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The wind whistled in his ears as he stared at the spot where allmight, his idol once stood
Flinching when the door slammed shut behind him, turning towards it slowly
Midoriya didn’t know what he was hoping for, that all might would still be standing there? Wanting to say sorry and that he was wrong
or maybe that Midoriya COULD be a hero?
But all he saw was the door…he was all alone as his broken dreams and new secrets that he will take to his grave
Everything felt duller, quieter somehow, like a fog was covering him
He didn’t know how long he sat there, knees digging into the cement, not really knowing when when he fell to his knees wind in his hair
He started to hear them before he could process them turning to see the explosions, another villain… another hero fight
Anouther few explosions wend off before midoriya got up and went to the door, and started his slow decent
When he finally reached the ground the fog hasn’t lifted, his legs felt heavy
Everything felt heavy, as midoriya started to walk home
What was he thinking? Of course HE can’t be a hero, he has no quirk, no training, no muscles, no experience
he can’t be a doctor because he doesn’t have a healing quirk,
he can’t be a cop, or a detective because one look at his quirkless status and he’s not being hired, or used as a gopher, or god forbid a human shield
Will anywhere actually hire him? Any school actually let him in?
He knows that U.A. recently lifted there ban of quirkless students but will they actually accept the application?
Or was it just some stupid PR stunt?
All he ever wanted to do was make people feel safe
like how his mom made him feel safe, or how Allmight made everyone feel safe!
As if he could do that without a quirk, and it wasn’t like he felt safe right now anyway, and he just got done talking to allmight!
does that mean he would have to be better than allmight? How can anyone be better than allmight?
He can’t be a hero, hell! You need a quirk to even be qualified as a vigilante!
And there was no way midoriya would ever wanna be a villain
that’ll break his moms heart, and he wasn’t doing that, she worked too hard to keep them afloat
As he turned the corner he found himself on the ground, a heap of trash falling around him
Looking up to see a pink haired girl scrambling to pick it all back up, apologies spilling out of his mouth as he helped her pick up everything that fell out of the box
Another sorry on his lips when she interrupted “Thank you for helping me pickup my future baby’s!”
For a second the fog was lifted, as if tossed up by the shock of that sentence “although is WAS your fault! Watch we’re your going next time!!”
Midoriya nodded and looked down speaking before he could think
“Sorry I was distracted, my dreams were crushed by my hero” tears were finally starting to fill his eyes
“So? Prove them wrong! That’s what imma do! Start mei enterprise! Support gear for hero’s! Best on the market” she kept rambling, walking away from a confused midoriya
A loud explosion around the corner knock him out of his surprise, the villain fight? How did he get over here? Was it still going on?
His feet must have been on autopilot, might as well watch his last villain fight before giving up his dreams
After he reached the group of people, trying to peer around to see what was happing
He felt as if lightning shot through him
Oh god…the same villain from before, the one allmight captured!, he must have fallen out of the pocket when he grabbed his leg!! And he has a kid!
This is all his fault! If he didn’t grab allmight, none of this would have happened! Hes such a idiotic Stu-
Then he sees him, he sees kacchan
Why aren’t the hero’s doing anything? Why aren’t they pulling him out!!
Then they lock eyes, and he sees it, the desperation, the fear, the fading of life
Midoriya’s feet moved on there own
The feeling of rushing by through the crowd, pushing everyone aside, past the hero’s that reached out to him
He felt His feet hitting the pavement
He could hear nothing but the breath in his lungs
The weight of his bag as he swung it into the air
Felt nothing as explosions burned his hands as he dug through the sludge, trying to get Kachaan at least one breath
“WHAT THE HELL, WHY ARE YOU HERE?!” Relief filled him, he got him to breathe
“I DONT KNOW, MY LEGS JUST STARTED MOVING”
Midoriya’s life flashed before his eyes, his mother, allmight, kacchan, the stupid doctor, one voice, a new one, louder then the rest ‘so?, prove them wrong!’
“Kacchan, I could just stand there and watch you die!”
Then he felt the air itself SCREAM around them His feet being swept off the rough as the the wind was knocked out of him, being held in place by the back of his school uniform
He saw the sky turn from black, to blue, to a grey, feeling rain on his face before blacking out
As midoriya came too, he assumed he was already looked over by the medic, because he was immediately being reprimanded by the hero’s he ran by before
he heard Bakugou being praised by the others that weren’t around himself
When he managed to get away from the hero’s, he snuck away within the crowd avoiding the press…and Allmight
deciding to take the long way home instead of the side street he usually take’s, looking down at his feet as he walks
his eyes watering as he looks back on the day, thoughts being interrupted as he heard footsteps quickly approaching him from behind.
“DEEEKUUUU” Without thinking midoriya ran, his heart racing
he made it a few blocks before being shoved into the wall, and falling to the ground
rolling onto his back he looks up at Bakugou as they both catch there breaths
“I would never ask for a weakling like you to help me” the pause that happend after his statement made izuku nervous
“So Don’t think you can look down on me!, got that?!” Midoriya flinched at the change in volume as Bakugou got louder
“I was fine by myself, your just a quirkless failure, who won’t even cut it as a rent-a-cop!”Midoriya notices how bakugous hands are clenched and shaking
“You didn’t help me, you did nothin-“
“your right” Bakugou froze
his hands stopped shaking, he stopped breathing, his eyes widened before squinting again
“Your right, you were always right, I can’t be a hero, I can’t even be a sidekick” Bakugou’s lips were pulled into a line, fist clenched so hard his knuckles were white, staring at midoriya as if he had three heads
Bringing his knees up to his chest resting his head on them He didn’t see Bakugou turn away, eyebrows pinched
“Whatever!, I don’t care!” Turing away Bakugou shoved his hands in his pockets and his shoulders hunched forward
“I don’t owe you anything!”
Midoriya didn’t know how long he sat there in the alleyway long enough for the sun to be on the horizon, and the cold to creep in before finally making his way home
After a while, he finally made it home in the dark
as soon as he opens the door he was rapped in his mothers arms, his shirt getting wet from her tears
after a moment he hugs her back, leaning into her hold as his eyes got wet once more