This nest sucks, move over - Shigaraki
When Shigaraki told you he’d never made a nest or been in one before you weren’t all that surprised. You couldn’t really imagine All for One to have taught him how to make a nest for him to take shelter in. Not that All for One would’ve respected his nest anyways. To say you hated the alpha was an understatement, not because he was a villain but because he was just flat out a fucking prick.
It was no surprise that when you met Shigaraki, like anyone else you boldly assumed he was a beta -- he had no characteristics of an omega and his scent was covered up. Not that it bothered you he wasn’t omega like, fuck stereotypes. If anything you were proud of him opening up and accepting some of his omega like tendencies when it was just the two of you.
Shigaraki sat scrunched up on the bed with his full attention on his game as you beep bopped around the place collecting things. It’s not that alpha’s couldn’t make a nest, just they weren’t very good at it. And frankly you’d never thought about nesting before so this would be a first for you. Would it be too stupid to look up videos on how to? You just sorta slap stuff together and make it comfortable right?
Time slipped away from you as you shuffled and adjusted things in the corner of the room. God you felt stupid for literally playing in dirty laundry as if it was snow, none of this felt comfortable or looked quite right. The omega grumbled now and then, over his game and over how “loud” and “distracting” you were being. “Would you stop walking in front of the tv!” You jumped at his sudden volume and nearly dropped the pile of laundry in your arms.
“Woah mister grumpy pants, it’s not even an online game chill.” Shigaraki ground his teeth and you winced, god you hated that habit of his. “Stop that.” His jaw quickly relaxed, you hated using your alpha voice but that was the only way to get him to stop.
“You know I hate when you do that, pisses me off.” He hissed, scratching at his neck in irritation.
“Hey, stop that!” Dirty laundry abandoned on the floor you yanked his hand away from the poor abused skin and his scent gland. Of all his bad habits that was the one you hated the most, no wonder he didn’t smell like an omega his damn scent glands were scratched and torn to high hell. And due to being a villain it’s not like you could just take him to a doctor to get them properly looked at.
Shigaraki dropped his controller and took hold of both your wrists, careful to leave one finger from each hand off you. “I said fucking stop that!” The muted bitter scent rolled off him in waves, irritation, stress, fear. Wait, fear?
Your eyes scanned his face, it didn’t take much inspection to tell he was pissed off at not only you disrupting his game but using your alpha voice on him not once but twice. “Look, I can accept a lot of your bad habits but that one..” you exhaled and his shoulders twitched. “That one I hate the most..” His grip loosened and you moved a hand to gently touch the non scarred sections left.
Shigaraki’s hands dropped to his lap and you sat on the bed in front of him, your fingers ghosting over the damaged glands. God you couldn’t even imagine how badly it felt. Mumbling drew your attention and you hummed a soft ‘come again?’ The male hissed and dropped his head before mumbling a bit louder. “Sorry..”
His muted scent shifted from irritation to simply stress and fear, the latter smell made you worried. Scooting closer you practically sat in his lap and rubbed your cheek against his. “Hey talk to me.. I can tell something’s off.. You wanna tell me what that’s about?”
He shifted but didn’t move far with you keeping him trapped in place. It was clear as day he didn’t want to talk about it, tough shit. You were not going to let that unpleasant smell of fear go unspoken. His mumbling made you lean closer, brushing his long hair slightly out of the way. “Why do you stay with me..?’
Well that wasn’t the response you expected, the fuck kind of question was that? “Babe what are you talking about? Is this about you being a villain? You know I don’t care about that.” He shook his head and bent forward to bury his face into your shoulder, as much as you wanted to see him you knew he’d speak more if he was able to hide.
“I’m a defective fucking omega, I can’t give you things a normal omega would.” Shigaraki snapped, his fingers tightened on your shirt, pinkies raised. “My scent glands are damaged, I don’t even have an actual scent. Fuck I’ve never even had my first heat!”
The more he spoke the more your heart and inner alpha ached, is that what he thought he was? Some defective omega? You pulled him even closer and let him bury his nose against your scent gland, releasing the most comforting scent possible to set him at ease. “Tomura you are not a defective omega! I don’t care that you’ve never had your first heat, I don’t care about any of that.” He squeezes you tight and it took everything to ignore the wet feeling on your neck.
“The neck scratching thing is a bad habit you can’t break, it’s not your fault it caused damage to the glands. That’s why I keep getting onto you about it, I can’t imagine the pain you go through and god knows there’s probably an infection.”
The sound of sniffles made you freeze, shit you probably weren’t making this any better. “Tomura I love you, it hurts me to see you ignoring my help. I just want to clean them and who knows maybe if we stop the scratching and let it heal you’ll have a natural scent again.” Shigaraki stayed silent and you simply sat there with him pressed tight against you.
The sniffles and tears eventually died down and Shigaraki was first to move and pull away. His face was a mess of tears and snot and without hesitation you grabbed the tissues and helped him clean up. “Fine.. but if it hurts--”
“It’s going to hurt and I won’t lie that it won’t,” you cut in, “baby you’ve torn the skin on the glands and the skin under that.” Reluctantly you stood and left for the bathroom for the first aid kit and when you returned he moved to the edge of the bed. “I’m just gonna clean it, put some cream on it and bandage it so you stop touching it alright?”
He nodded and you stood between his legs taking all of his hair and pulling it into a messy bun. “Oh fuck that’s a cute look on you.” He hissed and nipped at you, the blush painfully visible on his pale skin. “This is going to hurt.. So here.” You handed him one of the anime plushies you bought when you started courting him and he held it firm to his chest with fingers raised off the plush.
The god awful cries and whimpers he made as you cleaned the glands made you choke up, tears pooled and threatened to spill. “Shh no baby it’s okay, I know it hurts I’m almost done.” It was mostly to reassure yourself but you continued to praise him for being a good boy and once the cream and bandages were on you placed a kiss over both sides of his necks. “Such a good omega, I’m so proud of you.”
Shigaraki purred at the praise and you gently scented him, he might’ve not been a traditional omega but that didn’t stop you from loving the male any less. “Now promise you won’t pick at the bandages.” It was faint but you heard him promise and that was more than enough to satisfy you.
He returned to his game and you watched him for a bit before returning to the nightmare of a nest you had been building. Yeah this still felt stupid and hopeless. The sudden noises of frustration behind you went ignored since you assumed he was angry at his game. However the sudden shove to the side took you by surprise. “The hell was that for?!”
“This nest sucks, move over.” He hissed. “It’s frustrating watching you fuck this up, how can you call yourself an alpha and you can’t even make a nest?”
Leaning back on your hands you simply watched him bicker and fuss, it took everything to not comment on how he supposedly “didn’t know how to make one” and yet here he was. “Jesus this literally looks no different then to what I had like ten minutes ago.”
“Wrong, this isn’t even remotely the same.” Shigaraki gave you that look of ‘what are you stupid?’ and boy did you wanna slap it off him. “Are all alphas that shit at making nests?”
“Don’t know, I’ve only seen omegas make them and their naturals at it.” You mindlessly plucked at an article of clothing in the nest and Shigaraki slapped the back of your hand. “Ow hey.” He continued to fuss and you couldn’t help but smile at seeing him finally relaxing. Whether he realized it or not his scent had shifted, he no longer smelled stressed or irritated. The action of nesting and sitting in the mixed scents soothed him, even if it was primarily your smell in the nest it worked wonders at calming him down.
By the time he was finished you’d taken over playing his game, hell you almost forgot about him if it wasn’t for the fact he started letting out whines for attention. You paused the game and looked to the omega in question before choking back a snort. Shigaraki lied smack dab in the middle with the anime plush from before in his arms, one of your hoodies turned into a makeshift pillow under his head. His hair was still in the messy bun and his eyes were screaming “get the fuck in here” which was all you needed to ignore the game and crawl in with him.
Shigaraki buried his face into your neck and you got comfortable and played with the short strands of hair at the base of his neck. He let out a few quiet chirps and purrs and you didn’t have to guess what he was getting at, he was silently thanking you. For what exactly you didn’t know but you could take a few guesses.
“So much for not knowing how to make a nest.” It was a simple tease but one he didn’t seem to appreciate as he punched your side. “Okay maybe I deserved that but it's true!” Rubbing the tender zone you hummed and glance down at him. “Maybe it’s an omegas natural instinct to know? Man not only did I get your first kiss and first time” you grinned “but I got your first nest cherry too!”
Shigaraki punched your side again and you coughed before silently mouthing ‘okay I’ll shut up’. He adjusted himself to get comfortable again and you couldn’t help but look over his face. He looked so relaxed and despite the cracked parts of his skin he seemed so soft and innocent. Lord knew he was anything but innocent.
“If you keep staring I’m going to jab your eyes out next.” The threat was empty but you looked away out of nervousness. He might not jab your eyes out but a third hit to the same spot wasn’t something you were looking forward to.
“I have a doctor friend, I’ll call her tomorrow and see if she knows anything about mending scent glands.” Shigaraki let out a low growl and you rubbed his back. “I won’t bring her near you, I know you don’t like me around other omega’s. But she’s just a friend, I promise.” His growl died down and you pulled one of the blankets off the bed that hadn’t joined the nest and covered him with it. “Sleep lil pup, I’ll wake you in time for dinner.”