a world between us

*broken dreams and broken friendships*

Deku pov:

When I awoke and my vision slowly returned I saw a hero standing above me asking if I was okey. When my eyes were fully open and the ringing in my ears died down I heard him say "I thought we lost you there" in a heroic manly voice, it was Allmight. I slowly sat up to get my bearings of my surroundings. "Are you okey kid?" he asked, looking down at me as I stood up on my shaky legs.

"Yea, thank you for helping me" I looked up at him. His big shiny smile was blinding. "Well I got to go kid" he said leaping "wait I-" before I knew I was holding on for dear life 50 feet in the air. "Kid let go!" he yelled down to me. "If I let go i'll die!" I yelled back. How stupid was that comment not all of us can fly.

After a while we landed on a roof and I let go. "Well kid bang on that door till someone opens it. I guess I have to go" he said, getting ready to leap again but before he could I yelled "Ian I be a hero even if I don't have a quirk!". There was a silence that filled the air after that. Allmight stood near the ledge and I stood about 5 feet away staring at his back. The air was suffocating and long.

Still facing the town below Allmight started to talk in a saddened tone. "I'm sorry kid, I don't believe quirkless people can become heroes, our jobs are jus-" I tuned him out after that. I don't know how to describe what I felt other than despair. Kaccan was right. I can't do it. My dreams just got shattered by my childhood idle. It felt as if the one pillar of hope I had in this word single handedly shattered my world into a decaying pit of darkness.

Allmight was long gone before I was broken out of my trance. I banged on the door like he said to do and someone opened it and led me out of the apartment building and I walked back home. Every step closer it felt as if something bad was happening. Like I should be home right now to stop something. I just swallowed the feeling and continued on my way.

Then I saw it, kaccan, the sludge, fire. Don't get me wrong I should help him but i can't, I didn't even stop. I kept walking as if muscle memory, past my childhood friend, past the villain, past that mess. I walked home with my cloud of sadness. A few more streets passed and I opened the door to my lonely apartment. When I walked in I wasn't greeted with a warm welcome which was abnormal. I was greeted with the same looming feeling of bad I felt early which was more abnormal.

I walked into the kitchen and I saw it."M-mom" I gulped. She she she was d-dead. I rushed over pulling out my phone dialling 911. I put my hand over the stab wound trying to get the gushing blood to stop.

"911 whats your emergency"

"H-hello m-my mom she she d-dead"

"Sir what's your address"

"*Insert address* p-please h-hurr-hurry"

Hours passed and the ambulance took her away. The cops questioned me and I was left alone. Alone in my lonely apartment scrubbing my moms blood from my skin and floor. She was gone. The one person I had left was gone. I have no one now. I'm alone....

Bakugos pov:

After school me and my followers went through the back allies to get back to our neighbourhood. It was normal for us to jump passerbys or to steal change from the homeless people who slept near here. I didn't like doing it but it eat or get eaten in this world and I need to be the best. After walking for a few more minutes idiot one with the long fingers tried to light up a cigarette. "Oi, idiot put that out i'm not getting caught hanging out with a smoker" i said in the most confident loud voice i could muster right then and there.

He put out the cigarette then walked up beside me "don't your mom smoke bakugo?". His voice sounded more like an answer than a question but keeping up with my persona I hit him over the head and said 'it's none of your goddamn business'. We continued on our way until my followers suddenly stopped in what seemed to be...fear?

I turned in front of me to see a- a- a- a- v- villain?! Dumbass one and two were long gone before i realized the danger i'm now in. "those assholes'' I mumbled angrily as I chased after them. I wasn't moving forward though it felt like my feet had weights tied to them and like I was getting pulled under. "Nice quirk you got there kid" who said that. Was it the slime. I looked over to see two eyes and a mouth. It felt like time was going fast but somehow going slow. One event after another before i knew it there was fire and my lungs stung. I couldnt breath or yell for help. There were heroes just standing there, people taking videos and photos. This was humiliating if the old hag finds out...if she finds out I'll be dead in a ditch somewhere.

Please somebody help me. I tried to reach and claw at my throat but this villain was surrounding me, suffocating me, killing me.... I felt my eyelids get heavy. Time seemed to freeze and my lungs didn't hurt anymore. I don't care if im dieing anymore, this felt nice. It felt like I was free.

I wish i could stay here forever. All I remember after that is being saved, press, heroes congratulating me for being strong and then walking around not wanting to go home. The villain attack was gone as soon as it happened. Now I walk the back roads not wanting to go home so I ended up where I normally go. The park me and deku used to play when life was simpler. When the hag was nice and me and dek- izuku were friends.

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