## Preface

Spring Etiquette
Posted originally on the Archive of Our Own at http://archiveofourown.org/works/36376438.

Rating:
  Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning:
  No Archive Warnings Apply
Category:
  M/M
Fandom:
  僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Relationship:
  Dabi | Todoroki Touya/Takami Keigo | Hawks
Additional Tags:
  League of Villains as Family (My Hero Academia), League of Villains Shenanigans (My Hero Academia), Takami Keigo | Hawks Acts Like a Bird, 5+1 Things, Feral Takami Keigo | Hawks, Protective Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Fluff and Humor, Not Beta Read, Protective Takami Keigo | Hawks, Villain Takami Keigo | Hawks
Language:
  English
Series:
  Part 3 of Villian!Hotwings
Collections:
  Hawks fanfics just because, League of Villains as a Family / Villain Deku (maybe League of Villains and Deku), Stories from UA (BNHA fics), My Hero Academia 💚❤🤍
Stats:
  Published: 2022-01-12 Words: 5,737 Chapters: 1/1

# Spring Etiquette

by TheOtherHalfOfTheShell

Summary

> "Okay, how bad really is this?," Spinner asked, "Hawks is the most chill guy I know and he's got more self control in the tip of his feather than half of us have in our entire body."

> "Hawks doesn't have control when it comes to protecting his mate," Shigaraki said, "he goes feral and the only person that's safe is Dabi."

> "Anything we should know?'' Spinner asked "I'd like to not get massacred for accidentally triggering a trained assassin."

> The four older members shared a look, "Uh yeah, there's a couple.

> A continuation of my self indulgent feral Hawks series.

Notes

See the end of the work for notes

## Spring Etiquette

Rule 1. Do not under any circumstances threaten Dabi.

Toga came running into the room, a half whine falling out of her mouth, "Kurogiri! Hawks and Dabi are being mean to meeee."

"Come now, Hawks is never mean," Kurogiri assured as he comforted the whiney maniac, "what happened."

"I threw a knife at Dabi and Hawks attacked me!," she said, showing him the slice on her cheek, "Dabi grabbed him and yelled at me to get out of the bar and to stay out."

Shigaraki laughed, not looking up from the game he and Spinner had been playing, "did he say anything else?"

Toga had managed to quiet her tears as Kurogiri cleaned her face, "yeah I heard him mumbling something about spring coming early."

That managed to catch his attention.

"Sako, would you mind patching up Toga for me while I lock up the bar," Kurogiri handed over the bandages disappearing.

"What's going on?," Spinner asked, catching the mood shift.

"You two weren't here last spring so you managed to miss out on, well, let's just call it Spring fever, "the magician chuckled as he carefully bandaged Toga's face.

"Is that why Hawks has been so weird and growly?," Toga pouted.

"Yeah, he gets glitchy around this time every year, especially when it comes to Dabi. It's like a bird thing, best to just avoid both of them until Hawks goes back to normal," Shigaraki said, "I'm only telling you this once because I honestly don't care if he kills you for being stupid, do not threaten Dabi verbally or physically, don't even think about it until summer."

"I didn't even threaten him! I just threw a knife as a hello!," Toga whined.

Sako patted her head, "just say hi like the rest if us do, Hawks isn't in the right frame of mind and he'd be very upset to find out he hurt you."

Kurogiri appeared again, "they've moved to their room, Dabi says he should be back by dinner but to make sure we educate them."

"Okay, how bad really is this?," Spinner asked, "Hawks is the most chill guy I know and he's got more self control in the tip of his feather than half of us have in our entire body."

"Hawks doesn't have control when it comes to protecting his mate," Shigaraki said, "he goes feral and the only person that's safe is Dabi."

Kurogiri and Sako nodded in agreement.

"You've seen Hawks go feral?," Spinner asked in disbelief.

"Yeah it was years ago, back when the League was just those two, Kurogiri and me…"
***

Another stupid meeting with some weak ass wannabes Dabi was sure to roast, he didn't even know why he had to be here. He was just going to hang out in the back while Dabi did all the talking.

As much as he loathed to admit it, that asshole was much better at getting their point across.

"How much longer are we waiting out here? I'm bored," he grumbled.

Dabi took another drag off his cigarette, "calm down Crusty. It's a power play, makin em wait puts them more on edge and let's them know we don't need them"

Shigaraki rolled his eyes, he'd love to argue but Dabi was probably right. He was very good at mind games as long as he kept his temper in check. As soon as he got mad though it was scorched earth and cut losses.

"We're here to recruit people not stroke your fucking ego. Let's go already."

"Alright alright, let's get this over with, wouldn't want your Playstation to get cold," Dabi chuckled.

"Should've left you in the ditch we found you in," Shiggy grumbled as they walked into the abandoned shopping mall, "shouldn't you be in more of a hurry to get back to the chicken? He's getting to the more annoying stage of bird flu."

Dabi smirked, "he might actually kill you if he hears you call it that. They have him working tonight, want him to infiltrate some smaller gangs and work his way up to the league."

Shigaraki couldn't stop the laugh that escaped him, if only they knew.

"His handlers know he's gonna be out for a couple days soon so they're trying to make him earn it, sadistic fuckers," Dabi didn't hid the hatred lacing his words.

Shigaraki frowned, the HSCP was fucked up and at the top of his list whenever they finally got the numbers to do some damage. Hawks hadn't even debuted as a hero and they already had him doing shady shit. As annoying as he thought Hawks was, he was still a member of the league and no one fucked with league members with out taking damage.

He let his eyes skim around the area, "I'm counting at least five camping on the second floor, and a couple scattered behind us. Feels like an ambush"

Dabi groaned under his breath, "for fucks sake, I was hoping for an easy night."

"Let them attack first and keep them off us, could at least be a fun mini boss battle," he said, opening his phone in his hoodie pocket in case they needed a getaway.

Dabi nodded as they came to a stop, seeing a group of three approaching them, "better not make me do all the work."

"Yeah I am, I didn't wanna come so this is your mess."

"Useless ass Crusty faced bastard," Dabi mumbled as the group grew closer.

"You guys here for the meeting?," one of the newcomers asked.

"No we just really enjoy hanging out in dumps, " Dabi snarked, "quit wasting my fucking time."

The group looked un phased, "follow us then."

Yeah definitely an ambush, shits gonna suck.

The group lead them further into the building stopping to yank open a metal door. He could feel Dabi starting to heat up next to him in preparation.

They followed the men into the room rounding the corner to a more well lit area where the meeting must be taking place.

"Daaaabiiiii!," a blur of red tackled into the Pyro nearly knocking him over.

"Oh great the birds here," Shigaraki groaned, now he really wanted to go home.

Dabi was quick to hide the gross smile he got on his face whenever he saw his mate, "Hey Pretty bird, what are you doing here?"

"Apparently I was waiting on you, hot stuff," unlike Dabi, Hawks was very open with his flirting no matter who was in the room, "and you managed to get cheeto dust out of the basement?"

"I will make it my life's goal to destroy every KFC in Japan," Shigaraki dead panned.

The bird just laughed at him, "someone's cranky tonight,"

"You have no idea," Dabi mock whispered, not bother to try and shake Hawks of him, fucking bird flu.

Shigaraki glared at them, "I'm going home, you two deal with this."

"You're not going anywhere," a gruff voice shouted, "I called you to this meeting for a reason."

Shigaraki looked at where the voice was coming from, a large man with rock like formations on his shoulders, "you're the boss then? Pass."

Shoulder guy didn't seem to like that answer, "pass? Listen here boy, you've been stepping on my turf way to much the last month and I think it's time you learn some manners-,"

Shigaraki interrupted what was sure to be an annoyingly long monolog with a groan, "Hawks?"

"No one above D-rank, mostly drug trafficking, there's thirty-six present tonight as they planned to make a show out of the 'young upstarts pressing in on there territory' which I'm gonna guess is you. The room has one exit and its been welded shut by the only semi useful person in the gang" he didn't even bother to drag his eyes away from Dabi tracing his fingers over the staples on the others face, "I was gonna keep milking them for info to feed back to the commission but they're really boring."

"You're a spy?," one of the lackys shouted.

Hawks ignored them, already lost to Dabi again.

"Let's go then, roast them if you want to but I'm over this," Shigaraki said, sending his location to Kurogiri.

"Sure thing Shiggy, well go ahead and take the long way back when we're done," Dabi said.

"You're all pretty arrogant for two scrawny kids and a useless bird, " the boss growled.

"Don't be a fucking bigot, asshole," Dabi snapped.

Great, Shigaraki thought, not only did he have to deal with bird brain but a pissed off Dabi too. The Pyro was gonna go way overboard now.

"Who's gonna stop me? From what I can see your only quirk is being ugly,' Shoulders laughed, "kicking your shit in might actually be an improvement."

Shigaraki saw Hawks feathers stiffen, well this might actually get interesting.

"It's fine Keigo," Dabi mumbled into his hair but the feathers didn't relax.

"Come on! You guys said you wanted a fight, let's have it!," Shoulders screamed, ripping one of the rocks from his arms and tossing it directly at Dabi.

The rock shattered against a wall of hardened feathers.

Shigarakis eyes couldn't keep up with Hawks movement; one second he was peacefully drapped over Dabi the next he was across the room with the would be attackers throat in his hands.

Dabi tackled Shigaraki to the grouned, "get under me, try not to be seen and get Kurogiri to get you outta here."

Shigaraki could barely hear him over the screaming echoing through the room, he could hear bodies being thrown about and felt blood seeping into his hoodie.

"Dabi, what the fuck!?," he hissed, fumbling for his phone

"He's gone feral, this has happened before and it never ends well. I'll be fine but you need to leave," Dabi's eyes were locked on his dead serious.

The screams around them died down, just low gurgling of those close to death, Kurogiri finally picked up, "I need out now, as soon as I'm through close it."

Footsteps approached them, Shigaraki heard a low trill aimed at them.

"Get to the portal, we'll be back later," Dabi said before getting off him.

"Pretty bird, it's just me," Dabi said in a gentle coaxing voice, "you with me yet?"

Shigaraki felt the air shift as the portal opened behind him. He dared to look around once; every inch of the room was covered in gore including Hawks. The soon to be heros mouth was dripping with blood, talons out still holding on to what used to be a body part.

Feathers were still stiff and sharp sticking out at odd angles to the people they had speared. It seemed only the three of them were left in the room.

Hawks dropped what he was holding running his hands over Dabi, "Mate?"

"Mate, safe. We're Safe Kei," Dabi assured him.

His breathing must've been to loud as the birds eyes snapped past Dabi and straight on him.

"No, Kei. Look at me," Dabi grabbed the man's face freeing Shigaraki from where they had pinned him in fear.

He stumbled back onto the portal, wanting to be as far from those calculating gold eyes as possible.

"Close the fucking portal now!," Shigaraki said as soon as he was on the other side.

"What happened, are you hurt?," Worry laced Kurogiris' voice, "you're covered in blood, where are you injured? What about Dabi?"

"It's not my blood."

"What?," Kurogiri was still frantically moving around him.

Shigaraki let out a shaky breath, "Hawks leveled up."
***

"It took Dabi almost two weeks to get Hawks out of Raptor mode, they spent the first three days in that room because he was too out of it to move, " Shigaraki finished.

"Unfortunately Sako and I haven't had any direct run-ins with Hawks when he's in this state of mind but we have had to clean up the aftermath, it's never pretty, " Kurogiri said grimly, "it's best to not try and provoke him."

"You can say that again," Dabi grumbled coming into the living room.

"How's the bird?," Shigaraki asked.

"Fine, it's still early enough that he was able to fight back most of his instincts but he's gonna be agitated for a couple days at least," Dabi said, "he also wanted me to apologize to the idiot but maybe this will finally teach her to keep her knives to herself."

Toga had the sense to look at least mildly ashamed.

"Anything else we should know?'' Spinner asked visibly shaken, "I'd like to not get massacred for accidentally triggering the trained assassin."

The four older members shared a look, "Uh yeah, there's a couple.

××××××××××××××××××××

Rule 2. Don't touch Dabi.

Spinner could feel eyes on him, his skin twitched and every instinct in his body was screaming at him to run and hide.

He tried to focus on the meeting, it was very important as he was their only get away driver and they needed this to go well.

Spinner logically knows that Hawks isn't trying to be aggressive or attack him but the man had to know how creepy he was by just sitting in the rafters and watching them.

Well watching Dabi, and anybody who got too close to the man. Spinner had shown up late and got stuck sitting next to the Pyro.

He'd normally be okay with sitting next to the living furnace but he might actually die of stress before this meeting was over.

"Oi! Spinner, did you hear me?," Shigaraki jarred him out of his panic, "I expected the other idiots to be daydreaming but I thought you had at least half a fuckong braincell."

He stopped breathing, all the attention was on him now. He felt the full force of Hawks eyes on him; he needed to get out, he needed to hide no more open spaces. He he- just Fuck!

Compress laid a hand on his shoulder causing the man to jerk, "Spinner why don't you come sit next to me? Your instincts are in direct opposition to Hawks, correct?"

Spinner nodded, finally able to move. With the other man guarding his back.

Shigaraki looked up to the rafters, "oh I didn't notice gargoyle Hawks, sorry."

Twice jumped up, "here take my seat, I love sitting next to Dabi! UGH I HATE BEING NEAR THAT GUY."

Twice eagerly sauntered over to take the seat next to Dabi, throwing his arm over him, "See were best-"

Twice screamed clutching his heavily bleeding arm on the floor.

Dabi had his arms around a snarling Hawks shouting, "let him go! Kiego stop it!"

Kurogiri stood between them, blocking Twice from Hawks sight and he visibly calmed.

"What? Oh shit! Twice I'm so sorry!," the hero started blubbering, going limp in Dabis arms.

Toga had made her way over by then helping to cut off the blood flow, Twice started babbling back but the chaos of his differing sides and blood loss made it hard to hear what he was attempting to say.

Spinner had dipped as soon as Hawks grabbed Twice.

Shigaraki dropped his head into his hands, "okay new rule, don't touch Dabi, didn't think I'd have to say that but whatever. We'll continue the meeting later. I'm going to bed."

××××××××××××××××××××

Rule 3. Don't touch the Nest.

Toga likes to think she's a rather bright and cunning girl, she is one of the key members of one of Japan's biggest crime syndicates after all.

She's broken into hospitals, banks and maximum security government offices so seeking into an unlocked room in her own home should be easy peasy, right?

Yes, she'd been told the rules; if you leave it in the den it's fair game, once it goes in the nest it belongs to the nest and absolutely don't go near Hawks and Dabis room without them but Hawks wasn't even here and she was pretty sure Dabi wouldn't actually care.

Besides, she really wanted her hoodie back.

Toga timed it perfectly, right after lunch; Hawks had just left back to his hero duties, Dabi was entertaining himself watching Shigaraki and Spinner trying to teach Twice how to play a game they needed a third for.

Perfect.

She hurried up the stairs, positive that no one would even notice her absence. Her socked feet were silent as she rushed down to the room at the very end of the hall.

Dabi and Hawks had claimed the room farthest away from the others, a floor above them as well since Hawks says he didn't care for sleeping under ground.

Toga pushed open the door without a sound, her eyes scanned quickly over the room, in the far left corner was a mass of fabrics, red feathers scattered throughout, Toga knew there was a mattress in there somewhere but you couldn't tell just by looking.

On the outer edge barely tucked in was her brand new pastel purple hoodie sequins glittering in the sun, bingo!

She snatched the hoodie hugging it to her chest letting it a small giggle of victory.

While she was here she might as well see what else she could reclaim, she reached to grab at the sleeve of a shirt she recognized when a hand dropped on her shoulder.

"Toga."

Oh fuck.

She glanced over her shoulder to meet Dabis eyes, "heeey Dabs, fancy seeing you here."

"Hand me the hoodie."

"No! It's mine and I just got it!," Toga whined.

"I don't care, you know that once it gets put in the nest there's no getting it back," Dabi said.

"He doesn't have to know I took it back," Toga tried to reason.

Dabis grip tightened on her shoulder, "do me a favor and look at the window, move slowly."

Toga rolled her eyes, hoodie still firmly grasped in her arms, then glanced at the window, "wha- !"

Her breath caught in her throat; Hawks sat perched in the window, talons digging into the wood. His eyes trained on the sweater in her arms.

"But he left!," she stuttered.

Although he wasn't really look at her, she felt his eyes boring into her chest, as if he could see her heart beating and exactly where he'd need to slice to retrieve what she'd tried to take back.

If she wasn't about to be bird food she'd think it was hot.

Dabi sighed, "you really think he doesn't have the room under constant surveillance? There's feathers literally everywhere. You should be glad I noticed you heading up here or you'd really be in trouble. Now give me the hoodie, get out and I'll try to talk him into giving it back."

Toga pulled the sweater tighter to her chest, Hawks leaned forward.

"Toga. Now," Dabi demanded.

A smart thief knows when to cut their losses. She hands the hoodie back to Dabi, Hawks eyes follow as Dabi places it back into the nest, he's on it as soon as Dabi steps back placing it in its original position and checking to see what else was disturbed.

Dabi leads her out of the room, "I'll get your hoodie back, or make him buy you a new one, okay? No more pouting."

Toga continued to pout, "fine, but you better make it two"

Dabi laughed, "Sure kid, now leave I gotta deal with bird brain."

Some hours later Hawks returned and apologetically dropped three hoodies in her lap, "sorry It was really shiny, but these are really good too."

Toga squealed with excitement, "you're forgiven!"

Toga felt along her new hoodies, loving how soft they felt.

Kurogiri cleared his throat, "Toga, do you have anything to say?"

The blonde looked up, then sheepishly over at Hawks, "I'm really sorry I messed with your nest, I swear I won't do it again."

Hawks smiled softly at her in thanks.

"You better not squirt, or next time I let him handle you," Dabi threatened.

Toga stuck her tongue out at him, "meanie!"

××××××××××××××××××××

Rule 4. Just accept the grooming.

"Anyway I got this new intern, he's got a bird quirk too! Tou you'd love him he's all 'welcome to my dark twisted mind' kinda emo and he's gonna be my little chicklet for a full semester!," Hawks chirped while softly combing through Dabis' hair.

The league sat around the living room, settling in after an uneventful day listening to Hawks talk about his slightly more interesting day.

"Pft, they trust you with a kid?," Dabi scoffed.

"Hey! I'm gonna be a great momma hen," Hawks said, yanking lightly on the dyed locks, "gonna teach him how to punch and how to fly properly, his first try was not very good but I can fix it. He's gonna be a great addition to the league"

"What? Kei no he's a hero student, he's not gonna join a villain organization for you," Dabi said.

"He might, I can be very convincing!," Hawks rebutted.

Dabi sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose, "Keigo, babe no."

"But he's my baby bird! I wanna keep him!" Hawks whined.

"I say we let Hawks recruit the kid," Shigaraki butted in, eyes trained on the screen where he and Spinner were co-oping some shooter game only they knew the name of.

"Oh well if the Boss says it's okay," Dabi said with exaggerated sarcasm.

"Hell yeah I'm gonna teach him Crime!" Hawks happily chirped.

Dabi rolled his eyes, "If you and Shiggy think it's a good idea you know it's gonna fail."

Hawks gave a mock gasp, "How dare you! Just for that, no more preening."

Hawks untangled himself from the love seat he and Dabi had claimed as there's and moved to sit behind Shigaraki pushing him out off the couch and onto the floor, Shigaraki was unfazed his game play unaffected.

Spinner however nearly dropped his controller as Hawks plopped beside him and began combing through his gaming partners hair. Looking around he saw Toga also raising a question eyebrow. He's sure Twice would be on their side if he could see the man's face under the mask.

Dabi, Shigaraki and Hawks didn't seem fazed at all continuing their conversation.

"Not to make it weird but is this another of those bird things," Toga finally asked.

Hawks tilted his head in question, still carefully brushing his talons through the blue hair, "wanting to keep my new fledgling? Yeah maybe. But he's just so baby and I swear if I drop him off enough buildings he's gonna learn to fly. I've always wanted a sidekick that could fly with me."

"No, not the intern-," Spinner tried.

"You dropped him off a building?!," Dabi half screamed.

Hawks shrugged, "gotta push the babies outta the nest so they can learn to trust their wings."

"Keigo what the fuck," Dabi dead panned.

"Hey! Our thing first!," Toga shouted.

"I want to hear more about Hawks kicking people off buildings," Shigaraki laughed while still playing the game even though Spinner had abandoned it.

"I didn't kick him, I gave him a gentle push," Hawks explained, now braiding the other man's hair, "I tired just dropping him while I was flying him and it didn't go to well so I thought maybe being on something solid first would help?,"

Dabi ran his hands over his face, "Do you even hear yourself? What if he can't fly!?,"

Kurogiri and Compress chose then to come back from cleaning the kitchen, "what are you all screaming about now?"

"Hawks is trying to adopt slash murder his new intern and we just want to know why he's french braiding the boss' hair," Spinner said giving up on getting an answer.

Shigaraki finally looked up, running a hand minus his pinkie over his head, "gross you know I look weird with braids."

"Yeah the braids are the problem," Dabi snickered.

Shigaraki flipped him off and Hawks rolled his eyes undoing the braids, "they look so nice in your hair though."

"So is it a bird thing or is the throuple real?," Toga demanded.

The men in the room all gave various forms of disgust, Spinner was hoping it wasn't true but the three were really close…

"Toga! Not appropriate," Compress reprimanded.

"fuck off pervert!," Dabi gagged.

"Woo! Dusty hot wings for the win!," Twice shouted, then, "NOT IN MY GOOD CHRISTIAN HOUSEHOLD."

Not denial, Spinner thought but kept it to himself.

Hawks was the first to recover, "it's a bird thing. Since most birds live in flocks they help groom each other, preening the feathers on the top of the heads is a really close familia thing."

Shigaraki could still feel Hawks talons lightly scraping across his scalp remembering how nervous the other was the first time he'd asked to preen him.

It was a couple years after he'd found Dabi, just the three of them and Kurogiri still.

***

The three boys were on the couch at a long abandoned hideout; Dabi and him playing a video game and Hawks prattling on about something.

He'd noticed how agitated Hawks seemed but the hero in training had bad days that left him on edge so he didn't comment.

Dabi didn't seem to be as patient. "Birdie, just ask him, you're driving me crazy with the anxiety."

Hawks gave a startled chirp, "shut up Touya!"

"No, just ask he's not gonna make fun of you like those commission bastards," Dabi argued.

"Um, what?," Shigaraki asked.

Hawks glanced at him then down at where his hands were buried in Dabis hair, "Okay it's nothing but, could I um… well I just want- i-it's a uh bird thing…"

"Spit it out," Dabi growled.

"CanIpreenyourhair?," Hawks word vomited.

Shigaraki was more confused, "what?"

Hawks groaned throwing his head back, "birds in a flock preen each other and my bird brain has decided that you're part of my flock and I really want to just brush your hair like a do Touya's."

"You think I'm part of your flock?," he asked, stunned.

"Of course Tomura," Hawks smiled at him.

Dabi lightly punched his arm, "c'mon man were gonna change the fucking world together, Yeah your apart of the flock."

He kinda wanted to cry then, it was the first time he could ever remember feeling like he had a family.

"You promise it's not a weird sex thing," He asked.

"No!" Hawks shouted at the same time Dabi said, "yes."

They dissolved in laughter as Hawks squawked at them.

In the end Hawks got the all clear then to preen him anytime he felt like it much to the birds joy.

Shigaraki would never tell a soul about how dear the memory was to him, and how happy it made him anytime the bird shoved behind him to comb through his hair, although he's sure the other two knew.

××××××××××××××××××××

Rule 5. Don't touch Hawks food (or comment on him feeding Dabi)

Game night was well underway when Hawks finally stumbled into the league base looking like he'd been dragged through several buildings; which from what they caught of the news he had.

The hero was greeted by shouts of hello and questions of his health, and Shigarakis jab about him being late. He gave them all a small wave and a low warble through his chest.

"He's alright he just needs some rest," Dabi said for him, Hawks smiled making his way to the table.

"Hey Pretty bird," Dabi greeted his mate, he got a small coo in response as Hawks kissed his temple.

"It's the favoritism, for me," Toga whispered to Spinner.

"You're taking tomorrow off," Dabi told him as the hero made his way to the kitchen.

Hawks responded with a higher pitched coo that somehow came across as sarcastic.

Dabi rolled his eyes as he shuffled the cards, "I swear I'll handcuff you to the nest if you try and go in tomorrow."

Hawks gave him a flirtatious whistle back in response.

"No. No," Dabi imitated Hawks flirty whistle, "you're going to rest and recover from that fight. Do you want to be dealt in?,"

Hawks chirped a couple times, seemingly agreeing to Dabi, then another chirp that sounded like a question.

"Yeah I ate already but I'll pick off your plate," Dabi responded as he started dealing out seven piles of cards, "remember I can't eat raw meat birdie."

The quick chirp followed by a low warble he got in response had him chuckling, "Oh yeah cause you've never forgotten before."

The league had been quite watching the exchange happening in front of them. Well, Spinner, Toga and Twice were watching; Shigaraki was deeply invested in something on his phone and Compress and Kurogiri were discussing something amongst themselves.

Toga finally broke, "Dabi do you speak bird!?"

"What?," the Pyro asked, Hawks peaked his head back into the room with an equally questioning chirp.

"Yeah man, Hawks hasn't actually said anything and you're having a full conversation. WHAT DO YA MEAN I UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING!," Twice chimed in.

Dabi looked at them like they were crazy, "I don't speak bird?"

Shigaraki scoffed, "he does, they have conversations like that anytime birdbrain is too tired to think properly."

Hawks made his way back into the room then, carrying way more food than one person could conceivably eat, sending an offended squawk Shigarakis way.

"Don't boo me, I'm right," Shigaraki said.

Hawks continued to grumble, settling himself down next to Dabi, ignoring the conversation in favor of devouring his feast.

"So Dabi speaks bird?," Spinner asked.

"No!"

"Yeah."

Compress sighed, "Shigaraki is correct, do you remember last game night when you threw a chair at Hawks because he fluffed up his wings?"

Hawks snorted and Dabi growled, "He called me a punk ass bitch and you all know it!"

"No we don't, cause we don't speak bird," Shigaraki said with a roll of his eyes.

"Kurogiri," Dabi asked, his last hope.

His facial expression was non-existent, but Dabi could feel the pity, "I'm sorry, but it does seem like you're the only one who can understand Hawks more avian language."

Hawks gave a questioning coo.

"It does feel racist to say it like that, yeah," Dabi agreed.

"See? Ya speak bird," Shigaraki laughed.

"Fuck all of you, let's just start the damn game, " Dabi grumbled in defeat.

They managed to make it through almost a full game before Spinner had to ask, "so um, not that it isn't super adorable and very villainous, but is the feeding part of the bird thing?"

Dabi glares at him from across the table as Hawks tries to push another bite of food into his mouth.

Dabi ignores the mildly annoyed trills being sent his way, "What?"

Spinner throws his hands up in surrender, "I'm just saying! Hawks almost murdered me for looking at his yakitori once and he did stab Twice for grabbing a fry of his plate; but not only is he feeding you right now, I've seen you grab a full chicken tender off his plate and he didn't even care."

Hawks trilled again, forcing Dabi to accept the bite, then gave a longer deep trill.

"Yeah fine," Dabi agreed around the food, "it's a bird thing. Predatory birds are very protective over their food but they also need to provide for their flock mates, I take a couple bites of whatever he's eating and it makes his raptor brain happy. He gets a little aggressive around food when he's tired because his metabolism is ridiculously high and raptor brain takes over."

"What about him throwing protein bars at the boss?," Toga asked.

Hawks finally spoke, while glaring at Shigaraki, "Too skinny."

"I literally weigh more than you," Shigaraki complained.

Dabi snorted, "the Dusters part of the flock whether he likes it or not."

"It's easier to choke down those torture bars than have the bird staring at me almost crying cause he thinks I'm starving to death," Shigaraki grumbled.

Dabi nodded in agreement, "that shits so gross."

"Feed yourselves and I won't have to," Hawks said, seemingly back to himself after his dinner.

The two in question rolled their eyes.

"Okay deal me in! Let's get this game night going," Hawks said, clapping his hands.

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+1

Toga skipped into the room giggling, "ooh the girls are fighting!"

"Oh no! I hate to see love turn sour. GOOD ALL THAT LOVEY DOVEY SHIT THEY DO IS GROSS," Twice said.

"Those two are always arguing, what did Hawks do this time? Try and wash Dabis coat again," Spinner asked, dodging the barrel thrown at him in game.

Toga continued her maniacal laugh, "nope, Hawks is mad at Dabi."

"What?," Shigaraki asked, pausing their game.

Compress set down the book he was reading, "Are you sure? Hawks rarely loses his temper with Dabi."

Toga was still giggling, "yeah I passed them in the hall and Hawks looked maaaad, and Dabi was next to him grumbling about how 'he's not gonna listen to him when he's being stupid like this' and then-"

Toga was cut off by a loud bang coming from the direction and the couples room.

"We need to leave, now," Shigaraki said, getting to his feet, game forgotten.

"What!?," Spinner stuttered in surprise.

Dabi often lost his temper with all of them, Hawks was not exempt from his anger. Their fights were loud, dramatic and over as quickly as they started; it was best to just hunker down and wait for the yelling to stop.

"Kurogiri! Portal now, to the farthest safe house we have!," Shigaraki shouted, "Let's go if you're not through the portal in the next thirty seconds, that's your problem."

Kurogiri came into the room opening a portal immediately, "Have we been found? Should I grab Dabi and Hawks?,"

"Dabi fucked up, Hawks is mad let's go," Shigaraki said shoveling the league through the portal.

"Oh dear, and this was such a nice base," Kurogiri sighed.

What the fuck? They were definitely gonna need an explanation, Spinner thought as Shigaraki practically threw him into the mist, he could hear the shouts and banging getting a little louder.

A day later settling into their new home Kurogiri came back with an armful of their things, "they seem to be settling down but the house is completely destroyed, I'll continue to bring what I can without catching their attention."

"Good, if they fucked up my Playstation again I swear I'm gonna dust that fucking nest," Shigaraki grumbled.

Spinner internally sighed, who knew the hardest part of bringing down hero society would be living with his team mates.

## Afterword

End Notes

> Thank you for reading! This is an entirely self indulgent series and Im happy ppl are enjoying it with me!

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