Chapter 9
Both our protagonists have lived trauma and sleep (or the lack of it) was one of the many ways they used to cope, and while kachaan used it as an escape, deku on the other hand avoided it like the plague sleeping only resulted him nightmares were he relived the villain attack, even after three years after it the memories were still as fresh as if it happened yesterday which caused him to have a very fucked up sleep schedule, the boy never got more than 4 hours of sleep the night
Soon he started getting bored, he had cleaned more than half the house by himself his brothers didn’t say a thing as much as he didn’t disturb their sleep a normal household would of stopped him but not this one each one of them had their own trauma and respected the other ways to live.
One night deku snuck out the house he didn’t go very far because he was afraid dabi would notice, then he snuck out a second time then a third time and it went on for 9 months.
In his defence he mastered self defence and was physically very strong as well as that nobody entered the wood that surrounded their house
This night was quit hot in fact it was summer and had snuck out once again
As he was sitting by himself in the dark he heard a branch crack and soon he noticed a boy running his way, deku grabbed him to try and calm him down
-omg are you ok?
The boy felt stupid h asked him of course he wasn’t ok, the boy eyes were filled with terror the same one he feel at the attack the boy was trembling
he looked left and right before saying
-listen if you are in danger, I can help you but I need your approve or else it will be kidnapping
The boy looked at him in confusion but as he heard heavy footsteps he nodded his head in agreeing, quickly deku was running with the boy in the wood he memorized with time
The boy paled as he saw the house, it was an isolated house in the middle of the woods the certainly was going to die he was about to run away again but before he could he was dragged by his saviour inside
He did expect a lot of things went he saw the house but not to find it organized and clean
-deku, the said deku and the boy both flinched as their heard kachaan, were the fuck were you it’s 3 in the fucking morning
-hey,ehhhmmm I ....was hmm in the garden.
-don’t you dare hey me you bastard, I was for more than 2 hour now where were you for god damn sake?
He then turned to look at the purple haired dude “and who the fuck is this extra and why is he there?
-I don’t know why ,he
-oh fuck am gonna kill you
-let me finish, said izuku annoyed, he was getting chased in the middle of the night and if haven’t noticed he’s wearing a fucking muzzle and I doubt it was for fashion purposes
The boy then turned to the boy and softly asked
-can I help you take it over? Maybe drink a cup of water and have a snack?
The boy was surprised by the sudden mood swing and by deku kindness
The boy held back his tears as he agreed, he haven’t been spoken to this way since... he forgot went has been the last time
The boys didn’t remember went or how they ended up cuddling in the couch with a stranger at 3 in the morning but shinso didn’t regret entering the scary house
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Dabi was going to the kitchen to get a cup of water, as he passed the living room he saw three little heads next to each other, he was glad he took them with him and protected them that night. He often work as a stripper in a local night club and honestly? He enjoyed his job because the MONEY, also because it was kind of fun he told his brothers he worked as a dancer he couldn’t tell kids about his job nature after all, the job was physically and emotionally tiring but he didn’t give a fuck as long as he had enough money.
as he went back he trough he needs to buy those three new clothes their old ones were starting to become too little for them to wear, he closed his eyes and went back to sleep but then it clicked:
he had only two brothers not three but then who was the other kid