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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"Well, maybe he was getting hazed. He'd never joined a villainous organization before and most of his new teammates seemed pretty unhinged. He'd ask about it later, he decided, picking up the dead bird by a wing and dumping it into the trash. Unfortunately the trouble of meeting everyone and going through quirk demonstrations pushed the incited from his mind. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"A week later he woke up after a solid nights sleep, sore from the heist they'd pulled the night before, a small one to steal funds and test compatibility (turns out they worked together fairly well, although the scaly guy never stopped talking about the evils of society and the guy who made clones never stopped talking period), overcome with a feeling of déjà vu, and also once again covered in blood, the whole situation so much worse this time because he'd apparently rolled over in his sleep and the small animal (a rat? Hamster?) had gotten crushed into his mattress and clothes. "emWhat the Hell?"/em/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"He rubbed his hands on his already ruined shirt (two in as many weeks, joining the League was already proving to be a bad financial choice. He should have listened to his horoscope.) and walked out into the bar, annoyance probably evident on his face. He hoped so. "Does anyone want to give me an explanation for this?" He snapped at the two league members currently sitting there. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"The next three days Dabi found other places to sleep, hoping whatever was leaving him dead animals wouldn't follow him like a malignant spirit (it couldn't be an angry ghost, could it? That was something to explore only once ever other option was exhausted, he decided). But three nights passed without incident and on the fourth he walked back to the league's base and collapsed into bed for a good nights sleep. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"He woke up to something way more horrifying than a dead animal. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;""You got one also," Shigaraki said, pointing at the feathery lump on the other side of Dabi that he'd missed in all the trauma of waking up to a flaky nightmare of a person. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"Ok, so two people were getting birds and/or small animals. That he knew of. He could go ask everyone individually but that sounded horrible, plus there was one person he'd discovered always knew everything that was going on here. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"And yeah, he knew everyone's name now. Toga actually had made him a chart and come into his room one day and stuck it to the wall where he could see it and retain the knowledge by osmosis. It was very useful, albeit a little messy, every time someone slammed a door (which was often when almost all the people living together have anger issues) glitter would rain down from it like a sparkly April shower and would somehow get everywhere. He couldn't leave the bar at the moment because everywhere he walked he left a red glittery trail and Shigaraki was paranoid someone would follow it back. Based on the amount of glitter in the tub last time he showered Dabi wasn't inclined to disagree. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;""Second," Kurogiri picked up yet another glass to clean. Dabi wondered where all these dirty glasses came from. The bar was almost constantly empty, except for the league members. Maybe the other members were buying drinks. "Second, I would ask ms. Toga about that. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"Dabi sat up straight. "Toga? emToga/em is leaving me dead animals? I took her to the mall! I tell her her hair looks nice emevery single morning /emso she doesn't cry! I let her use my staples to fix her sweater! Why would she- I'm going to fry her," he stood up, storming towards her room, summoning his quirk, anger thrumming through his veins. The one person he'd thought wasn't completely insane here (barring the blood thing) had been-terrorizing him since they'd met. And for what? He'd been nicer to her than he'd been to his own family and now- /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;""Have you ever owned a cat, Dabi?" Kurogiri asked, cleaning another glass. Dabi stared at him, thwarted in his revenge plans by a warp gate. He'd been teleported back to his seat at the bar. Underhanded tactic. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"Oh great, they had come from the absolutely disgusting alley behind the bar. He probably had a disease now (was the bird flu still a thing? All his staples made him well ventilated for surface germ to walk right in and wreak havoc on his system). "Yeah sure. But consider this. I've never gotten you a gift," he reached into his pocket and pulled something out. "It was all one sided, you know? Plus, now that we're team mates-" /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;""Whatever. We can't always be getting each other gifts, we're gonna be so busy. Plus, what if your guy there finds out and gets jealous?" He asked, nodding at the picture she had been cutting out./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"Dabi stood up, ignoring the last thing she said (there were a lot of things he didn't care to know when it came to his alleged leader, how his blood tasted was more than Dabi wanted to know about anyone to be honest. Although he could have predicted the crusty probably.) and stretching slightly. "If you use it to scare him do me a favor and wait until he takes a nap, then wake him up however you want, ok?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"He popped his neck as he walked towards his room, looking forwards to taking an uninterrupted nap, and waking up peacefully, sans dead animals. They were definitely gross, but she had meant well. And that's what counted. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"Maybe he should wash his sheets. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"The dead bird was a first though./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"He rolled to the side causing it to fall onto the flood with a slightly wet thump. He tugged his now sticky and wet blood stained shirt away from his skin with a grimace. "What the hell." /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"Well, maybe he was getting hazed. He'd never joined a villainous organization before and most of his new teammates seemed pretty unhinged. He'd ask about it later, he decided, picking up the dead bird by a wing and dumping it into the trash. Unfortunately the trouble of meeting everyone and going through quirk demonstrations pushed the incited from his mind. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"A week later he woke up after a solid nights sleep, sore from the heist they'd pulled the night before, a small one to steal funds and test compatibility (turns out they worked together fairly well, although the scaly guy never stopped talking about the evils of society and the guy who made clones never stopped talking period), overcome with a feeling of déjà vu, and also once again covered in blood, the whole situation so much worse this time because he'd apparently rolled over in his sleep and the small animal (a rat? Hamster?) had gotten crushed into his mattress and clothes. "emWhat the Hell?"/em/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"He rubbed his hands on his already ruined shirt (two in as many weeks, joining the League was already proving to be a bad financial choice. He should have listened to his horoscope.) and walked out into the bar, annoyance probably evident on his face. He hoped so. "Does anyone want to give me an explanation for this?" He snapped at the two league members currently sitting there. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"The next three days Dabi found other places to sleep, hoping whatever was leaving him dead animals wouldn't follow him like a malignant spirit (it couldn't be an angry ghost, could it? That was something to explore only once ever other option was exhausted, he decided). But three nights passed without incident and on the fourth he walked back to the league's base and collapsed into bed for a good nights sleep. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"He woke up to something way more horrifying than a dead animal. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;""Hey," Shigaraki said from where he was emsitting on the edge of Dabi's bed./em Did no one here have any boundaries? First it was Toga brushing her teeth emwhile/em he was showering and now apparently the leagues so called leader was just invading his person space, privacy, and time alone like it was completely normal. "I go one too." /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;""You got one also," Shigaraki said, pointing at the feathery lump on the other side of Dabi that he'd missed in all the trauma of waking up to a flaky nightmare of a person. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;""Why'd you get three so far and I've only gotten one?" Shigaraki interrupted, sounding whiny (nothing new there but was right now a good time to be whining? No, because some psychopath was leaving people dead things.). Dabi mentally rearranged his priorities and put solving this first. "Look you can have this bird if you want it, God knows I don't." /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"Ok, so two people were getting birds and/or small animals. That he knew of. He could go ask everyone individually but that sounded horrible, plus there was one person he'd discovered always knew everything that was going on here. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"em"Tomura Shigaraki what have I told you about bringing dead animals in this bar? You get rid of that right now-" /em/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"Dabi got right to the chase. "Who here would leave someone dead animals?" He asked, resting his arms on the bar. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;""Of course," Dabi rolled his eyes. The problem with hanging out in a gang of psychopaths was that there was a lot of psychopathic behavior going on. Like how Spinner used every chance to get on his soap box and talk about Stains great future for society. Or how Twice had told to her face that a one bun hairstyle didn't suit her and then promptly lied about saying that also to Toga's face. Dabi and left before the screaming started but he knew for a fact Kurogiri had had to mop three times before all the bloodstains came out. /p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"And yeah, he knew everyone's name now. Toga actually had made him a chart and come into his room one day and stuck it to the wall where he could see it and retain the knowledge by osmosis. It was very useful, albeit a little messy, every time someone slammed a door (which was often when almost all the people living together have anger issues) glitter would rain down from it like a sparkly April shower and would somehow get everywhere. He couldn't leave the bar at the moment because everywhere he walked he left a red glittery trail and Shigaraki was paranoid someone would follow it back. Based on the amount of glitter in the tub last time he showered Dabi wasn't inclined to disagree. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;""Look someone's been leaving me dead animals in my bed," Dabi said, coming out of his thoughts. "Someone who lives here. I'd appreciate it if it stopped so any helpful information you've got on that I'd be grateful."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;""Umm ok."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;""Second," Kurogiri picked up yet another glass to clean. Dabi wondered where all these dirty glasses came from. The bar was almost constantly empty, except for the league members. Maybe the other members were buying drinks. "Second, I would ask ms. Toga about that. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"Dabi sat up straight. "Toga? emToga/em is leaving me dead animals? I took her to the mall! I tell her her hair looks nice emevery single morning /emso she doesn't cry! I let her use my staples to fix her sweater! Why would she- I'm going to fry her," he stood up, storming towards her room, summoning his quirk, anger thrumming through his veins. The one person he'd thought wasn't completely insane here (barring the blood thing) had been-terrorizing him since they'd met. And for what? He'd been nicer to her than he'd been to his own family and now- /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;""Have you ever owned a cat, Dabi?" Kurogiri asked, cleaning another glass. Dabi stared at him, thwarted in his revenge plans by a warp gate. He'd been teleported back to his seat at the bar. Underhanded tactic. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;""Do I look like I've owned a cat?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;""I used to. They show affection in some strange ways, my cat used to leave me bugs and mice at the foot of my bed, as well as walk all over my face while I was trying to sleep," Kurogiri said with a chuckle. /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"Did Kurogiri have a face? Dabi had always assumed he was intangible…. "Toga's leaving me this… because she likes me."/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"Toga looked up from where she had pictures and clippings all over her bed. "Oh hi Dabi! I'm adding more people to my blood book you wanna help?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"Dabi sat on the edge of her bed. "What is this, like a crush scrap book? How did you get these pictures- is that the kid from the U.A. sports festival?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"Toga picked up the photo Dabi had noticed, carefully cutting out the green haired boy. "Uh huh. His moms got some great pictures of him. Here, cut her out of this, I'll tape it in my book next to his rating, I think his bloods gonna be a ten out of ten! Shiggy says I'll be able to find out for real soon!"/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"Oh great, they had come from the absolutely disgusting alley behind the bar. He probably had a disease now (was the bird flu still a thing? All his staples made him well ventilated for surface germ to walk right in and wreak havoc on his system). "Yeah sure. But consider this. I've never gotten you a gift," he reached into his pocket and pulled something out. "It was all one sided, you know? Plus, now that we're team mates-" /p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;""Whatever. We can't always be getting each other gifts, we're gonna be so busy. Plus, what if your guy there finds out and gets jealous?" He asked, nodding at the picture she had been cutting out./p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-indent: 0.5in;"Dabi stood up, ignoring the last thing she said (there were a lot of things he didn't care to know when it came to his alleged leader, how his blood tasted was more than Dabi wanted to know about anyone to be honest. Although he could have predicted the crusty probably.) and stretching slightly. "If you use it to scare him do me a favor and wait until he takes a nap, then wake him up however you want, ok?"/p
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