didn't want anybody near him. He was still so confused. He didn't know who he was. Who he wanted to be. Now having his siblings here made things even worse. He didn't even know how else to communicate with them. Dabi had no idea how to act like Touya anymore, and he wasn't even completely sure if he wanted to.
Natsuo slowly walked over to him, "We just want to help you, Touya."
Before he realized what was going on, Dabi had already captured his younger brother by the collar, his hands releasing steam instead of fire when he tugged him closer. "Do you think I need your help? Do I look miserable and scared to you?" His eyes darkened as his voice dropped into a growl. Natsuo's body began to slightly shake, "Are you afraid of me, little brother?"
"Stop this." Shouto demanded as his sister held him back.
Natsuo gulped, then straightened up his posture and furrowed his white brows. "Like hell I am." He tightened his hand around Dabi's wrist and pulled him off his shirt. "What I want is my brother back. When I say that, I don't mean the sickly little boy. What I mean, is the man standing in front of me who wasn't afraid to stand up to our piece of garbage father. The man that fought too hard for too long to grow up to be as strong as he is. I want the man that was able to fight off death and recover from a freaking hole in his chest! That's my brother! That's you, Touya! Not some villain that hides behind a fake persona, my brother is you."
For a brief moment the room was filled with silence. For a second you could even hear the ticking sound from the clock hanging on the wall. Everybody knew that there was good in Touya's heart. But the only thing that had to be done was for him to accept it. In his mind, his heart was a burnt, shriveled up piece of flesh that pumped cold blood through his veins.
"You don't know me."
"Neither do you." Fuyumi finally intervened. "There is good in your heart. Because if there wasn't then you would have never let Shouto live that night."
"I changed my mind." Flames engulfed his hands, "And I can change it again if I wanted to."
"That's all we needed to hear." A voice echoed from a purple portal. Everybody looked on in horror as The League of Villain's walked through Kurogiri's warp gate. Shigaraki placed a hand, with one finger up, on Dabi's shoulder. "We were just waiting for you to get healthy again so you could re join us." He smiled sinisterly. "C'mon Patchwork. Let's go."
"Handy Mans got big plans for us, Dabi!" Toga cheered, "Its going to be great and it's all thanks to you!"
"Hell yeah! I missed you so much Dabi! I was worried sick! Drop dead jerky face!"
Twice greeted excitedly. "Hey, who's the squad?"
Dabi looked over at the league then back at his family. "They're nobody." He discreetly put the picture he was holding in his back pocket. "Let's go. I hate hospitals."
"Don't do this, Touya!" Natsuo warned.
Shouto stood beside his brother, "This is your second chance. Are you seriously going to waste it like this?"
Fuyumi had tears in her eyes, "We're your family. Does that mean nothing to you?" Her voice cracked. "All these years we thought you were dead. And now that we finally have you back you want to run away! Run away with these vile thugs!?"
"Whoa hey, back off sister!" Twice stepped up to the smaller woman, "Dabi may not be blood but he's our family too y'know."
"Yeah, sure Handy-Man tried killing him and I when we first met but since then we've all taken care of each other. You guys have caused him more pain than some "vile thugs" ever could. Isn't that right, Dabi?" Toga crossed her arms confidently with a huge smile on her face. She looked up at him when he didn't answer. His expression. It was unlike anything she's ever seen. Dabi always had a laid back, uncaring look on his face, but this time, she could tell by the look in his eyes that something wasn't sitting right with him. "Hey?" She tugged his arm, "You okay?" She asked, "You still want to come with us right?"
Dabi moved Shigaraki's hand off of him. "For years I've let others influence what I did in my life. Now everybody is acting like they know what's best for me." His teeth gritted against each other as his fists clenched tightly. "I'm sick of it."
"Touya-"
"Dabi-"
Both sides of his family reached out to him. "Shut up! Just please, be quiet!." His hands gripped at his head. "All I hear is voices! They're all just screaming at me! It's making me go insane!" He crouched down in pain. His heart was racing, stomach twisting. Tears began to drip from his eyes. "They all want me to do what they want! Like I'm some sort of slave! A damn puppet! Just leave me alone! Everybody just get away from me!" He screamed uncontrollably.
"Hey I think he's gonna split in half!" Twice warned, comparing Dabi's anxiety attack to his own splitting personality disorder.
A gust of blue fire whirled around a screaming Dabi. A tornado of death grew large, blowing out the windows and setting off fire alarms. Shouto tried restraining him with his ice but it quickly melted when it came close to the flames.
"Kurogiri! Get us the hell out of here!" Shigaraki shouted.
"We aren't leaving without Dabi!" Twice threw caution to the wind and attempted to grab his friend until Toga pulled him back.
"Stop you'll get burned!"
"Don't you touch him!" Shouto dove into the flames. Screaming surrounded everyone as everything faded into black.
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Heavy gasps and choking surrounded the group. The hot smoke made it almost impossible to breath.
"What the hell..." Shigaraki grunted as he pushed himself up off the floor. "That exit couldn't have been worse."
"Awwww, my outfit is burned." Toga whined, sticking her bottom lip out to form a pout.
"That sucked, man." Twice rubbed his head, "Again! Again!"
Shigaraki brushed the hair out of his face and gasped, "Kurogiri you idiot, what are they doing here?!" He screamed, pointing at Shouto, Fuyumi, and Natsuo who were laid out on the floor of their hideout.
"Everyone went through my warp gate. It wasn't my fault."
"Doesn't matter if they're here or not. Dabi belongs to us. And there's nothing these brats can do to take him back." Tomura grinned manically, facing his palms up, "Dabi said he'd kill his brother, that means we can carry that out for him, along with the rest of his family."
"We're not scared of you, Shigaraki." Shouto exclaimed, wielding ice and fire in each hand, "I will fight for my brothers freedom if it kills me."
"Freedom?" Toga whipped her knives out, "Dont make me laugh, cutie boy. Dabi chose to come with us."
"You're all the reason why he had a panic attack!" Natsuo shouted.
"Take that back, frosty!" Twice screamed back.
"Will you all shut up!" Fuyumi forced her way in between each group, "He's gone... Touya's gone again."
The League and Todoroki's looked around. She was right. He had just vanished into thin air.
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Dabi found himself in one of the other LoV bases. He scanned the room and realized that he was the only one there. He was confused for a moment until he started to make sense of things. "Smokey did this on purpose. But why?" He stood up and heard something hit the floor. It was the picture. Dabi picked it up, looking at the number on the back. With a sigh, he put it back in his back pocket. "We always did say Kurogiri was the mother of the group."
He understood what he needed to do now. After showering and finding some new clothes, Dabi looked at himself in the mirror. He didn't know who was staring back at him. Was it Touya? Was it Dabi? All he knew was that his nerves were eating away at him. This wasn't a feeling he's felt in a long time. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes in attempt to calm himself down. Dabi never cared too much about his appearance since he got used to it, but he kept finding himself staring in the slightly broken mirror over and over again.
With a scoff he opened the door to Toga's room. The overwhelming amounts of pink made him want to gag. On her dresser was a brush that had bunny ears on it. He winced before using it to brush his hair more to his liking. After doing that he looked through the small glass bottles she had scattered in a basket. There was a small vile that had red liquid in it with something written across it. Curious, he picked the bottle up and examined it. The tape on the side read 'Deku's Blood <3'. "Ugh!" He dropped it back into place and wiped his hands on his black jeans, "What a creep." After searching a little longer he found some cologne, "She really gets into her disguises." Lucky for him, that was exactly what he was looking for. Once he sprayed himself, he put everything back where it was supposed to be and shut the door. If Toga found out that he was snooping in her room, she'd probably see that as an opportunity to try and get him to have a spa day with her again. "Gross."
In one of the drawers in the kitchen, were a bunch of burner phones. His hands shook as he picked one up and dialed a number. With each ring his heart pounded harder and harder. Finally someone answered, "Yeah I'd like to schedule a visit." ... "Her names Rei Todoroki." ... "This is her son."