Chapter 17
Shigaraki Tomura's POV
I sighed leaning back into the couch, it was far more comfortable then the shitty old half corroded one previously…our new member took it upon herself to take care of everything, from fixing up our new 'home' to making sure we were prepped and feed.
The roof, floors, furniture and walls all replaced, she fixed the door to prevent the cold coming in at night and got a little iron fireplace in the front and main room, and she placed down carpet over the repaired floorboards to make it warmer. Even strung up curtains to block out the light, she had gotten a generator, fuel, lights, power adaptors and even recharging cords so that we could charge and use our mobiles. On top of all that it was now full winter and snowing, she had picked up the pace, at the beginning I sent compress, Toga and Twice off to do most of our 'shopping' she had even thought ahead to making up a protected greenhouse shed and grew our fresh fruit and veggies even herbs, not that I understood the need for that, tinned food was good enough. We started stock piling firewood inside the shed to keep us warm; she made sure we had enough of everything and now a blue campfire sat between the two tents outside five meters out in front of the cabin where most of us sat at night to stay warm before hitting the hay.
I had been a little too ambitious thinking that now we all extended our own quirks and with a healer we could beat Gigantomachia so easily and have him under our control, after the Re-Destro incident in Deika he had gone back to challenging us. So it seemed we would be staying here a little bit longer, which was fine, I didn't doubt our capability of surviving up here in the mountain in winter; not with Bambi with us however it was a pain.
I also was still weary of Hawks, he did everything we asked, told us how his quirk worked and his issues of heroes and how he views them, however something told me to not trust him, to not give him my back. Every day I left one of us here with Bambi as watchouts, mostly the others rotated around while I fought the big guy, on top of that we got more money income and connections, Giran had jumped in on everything Re-Destro had.
"Before I leave I want to see what else you need, how long will you be here?" I shrugged "no clue as of yet, we need to become accustomed to each other's new abilities, but I do want to ask you to do the recruiting from now on, I think we can both agree keeping Dabi here is best…plus I think he would like to stick close to little Bambi." I looked over to see the fire user lean against the wall facing Bambi as her back was to the wall, his smirk and eyes showed he was still teasing her and flirting as obviously as Toga did, I rolled my eyes at their antics. But I couldn't blame them, the woman was smart, kind, honest, a little bold when needed, carefree and most of all beautiful, every time we came back from training and trying to cow the big guy to our favour she would always kiss me. I smirked at the slight jealousy within Dabi's eyes but he always down played it, I also knew she did it because of my fatigue, the one second kiss gave me energy, rejuvenated the skin on my face and my hair was not as greasy afterwards; yes Bambi was so nurturing.
Ever since the snow came and the temperature dropped I noted my skin felt cracked, dry, irritated and stingy all over my face, I wasn't the only one to have that issue, Dabi suffered with his burnt skin cracking and his staples going ice cold in his skin. We were all so much slower with our movements and fighting which pushed us back a step, by now we were all heavily relying on Bambi to heal and rejuvenate us, which meant she was the one we made sure ate as much as possible.
I looked back to Giran "oh and before you leave I have a request for what I would like," Giran pulled the cigarette from his mouth blowing it out "what is that?" "I want you to try finding someone with manoeuvrability like what Kurogiri had and someone with a quirk that can stop others with powerful quirks, like that hero whose eyes glow up." He 'ahhed' "I'll see into it, but I can't produce miracles and don't expect it to happen immediately, once the hype in Deika settles down I'll get a freight truck to put a cargo of necessities on the outskirts, Compress can pick it up, it will help with the impending weather."
I dressed in many layers as I threw another log of wood into the little iron fireplace to heat up the cabin as it nearly died out, I noted the smell of baked beans and toast, our typical breakfast unless one wanted fruit which wasn't doing too well with growing in this weather even though we had the green house. I walked out onto the porch and straight down to the camp fire, all were rugged up and a small table with the food sat to the side, all sitting on logs of wood placed around the fire as seats instead.
Bambi was spooning up a deep plate for me when I came out, not having my families hands on me anymore and knowing the truth made me adapt and accept things easily, it was good to know why I was the way I was, why I hated one for all and how come I can never be a hero. I was prepared for the kiss on the lips or forehead sometimes the cheek, I let her chose, and I took the plate from her keeping one finger off of it as she came in and pecked me on the lips. She backed up grabbing her own plate and sitting down next to Dabi a place that was coined as her own seeing he was the warmest and when the snow first started we all fought over the fire user, resulting in a dog pile on the cabin main room floor the first night so we could all sleep warm.
I sat down eating, I hated the cold and the lack of sun and the wind and the snow and the early mornings, and I wasn't the only one, the doom and gloom faces of the league was depressing only Bambi seemed happy, Spinner was having a hard time seeing his mutation quirk is a gecko and they didn't do too well in the cold either, he was sleeping on the couch in the front room next to the iron fireplace. Compress was on the top bunk with me on the bottom, he didn't move much in his sleep which helped, Twice, Toga and Hawks slept in the three man tent and Dabi stuck with Bambi.