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Third Person POV
Izuku Midoriya was not having a great week. His insomnia decided to act up and his anxiety was taken to another level. He was thinking of his middle school years again and all the abuse and torture that came with it. It wasn't also helping that this week had been awful and his classmates were doing so many things that were just getting on his nerves. Bakugou was yelling at him and how he was useless, All Might kept saying that he wasn't doing enough, and Aizawa kept pairing him up with Bakugo to 'smooth' things out with him! And the cherry that tops everything off! Not a single person noticed he was suffering at all!
He was just so done with everything!
Now Class 1-A had a training session today where they were sparring. And yet again, Izuku was paired up with his supposed 'rival', but in all actuality, it was a victim and his bully. This is where things got messy. He just couldn't sit back and do nothing anymore.
Todoroki had accidentally shot a fireball at his and Bakugo's direction. In a matter of not getting hurt, he pushed himself and Bakugo to the side to not get caught in it. At that moment though, Bakugo snapped.
"I didn't need your help, useless Deku! I could have done that by myself!"
At this point everyone was heading over to them to see if they were alright. Aizawa was heading over to check if they were alright and to send them to Recovery Girl if they weren't.
At that point though, everyone heard what Bakugo had said to Izuku and Kirishima thought it was wise to stop Bakugo from going any further than he had already.
"Hey Bakubro! I think that's enough! Midobro was just trying to save you from getting hurt."
"Shut up! I didn't need Deku's help!"
"Shut up Kacchan."
"Heh!? What was that Deku!?"
"I said, SHUT UP BAKUGO!"
Everyone was shock stilled into silence. They didn't expect Midoriya to use Bakugo's name and even told him to shut up.
"You can't tell me w-"
"You know Katsuki..."
This is when the whole class got a bad feeling about what was coming next. Aizawa got a sinking feeling when he heard what Midoriya had said and how he had said Bakugo's actual name and not the nickname he used.
"-you should count yourself lucky I saved you that miserable day or else I really might've taken your advice."
The way Midoriya looked up after that with dull eyes that only a traumatized child had made everyone freeze up including Aizawa who had seen his fair share of traumatized patients. Aizawa then realized he would never ever be ready for Midoriya to break, but it was already upon them at that very moment.
Bakugo's face showed multiple emotions from grief, sadness, realization, and the worst of all, mortification. It was wrong seeing him like this. He was as pale as a sheet and had wide eyes when he realized what Dek-no-Izuku was saying.
"Iz-u-ku..."
Now that concerned everyone. He had never said Midoriya's actual name ever.
"Did you know that only because my feet lead me to the villain that attacked me minutes before you I wasn't able to follow the advice you gave me? After all the things you and your lackeys put me through for 11 years straight after I was declared quirkless and after all the bullying, physical, and mental abuse from everyone–heck even the teachers! After all the scars you gave me–Katsuki...SCARS! After all of that, the advice sounded so good! The only reason I am even here today is due to the fact I knew you were going to die and ran in to save you from the attack even after all the things you did to me and the great saying of take a swan dive off the roof and maybe you'll get a quirk in your next life! Did you know, after I was saved from the villain, I was on a roof high enough to jump from and die? I certainly was going to take that advice because of what you told me and you were just a street away from that building!?"
Aizawa realized that this whole speech revealed so much about Midoriya's behavior and how the relationship between him and Bakugo was anything, but a rivalry.
Basically the whole class was crying at this, finding out one of their classmates was bullied by another classmate for years and it never stopped.
"After all of that, I kept trying to be your friend and help you through your problems because I knew you would only come to me due to not knowing how to open up to anyone else! I am done with your mess and your pathetic self! You wonder how the teachers neve even thought of you being a bully? Well it's because of your quirk and how it is so perfect for heroics! You never got any notes in your file while I did for all the stuff you pulled off! They thought it was because of your quirk and even here the teachers thought it was just a temper thing and that you would never bully me!"
At this he turned himself towards his classmates and Aizawa. There was anger simmering under his skiing from years of ignorance on this subject. He couldn't ignore it any longer!
"If you had checked my files Aizawa, you would have seen that I got my quirk right before the entrance exams and used it for the first time in the exams because if I did it before that, my limbs would have flown off and I would have died! I didn't learn how to control the output of my quirk till I went on my INTERNSHIP! You didn't teach me a thing and I kept breaking my bones over and over again. I now have joint pain and I wake up stiff in my limbs everyday and it hurts so bad that I can barely write some days, but I still do it because it is your expectations! You literally told Bakugo to grow up after the Battle training at the beginning of the year! GROW UP! You only told me to start to learn how to control the output when I have only had three months with that quirk and didn't know a thing about it! I didn't have any guidance on that subject at all till my internship! You are our teacher! You are supposed to help us with that! Our class is slowly falling apart because of what you are doing! Now physically, but mentally! These fights we have had all year are mentally taxing and we are individually falling apart! You have a student being abused by a parent, a student in such financial difficulty that sometimes they go the entire weekend without eating, several students sexually harassed by another student, another so consumed by a personal matter that they nearly got themselves and two other students killed during the internships, and another student who was used as a prop for an overly sexualized commercial by a hero who was supposed to be teaching them, and two others who have undiagnosed ADHD and dyslexia. No one noticed or addressed these issues. The school should have prevented at least three of the internships, and we didn't receive any guidance on who would be a good fit for us. I was incredibly lucky with my internship, but it was the only offer I got, so I didn't even have a choice, and it could have been much worse. Imagine if one of the girls in class only got a single offer from a male hero who didn't have the best of intentions, they'd have no choice but to go. Most people have nightmares because of the things we've seen, so is it any surprise, after one student tries multiple times to attack another student, then nearly killed their target in training, and the total of the school's response to the offender is 'grow up,' that no one feels they can go to the teachers? We weren't even given therapy after all of our fights! I have officially lost my trust in any of my teachers. This includes All Might."
Everyone was frozen at what Midoriya had said. None of them were denying it. They couldn't possibly deny it. It was true. All of them had been failed by their teachers at some point. Most of their internships were horrible and the students who were mentioned in their problems started sobbing. None of them got therapy and they had no idea if it was even an option.
Aizawa had no excuse for what he heard. He couldn't deny any of it either.
After what Midoriya had said, he turned to the students with the same cold and calculative look in his eyes.
"Not a single one of you noticed I was suffering! My mask of happiness was broken all week if you didn't notice! At least one of you should have picked up my nervous habits and my habits that derived from my past! For god sake! We are going to be heroes soon and if you all can't see the signs of someone who has multiple mental issues, then I can't see you guys ever being proper heroes. This goes for you too Mr. Aizawa. I have PTSD, nervous tics, multiple social disorders, and some more. How have you guys never thought of that!?"
"This school needs to fix its problems or else," now standing in front of Mr. Aizawa, "or else I fear that everyone will break emotionally and mentally. This is not working anymore. I am taking a week break and I am hoping everything will be fixed or in the process of being fixed when I come back because this can no longer go on. I hope you heard all of that Nezu, because I know you are listening. Goodbye everyone."
Izuku soon left and many just collapsed in a sobbing mess because they couldn't deny anything Midoriya was saying and it was heartbreaking to hear all of that.
Aizawa knew he messed up on his judgment of Midoriya. The students messed up their judgment. They were now paying the price of it.