The league gets there the night before; Dabi swiping any obvious personal mementos still left to avoid suspicion. He hasn't told the others about himself early and he doesn't ever plan to. The family photos make good kindling for the fire pit anyway. He finds an old action figure of Natsu's under one of the beds and tucks in a drawer for safe keeping.
No one else notices because they're too busy poking and prodding at the place and trying to get answers about how he knew about it. Tomura plugs his hamdheld in to charge, Compress finds some unopened bottles of sake and wine, Twice volunteers to do a snack run. It's...actually looking like everyone is gonna have a good time. Not that Dabi cares as long as they stop complaining about being busy.
Todoroki had invited his three dearest friends to go on vacation together. But Iida had to respectfully decline since he had plans with his brother and Bakugou had plans throwing himself into a volcano, apparently. At least that's what he'd said he'd rather do than spend a weekend with him. It's a shame two of his three best friends were busy, but at least Midoriya could come. Not wanting it to just be the two of them, Uraraka and Shoji took the invites instead.
Most the villains slept in because why the hell would get up early on vacation so they don't even hear the door unlock as Uraraka gawked at the large fancy house. Instead Shoto got to have the...interesting experience of finding the villain they smacked into the dirt for kidnapping their friend last year lounging in the kitchen in his father's old bathrobe. Still in his balaclava for some reason.
They don't even have time for basic questions before Toga is charging into the room to tackle Midoriya and Uraraka, oblivously delighted to see her favorite hero students make a surprise appearance. Izuku manages to dodge with the squeak of a startled rabbit and Ochako throws her to the ground immediately. Himiko is still kicking her feet excitedly while Ochako sits on her.
The commotion gets everyone else out of bed, Shoto baffled and pissed that there were a bunch of villains squatting in here. At least with Toga as a hostage things don't immediately break into chaos.
Demands to know what they were doing here are met with a childish "what are YOU doing here", Tomura taking center stage to negotiate while everyone else is casting side eyes in Dabi's direction.
"Get that scowl off your face, brat. We're not here to fight."
"You can't just stay here like you own the place!"
"Why not? Villains get tired too, you know."
"I can just call the authorities."
It's actually kind of cute watching Midoriya get frustrated, his nose wrinkled and his cheeks puffed.
"You still aren't welcome here. We were actually invited." Shoji joins at Midoriya's side, looming over all six villains easily.
"You kids are pretty selfish, you know that? This place is massive, there's more than enough space for ten people here." It's out of Spinner's mouth before he really thought about the logsitics. His assessment wasn't wrong but that would imply-
"You...want us to share??"
"What!? No way!" Uraraka balks at Todoroki for actually sounding like he was considering it.
Toga whines under her at that rejection. "It would be amazing to have another girl to hang out with!"
Midoriya scrambles to calm her down before that offer was taken off the table. "Think about it, it's dangerous to get physical with any of them. If they don't want to fight, we shouldn't take that risk."
Everyone's side eye shifts to Spinner instead.
"Alright, if you promise not to hurt us, we can forge a truce. We stay out of your way and you stay out of ours." Midoriya holds his hand up for a split second before remembering that's a bad idea. What a dork.
"Fine, but only if the girl gets off of Toga."
"I'm fine right here, actually." Toga grins, flushed and delighted to still be pinned under Ochako. Ochako promptly stands back up after that.
The kids take a room to share and promptly talk strategy. They think of a phrase and response to say to one another if Toga is conspicuously absent anywhere and know who to avoid close contact with. It would be hard to settle with a bunch of murderous villains in the house but so long as they weren't provoked-
Midoriya spotted movement outside from the window. The villains were-! ...hitting the beach, showing off their new swimsuits and testing if the water was warm enough yet. Maybe that was enough strategizing for now...
Toga practically squeals when she sees the others come down to join them on the beach. "Ochako-chan! We match!!" Their bikinis were slightly different styles but the exact same shade of tye dye pink. Uraraka flushes immediately and nearly covers up with her towel. She tries to stammer out that it wasn't on purpose or anything but Toga isn't listening. She's already begging her to swim and play on the beach with them.
"I don't get why she's so friendly with you two." Midoriya turns and sees Shigaraki still fully clothed and curled up under a beach umbrella near where Dabi was standing, also still clothed. "You mostly just piss me off so I don't get it."
And the part of him that wasn't pissed off definitely wasn't checking him out. Eugh, All Might swimshorts? Did he get those when he was seven or something? Well- judging by how tight they were that wasn't out of the question.
The cold realization that he was staring at his fated enemy's fat ass went unnoticed by Midoriya. "You're not gonna swim?"
"No. So leave me alone." Or at least sit down so that thing wasn't at eye level, god-!
Midoriya awkwardly acquiesced and left him be, which only drew attention to how that tiny suit rode up ever so slightly as he walked. Tomura wanted to bury his head in the sand but his own knees would have to do. A slight chill went through his body after a moment, a glacier of ice having appeared directly next to him when he opened his eyes next.
"You're both wearing long black clothes and staying out of the water. I figured you might want this to cool off a little." Todoroki stated bluntly.
Dabi flicked him between the eyes for that. "Think I can't handle a little heat, dumbass?"
He really should just kill him.
"You are covered in burns."
OHHH he wanted to kill him!
And yet Shoto lingered next to him, not dead.
"Um...are you mad at me?"
Dabi felt his eye twitch.
"I think there's always something I miss when people are mad at me. They never tell me directly but there's always something off. At the training camp, I remember you talked to me like we already met. So- did I make you mad and never apologize? Did you become a villain because of me? I'm sorry..." One look into those soft, puppish eyes and it was clear.
Ho-ly fuck Shoto didn't know.
How was he so close but so far off!? How the hell did he even try navigating this!?
Dabi hid his panic by flicking him in the forehead again. "Don't say sorry when you don't even know what you're talking about."
"Pardon!" Compress buts in to fizzle out the tension and snaps up a portion of the ice in one of his marbles. "Just thought I'd swipe a bit for drinks. Don't mine me."
"So do those marbles have a kind of stasis effect? Will it stay frozen if you keep it in there??" Compress is a bit startled by Midoriya’s sudden interest in him. Where had he even been keeping that notebook in his hands?
"Loser..." Tomura mutters a bit too fondly.
"Izuku!! Come on get in the water with us! You too Shuichi!" Toga whines, already out waist deep with Ochako and Twice.
"Nah," Spinner declines bluntly.
"You brought a suit but you're not swimming?" Shoji questions as he pads up beside him.
"When you go to the beach you wear a swimsuit, duh. Besides, I'm more here for the sun than anything."
Shoji hummed and watched Spinner tilt his head up to bask in it a bit. "So why the mask still?" He was still wearing that Stain eyemask.
"Like we'd reveal our identies to you-!" Spinner turned around to point a very firm finger at him only to lose his momentum a bit. He still had his mask but Shoji pointedly did not, scarred muzzle on full display. It was...actually really handsome.
"We already know your government names, remember?" Shoji pointed out, raising an eyebrow and laughing a little.
Fuck- why did his chest just do a weird thing!
"I- since when are you so nosey! I thought you were the quiet type."
"It's not every day we're making small talk with people that tried to kill us..."
Spinner deflates a bit and just huffs. "Guess that goes double for us..."
