#thedarkonewrites

When Kisame thinks about Itachi, because no one ever ask and so there is no reason to lie, he does not know where to begin. Itachi was, Itachi. A young mass murder and quite possibly the only friend Kisame has ever had.

No one asks about Itachi. Not his brother, not their leader, not snake man. No one. It leaves Kisame feeling, lonely. It makes him feel small and alone in the world after his death. Like a shark in the ocean, with no food, no friends and just empty blue surrounding him.

Ninja Die. They are Shinobi. Dieing for each other against each other. itachi would have called it murder.

but Sasuke Uchiha did not Murder Itachi Uchiha. That - what happened was not murder. Nor was it a sibling fight. Sasuke did not murder Itachi, because you cannot murder someone who does not want to live.

Kisame has never been one who would npt think about the hard questions in his life. who gives the orders and weather or not he should obey them.

Itachi was the smartest man he ever knew. They were both stupid fools. From the moment their lips touched. Or maybe from the moment Kisame confessed he couldn't see himself with any other partner.

Itachi looking at him with horrified eyes. The whispered confession that Kisame was a distraction. that Itachi was going to die. In mere months. The invitation to watch him death. Kisame's resolute acceptance.

Who is Kisame to tell another Shinobi how to end their life? It's not like he had any grandeur plans like Itachi. Had he looked that young and lost when he left Hakugure? as young as Itachi looked pacing around the empty space waiting for Sasuke.

Kisame cupped Itachi's cheek and gave him a full grin full of sharp teeth. Itachi looked blankly back at him. Maybe due to being blind. Maybe do to him not knowing what to say.

Kisame had taught him how to shave with the same vaguly threatening grin. A whole hearted laugh when Itachi asked if he was supposed to be alarmed as Kisame took a kunai to the scratchy patches of skin.

Itachi should have been scared. Kisame would have been. If A giant animal towered over him with a kunai pressed to his exposed jugular.

Itachi had just looked vaguely tired, and curious.

Kisame was not one to think about the great unknown. He had enough to deal with here. He had to pick up his partners dead body before Zetsu could get his grubby paws on it. He had to figure out his next move without the tiny spark of life standing unshakingly beside him.

Would have to enter fights without the Uchiha's tiny barely there laugh as their enemies ran scared as soon as he placed himself beside Itachi. No more reason to laugh as they watched small fry flee from the wrong threat.

Kisame may have loved Itachi, he might have just respected him.

Nobody asked him.

No one asked what the slim silent Uchiha was like.

No one asked if he had known Itachi was to be, killed? can you kill the willing?

Itachi left Kisame with a lot of questions, and for once, a unwillingness to tell them.

Itachi was a secret. His life a mystery. One lie on top of another with red eyes and small smiles. Overlayed with blank looks and a plan to die for someone who wanted to kill him.

@dadzawa-adopt-dabi

Alpha Hawks comes home and Dabi has built himself a nest, is in heat and he's so confused. because him and Dabi are not close like that. He tells Dabi he can stay however long he wants, until it passes. but Dabi thanks him for not coming into his nest and forces himself out of it. The nest he ended up building because he's in heat in a alpha hero's apartment and he needed someplace same and warm. His instincts had demanded it no matter what Dabi had told himself about how ruined it would be, how he would be lucky if he was dragged out of it before he was knotted. and goes to lay in Hawks bed, Hawks is still very confused but he follows and thinking Dabi want's a alpha close to him he opens up his arms for Dabi to cuddle into.

it clicks for Dabi that Hawks isn't, he's not expecting anything out of him for this. he still wants his nest but Hawks arms are open and just a small cuddle can't hurt, just so he smells like him.

Dabi knows his heat is coming in plenty of time. He's already asked Hawks if he can stay at the Heroes apartment, and gotten the shocked yes from Hawks.

To Keigo having someplace to nest while in heat for a week was something outside Heroes and Villains. A basic need that Keigo is surprised Dabi felt the need to ask for, as if Hawks would deny Dabi a safe nesting place. It's still difficult to believe, Keigo telling him these things Dabi can't quite believe. A few days ago Dabi started nesting. Omega suppressants wearing off for the first time in years. Keigo offered to stay in a hotel while Dabi used his Apartment.

It doesn't make sense to Dabi. They're already fucking, Dabi's more attached than he ever expected to get, with anyone let alone a Alpha and Hero. He's nesting in the goddamn number 2 Heroes apartment. Dabi doesn't want Hawks to leave him alone or he would have stayed with the League. Although past memories of heats aren't good he doesn't want the Alpha to leave during the one he's choosing to spend with him. The first one in years Dabi has gone through. The misery and distress in his family home, to the mess he became while homeless. Dabi went through one heat while on the street, never again. Even if he hadn't found Giran, or a reliable supply of suppressants, he would have done whatever it took to avoid that again.

"Dabi? I really just, this has to be difficult for enough for you. I don't want to make it worse just because you don't have anywhere else." Hawks face is flushed as he stands outside the closet.

The lack of suppressants have left Dabi feeling unfocused, overly vulnerable, and Dabi can't stop the whined distress from escaping his throat. He covers his mouth best he can to muffle the pathetic cry. He flaps his hand at Keigo to ignore it, Hawks can do what he wants. Because he's still not sure what he wants. If trusting Hawks during his heat won't come back to bite him in the ass later. Dabi wants Keigo, but he's scared at the same time.

"Hey, None of that Dabi. Just tell me. Did you want me to leave something here? More stuff from the league?" Hawks questions softly as he steps closer to the Omega. Carefully trying to tiptoe around what is making Dabi feel distressed.

Nests aren't supposed to be in a closet. That much even Hawks knows. He doesn't know much else, just that Omegas make them when they feel safe. Dabi, his omega hasn't felt safe in years. Possibly ever, Keigo doesn't know how to help him. Most of the time Hawks has known him, Dabi has been on suppressants. This heat is to take a break from them, before Dabi ends up going into heat in the middle of a battle or worse. With how long it's been since Dabi had a heat Dabi's body temperature could shoot too high too fast, his heart could fail under the stress.

So when Dabi had asked if he could spend a heat here, Keigo hadn't gotten his hope's up too high that Dabi wanted to spend it with him. Dabi was just looking for somewhere safe when he didn't have any other options like any other Omega would. One without a criminal record. With how Dabi was leaning towards him and the Omega's distress, Keigo should ask Dabi what was going on before he left.

"C'mon babe, look at me and just tell me. Can't help if I don't know." He stepped closer to the edge of the nest and then he was being pulled into it. He went willingly, surprised, but willingly.

"I want you to leave you with me you dumb fuck." Dabi spat out as he curled around Hawks and laid half on top of him. He wanted him, he really really did and it scared the living shit out of him. Giving himself away with shakes and whines even as Dabi burrowed into his Alpha. Safe, Dabi knew he was safe with Keigo. Until he wouldn't be. That was also a possibility Dabi didn't want to think about. Keigo wouldn't, Keigo wouldn't do that to him. Being with Keigo was nothing like being on his knees. Nothing like the bloody memories of Dabi's only heat on the street, still healing and half delirious in pain. Keigo wasn't anything like a old john or a sugar daddy either. He was just Keigo.

"Dabi. Your shaking." He stated bluntly. Dabi grit his teeth against another whine escaping. Dabi's scent glands were damaged to hell and back but what little scent he had probably reeked of distress. He wanted to be under Keigo, in heat and in a nest for once. Have it all and just have it feel good for once. Have Keigo every moment Dabi wanted, just for a week, to come out of Heat tired and sore and happy. Satisfied in the way a cat always seemed to be.

"Is this..." Keigo tried to figure out how to word the bone chilling expectations Dabi had of Keigo the first time the Villain wound up in Hawks apartment. Dabi curling up beside him as he tried to get paperwork done on the couch. Then Dabi had begged Hawks to just get 'it' over with so he could at least go to bed. How Dabi had thought the basic supply of food or shelter had been something he owed Hawks for. Dabi hadn't been in a situation where Dabi could afford to negotiate much or say no to the help.

"Is this, like when you first stayed here? And, you thought you owed me? Even though you weren't okay with it, you tried to fake like you were?" Hawks hates bringing up their past. He'd been stupid, hadn't considered about how Dabi might interrupt an arm across his shoulders or a casual scenting.

"No. I just, - " How does Dabi tell his Alpha that he knows Hawks won't hurt him, but that he's scared anyways, while still wanting to have sex? Heat sex none the less, where Dabi's never truly been mentally present for.

"I'm nervous. Haven't ... I haven't done it, like this before. I just, I want to try it with you and get." Dabi bit his lip, squeezed his eyes shut.

"I just want, what everybody else got to experience for once." Dabi admitted with a hoarse whisper. Just once. He wanted to be able to feel what everyone else got to feel during their cycle. Wanted it with Keigo, Wanted to not be so fucking scared.

"Okay, was just making sure." Hawks rubbed one Dabi's back, kissed the top of his head. Letting out a rumble to try and help sooth the Omega resting on him. Eventually Dabi did relax enough to join with his own stuttered purr, a sound so quiet and sputtering that Keigo had been shocked it came from Dabi the first time he heard it.

"I don't want you to leave. But if it's too much or you want us to wait-" Dabi was cut off by a soft kiss from his alpha.

"If I wasn't comfortable with you I would have left when you started nesting. Why is it in here by the way? You know you can-" Hawks cut himself off as he noticed the embarrassed look on Dabi's face and how Dabi was facing away from him.

"Its smaller than the rest of your place. Quiet." He mumbled out, embarrassed it wasn't on the bed or on a couch like Shigaraki or other Omega's did.

"Fine by me, just curious." He pulled Dabi back onto his arms with soft kisses. Dabi could also see the only entry and exit point from his nest in here. Keigo noticed, but let the issue lay. Dabi's purr started again as Hawks left little love bites on his healthy skin. Only way to get past anxiety this time was through it. Dabi couldn't wait to have something good like Keigo during his Heat.

Dabi's Heat hit a few days later. He's wakes up too hot and wanting Keigo's knot in him.

"Kei?" Dabi whines hoping Keigo has kept his promise to stay. Hawks has spent the past few days pampering the Omega. Dabi still feels anxious about this next part. He's also so turned on right now, loose and slick around his entrance. Dabi usually likes taking Hawks knot but the Omega hasn't even touched himself and he wants his Alpha inside him. Wants to feel the stretch and the pressure as it fills him.

"Dabi?" Keigo's eyes widen as the faint scent of Heat hits him as he enters his closet.

"Oh hot stuff, it's here isn't it?" He questions and kneels next to the nest, patiently waiting for Dabi's permission to enter it as his omega starts trembling. Small waves of scent flow off of him. Heat and Fear mixed with want.

"I. don't-, Keigo I'm leaking." Dabi let out with a embarrassed squeak as he buried himself into the nest. Dabi's cock bobs against the blankets underneath him and he lets out a high pitched whine.

"I -I don' t- t know what to do and just -, I'm scared." Dabi grit out with a small cry as he curled into a ball. Keigo swallowed hard and reminded himself that Dabi felt safe here, with him. It's why Dabi asked to use Hawks apartment and why he called Keigo in now.

"It's okay babe. what do you need me to do? do you want me to just stay besides you? to watch, or talk to you? tell you where to touch? If you want me to go, you can change your mind Dabi." Keigo sits as close to the nest as he can glancing at Dabi's hiding form. There's no movement except for his hand, balling up a section of the nest and releasing it.

"Are you overwhelmed?" Hawks questions softly as he places his hands on the edge of the nest, where Dabi can see them. Dabi cries out with a scared whimper as he stares at Keigo. It's obvious that he wants to invite Keigo in, that Dabi's asking his alpha to help.

Keigo's eyes soften as he clasps his hand tight to the nest so he doesn't reach to comfort Dabi. it would only harm more that it would help.

"Verbal response love, I know your struggling but I need a verbal okay to help you." Keigo's voice is as soothing as he can make it while he rumbles a purr.

Dabi blushes bright red but gives a tiny nod, relaxing minutely.

"Can,canyouwatchandtellmewhattodo" Dabi wheezes out all in one breath, blush spreading down under his low cut shirt.

"Such a good Omega for me." He immediately praised Dabi and gave a sharp grin when Dabi's hips bucked sharply. Dabi was weak to praise in general but most Omega's tended to get extremely turned on by being praised. Not all, but most.

"Take off your clothes for me Dabi, let's get a look at you. my pretty Omega." Keigo purred out while Dabi stripped himself with shaky hands. It forces him to unball, Keigo checks the visible staples for signs of strain or bleeding. Dabi waits anxiously for Keigo's next instruction's. His scars are not even a thought currently, all that occupies his mind is the want for Keigo. Dabi shifts when he feels Keigo's eyes on him, gasping a little as Dabi looks at Hawks gold eyes, pupils blown wide with want for Dabi.

The Omega lifts his hands, unsure where to touch first but his dick is twitching under all Hawks gaze. Dabi doesn't know weather he wants to get off quick or put on a show for Keigo or reach back and play with his achingly empty entrance.

"Kei" he whines out. he's tempted to roll over onto his side but then he wouldn't be able to see Keigo as well.

"Go ahead and touch yourself Dabi, put 2 of your fingers in, touch your cock. It's okay if you come, it happens just go slow." Keigo's eyes are bright and he bites his lip as Dabi obeys him again but Keigo's hands stay firmly locked on the edge of the nest. He's not coming in until Dabi asks him too.

Dabi tries to tease his entrance, wanting to tease Keigo but the moment he touches his sensitive rim he groans, shoving his fingers as deep as he can, arching his back with a moan. The stretch is barely felt, no pain, not like any of his other heats just pleasure. He starts moving them immediately, whining and gasping at how much more sensitive his hole is, every nerve working double time. His other hand trembles before Dabi grabs his twitching, leaking dick. Keening and distracted by how hot he feels, he hears a wheeze turn into a cough and glances up to see Keigo's hands white knuckling the edge of the nest and a look of pride paired with a genuine smile on his Alpha's face. that's what does it, seeing Keigo so proud of him and smiling at him like Dabi is worth something. Like Dabi's precious, has Dabi Cumming with a shout as his eyes lock with Keigo's. Dabi's hole squeezes around his fingers as slick squirts out of him with a lewd moan. Keigo points out where he put the towel when he grimaces at the mess and starts looking around for someplace to wipe his hands off at least.

"you moved it last night babe, its to your left and part of the edge now." Hawks guides with a small tease in his voice. Dabi snorts, boneless from the mind blowing orgasm as he slumps in the nest. He's already ramping up for another one, he can feel it and its expected for Dabi's heat to be intense after the on suppressants. Dabi rolls onto his back and tiredly hums before letting out a deep breath, he's never heard the noise himself. At the base Shigaraki always moved his nest and locked himself away during his heat. He didn't even know if it was true that Omega's could do it, or if Dabi's fucked over vocal cords and lack of Omega qualities had taken it away. Dabi tried a soft croon anyways, calling his Alpha into his nest without having to ask, his eyes pop open with delight when a low soft noise leaves his mouth. Dabi laughs in shock before repeating he croon.

Keigo trips as he stands up, mouth open in awe as Dabi lidded his eyes and crooned at him again. he stripped as he stepped in the nest and crawled until he was over Dabi and able to silence the beckoning pleas with kisses.

"Have you been practice-" Hawks gasps when they part for air. Moaning as Dabi props his leg up for Keigo's hard on to grind against.

"Fuck, good. Your doing so well. I'm so proud of you" Keigo bent his head down kissing Dabi's neck. The scent glands were mostly useless there and the scarring prevented hickey's but Dabi still appreciated it. Keigo loved to bite on his way down to the more sensitive skin on Dabi's chest.

"I just- was too anxious before but Keigo!" Dabi crooned again, reveling in the feeling and groaned as he felt the shiver roll through Keigo at the sound. His own dick was hard again and his entrance was clenching around nothing on nothing.

Keigo aligned himself and his Omega started shaking again. The thought of being stuck on Keigo's knot during a heat was as exciting as it was terrifying. Dabi knew it would be more intense, more pleasurable, but if he changed his mind, there was also less of a chance that Keigo would be able to pull out. or that Keigo would be able to stop with how wet Dabi was. Dabi squeezed his thighs together and Keigo paused, rolling over on his side so he wouldn't be blocking the doorway. Dabi stopped him with a hand on his shoulder before he settled.

"I do like this. You do make me feel safe and theirs something about having your weight on top of me that's right." Dabi clung to Keigo and pulled him back , burying his face in Hawks shoulder. He couldn't bring himself to stop shaking but Keigo rolled their hips together, grinding their cocks in a smooth slide against each other until it lessened. Listening to Hawks groan in his ear and feeling him shiver as he rocked back against Dabi gently.

"please." Dabi whined through a gasp as his dick kicked against Hawks.

"please what baby? you wanna get off again like this?" Keigo stroked the side of Dabi's cheek down to his neck, where the damaged scent gland was. Dabi keened highly and bucked his hips up harder.

"please, Keigo. Please knot me. I want it." Dabi's entrance was already giving tiny pulses in anticipation, milking the cock he desperately wanted in himself already. Keigo reached down and taking his cock he teased Dabi's soaking wet entrance, circling it before pressing the head in. Dabi tried sinking back onto Keigo's cock, trying to stuff himself with the thick length faster. Keigo pulled away, letting Dabi's walls try to keep his dick deep in his Omega, before pushing his cock back in to the hilt, Dabi's thighs twitching. Dabi was close to another orgasm already, the cock in him felt like it belonged there, his hole was practically dripping slick from how turned on he was and he could feel the band of Hawks knot. Not large enough to get stuck yet but enough to tease that it was there. Dabi's nails dug into Keigo's shoulders above his wings as Dabi's back arched sharply, Cumming again as Keigo's dick lodged his prostate, pressing right into the bundle of nerves and staying there for a moment. Keigo swore as Dabi's hole tried to milk him of his own orgasm.

"Fuck Keigo, Alpha move." Dabi locked his ankles behind Keigo as tears from overstimulation ran down his cheeks. "It feels good"

"Dabi, so good sweetheart. perfect Omega." Keigo spoke in Dabi's ear and nuzzled at his hair as Hawks pulled himself out to slowly sink back in. driving Dabi and himself wild as his knot swelled with each pass.

"Please. knot, want your knot." Dabi let himself fall fully back into the nest, exhausted. The Omega could barely think. His dick was even tired and fill more than half way.

"Feels so good like this." Dabi kissed Keigo again. Moaning every time Keigo pushed back in and ground into his prostate.

"Can I knot you?" Keigo checked as he rocked them together and reached his hand down to start stroking Dabi's dick. Dabi threw his head back letting out a wail as he shoved his hips back into Hawks again. He crooned at his Alpha, nodding and Keigo started moving faster. his knot swelling as Dabi crooned for him in between pleasure filled moans. Keigo snapped his hips harder as the knot started getting stuck outside Dabi's rim. "so proud of you baby, doing so well."

Dabi tilted his head for Keigo to bite on his scent glands, a bond invitation if Dabi was capable and Keigo started teasing him as he popped his knot in past Dabi's rim one last time and was unable to pull it out. Shallowly thrusting as Dabi tensed, trembling on the edge of another orgasm. Keigo's knot stopped swelling too and warm cum filled Dabi, Hawks biting down on the offered gland as he came. Dabi's mouth open with a soundless screech at the new sensation of being "marked" in heat and he came between them as Keigo stroked him through it. Keigo groaned as his dick released another spurt of cum into Dabi and was rewarded with the sweet scent of arousal increasing as Dabi started purring.

"Kei,Kei listen." he nudged Keigo, exhausted and excited as he pointed to his throat. He purred again, no hitching broken cracked unbalanced purr. just smooth happy omega. His eyes watered as he basked in Keigo's arms in a nest he built and spent a heat in. This bit of normalcy had been worth struggling to.

"Holy shit babe, my dicks magic." Keigo laughed as Dabi smacked him and joined in, snickering. "Are you enjoying your heat so far Dabi?"

It's not a big deal. He’s let the LoV do it already. He can ask Keigo if he wants to scent mark him.

The words won’t come out though and Dabi is staring at the ceiling as Keigo’s breaths even out and deepen.

Dammit this is what he had practiced with Shigaraki for. His thoughts drift back to earlier that day.

“I want to scent Keigo.”

Shigaraki paused his game and looked over at dabi on the other end of the couch.

“Okay? Are you asking me permission or warning me in case you come back smelling like him or?” Shigaraki questioned. It wasn’t like Dabi to volunteer information out of nowhere. Especially about his relationships. However Shig did have a habit of being extra possessive and jumping on any member that came through the door smelling like a stranger.

“Well I don't want you to tackle me if I come back smelling like bird boyfriend all over again, I also wanted to ask for advice on it?”

“I don’t usually ask, I just kinda shove my alpha over and make sure everyone knows who he belongs to. What exactly are you worried about?” Shigaraki scooted closer to Dabi on the couch, resisting the urge to pack scent on his wrists. Dabi didn’t always appreciate being scented. He wasn’t comforted by it like Shigaraki usually was.

"I'm worried I'm going to get claustrophobic and panic. What if I don't like it or he doesn't?"

“If he doesn't want you like that, then we are having fried chicken for supper this week,” Shuuichi spoke up from where he had been half eavesdropping on the conversation. He was half kidding, anyone who had met Keigo could see that he was wrapped around Dabi’s finger.

“You're going to have to talk to him about it, Dabi. If it's serious enough that you want to claim him, then it's best you make sure you're on the same page.” Kuroguri sounded like a wise adult as always.

“Fuck all of that, scent the fuck out of him and tell him he’s yours now” Shig commented casually. Shigaraki tended to scent mark everyone he could stand for more than ten minutes.

Kurogiri and Shigaraki telling him it’s natural to be a little possessive validates him enough to want to at least talk about it with Keigo. They’ve been a big help in navigating the part of himself he had suppressed for so long with illegal suppressants and scent blockers.

Sometimes he just needs to hear that his Father was wrong and they never fail to support him as he figures out what exactly being an omega means to him.

Things like scent marking other people first. Anyone can point out that Shigaraki is an omega too. He does whatever he wants but it doesn’t change the hesitance Dabi gets when it comes to these things. He’s never felt like he’s had to do these things before. He doesn't lead a pack like Shigaraki does, he’s also not nearly as aggressive as Shig is either.

It's okay to want Keigo to smell like him, he knows, or to want to smell like Keigo he restates to himself.

He’s still getting used to giving into the instincts that come with being an omega. He’s shoved them down with suppressants and willpower for so long that he doesn't always know what's normal. What’s pure distrust and trauma shining through.He hasn't seen a healthy example of normal omega or pack behavior so he’s making it up as he goes for the most part.

Just because instinct tells him to do something doesn't mean he has to or that he wants to. Sometimes the omega instincts are just strong because he’s blocked them out for so long.

Dabi tries to bring up what’s on his mind during dinner when he’s cooking and Keigo is pretending he knows how to chop a vegetable. He tries during dinner and later when they leave the dishes in the sink. The topic never gets brought up. He forgets in favor of more important things like Keigo’s mouth on his.

Now he’s staring at the ceiling awake while Keigo sleeps. All because he couldn’t just talk it out.

Keigo is not a deep sleeper, but all Dabi really needs to do is tuck his nose near Keigo's scent glands on his neck. Try and scent Keigo a tiny bit. See if this is going to be something he’s comfortable with before he tries to bring it up to Keigo again.

He turns until he's half laying on Keigo and waits a nerve racking moment to make sure Keigo doesn't wake up.

Then starts carefully nosing along Keigo’s jaw. Soon he's quietly purring. It just feels right to mark Keigo as his. He was probably thinking about it too much. Keigo smells like spice and something slightly sweet. It’s intoxicating and reminds Dabi of every time he’s ever felt instantly safe in Keigo’s arms.

He is so busy chasing the sweet smell that he doesn't notice when his purring gets louder. Loud enough to wake the Alpha underneath him up. He just lets himself purr and rub against Keigo. Intent on making Keigo smell like him.

He doesn't notice he’s woken Keigo up until he's flipped onto his back and Keigo is nipping at his neck. Rumbling in his alpha version of a purr, up above him, and starting to aggressively scent him back. It would be sweet in a way that Keigo was so on board with Dabi being his if Dabi wasn’t panicking. Keigo is heavy and his staples are being tugged at.

It’s too much, too sudden. He feels boxed in, not relaxed like he had been just a few minutes ago.

“Kei-Keigo you need to get off. I, I-I can’t breath like this,” panic bleeding into his voice. Dabi shoves at Keigo’s shoulders and hoped he was awake enough to register what he was saying.

“Fuck, I’m sorry, its okay babe. Breath,” Keigo softly swore as he moved off Dabi and watched him as his breathing slowed. He went to grab a glass of water and let Dabi collect himself but Dabi’s hand reached out and snagged his wrist.

“Wait Keigo, I still- if you want to-” He stuttered out and Keigo’s heart clenched. Just because he was a possessive ass who decided scent marking Dabi in the middle of the night was okay, didn't mean that Dabi had to accept it and sit through it. Keigo had caught feelings, he was doing his best to deal with those and his instincts telling him to mark Dabi as his.

“Dabi,I- just because- I’m sorry, I didn’t think about how you must have been sleeping and just started marking you back when your purring woke me up. I didn’t think and I boxed you in even though I know it makes you panic, you don’t have to just accept it, that’s not how scenting is supposed to work.” Keigo climbed back on his bed, sitting close to Dabi.

“I was awake, I-I  know I should have talked to you first, I just couldn’t get the words out.” Dabi moved his grip to Keigo’s hand and sat up.

“I still want you to scent me, I didn’t mean to freak out like that.”

“Hey, don’t apologize for that, it happens. Here, come back to laying on me, let's try it with you sitting on top of me,like you had been before” Keigo gave his boyfriend a kiss and laid back against his headboard. Grabbing Dabi’s other hand as he straddled his waist.

“Um, do I just- I feel stupid like this, Kei.” Dabi muttered. He didn’t move off him though. Just rubbed his thumbs on the back of his and Keigo’s joined hands.

“It's alright. Just lean down and go back to rubbing your jaw along my scent gland like you were before, I'll just be able to do it back this time alright? If you don’t like it or get overwhelmed, we can stop at any time.” Keigo spoke softly. There was little Keigo wanted more than him and Dabi to smell like each other, but if Dabi wasn’t ready then it could wait. He’d done a lot of waiting for Dabi and waiting for this too wouldn’t hurt any.

Dabi followed Keigo’s advice and leaned down. When he felt the urge to continue marking Keigo he picked up where he left off. He started purring and his breath hitched when Keigo started rumbling and rubbing back against him.

Dabi had contacted him a few days ago, demanding to know where Toga was.  Hawks had abandoned his patrol as soon as he realized she was missing, citing a League emergency. Accusing Hawks of arresting her, screaming and yelling accusations at him. Before Hawks calmed him down and wrapped him in warm wings, gave his word as a Hero, compromising his cover again , that he would find her. What does it say that Dabi thought a Hero would steal away someone he thinks of as a little sister? Don’t think about it. Don't think about how they care for each other or how Dabi never stays the night because ‘they worry if i don’t come home birdie.’

They spent hours looking in back alleyways and her usual path to the store. Dabi accused him of hiding her again and claimed that he knew Keigo was a spy this whole time. There hadn’t been any calming him down after that. “I never trusted you” ringing false in a cold and dirty alley next to memories of the LoV crashing in his apartment and concerned faces watching him carefully after too long patrols.

That’s why he was here today, just finishing a meeting with his handler. Reporting on the mission’s new complications, pushing again to be relieved of it. Dabi stormed off after their argument, blocking Hawks number, for the first time in months Hawks was alone.The Council seemed sure Dabi would get over Toga’s disappearance and trust Hawks again. Hawks thinks of chaotic dinners and of the pile of sleeping bodies on his bed, sometimes couch,and isn’t sure.

A door a few feet away is cracked open, someone hasn’t shut it right. There’s muffled yelling, he can see a crowd of white coats and yellow terror wide eye’s. He’s  seen and heard better than anyone else.He watches through the crack and drifts closer. They wouldn’t, he just got back from a meeting. No one has seen her, the council knows that he needs her, that Dabi needs her. That without her safe and found his entire mission is done for. He was done for from the beginning, was never supposed to succeed with this.

Keigo drifts up to the door and pushes it open wider, the sound of struggling overriding any others. His steps are soundless and no one turns when he pushes it open. It’s Toga, in hospital scrubs and a muzzle, being held down onto a table. She’s scared and her hair tangled around her face caught in the muzzle.

Toga sees him and her eyes start to water, there’s no hope in her gaze, filled with despair when she locks eyes with him. It hits Hawks that even Toga, who had shared her precious blood cups, had known he was a spy. They all knew and befriended him anyway. Here was the League of Villains' youngest member, everyone’s baby sister Toga, strapped down to a table instead of a psychiatric unit getting help. She closes her eyes and turns her head away as he is suddenly noticed by the other people in the room.

Keigo remembers her continued fighting, remembers how he spread his wings wide in threat, remembers a hand on his shoulder and then nothing. He doesn't remember anything after that moment, red filling his vision. Not even shapes seen through the color. Only a glimpse where he sees Toga hop off the table and her small hands find a knife, he doesn't worry too much after that, letting the red rage cloud his vision.

By the time Keigo comes back to himself, He’s miles up in the air. Outside the hospital in winter and of course it’s snowing. It’s cold and Toga is shaking against him.  Keigo dives, finding a rooftop to remove the muzzle and offer his jacket. Toga screams through her muzzle as they drop, unable to see anything while they plummet. Keigo tries to set her down to look around for landmarks, how far away the last League base is, that one had heat at least. A stream of curse words leave his mouth when Keigo realizes Toga’s feet are bare. Unable to set her on the snowy roof he shrugs his jacket off, having to juggle her slightly. Toga keeps her head buried in his shoulder, looking younger than 17 with her hair down , still scared and muzzled. She detaches herself long enough to put it on before latching on to Keigo again. 

Keigo detaches a feather from his wings, hushing Toga when her eyes widen. In a movement too fast for flinching Keigo cuts the muzzle off, carefully prying it off her face.

Her teeth sink into his shoulder instantly and he winces. He feels wet splatter onto his shoulder and on his leotard and when he glances at her he still sees tears streaming down Toga’s face. There’s a pull as she sucks up blood but Keigo brushes her hair out of her face and holds the bundled teenager close as he takes off the roof again. 

Toga whimpers every few feet but doesn't let go and eventually her breath evens out, as she stops crying. 

There’s no way to warn the League that he’s on his way. No way to prepare them for seeing their missing member covered in blood and being held by a spy. Held by a Hero they all knew was going to betray them, and still, still they had cared for him when he couldn’t care for himself. It’s a long flight he pushes himself for and makes short. Keigo makes sure he lands on the roof heavily and holds Toga tightly when she nearly falls out of his arms. Dabi is out the roof access door in seconds, arms blazing and pure rage in his eyes until Toga yanks her teeth out of Keigo’s shoulder and throws herself at him.

Dabi stares at him wide eyed and Shigaraki shoves Dabi out of the way as the rest of the League come to see what’s going on. Keigo shivers and wishes for a hot shower to melt the ice in his bones and the blood clinging to his skin and the mess of wanting, longing emotions he has. Toga is picked up by Twice and dissolves completely into sobbing again. Stuttering about how she had been so scared and then Hawks showed up. Twice carries her inside and Keigo turns to leave. He needs that shower, and a good cry, maybe a wing preening as he can feel them cramping up.

“Where do you think you're going? You can’t go back to the Heroes now, Keigo.” Dabi reminds him, managing to look intimidating and pissed as usual. “Saved the wrong little girl.”

Keigo shrugs, he can’t be a Hero anymore, Dabi is right. Dabi had told him when Toga went missing that he couldn’t join the league. He could go back to his apartment and leave the country probably, live his life in peace somewhere remote. The Hero commision is a problem but they’d need time, he’s the fastest man in Japan. It’s why he’d made such a good Hero.

“Join us. There going to be after you anyways.” Shigaraki asks him, stretching a hand out to him.