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He doesn’t know what is chasing him but what he does know is that it wants to eat kill him, he already has been hit and is now missing a bit of his shoulder, the constant pain stings him as he runs through the hallway of a house, bleeding in the traditional Japanese household, limping because he was hit in the leg as well, as he lets out a scream but nothing comes out, he rounds the corner only to find nobody there, just another empty room. Shrugging he puts down his friend that he was carrying, and puts them in the closet, then grimacing and shaking in fear, he grabs out the glass shard in his leg and faces the door with a terrified expression
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his new friend Ubuyashiki, had invited him and 2 others to play over at his house today and then it turned into a sleepover.
Izuku had met the strange kid one day when he was running from Kacchan, as he was turned into and alleyway and out into a street he finds a boy in semi traditional clothing, had a older looking guy also in traditional clothing beside him, as he ran past, the boy seemed to pause and just look at him, then he seemed to say something that was drowned out by Kacchan who has now caught up.
Kacchan then yelled “DEKU.” As he ran towards him with explosions blasting in his hands as he ran out of the alley towards him.
Izuku panicked and began to run only to trip and fall onto his back now facing Kacchan as his bully friend sneered smiles towards him with his palms blazing and said
“Where you going, Deku?”
“I thought we were friends?”
“Why are you running, friend?”
Izuku panicking tries to get up again and then fails, then moves backwards on his butt and tries to stutter out,
“K-k-Kacchan I-I was-sn’t running,I promise, I was just t-t-trying to get h-home, my mom n-needs me home soon, o-okay?”
Kacchan looks at Izuku and smiles again Saying,
“You wanted to leave me Deku?”
“Your only friend, since your worthless.”
Looking at the audience he has, smiles boldly, saying
“After all he needs someone to look after him since he is
“Worthless”
“Quirkless”
“Deku”
“And he can’t look after himself after all, what if he gets
“Hurt or worse?”
Looking at Izuku with eyes that scream, ‘no one else will help you, your stuck with me’ and then he smiles sweetly at the 2 other people,
“I’m all he has.”
And Izuku knows what happens next, Kacchan gets praised for “looking after the Deku” and what a “good friend he is, looking after someone like him”
So he readies himself for something similar when he hears the smaller one turn their head and say,
“Why is he shaking then?”
Shocked Izuku looks at the small boy who looks at home with concern and then turns to look at a shocked Kacchan and then he says again,
“Why is he shaking then?”
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Confused katsuki didn’t know what to do, usually the other people just smiled and let him just keep doing what he wanted to Deku, but now someone was questioning what he was doing so confused he responded by instinct,
“Because he is a quirkless freak who needs some friendship.” Lips turning into a sneer at those last words.
Katauki knew adults and other kids didn’t want to mess with him, he was gonna be the number one and sometimes the number one just needs to do some practice on some people, Katsuki knows that he needs to learn how to make them just right, but he needs to be able to see the results and make his explosions better. So that’s why he kept Deku around, a quirkless loser couldn’t be used for a better person in his opinion, so that’s when he learned that if he said that he and Deku where friends in front of other people then they would just turn away and complement him to sometimes. So why didn’t this kid get it, and why did he look angry?
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Izuku was shocked. Someone had noticed, it made him want to cry and be grateful, someone had noticed that he and Kacchan weren’t best friends anymore, he didn’t know if he could even call them friends anymore. So hitching his breathe in hope, which was then dashed when Kacchan said
“Because he is a quirkless freak who needs some friendship.”
He lost hope fast, usually people stopped caring the moment he said that one darn word, quirkless. He lost friends, family started to cut off contact, teachers stopped caring, he learned real fast that he wasn’t wanted anymore. His mom stopped doing as much for him, taking more shifts at work, his dad hasn’t been home for 2 months after his diagnosis. So why would strangers care? But then the smaller one, almost looking annoyed said,
“That doesn’t look like friendship to me.”
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Katsuki was lost, people just didn’t care, they didn’t care about Deku, they let him punish help him when Katsuki saw him looking down on him, so why did this one care, but then he realized, there was 2 of them, if he could get the adult to agree with him then he would be fine to help Deku since he kept looking down on him and need correction. So he said,
“Sir, your kid doesn’t realize that we have a very special bond.” Looking at the adult with a very sweet smile, knowing that this is the smile that can make his mom back off and get adults to agree with him. But then again he is surprised by the response,
“Yeah kid, Kacchan was it?” Katsukis teeth grind at the use of his lesser name, “Well Kacchan, we call that bullying I believe, but you could also call it abuse I suppose.”
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“ you could also call it abuse I suppose.”
Izuku for what seemed like the tenth time that day, was shocked, they didn’t care, more than that they called him out on his bad behavior. So in shock was he that he didn’t notice Kacchan looking more and more angry and about to lash out at him, as Kacchans palms come towards him and his body flinches and tenses in preparation, it doesn’t come.
Then he looks and sees it all, a katana, though still in its sheath, pointed towards Kacchans neck, stopping him from moving his palm forward in fear, then he sees the hard gaze of the older figure who he swore was 10 ft away, Right there between Izuku and Kacchan, body tensed ready to protect Izuku.
Once again, Izuku was shocked.
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Katsuki was scared, he was just about to put Izuku in his place when then, he felt in under his neck, a sharp point, and almost heard, some words like breathing 1st form before he felt the blade under his neck, he swore he almost say mist around the adult in question, and then he saw the adults face, gaze hard and disappointing, body tensed, ready to deal with a villain almost, and the villain would be, him? No! He must be the villain then, but as he was about to strike he saw in, in the adults eyes, certainty, certain that before Katsuki could do anything, a certainty that he could deal with any threat Katsuki could attempt, so full of fear and outclassed, Katsuki did something that he would look back on in shame, he ran, he teary eyed and scared, ran, letting Deku look down on him, ran, because he knew, that, that adult was better than him. He ran, and didn’t look back.
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Izuku was in shock, someone scared Kacchan and he ran, didn’t fight or scream, ran. And the. They adult turned to him and smiled. The smaller one walked up to him and said,
“You okay”
Izuku responded, “Izuku.”
“Hmm?” the boy responded,
“You s-saved m-me, you can say my first name.”
Then the boy smiled and said,
“While I appreciate the effort, I have not done anything to earn the right of the first name, I would however know your last name.”
Izuku thinks this guy talks so fancy before responding
“Midoriya”
And then the boy responds
“Ubuyashiki”