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„Take a swan dive off the roof, and hope you’ll be born with a quirk in your next life!“
Kacchan needs to hold back. He’s lucky Izuku isn’t planning on leaving his mother any time soon. What would he had done if Izuku really listened?
…
Probably moved on and forgotten about him. He really doesn’t care does he?
Izuku sighed as he walked through the tunnel. He tried to keep his head high. It’s a sunny day and he got to see real heroes in action! Well, his notebook got exploded and wet… but only the cover! So it really isn’t that bad at all except for the suicide bait… he should just stop thinking about it.
Kacchan probably didn’t mean it at all!
Izuku kept walking his usual path from school to his home, completely unaware of what is about to happen just a few blocks away.
_ _
„Hey, aren’t you and Midoriya childhood friends or something?“
„Yeah, you really overdid it today.“
„It’s his own fault for getting in my way.“
Katsuki kicked an empty bottle that was laying on the street, two extras following him.
Deku is such an idiot. Still holding on to his stupid childhood dream, even though that was crushed a decade ago. Katsuki is just telling him the truth. He can’t be a hero without a quirk.
„Don’t waste your energy on the guy.“
„Someone’s gotta teach that worthless nerd how the world works.“ Katsuki said as he exploded the can in his hand. The extras behind him chuckled.
„Hey, I got an idea. How ‘bout we go to the arcade? Get your mind off it, y‘ know.“
„…ok“
„Or we could go to the bar behind the station. They got lots of ladies.“
„That’s a good idea.“
„Idiots,“ Katsuki‘ yelled, „if we get caught, UA will never let me in.“
As the three boys talk, a slime like creature comes out of the storm drain right next to them.
Katsuki’s two friends notice first. They tense and their eyes blow wide. Both of them point at it. „Hey what’s that?“
_ _
Izuku was almost home when he heard an explosion. Maybe he should go check it out. There could be some interesting heroes on scene! Two villain attacks in one day! Of course it’s not a good thing, not that Izuku is happy because of it, but on the bright side, he gets to see cool heroes so up close!
Izuku jogs toward where he heard the noise, his notebook and pencil ready. But what is that? He hears many screams that are much closer than the explosion was. Maybe it’s a bad idea to go there. What if the heroes are trying to get everyone far away and Izuku is disturbing them while their doing their job? Izuku wouldn’t want that.
Plus the smoke is... getting closer? Really fast. Ok, he really should pick a different route. One villain attack is enough for him. He doesn’t want to get hurt.
Right as Izuku is about to turn, an all too familiar boy, blasting through the window of the building next to him. For a split second, they lock eyes. It feels like an eternity. Like time is in slow motion. He sees the smile on Kacchan’s face, but it’s not the kid he used to play on the playground with. Not the one he grew up with. His smile is sinister, even more so than it was when he told him to kill himself this morning.
Time finally seemed to resume, though Izuku wasn’t sure if that was really for the best in his position. He saw Katsuki, flying as he was holding his hand up, right in front of izuku.
Some naive hope in him thought maybe this won’t hurt that much. Maybe this will just be like all the other times, but his brain knew, Katsuki is sweating like hell. This is going to be the most powerful blast he ever delivered.
Before he could even register the explosion, the world went black.
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He should’ve done something. Anything! Hell, they all should’ve acted but he in specific should have helped when it wasn’t this late.
Toshinori had used his time stopping much smaller criminals. Sure, you might think he’s the number 1 hero, why is he going for the smaller fish? But being a hero is about helping people and that is exactly what he was doing. Too bad he was helping the wrong people at the wrong time. Don’t get him wrong, he doesn’t regret stopping small time criminals but what he does regret is using up all his time in his buff form to do so and not being able to help against the sludge villain while it takes over a child.
Said child was now hurting other children. He was also exploding the whole street, but it was empty anyway. What really matters is the kid that just got an explosion, so big that the user was stunned, in his face. The villain started getting dizzy or something after using it, which is how they were able to apprehend him.
Well, they held the kid and the villain came out to escape but Toshinori punched him and put him in a bottle. The police should be here anytime soon to pick it up, but first he has to check up on the kids.
The blonde one that got possesed is coughing and his wrists seem hurt. He got a few scrapes from flying and exploding through a whole street, but he looks good enough to leave him to the other heroes.
Now, the second kid. He isn’t that lucky. Toshinori can see one of his colleagues looking at the kid rather disturbed when he goes to check it out for himself.
He makes out what used to be green locks, now covered in red, and a face that looks like it’s peacefully sleeping if you ignore that half of it is not there. It’s blown off. Literally. The eye on the blown side is open because there aren’t any eye lids to cover it. Same with the teeth.
Toshinori had seen things, but his stomach still filled up with nausea seeing a child with only half a face. Looking at the uniform he notices the two kids are from the same school. He guesses same year grade too, though that’s kind of hard to tell with the mangled face.
He hopes they weren’t friends or anything, because getting possesed and blowing off a strangers face would be enough trauma for one teen, he couldn’t image what it would be like if it’s a friend’s face blown off. Not to mention seeing your friend violently attack you and cause this. He wishes the best of luck for these children. In case the green one makes it out alive.
The police and ambulance finally arrive. Toshinori hands over the bottle to them and helps the first responders carry over the green kid. Blonde kid also gets in an ambulance for the emergency check up.
Toshinori can’t do much now, so he leaves.
_ _
That wasn’t Izuku, was it? That… person, over there. Katsuki was possesed by that villain. He was too weak to defend himself. And that lead him to where he is now. In a hospital room, wondering. What if that was Deku? The heroes didn’t let him see much but Katsuki could make out a lot of blood, an aldera uniform and green hair. Well, it was covered in blood but Katsuki thinks it used to be green.
The boy’s mother and father entered the hospital room where Katsuki laid on the bed in hospital scrubs. Masaru was sick with worry. Mitsuki was trying to hide her worry by saying that he was strong enough to take a villain attack well enough but the concern was obvious. All that didn’t matter right now though.
„Was Deku caught up in the attack?“ Katsuki asked his parents. He knew Deku was there, he just hoped he was dead wrong.
The temperature in the room dropped impossibly. Both his parents looked away nervously. His father started fidgeting with his wedding ring.
„Well?“ Katsuki continued, knowing exactly what the silence meant.
Mitsuki sighed and Masaru put his hand on his son’s.
„Katsuki. I want you to know that none of what happened while that vile thing had control over you is your fault.“ He said.
„Just spit it out already! What happened?!“ Katsuki’s short temper reached its end.
„Izu-kun is… he’s alive.“ The way Masaru said that wasn’t comforting at all. In fact, that the only good thing he could say was that Deku is alive was troubling.
„But?“ Katsuki had enough of these half assed explanations.
„Look Kat, I won’t sugarcoat anything, you know that. Izuku is in a really shitty shape right now. Damn near half his face is completely gone. He will be half blind and fully deaf when he wakes up- if he wakes up.“ His mother replied instead. Her voice is shaky, like his father’s hands.
In fact the whole world is shaky- no, blurry would be more accurate.
A feeling of dread settles in his chest. He did that. It was his quirk, his body, it was- it was him. That… that’s not heroic at all. He’s too weak. He should’ve never been possesed in the first place. If he would’ve been stronger… this is his fault for being a failure. No matter what his father might say.
Why was Deku there anyway? Why did he have to be at that place, at that time. He’s always in Katsuki’s way. Always been since Katsuki can remember.
He shouldn’t care at all. After all, he must’ve reached his goal now. His goal to get Izuku out of his way. So why doesn’t it feel good at all? Why does all this just feel wrong and bad and so damn shitty? Deku was just a quirkless loser with nothing to contribute to the world. Only steal a few breaths, take up the space that someone else could’ve been buried in and then be nothing forever.
His mother probably would be the only one who mourned if he really were to die. Her and Izuku would be the only ones to care if Izuku lost his senses, so why? Why does Katsuki feel like he’s drowning?
„Katsuki!“ he can hear the world now. He didn’t even notice he wasn’t hearing anything, but now that he did, it’s all too loud. He can also feel the warmth of both his parents hugging him. He wonders if Izuku will ever feel the warmth of his mother again. Or if he’ll hear her call his name in a soothing tone, like Katsuki’s mother is doing to Katsuki right now.
Katsuki is tired, but he can’t sleep.