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It's pouring, draining yet his mind pushed while his body screamed at him to stop, to go to sleep, to rest, to heal. However, Izuku doesn't stop. He doesn't want to. (He wants to) He doesn't.
"Get away from me." He says despite his heart aching for the presence of his classmates. The longing burn to smile with them and be the best heroes they could be in this flawed world. This society, washed up by perpetual rain, revealing its rotten perception that conquered the silenced and destroyed innocent dreams.
"I swear! I'm fine!"
Is he?
"I thought I fuckin' told you to stop winning on your own."
Izuku gasped, heart stuttering at the gruff voice coming above him, palm in his face. Too late, too late! With no Danger Sense tingling the back of his head, Izuku prepares for the stinging pain engulfing the center of his face, letting out a choked groan when he brutally landed on the concrete road.
Fuck, fuck, fuck! It hurts!
But what did hurt? His old wounds? His head? His back? His...heart?
Every breath tears his ribs and each time he tries to move, he felt his...no...Kacchan's weight pinning his body, making sure he wouldn't escape—wouldn't run away. Izuku hears multiple footsteps coming his way, knowing that it's everyone from his class. His friends. Up to this day, it's still hard to believe he even has people like them in his life. This life.
"It's over, Deku." Kacchan said through the drizzling rain. "It's either you—"
"STOP! I'M FINE, OKAY? WHY DID YOU COME HERE KNOWING AFO IS OUT THERE SOMEWHERE TRYING TO TAKE ME AWAY?" Izuku screamed as he laid on the ground, yet his body seems to accept defeat as he rests his weight.
It was silent for a moment until Kacchan spoke again.
"...if you're gonna say that you're fine, then stop covering your pathetic face, nerd."
No. I'm fine. It shouldn't matter—
Maybe it does. Maybe it does matter. After all, he couldn't lie anymore when everyone could see Izuku's face twisting in pain and sadness...loneliness. He was desperately trying to cover his eyes with his dirty gloves that lost their function, cowering away uselessly when the blond above him is staring right at him.
"I'm...I-I'm..." For the first time in weeks, ever since he was discharged from the hospital, ever since the day he stepped out of UA for what he thought was the last time, Izuku broke down in sobs, feeling the rain choking him as his shoulders quaked at each broken sound.
Everything felt relieving yet it felt so, so wrong to be vulnerable out in the open in Kamino, in front of everyone. He was supposed to be strong like All Might in his prime. He was supposed to be responsible for everything. Yet, it's so overwhelming on both sides.
"I'm..." Izuku trembled, lips quivering as he tries to speak, eyes still covered from the truth of the world. "I'm not. I'm not fine..."