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"TRUTH OR DARE! TRUTH OR DARE! TRUTH OR-"
"Toga is you don't shut the fuck up, I will burn your skin off."
"Awee, don't be such a buzzkill, dabi! Even Spinner said he'd play!" The blond says in that usual whiny, high pitched voice
"You know dabi, I'm really not your biggest fan, but I'm with you on this one. Truth or dare fucking sucks." The blue haired male says, dryly.
However, Toga isn't one to listen to a "no". So about 20 minutes later, they are all sitting in a circle on the floor of their "livingroom". (It's less of a livingroom and more of a dimly lit storage room)
"Twice! Truth or dare??"
"Uhhh...Truth. Dare! No, Truth!"
Toga giggles- "Alright, Truth it is! Hmm..... oh! I know!- What kind of drugs have you taken?"
The game has been going on for about half an hour and even dabi seems to remotely been having fun, even tho he did get himself a beer or two (five)..
"Shigaraki! Truth or dare!!!???" Toga squeaks, making spinner cover his ears
"Tsk...Truth, I guess."
"YAY! Are you a virgin?"
Silence. Long silence.
"..what?"
"..What 'what'?"
"..I don't know what that means, that's what." Tomura says, dead serious.
"...you know, like,...have you done.. it?" She says, a bit more quiet now. Dabi and spinner started listening in, too, neither expecting dusters answer.
"Toga, stop speaking in morse code. Have I done what? Fucking hell."
"Sex, shiggy. She's asking if you've had sex." Dabi chimes in, his voice on edge.
Tomuras face turns a bit red after a few seconds of silence, seemingly more out of shame than embarrassment.
But dabi isn't over the fact that duster doesn't know the word "virgin".
"Dude, I know you are behind on some stuff, but you didn't know the word virgin? Damn."
"Fuck you. Fuck this game." He gets up a bit too fast, turning around and leaving the room before anyone gets to say a word. They hear him slamming his door shut a few seconds after
"....the fuck was that?" Spinner asks, baffled.
"No fucking clue. Maybe he's embarrassed about being a virgin!"
It's about 11PM when dabi knocks on the leaders door. And he isn't exactly welcomed warm.
"What the fuck do you want, burner?"
"What a nice new nickname, dusty. Don't flatter me." He pushes past the younger man and invites himself in and plops down on the dirty bed with a loud creak.
"Wanna talk."
"I don't. Fuck off"
"Seriously. About earlier."
And oh, his face goes a shade darker again. He turns away from the fire user, avoiding eye contact.
"Have you ever had sex Ed?"
The room goes quiet. Too quiet.
"Alright. Sit down. We're gonna talk"
"Fuck you. I don't wanna fucking talk. I'm not a child. Leave." God, tomuras voice is small. So small. He's not mad at dabi. He's ashamed. And fuck, that's even worse.
"When did you drop out of school?"
"....I was never enrolled."
Fuck. "Seriously? Not even first grade?"
"No, not even fucking first grade. You don't exactly look like you went to collage either, stop being a hypocrite."
"Dude, you didnt-.. alright. Okay. So like, did AFO teach you all the shit you know?"
"..I guess." His eyes suddenly start burning. Fuck, this is humiating.
Dabi sighs audibly, a hand over his face. This is going to be a lot of work.
"..let me teach you some stuff?"
"I'll kill you if you tell anyone a word about this."
Dabi grins. "Won't make you prove it."
They started slow. Dabi told him some stuff that's basic. Stuff about world War one and two, about different time zones, and despite tomuras complains even practiced writing with him.
Dabi knew that if he rushed into this shit, tomura would pull away, get mad, distance himself. Because he's ashamed. He's ashamed of the fact that he doesn't know shit. Dabi cam see that. He can see the way it burns in tomuras eyes and when he asks if he knows something about a topic that dabi claims to be 'common knowledge'. As much as he'd like to make fun of the younger man, it honestly hurts to see. Tomura is humiliated.
Dabi, however, deems it's been long enough. Tomura is ready for The talk.
So at 8PM, like he's been doing for weeks, he barges into tomuras room.
"Alright. Time to get serious. No way around this, we need to talk about sex."
Tomura immediately looks up, wide eyed.
"I-"
"Nope. Tell me what you know." Dabi sits down, making eye contact.
"...I mean, I know what sex is. Like... a man and a women do it and the woman gets pregnant."
Dabi let's out a deep sigh. This is going to take long.
"..alright. So, first of all, that's not all that sex is about. People don't just do it to make a baby. And there is different ways to do it. And it's not just men and women that do it together. And-"
"Alright! Damn, slow down."
"Sorry. Just- ugh. Okay. Sex isn't just about pregnancy. It's about pleasure. People enjoy it."
"...why?"
"I don't fucking know man, it just feels good. Well, it should feel good. Depends on who you do it with, I guess? Whatever. So no, not only about making a baby."
Shigarakis face goes awfully bright for a second and dabi can tell he's contemplating something. Probably whether or not to ask-
"How does making a baby work?"...
Oh. "Shit. Did that fucker not teach you anything?" the fire user takes a deep breath and stretches his arms over his head. "Okay. So,-"
Dabi is thorough with it. Explains surprisingly well and anatomically correctly how pregnancy happens. Tomura sits and listens.
"-Yeah. That's pretty much it. Did that freak-" tomura shoots him a look and the older huffs "-my bad, did master teach you about the whole consent thing? Don't serve tea if they say no?"
"We're villains, the fuck do we got to do with consent?"
Dabis face goes darker. All for one Did not teach him about consent. This is going to be tougher than he thought.
"That's different. People who do that are different kind of villains. We don't do that. Especially not with kids."
"Why not?"
"Doing things like that without conse-"
"No, not that. The kid part. Why does the age matter?"
Dabi should've expected it, honestly. Shigaraki was never taught those limits. He was never told what really is right or wrong. But hearing him being so genuinely confused about it? That fucks dabi up.
"...you can't do that with kids. Even if the kid says its Okay,- adults can never, never, have sex with kids. That's not okay."
Tomura stays quiet. Too quiet. Painfully so. Like he suddenly disconnected from his body and went inside his head. Completely lost in thought. Dabi let's him process.
A minute. Five.
And then-
Tomura gets up. He looks mad.
"Don't need you telling me bullshit. If I wanna hear crap like that I'd talk to Toga." He mutters as he leaves the room too fast.
"Duster? The fuck-" but he's already out the door. Dabi sits in silence and confusion. What the fuck?
The leader decided that he's done for now and disappeared to who knows where. Dabi, in all his glory, goes to the bar to drown out whatever the fuck that was. And just as he's about to put the bottle of cheap whiskey to his mouth-
"Dabi. It's good to see you." The misty man says in his usual, monotone voice as he appears behind the bar.
"Sup, 'giri." Dabi says, unbothered, as he takes a swing. The alcohol burns on its way down.
"You look troubled" the figure speaks as he grabs a cloth and a glass from the counter and starts cleaning. obsessive, dabi thinks.
He also thinks of letting the whole thing with tomura go. Of not saying anything, letting the boy sulk on his own, ignoring whatever the fuck that was. Bit dabi is the curious kind. And God forbid he's maybe even a bit worried. He isn't, ofcourse.
"..tomura is weird. Like, more weird than usual. Been teaching him some shit his daddy didn't, and we were kinda on the topic of sex.., yknow. I said that adults can't fuck kids and he got all weird and walked out on me. Don't know what the fuck is up with that."
This time, it's kurogiri that looks troubled. The fire user wasn't aware kurogiri could have that look on him- whatsoever, the man's face, or what could be made out from the mist, turns a bit..dark. metaphorically more than literally. Still, though.
"Do not bring such topics up again towards tomura. I fear you are doing more damage than you are doing good, dabi."
"The fuck do you mean? I can't tell him that fucking kids isnt-"
It clicks. Oh fuck.
Before he even gets to say another word, kurogiri chimes in.
"Tomura is fragile. He is unstable and dangerous. Do not make this worse than it already is. Tomura does not need to know anything beyond what he was taught by his master."
A few drinks and cigarettes later, dabi decides: this is fucked up.