(Dadzawa) I'm not a cat! (Cat quirk reader)

55: They started it!

"Why are we here?" I asked Shigaraki while we walked, "Couldn't you have kicked me off to the hospital?"
Flashback to when I feared the hospital with my life because of the home situation. My biological dad really sucked. It felt strange to feel like the hospital was a place I could go now, though nice at the same time.

"I... could have," Shigaraki glared at the ground, "But you would have died."

"Oh," I put my hands behind my back, "Why are we still here then? When is Kurogiri here—"

"Master wants to speak with us."

"Does he now?" I muttered, "Why?"

Shigaraki opened a door and I sighed. Looks like I'll have to actually pay attention to the conversation. What a bother. Can't I have coffee first? (Yes, I craved it, the ban wasn't kind to me)

"(Y/n), Tomura," the guy in the chair said in an almost fatherly way.

I stared at him confused. Last time I checked I already had two dads—

"Tell me what happened out there?"

Shigaraki gave me a glare.
"I only helped her—"

"Tell me, start to finish."

"Are we in trouble?" I put my hands behind my back, tilting my head as my cat ears and tail appeared. Works every time on Aizawa and Mic, that look. Though Hitoshi was harder to break.
"Sorry, sir, if we did something wrong."

"No," the guy in the chair said, "You're not in trouble."
And then I could have dropped down on my knees and cried;
"And call me Shigaraki." (Okay, so I looked it up, and that guy just doesn't have a name, so it'll be like this —🧇)

They don't look like family.
Wait, maybe they don't look similar because Tomura doesn't have a permanent chair and tubes attached on him. Okay, moving on.

"Well then," I shrugged, "I walked on my way to somewhere, then I got surprised by some assholes. They knew how to fight and already hit me in the face a few times, so fighting them off was... kinda... hard." I don't always win, and it's annoying to admit. "But Shigaraki came," I pointed at him, "He defeated the bad guy and saved the day. And then they stabbed me."

"She passed out so Kurogiri brought her here," Shigaraki said, "She wasn't breathing anymore."

"Whoa..." I grinned, "So I died?"

The guy in the chair waved his hand in the air for silence.
"You both did well," he said, "But why were they attacking in the first place?"

Shigaraki now looked at me too.

"Well..." I scratched the back of my head, "It's kinda a long story... so you know the drugs business thingy, named Scorpion?"

"I'm familiar..." the guy in the chair did not sound happy.

I fidgeted with my cloak, my mask gone. I didn't like showing my face right now, I hated feeling guilty.
"Well I kinda helped taking them down in the past, and I think they're kinda... maybe... looking for revenge."
I missed my mask.
Where's my mask?
Fuck, where was it?

"Hey, pay attention." Shigaraki suddenly nudged me.

"What?" I looked up at the guy in the chair.

"I asked wether they had seen your face before."

Haha... yeah...
I nodded, looking away. Bad memories! Yay!
The itchy feeling made me want to hunt something down and kill it. Bite into it, break its neck and all its bones.

"Do they scare you?" The guy in the chair asked calmly suddenly.

I realised a tear was escaping, but I got it away with my sleeve quickly.
"No," I cleared my throat and made my voice loud and clear, "They don't scare me."

"You sound scared thoguh," Shigaraki pointed out annoyingly.

"Fuck off—" my creative insult got bitten back when the guy in the chair spoke up.

"There's nothing to be afraid of. I'll have you protected. If you want, we can hunt every last one of them down."

Surprise suddenly filled me as I realised this guy just said he wanted to help me.
"Why?" I asked.

"Because you're one of us," the guy in the chair said, "If Shigaraki was in trouble, you'd help him, wouldn't you?"

Oh dear.
My plans to undermine and sabotage them... to spy on them... to use them...
Yikes.
Now I felt bad.

I hugged my arms to myself as I looked away.
"Can I trust you?"

The guy in the chair gave a smile. It seemed calm, welcoming.
"Of course."