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Endeavour.
Izuku forcefully shuts off One For All, feeling it’s disapproval. It, like Izuku, wanted to hurt Endeavour - wanted to kill him. But he knows that he can’t risk it. Not here, not with Aizawa, Kaminari and Momo around him.
“Eraserhead” Endeavour nods to Aizawa, mockingly respectful. How dare he insult Aizawa, the person who has risked so much for his class how fucking dare he.
“Creati” Izuku bets that he learned their hero names just to mock them the things they’ve done, god he’s such fucking trash how dare he.
“Chargebolt” Another nod. Izuku just about explodes in rage.
“Deku” His hero name has never sounded more like an insult. He’s taunting Izuku, he just knows Endeavour is. He knows he can hurt Shouto and Izuku can’t do anything about it. This fucking-. Izuku clenches his fists and tries to ignore the anger burning away in his heart.
Everyone has dropped their quirks, but Izuku has an idea. He can humiliate Endeavour at least, even if he can’t tear out his fucking entrails. Izuku whispers, “Toga” to Aizawa, who minutely stiffens. Toga and the rest of the league of villains have been missing for a while. Toga can only copy appearance from what Izuku has seen, but with trigger going around, anything is possible. He reckons that Aizawa’s reached the same conclusion because he subtly gestures for them to get ready. Izuku doesn’t think it’s Toga, but god he wants to see Endeavour humiliated and Shouto had told him all about his father’s relationship with flame.
According to him, even during their quirkless ‘training’, Endeavour kept his flames on. He always has them on in public, and apparently in the comfort of his own home? Combined with Shouto’s own thoughts, it seems that Endeavour is very attached to his fire. Probably some sort of emotional reliance, related to feeling naked without them. That’s what Izuku thinks at least.
Aizawa’s quirk flashes, making all of Endeavour’s flames go out, revealing no Toga. Just an annoyed man who looks much less intimidating without all that fire; Izuku holds back a smirk.
Kaminari and Momo just watch as Endeavour begins to argue with Aizawa, it’s incredibly awkward and Izuku’s calming down, despite the inner rage that refuses to go away. He can manage himself again though, at least until he hears Endeavour say “Shouto”. Then Izuku’s vision turns red. That fucking tone, how dare he how dare he how dare he-
Being near this fucking man all Izuku can think about is the pain he’s put Shouto through, about everything he’s done - all the pain he’s caused. Izuku wants nothing more than to tear out his throat and squish his head in his hands, he wants to bite the flesh off his bones and crush them into dust.
Izuku does absolutely none of that, in no small part because of Kaminari. Kaminari who’s shocked him, making Izuku whirl around to look at him.
“Dude, you need to calm down.” His voice is a whisper, obviously trying not to draw attention from Aizawa or Endeavour, who are in a semi heated debate now. “ You look like you’re about to attack Endeavour, which like I get it, but you can’t.”
Izuku inhales. Kaminari’s right. Just in time too, as Endeavour gestures over to them. “Thanks,” Izuku mutters to Kaminari, a bit confused but grateful nonetheless. It seems that Endeavour and Aizawa sensei’s conversation is starting to end, so Izuku grabs his bags and starts talking with Momo and Kaminari, who have also picked up their bags.
Aizawa has now picked up his bag, and they’ve started walking towards U.A again. It’s not until they’re a little further down the street that Endeavour simultaneously calls out and seals his fate:
“And tell Shouto that I can’t wait for our meeting.” Kaminari tenses and grabs for Izuku, but it’s too late.
Green lightning is flickering in the air as Izuku leaps, Blackwhip coming to life to support him. The air provides no resistance as Izuku flies towards Endeavour - Blackwhip shielding Izuku from Aizawa’s quirk. Endeavour’s face is surprised, flames still nowhere to seen as Izuku closes the distance. By the time his flames appear, Izuku’s already sent a bone breaking kick towards Endeavour's chest. The air pressure alone puts out Endeavour’s fire, but the actual kick sends him flying back into the street.
Izuku, not resting for even a single second, sends a gust of wind to where his classmates and teacher are, sending them off balance before he dashes towards Endeavour. His shock his already worn off and he’s on his feet, but now that Izuku’s got Blackwhip again, he can absolutely destroy him.
Endeavour sends off a blast of flames, sensing Izuku’s desire to kill. Izuku just runs through it, a flick of his finger providing a clean way through. Blackwhip is on Endeavour instantly, 4 tendrils holding him apart, heat starting to bubble up where Endeavour’s chest is. Blackwhip flings Endeavour down the street and Izuku uses his momentum to bounce off the building he was approaching, hooking himself with float to give himself a height boost.
Gravity starting to take hold, Izuku flips into the position of a Manchester smash, creating a stronger leg with Blackwhip. Endeavour’s eyes are scared and Izuku’s grinning, red eyes filled with malice.
*CRACK*
The smash creates enough wind pressure that trash is being moved from ages away. There’s a small collection of dust in the wind, but Izuku can still see Endeavour’s broken-esk body laying on the ground.
Izuku’s instantly up again, darting towards where Endeavour should be, as he marvels at how easy it is to fucking destroy him. And there he is, Endeavour with that pitiful look on his face.
Izuku licks his lips, thoughts of Shouto and how happy he’d be filling his mind. It’s with Shouto in mind that he picks up Endeavour with Blackwhip again, the 4 tendrils holding his arms and legs. Before he can do anything though, a huge shower of fire envelops them both and Izuku is forced to drop Endeavour again, despite being metres away. A frustrated snarl pushes it’s way past his throat, especially as he sees Endeavour push all that fire towards him.
Creating a shield with Blackwhip is easy enough, but the heat is still getting through, so Izuku wills Blackwhip to move through the fire and cover Endeavour’s chest. Izuku quickly darts to Endeavour’s right, shooting a finger flick right at his groin. The pained grunt Izuku hears is enough for him to completely lower the shield, getting in close to quickly kick Endeavour in the head. WIth him confused, Izuku does the whole 4 tendrils holding his arms and legs. Only this time, there’s no escape.
Only this time, a 5th tendril is added. Giving Endeavour no time to shoot fire at him again, Izuku forces that 5th tendril into his open mouth and down his throat and into his stomach. Another thought occurs to Izuku, and he creates another 4 mini ones, despite how his body is screaming at him. 2 go up Endeavour’s nostrils, and the other 2 push against his eyes.
Izuku can only smile as Endeavour’s muffled screams get louder, before allowing the tendrils to push beyond the eyeballs, and into his optic nerve, rendering him completely blind. Endeavour’s eyes are completely ruined, popped eye juice trickles out around the Blackwhip tendrils. He also hasn’t stopped screaming, despite the fact that he hasn’t been able to breath for the past minute. Izuku suddenly gets in close, shoving his pointed hand into Endeavour’s stomach, puncturing it and meeting Blackwhip on the inside. It’s such a funny feeling that it makes Izuku laugh.
“Heh. Nice.” Then Izuku, with his other hand, tears the rest of Endeavour’s stomach open, and finally sends the 2 mini tendrils in his optic nerves to Endeavour’s brain. He does this before saying fuck it, and just letting a 10% fist crush Endeavour’s face. Again. And again. It takes about 15 before Izuku is sure that he’s dead. Finally the rage is receding, making Izuku sigh and close his eyes.
Then they snap open as he realizes what he’s down. Bloody hand to his face, he backs away, eyes bulging and tears forming. Izuku stumbles and falls down as he pukes. Oh god what would Shouto think? What would his class think? Realization hit him again, and he snapped his head towards where Aizawa, Momo and Kaminari were. Momo and Aizawa are on the ground, just Kaminari is standing, electricity still flickering around his body.
It’s easy enough to connect the dots, Kaminari electrocuted the other two, making them unconscious. The question is why. Why would he do that for Izuku, it’s not like they’re great friends. And before, he could clearly tell that Izuku wanted to hurt Izuku. Something’s really off with Kaminari, Izuku decides. But if he’s willing to help then he’ll probably need him. He did just kill the #1 hero. His life is essentially over, but he still has other Todoroki’s to kill first so he can’t go to jail just yet. Not to mention All For One, someone he definitely needs to kill. Izuku’s about to go on a tangent on his mind when he feels a splatter of water against his skin. Looking up, he can hardly see anything.
Rain’s starting to pick up, and the dark street is still dark. There are no people around besides them, and Izuku’s starting to feel at eaze again. Despite Endeavour’s body sitting a few metres away from him. Despite the fact that there should be dozens of civilians around. Something’s clearly incredibly wrong and Izuku blames One For All that he already feels okay. Kaminari starts to walk over to him, his blond hair looking iridescent in the moonlight. Looking with disdain at Endeavour’s body, Kaminari says “Did you have to be so messy, idiot.” Sighing, Kaminari continued speaking while Izuku looked at him in shock. “I told you not to, I wanted to enjoy the sleepover.”
Izuku suddenly understood, “You’re the traitor!” To which Kaminaari just rolled his eyes.
“Yeah, and you just killed Todoroki’s dad, the #1 hero. Your point?” Fuck. “Okay look, I’m just gonna zappy zap you real quick, and when you wake up we can talk.” Before Izuku can even respond, he feels a blaring pain all over, it’s like being near Endeavour but worse and his every nerve is on fire. All he can see is a pair of golden eyes, filled with a slight worry before darkness takes hold and he feels weightless.
When he opens his eyes, all he can see is darkness. Meaning that he’s with the vestiges again. Which is very fucking bad.
“You got lucky this time.” The voice echoes from all around him, making Izuku cringe from how loud it is. “Next time it won’t be so easy.” That’s right, Endeavour was the #1 hero. It really shouldn’t have been so easy. The crash from earlier? Izuku guesses it’s possible. He doesn’t try to speak, thinking it would probably drag him into another memory. “As I’m sure you’ve figured out by now, the crash from earlier. In addition to that sound, there was nobody around, and all the lights were out. What does that tell you, little hero.”
Izuku definitely got help, he knows that. And there’s only one person he can think of off the top of his head.
A man steps out of the darkness, white hair fluttering and red eyes glimmering, despite the shadows on his face.
All For One.