Her amber eyes almost appear golden now, under the dim light of the bar and with her quirk attempting to escape, flashing curls of electricity on her arms. They blaze and burn, like a roaring inferno, and Dabi grins.
Oh he likes her. She's fiery, scorching hot, and there is just something about her attitude, her tone that is just simply likeable. he can tell it's not the case with Shigaraki, though, with the vines he can almost see, popping off at his forehead.
The man pulls a fist back, and punches her again.
This punch was harder than the rest, but the girl doesn't even flinch.
"How many times do I have to tell you." She said, spiting out a small mouthful of bloody saliva, most probably from biting her tongue, "punches just don't do it anymore." A wry grin splits her lips as she stares defiantly up at the blue-haired man, "my dad made sure of that."
It doesn't take long for the implications of her comment to sink in, and Dabi can see some of his companions recoil. Bakugo visibly flinches at it. Magne looks vaguely disgusted, and Shigaraki's eyes widens, most likely not expecting it. Next to him, Compress makes a small noise, and Toga just pouts.
On the chair, Kimura wipes her mouth on her shoulder. Blood snared on her sleeve, adding to the mess of rust red and scorch marks already there.
"You can do whatever you want to me, but I doubt there would be much that I'm not used to." She comments, her tone was low with anger but it was almost casual, "not unless you'd really step that low, but if you do I'll be pretty surprised. So do your worst. Throw me down some stairs, cut my arm open or stab me or burn me or whatever, nothing I ain't used to."
"You think we won't kill you?" Shigaraki hisses.
"You say that like I haven't tried." The girl snarled right back, her words and their implications heavy despite her tone, "you kidnapped me clearly for a reason, and you need me alive for that, plus I'm pretty sure you ain't the big boss or mastermind, you don't have that vibe." Her eyes narrows, "you wanna kill me? Go on, see if I care. But you do, don't you? Do you wanna piss your boss off? Do you wanna off me before he gets to talk to me? Plus I'm pretty sure about what landed me here, not sure if that's the case with you though." Her eyes blaze and burns, and her teeth glints with a feral grin. "So kill me if you dare, cowards." Kimura spits.
Dabi raises an eyebrow.
She's smart, that he'll give her. But calling them cowards? For not daring to kill her? That's just cute.
"Saying stuff like this... A little hypothetical, isn't it?" Dabi said, voicing his thoughts, "for someone who haven't even killed."
The words triggers an interesting set of reaction, and Dabi watches with fascination.
She recoils as if burnt, but doen't flinch. In the same time a blank, almost dumbfunded look appears on her face. It takes a few moments for it to fade, as if she is processing the words. And when it does, it's replaced by some shock of shocked, stare which switched rapidly between offence and wonder before it settled into something vaguely recognisable, edging on amusement.
"Heh." A laugh escapes the amber-eyed girl, "Ha,"her tone was dry and bitter with self-resentment as she leveled them all with an animalistic gaze, "Haha, Dabi, ha, ha." Her giggles turn less mocking and more... Real, high pitched and eerie and verging on crazed, but real. "very, very funny."
"And what's so funny?" Dabi says, vaguely amused at the girl shaking with barely suppressed laughter, "Care to elaborate?"
Kimura, who's just gained a little control over her fits of giggles, bursts out laughing again. Doubling over with cackles that escaped her in breathless, hitching wheezes that almost resembled sobs, it's almost unsettling, with how... how...
Empty, they sound.
"This is such a joke!" She said, eyes wide and filled with something, not delight, not insanity, nor was it joy. "Me? A hypocrite? I mean, you're not entirely wrong, but-" her hallowing giggles took over again, and there it is, that note of something in her tone, not masked nor hidden, it's just right there. She would've sounded like Toga if not for the lack of the twisted glee. But it is in its own way bone-chilling, and Dabi is sure that it'd came from that something. And it's deeper, sneaking just beyond his peripherals like a mirage, sounding almost like self-loafing and blatant disgust. The look on her face however suggests that she finds this situation hilariously bizarre, which is starting to annoy him.
"She's lost her marbles," Compress murmurs under his breath, "Hasn't she?"
If the girl heard the magician, then she paid him no mind. Kimura simply continued giggling to herself like a mad woman, and Dabi can see that this senseless laughter is starting to get to some of his fellow villains, not to mention the Bakugou boy, who seem visibly disturbed, frozen in his chair. Though the girl doesn't stop. She doesn't stop for a long time, and just sat in that chair laughing like there's an inside joke going on, until she stops.
Her face is still fixed in a smile however, a small empty smile, eerily calm and eyes behind a mask of amusement before she locked they with his. "Yeah," She said airily, "I'm a coward alright, I'll admit," Her head tilts as her smile widens by a fraction, showing teeth as an almost child-like gleam in her eyes, "But, Dabi,"
"How'd you know I haven't killed?"
The air of the room seemed to freeze. Dabi is sure that everyone in the room can hear the tension that is now ringing in his ears. Kimura continues to pin everyone with her gaze, before she looked away, and like a string, it snaps.
Kimura looks towards the side, head lolling bonelessly as she stared at the walls, not really focusing on anything. The look of something is back again, and this time, Dabi recognizes it. It's a conflicted look, something raw and bare and just doesn't belong on someone as young as her, something festering that grows inside a person, a feeeling that Dabi himself knew quite well, a look of bittersweet-
Agony.
Current Poll Results~ (from both the poll and the reviews)
Akemi's paring:
Todoroki Shouto: 23
Midoriya Izuku: 7
Ueno Hibiki: 7
Bakugou Katsuki: 4
Iida Tenya: 3
Iida Tensei: 1
Kaminari Denki: 1
Seiba Hiroi: 0
Others (Please state in review!)
Hibiki's pairing:
Shinsou Hitoshi: 8
Kimura Akemi: 7
Iida Tenya: 4
Midoriya Izuku: 0
Seiba Hiroi: 0
Todoroki Shouto: 0
Others (Please state in review!)
Edit:
AHHH.
I uploaded the wrong Author's note last chapter, didn't I? I'm sorry! So sorry!
Also, be ready for a lot more angst. Contrary to most of my fic here, (Wreaking Havoc, and most of Sonder) my favorite genres to write is actually tragedy, angst, gore and horror. I like to get deep into descriptions of a character's feelings, their ideals, how they react when they see blood and more viceral things— things that I DEFINITELY can't stomach.
So while there will be small breaks in between arcs, where that's just a load of memes and jokes and slice-of-lives, the main plot and stuff are going to get dark, fast.
Also quick warning, the break between the Kamino arc and Overhaul arc is going to be a lot shorter, and the two arcs are going to blur together a lot. It's something I do in my original works, (if you wanna check them out take a look at my Ao3 account, I have a whole series.) And I want to mess things up, put it in a blender, and generally try out the whole idea of, pulling the plot together more, make the pace... Tighter.
I don't know how well it'll work out, I don't know if y'all will like it, but I like the idea. I've always liked detective novels and films and animes where things are tightly packed with characters and informations and just clues and plot everywhere. And I just want to try that out.
Onto the comment(s)!
To darkpaladin89: ohh good luck! I'm rooting for you. Plz succeed! Also, Marmy is coming in soon, right after the whole— wait, spoilers. *Shuts mouth audibly*
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