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deadhands69 · 2 months ago

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The Exorcism

Tomura Shigaraki x Reader

ShigAFO fix it fic, exactly what it sounds like

There's a man inside of your boyfriend.

Not in the way that there are two wolves or some metaphorical chrysalis waiting to awaken in all of us. No, there's a man inside of your boyfriend and he needs to get out now.

When Tomura Shigaraki went into the hospital, you expected an adjustment period afterward with the amount of quirks being dumped in his body at once. It’s a huge change but he was committed to it. So, you all made preparations. It wouldn’t be easy, but you’d manage and you’d get through it together.

Unfortunately, the powers came with an extra passenger. A parasite. He’s settled into his body unwillingly, taking over when he wants. That’s not a cost any of you are willing to pay, especially not when it's happening to Tomura. So:

He.

Needs.

To.

Get.

Out.

Now.

While All For One is off on some mission, abusing Tomura’s body for his own selfish reasons, you’ve called this meeting of close friends. The few of you who were available on such short notice sit in a circle on your living room floor. It’s an odd group, consisting of a few League of Villains members and your old neighbor Mrs. Shuzenji. She never retired, so she doesn’t get out much other than work, meaning she never has time to watch the news at the end of the day. Because of this, she has no clue who Tomura is (or the others) and simply thinks he’s “a sweet boy” who is at your apartment all the time. She has, however, heard of All For One and holds a special kind of hatred towards him. Especially now, All For One doesn’t bring her newspaper to her door like Tomura used to. Considering that she’s a healer, her quirk may be useful in this situation. She sits on your old armchair, sucking on a lollipop.

Spinner sips tea out of an oversized mug while Toga sits to his left, texting someone. There’s a knock at the door and you jump up to let Magne in.

Perfect, you’re all here.

It becomes clear very quickly that none of you have ever done an exorcism before. Fortunately, you’ve all seen movies and you have the internet. It can’t be that hard, right?

After a brief google search, Spinner finds something useful.

“It says here that quirk exorcisms are possible, especially if the person wasn’t born with it.”

“That’s kind of what we’re looking for,” you say, “and we won’t even have to get rid of the whole quirk – just the vestige attached to it. What else does it say?”

“Well,” he considers, “there’s a reason people don’t usually do them. It’s not the easiest process for anyone involved.” He passes his phone around, allowing each of you to glance over the instructions. After, you check a few more sources but they all say more or less the same thing.

“So,” Toga breaks the silence, “it’s decided.”

“Yeah,” agrees Spinner. “Here’s a list of the supplies we’ll need.”

“It’s best if we keep them hidden,” you add. “This guy’s been around for a while – there’s no way he doesn’t know how this works.”

Mrs. Shuzenji offers her place for storage. It makes sense, as a space Tomura wouldn't go and there's no way All For One is ever setting foot there.

The plan is decided quickly and you all disperse so AFO doesn’t sense you plotting against him. You need him to trust you all, at least somewhat.

A few days later, your opportunity presents itself. It’s not easy sneaking up on someone with so many sensing quirks so you’ve waited for the perfect time. AFO just got back from some solo mission he refuses to tell you all about and needs to rest. Regeneration quirk or not, healing takes time. Seeing the massive slashes scattered over his body sends a tidal wave of emotions over you. You're upset. You want to save him, protect him. Make sure nothing ever hurts him again. But mostly, you're fucking livid.

Fortunately, that works out in your favor. The overwhelming feelings work wonders to hide your true intention so he never notices when you stick him with a tranquilizer.

Spinner jumps in to help as Tomura’s body slumps onto the floor. The two of you soften his fall as much as you a before loading him onto a skateboard and pushing him out the door.

When you arrive at Mrs. Shuzenji’s house, the others are already waiting for you.

As you carefully move Tomura to the middle of the room, Magne and Toga run in to make a circle around him.

“It's a special kind of salt mixed with a few chemicals they use in quirk canceling handcuffs,” Magne explains as Spinner looks back over the notes he took. “It wasn't easy to find, but the combination should absorb any quirks that are activated inside. It should also keep any quirks from crossing unless one of us sweeps it out of the way from the outside.”

“That’s important,” Mrs Shuzenji notes from her perch on a floral patterned chair, “quirks can go in but they can’t go out unless we open the circle.”

“Wait,” Toga asks, “so why isn’t the plan for one of us to just push Tomura out of the circle if that’s all it takes?”

“Well,” Spinner starts, “with the amount of quirks he has in him, we aren’t sure that he would even fall out of the circle. If he’s holding onto them, he’ll probably just be stuck in there. Especially since there’s another, uh, entity reliant on keeping them. He’ll fight it.”

“Plus,” you add, “do you want to climb into that ring with All For One when he realizes what we’re doing?” She shakes her head.

Each of you takes a seat around the edge and waits for him to wake up. You need him conscious for this or you won't be able to access the quirks. Taking advantage of the extra time, you begin passing out some of Tomura’s belongings. The ritual requires that each person involved in the quirk exorcism has an object belonging to the subject in order to form a connection. Fortunately, Tomura has been leaving his clothes all over your apartment from the day you started dating. Spinner picks up a sock from the pile with a disgusted look on his face.

After a few minutes, Tomura begins to stir. That's enough to begin.

“So,” Spinner reads from his notes, “next we need to draw the quirks out and into the barrier.”

His voice is enough to wake AFO, who instinctively shoots off an attack at the barrier while opening a warp gate. One of his arms shoots towards you, sending a shock wave in your direction, but it never makes it. Instead, the quirk hits the invisible barrier above the circle and is yanked from his body. The portal melts too, sucked across the room and into the side of the circle before it disappears. He grimaces slightly as the jolts bring him to his senses.

The next one isn’t so easy. Now that he knows what to expect, he holds his meta abilities closer to himself.

Still, there’s a way for you all to forcibly activate his quirks and you came prepared to do so. This part gives you pause. You remember watching AFO use a quirk to do this a few times and it never looked comfortable. However, he also doesn’t need anyone to be conscious through the process so clearly his ability differs a bit, which makes you think that if one part varies so much maybe the whole experience could be completely different. You hope so, at least.

Spinner reads from the sheet in front of him, before you all join in. “The incantation is ‘meta facultates exi.’” You all repeat it in unison, holding his belongings. After a few tries, something happens. His fingers twitch, beginning to change form. You all continue, louder and with more force.

Red tendrils explode from his body, shooting out of his spine and fingers like lightning through the room until they hit the barrier and are wrenched away. Tomura jerks in all directions from the force of it before he crumples to the ground. Everything in you wants to comfort him, but you can’t.

“So,” Toga begins to say what you're all thinking, “if we're doing this for every quirk, how many are there?”

None of you have an answer to that. Tomura’s eyes flicker from a beautiful red to muted white. AFO smiles from inside the circle, sending chills down your spine.

“I've been around for years, collecting quirks much like this one used to collect pokemon cards,”he says, far too calm for the situation. “You'll never know if you got them all. Even if you do make it to the end of this, you'll always wonder if you missed something. And there will be no way to know. You're fighting a losing battle, so if you wouldn't mind I'd like to end this now and not waste any more of your time.”

His words and emphasis in Tomura’s voice makes you want to scream. Throw up. Instead, you pull yourself together.

“I will know. I'll know because you are not my boyfriend.” Looking at the group around you, you continue. “Again.”

“Everyone settle in, it's going to be a long night,” Mrs. Shuzenji says across the room.

She's not wrong.

The five of you repeat the words, putting all of your energy into it. Some of the quirks go easier. Others put up a fight.

Much of the time, you see them flicker in advance and know you're on the right track. Muscles twitching, flames sparking, lights forming in his palms.

Sometimes nothing seems to happen at all and you're not sure if it's working until his body pulls with the exorcized quirk.

After one particularly concerning moment when you forced him to activate a quirk and were met with bloodlet, you all decided to take a brief break.

“I forgot about that one,” Magne murmurs quietly while shakily sipping a cup of tea Mrs. Shuzenji made her. “He lost a lot of blood on that go.”

“He's still breathing though,” you say, knowing you couldn’t open the circle now to help him if you wanted to. You kneel down at the edge, “Tomura.”

White eyes glare up at you. “I'm not talking to you and you know that.” Eventually his eyes shift back to red.

“Hey,” you try to reassure him, “you're doing great.” He nods in acknowledgement. “Are you okay to keep going?” He nods again.

The cuckoo clock on the wall announces that it’s 3am, taunting you. And to think, you used to find it cute.

As everyone reassembles, you toss a water bottle in the circle to keep him hydrated, but AFO throws it back out at you. That's his loss. You don't know All For One very well but you definitely know Tomura.

Unlucky for the possessor, you've witnessed Tomura go longer without anything for much less reward. Once, you dropped by his apartment to find him having been glued to an online game for three days straight without eating or sleeping. If it comes to endurance and suffering, Tomura will win hands down.

You hate that it's come to that though.

“Again,” you whisper, voice growing hoarse. Your fingers twist into his shirt, gripping it like it's the only piece of him you have left to hold onto.

This time a series of spikes erupt from his body, much like unicorn horns. One pierces straight into the barrier and they all lurch out with a snap. Tomura crumples to the floor, laying on his side while he catches his breath.

The end is growing near and you can sense it.

The next doesn't go so well.

“meta facultates exi,” you all chant. You've said it so many times the words no longer feel like words. You try again. And again. But nothing happens. AFO stands in the circle, quietly laughing.

“You won't take that one,” he says and you realize this is it. You're down to the last quirk, the only one that really matters to him.

The five of you continue with the incantation in unison, voices growing louder and louder until they finally crack. Eventually, the words feel dry in your mouth. Everyone's shouts turn to a feeble murmur and you stop.

It has to work, you tell yourself. The group looks exhausted, Toga is sprawled on the floor near Magne’s feet. Mrs. Shuzenji looks like she's melted into her arm chair. Spinner's head hangs in his hands as he stares at what once was his friend.

An air of sadness fills the room, but it's not over. Not yet. You drop the shirt you've been clutching all night.

Out of options, you do the only thing you can think of: jump into the circle with him and hope you can bait All For One into trying to steal your quirk.

Magne audibly gasps, everyone's eyes grow wide. Now that you're in here, you're not sure if this was the best idea but you've committed.

“You're almost out of quirks,” you taunt, “sure you don't want to try for another?”

AFO’s eyes flicker, but he makes no move to act on it.

“I know you want my quirk,” you continue, “I see the way you look at me every time I use it.”

“I know what you're doing,” he replies, “and it's not going to work. I'm a patient man, I can wait. And now, you're stuck in here waiting with me. They'll give in and let you out eventually. You're my path to victory, so I believe I should be thanking you.”

His words make you nauseated, but you're used to that by now. In the entirety of your life, you can't remember ever hating someone this much. Every fiber of your being loathes this man and everything he stands for. You want nothing more than his destruction and wouldn't stop at anything to make it happen.

Tomura looks tired, thirsty. In his current state, he’s barely able to stand upright. His eyes briefly flick between red and white, irises wavering. When the red returns, he smiles weakly across the small circle at you.

That's all the time you need.

Before he can even think to brace himself, you jump on him. Your body feels like a rubber band being snapped as something is pulled from deep inside of you. Both of you land flat out onto Mrs. Shuzenji’s hardwood floor, outside of the circle. Your friends stare down at you in shock.

While you're aware of what you did, the reality of it doesn't quite set in. Instead, you sit exhausted on the floor holding Tomura’s hand while Mrs. Shuzenji looks over his injuries.

“He doesn't have much stamina left in him so I can't do too much, you'll have to come back when I’m off work tomorrow.” She leans in, giving him a tiny peck on the cheek. You notice some color returning to his skin.

“So,” Toga says, looking closely at the salt ring on the floor, “he’s just in that now?”

Spinner steps in, pulling her back a bit. “Possibly. It’s uncertain how long quirk vestiges can survive outside of a host. Probably best to not touch it, just in case.”

“Hmm,” she considers, “what do we do with it then?”

“He can haunt my vacuum cleaner for a while,” says Mrs. Shuzenji, bumping everyone out of the way as she comes through with her oversized pink vacuum.

After everything is cleaned up, you all thank her for the use of her space and make your way to your respective homes. Spinner helps you move Tomura back to your place (he said he could walk by himself but proceeded to stumble around, too exhausted to figure out where to go.)

The sun is just coming up as you make your way to your next door apartment. After Tomura is tucked into your bed, it’s decided Spinner should stay on your couch given how tired he is. You grab him some blankets before making your way back to your bedroom.

When you finally lay your head down, it all hits you. The pain, exhaustion. How much you sacrificed tonight. Both you and Tomura are quirkless now and you’re not entirely sure what to make of that yet. It’ll be a massive shift in your life, but now’s not the time to figure that out.

Tomura sleeps soundly by your side, long white hair piled around his face. He looks so peaceful for the first time in a long time. Whatever life changes come tomorrow, you’re absolutely certain it was all worth it.

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