◆Diamond Flower◆Dabi◆Boku no Hero Academia◆

◆29◆ A warm light lit this world I'd forsaken

"Hey, what's the plan for tomorrow?" She asked, crawling down from the bed and sitting next to him.

"You said you wanted to go to the aquarium, right?" 

"I do." 

"What is so good about looking at fish again? They're ugly." 

"But Dabi, it will be fun. And you said I get to choose where to go." 

"Tch." 

Michiyo laughed and she moved his left hand and she put his left arm over her shoulders. "Don't be such a tsundere. I know you look forward to it." 

"I don't. You don't even get to eat them when you're there."

"For someone who said they don't look forward to it one bit, they sure got two tickets very quickly." 

"Do you want to go or not?" 

Michiyo just laughed at his bad attempt to scowl. She was innocently laughing away, giggling at his reaction as she affectionately rub her face against his arm. Dabi looked at her face and he smiled as he pulled her close to him in a side hug. 

"Michiyo, what are you thinking about now?" He was good at reading people, but he struggled with Michiyo. He wondered why that was, he never knew what she was thinking about. The best he got was him predicting she's thinking about something.

She looked at him while playing with the fingers on his left hand. "I'm just thinking how lucky I am to be alive. I used to think maybe the world would be better off without me. There will be many smiles if I wasn't here." She blushed with a shy smile gracing her face. "Right now, I keep looking forward to every tomorrow." 

"I see." 

"I'd forsaken this world, but you lit a light in it." 

"Even after what had happened?" He wanted to continue to be the fire to light up her darkness. He thought he had snuffed out her fire, but it turned out it was still there. He really thought he was too lucky in this world that was cruel to them.

"It was dark for a while, but you still came back to lit it bright again." 

Dabi put his left leg down and he patted at the space in front of him. He wanted to wrap both arms around Michiyo's shoulders and just hold her when her back's against him. He pressed a gentle kiss to her cheek and he closed his eyes in comfort when she's in his vicinity. 

"You did the same for me too." Dabi confessed in a quiet voice. 

Michiyo put her hands on his forearms, feeling the purple wrinkly skin on him. Now that she think about it, what was Dabi's story behind the patches? "Dabi, will you tell me about Touya?" 

He lazily opened his eyes, "You really want to know?" 

"Hm. Without Touya, the Dabi I know wouldn't exist. I wish to know more about you."

Dabi decided to tell her since he wanted her to get to know the him he used to be. Without Touya, Dabi wouldn't be here. Dabi believed she had every rights to know about him since he saw her as his other half. "I'll tell you. Just don't fall asleep on my story." 

So he talked to her about how he was a certain hero's son. Dabi told her all about how he was born to satisfy his father's ego and how he was born through a Quirk marriage. Touya used to feel a sense of pride; his father looked at him as a successor and one who would surpass him and the Symbol of Peace, he used to like the praises his father made whenever he did something right. 

However, one day he went over the limits due to being pushed too much. While he was burning, he screamed for his father to help him only to have his father scold him for being weak and to stop pretending. He also remembered how his mother tried to cool him off with her own Quirk only to be hit by his own father. While he was writhing within his blue fire, he watched his father and mother argue. He still remembered very clearly how his father hit his mother and blame her for their son's failure. The very young Touya at the time couldn't understand why they were not helping him. He could still remember the very young him reaching out his hand, he could see the skin on his arm bubbling and sizzling up.