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Raindrops hit the metal roof of the warehouse, echoing in the empty space within. Rats scurried around, running towards their homes, feeling the tension growing in the stale night air.
Heavy footsteps slammed the ground repeatedly, sounding too loud for comfort even witht he sounds of rain coming through the ceiling. He stopped in the middle of the empty space, out in the open. He knew his days were numbered, hours even, he was running out of time.
Thats exactly what he needed.
The man heard them then, tires screeching as the cars braked on the wet asphalt, sounds of air and pants surrounded the warehouse instantly, a symphony of effort on theirs, and pain on his side.
He wanted to see him one last time, before it all went down. He wanted to look into his dual coloured eyes and say the three words he etched onto his heart with his name next to them.
They were two sides of the same coin.
One believed in justice, heroism.
The other in chaos, and that no justice is served without pain.
The cracking of ice and fire echoed around him, louder than the raindrops and shouts from the heroes outside. The stale air became cold, freezing almost and the man smiled to himself as he crouched down to feel the familiar ice that covered his feet like shackles.
And oh isnt that ironic?
Isnt that how their love felt? how he felt surrounded by the ones who, if not for his quirk, wouldnt even look at him? who would treat him like yesterdays trash, useless and unimportant.
Shackles.
He had felt them ever since day one.
Even as the red and white haired beauty stepped though the literal and methaporical ice, shattering it for easy access, he still felt the shackles on him.
"Izuku."
Viridian zeroed in on Sapphire and grey moonstone, colours so familiar, the person so familiar...
he was home.
Even in the rusty old warehouse, that smelled of death and mould...
he was home.
Because for him, home was a person.
A person whos ideals did not match his.
Shouto Todoroki stood in all his glory, fire and ice at his fingertips, looking at the love of his life, at those green curls he loved to touch, at those green eyes that told stories of old forests and lush hills, at the freckled constellations he had yet to fully map out.
The love of his life was here, after moths of searching up and down japan, he was here.
As a villain.
And Shouto Todoroki was a hero.
He wanted to rach out, to kiss his lips and take the knife away, he wanted to whisper silent promises into his ear as they held each other, like they used to in the UA dorms all those years ago.
Before the new symbol of peace became the symbol of fear.
He took a step forward, hand reaching up
"Izuku, please"
Viridian turned glossy, tears streamed like waterfalls down those tanned cheeks he loved, he took in a sharp breath and answered:
"Shouto, i cant"
But he could! he could, Shouto would make sure of it, he would make sure the love of his life got help, and became the hero he one was.. they could live together again! they could save people! they could be together! they could...
they couldnt.
Both men knew it was wishful thinking.
An S rank villain would never walk a free man ever again.
He was doomed, they both were.
Izuku Midoriya, an ex hero, an abomination of a human, a human so in love with his current rival it tore his heart apart to just think about the dual haired beauty that stood before him, so close, yet so far out of reach.
'Izuku please, i love you please!"
The villain closed his eyes, counting down the minutes left.
"Please! Izu-"
"Shut up shouto!"
The hoarse scream rang through the whole neighbourhood like a bullet, piercing the warehouse walls and reaching even the most underground of villains. The anguish and the pain laces within those words evident to the most clueless of people.
The hero sobbed openly, on his knees only meters away from the murderous villain, yet he knew no hard would come from the greenette, one doesnt go and burn their home without a reason.
"Izuku, i love you.. please just listen!"
The hero interrupted the villain before he could even open his mouth,
"I could get you a light sentence! i can help you be a free man, we could go back home together! we could start again please, izuku please"
The villain screamed again, falling to his knees, he pulled harshly on his hair as his heart kept breaking over and over, with every word out of the heroe's mouth.
"you cant help me shouto, nobody can. im sorry, i really am i love you shouto, you and our cat and everything we had."
"we can still-"
"NO!"
The hero flinched, eyes widening, making the villain whimper in pain.
"no, Shouto... you deserve better than me, i love you endlessly, please shouto please... move on"
The hero got to his feet, sprinting towards the villain, he was stopped by a sharp pain piercing though his thigh.
He let out a shriek a fell to the floor, blood pooling around him. The knife missed any arteries, but the sheer amount of blood was still worrying.
The villain shook as he let out a chilling laugh, he looked at his beloved and the blood spilling around him.
He felt disgusted that his pure blood was being tainted by the dirty warehouse floor, his blood deserved to be trasured, just like his whole being.
a minute left.
"Shouto Todoroki, i fell in love with you when we were sixteen, confessed when we were seventeen, and i wanted to marry you at eighteen."
a gasp, and then:
"And i still want to marry you, i want to have a family.. a little girl and a boy, like you always wanted right? i still want to live and die old with you and i was ready to... and i cannot anymore, but shouto...'
"Would you marry me?"
The hero never stopped sobbing, crawling slowly towards his love, nodding his head and mumbling affirmatives, the words he wanted to say himself the last time they went out on a date, but chickened out, before it all went wrong.
"i-izuku, i love you so fucking much... please... you're my home, my savign grace please..."
seconds left
The villain was still stuck in ice, he wanted to hold his hand one last time but the world was against them, their love was forbidden in their society, a hero and a villain could never be happy in the public's eyes...
and yet..
they were, for a while...
"Shouto..'
"Deku you're surrounded, come out with your hands above your head or we will use force."
The hero shook his head, grabbed his comm and screamed at it to stop, to not advance, to leave them alone for a little bit longer.
"Shouto, i love you."
The hero screamed at the villain, repeating wails and sobs and undistinguishable words,
And as viridian met turquoise and grey moonstone,
and as an gunshot rang though the warehouse,
and a silent promise was made,
"forever and always"
they loved.
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"And what a tragic love story it was, soulmates who met in school, with walls around their hearts, who helped one another to shatter said walls and unleash the purest of emotions,
one who due to circumstances turned to the other side,
and the other who still loved despite that.
both who married with airy rings in a warehouse where one met his demise, where They both made the same promise and they kept it forever and a millenia more
Their love was pure, even if they did not have a happy ending"