GenderNeutralKitsune!Reader and platonic!Shigaraki cuddles
(BNHA SPOILERS!!). Before y’all ask, the reader isn’t a kitsune, so to speak, they’re a normal human with a kitsune quirk! Your quirk allows you to have 3 forms. 1, A human with fox ears and a tail (Likely a holdover from another permanent animal quirk?) 2, A 1 tailed fox - You can’t speak English in this form ): ) And 3, A 9 tailed fox that… also can’t speak English. damn u really got nerfed huh. Also, If you uh don’t like the whole.. murder thing about being involved with the LOV in this AU, it’s part of my ‘The LOV aren’t that bad’ AU, where they’re more vigilante than villain, but they’re forced to be more villainous by AFO
Summary: A kitsune from the tender age of… whenever your quirk first appeared, You soon realised that the world was cold to those who were quirkless. But you weren’t spared, either. After all, your quirk didn’t have any fighting capabilities, really? You couldn’t be a hero. But you’d find one thing that made you feel worth it. The league of villains needed you, because what’s a more inconspicuous way to gather information than a fox? Plus, You could do pick-ups!
They made you worth it.
Even if you were worthless in every other regard, The league cared about you.
——=;+ A fox pup, Somewhere.+;=——
You awake warmly, a fox ear twitching happily. You do ponder, though, what exactly awoke you- Until, you hear Shigaraki scream. “くそー, いまいましい, ひどい, ひどく, とても!” He says, angrily. Although you don’t understand japanese, you understand his tone, deducing that he must’ve lost a game again.
Slowly, you peer into the main room, until you see it,
Dabi. Fighting. Shigaraki. In. Smash. Bros.
Disastrous, you‘re aware. Spinner and kurogiri seem to be watching silently, though Spinner looks amused - and Kurogiri… looks like Kurogiri, -
Until you remember about the delivery you’ve gotta get.
You rush to the door, watching Shigaraki peer over to you. His red eyes don’t seem so intimidating, once you’ve seen him cry over being forced to kill an innocent civilian. Dabi doesn’t come out of his room on those days.
”What’re you doing?” He says, and you notice happily that he said it in English. He cared enough to make sure you knew what he was saying! “I’ve got that delivery to go get, Shiggy!!” You answer, rushing out of the door. Before the door is fully closed, you hear Dabi (One of the members who doesn’t know English, and such has to rely on Shigaraki to translate,) Ask Shigaraki what you said. You don’t manage to hear him answer - Not that it’d matter, - But you hear him tut, due to your little nickname.
——=;+ Mischievous, And likely villainous! +;=——
You, now in your 1-tailed fox form, strut down through autumn leaves, laden with holes from caterpillars. Somehow, though, it doesn’t ruin their beauty. It adds to it. Makes the beautiful oranges, reds, yellows, glimmer all the better in the setting sun, making the question of “How late did I sleep in!?” go unthought and unsaid.
You eventually watch the beautiful leaves fade away individually - And they almost remind you of yourself, in the way they go unnoticed until they’re gone, - and you reach a clearing.
Within it, a single bag lies. You know what’s in there, so you opt to be careful. Slowly, you drag the bag (which was somewhat hindered by not wanting to crush a caterpillar.) over leaf after leaf, until you reach the LOV’s back door. You tap on a window, bag in tow, until Spinner pops it open. Slowly, he picks up the bag and leaves the window open for you (although, only for a minute. Can’t risk anyone seeing you,) as a silent invitation to return. You shake your head, chasing back into the forest.
Once you’re far enough in, You see a young male (Likely a goth, you think amusingly,) with white and red hair, Probably a result of his quirk. He seems to notice you, though he of course notices you as a fox, and his eyes seem to light up.
Maybe he’s never seen a fox up close before?
You ponder up to him, watching him still as not to spook you. How kind of him, You think. You let out a low-pitched trllll of curiousity, bumping your head into his hands. He, however slowly, pats your head, allowing you to rest for a few minutes.
Maybe you could dose off for a minute…
——=;+ A moment of rest, someday. +;=——
When you awake, You’re no longer a tiny fox. You’re a person, and you notice Eraserhead (Ass-raserhead, as you nicknamed him. You don’t actually mind him.) standing with his hair raised, as it slowly falls.
The younger male looks shocked, and the older one looks angry.
You panic. He’s going to hurt you, right?
Every bone in your body tells you to run, your ears twitching over and over again out of anxiety. You switch into your fox form, not even caring which form you take (clearly,) when you notice it’s your 9 nailed variant rather than your one tailed.
You run. You’re scared.
You eventually slow after having run around the city at least 10 times, though you’re pretty sure you lost eraserhead after the 5th time.
You raise a shaking paw up to the window, tapping on it in rapid yet quiet succession. Shigaraki is the one who answers this time, luckily, when you jump through the window and change back into your human form mid-way. You grasp onto him, panting and crying.
”… What’re you doing?” He asks, trying his best to sound angry. But his eyes show that he isn’t. His eyes aren’t terrifying, like eraserheads.
”Nearly- *hah-* caught, woods- eraserhead saw me, human me-“ You blurt out, panicking.
Shigaraki’s eyes go distant for a minute, as he thinks, before he shrugs. “He didn’t find here, though. So it’s fine!” He says, putting on a fake smile. He’s not unhappy, you note, he just doesn’t often smile.
He walks back over to his sofa, plopping down on the now fully empty couch.
You spot your chance, and you take it.
You dash in, curling up on Shigaraki‘s lap as he sighs.
Slowly, as you drift off, you could‘ve sworn you felt a hand gently stroke your ears.