Crossroads (An Evil Deku Fanfic)

Chapter 17: Abhorrence

I had to take a break because Cricket (@ClickyCricket)and I were dying over the comments in chapter 16. Forgive us, please. Quill shall try to compose herself now and write a serious chapter.

Katsuki POV:

Izuku dropped his knife and shouted, "No weapons! No quirks. We fight fairly."

"I don't want to fight you!" I called to him, "I just need to tell you some stuff!"

"The hell?!" He shouted, "Why did you have to change? Katsuki, do you understand that I always wanted to be you?! Not this you- the old you! The you that didn't fear anything or anyone! The you who never claimed second- always first! The you that made me me!" He roared at me and motioned with his hands.

"Well, that 'me' isn't who I am anymore, I guess." I shrugged. 

He shook his head, took a step back while unfastening his cape, and leaped over the pile of rubble. He flew through the air before he began to descend. I stumbled backward, pushing Eijiro out of the way. Izuku landed squarely where I had been standing and there was a small crater in the ground. He moved as fast as the lightning above us as he leaped around, smoothly delivering kicks and punches to my face and body. I tried to block them, but it seemed like he had a million limbs, and I couldn't block them all.

"Izu-" I grunted, trying to defend myself and speak at the same time, "Izuku! Wait! Stop!" I grabbed his wrist as he punched my neck and I twisted it. He spun and fell to the muddy ground. He grunted and spat out blood as I jumped him. I planted my knees on either side of him and held his wrists to the ground so he couldn't move. "Izuku, I don't want to hurt you! I just wanted to apologize! It's my fault you're a villain, isn't it??"

"Yes!" He yelled, his eyes flaming with hate. He shifted his arm and I lost my balance. I collapsed on top of him and he shoved me off and I splatted into the mud. He knelt down on top of me and slapped my face to the side. He punched my face into the mud several times until I couldn't feel my own consciousness.

He raised his arm to hit me again, but something pulled him off of me. Someone. 

"Cut it out, Deku!" Eijiro demanded. He had lifted Izuku up by his waist and tossed him aside like he weighed nothing. He skipped off of the ground as he was thrown into it. Eijiro extended his hand to me, so I weakly grabbed it. He pulled me to my feet and asked me, "Are you okay?"

"M'fine." I wiped the blood out of my mouth and turned to look where Izuku was thrown. There was no Izuku anywhere. Anywhere at all. "He's gone!" I exclaimed.

Both me and Eijiro leaped into a fighting stance, our backs to each other. We prepared for him to appear randomly out of nowhere and attack, but for 2 minutes, he didn't. Those were the longest, scariest two minutes of my life, standing there, my heart pounding in my chest and pain flushing around my skull. The rain fell harder, so I couldn't have heard him if I tried. My vision was blurry, so I couldn't have seen him.

Then, after two long minutes, I heard Izuku's voice. " 'Dear Kacchan, a long time ago, you and I walked the same path, and we wanted to reach the same destination. However, we came to a crossroads, didn't we? We each went down the path we thought would lead to our desired destination. I went down my path, and you went down yours. Now I see that I chose wrongly and that the path of kindness, trust, and equality did not lead to our goal. Your path, the path of belittling others, cruelty, and hatred, did. So tell me, what is it like at our destination? What is it like to be a hero? -yours truly, Deku.' " He recited a familiar letter to me. I finally found where his voice was coming from and looked over at him. He was standing behind us, by the dilapidated gates. "Well, Katsuki. That was the letter I gave you when you were accepted into UA, was it not? So now that we have a chance to really talk, give me your answer." He glared a cold gaze into my eyes. "What is it like to be what I always wanted?"

I couldn't speak. Eijiro looked at me, but I couldn't look at him. I couldn't look away from Izuku. "Izuku, I made mistakes."

"No kidding."

"Please let me apologize!" I begged, "Izuku, I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I know that these words might not mean anything to you, but if I could just... just... just undo it all! If I could rewind time, I would! Back to before you were a villain and before I was a hero! Before I had my quirk! Back when we were kids! If I could turn time back and if I could've grabbed your hand when I fell in the river, maybe things could be different! Maybe if I had only grabbed your hand, we could be friends! Maybe things could be alright!" I sifted through my memories and saw everything I'd done wrong to him. I saw how he always put up with it with a smile. "Izuku! I can't turn back time! If I could, I would! If I could undo everything I did wrong, you know that I would!"

He and I stared at each other through the rain, the world darker than before as dawn approached. He chuckled lightly and just said, "How many times did you rehearse that, Katsuki?"

"Stop acting like I don't care, Izuku!"

"Stop ordering me around!" He shouted, "I'm not five years old anymore! I'm not following you around anymore! I don't look up to you anymore!!"

It felt like an arrow stabbed into my heart. I tilted my head down and stared at my feet, studying my muddy shoes.

"I don't care if you apologize!" He screamed, "I don't care if you regret what you did! All that matters is that you did it at all! You made me this, Katsuki Bakugo! Know that! Know that and don't forget it!"

The words stabbed into me and I clenched my prosthetic hands together. I ground my teeth together and felt my heart thumping faster against my ribcage. My head whipped up and I shot a glare right at my childhood friend. My feet dragged through the mud before I started to step through it. I began to run, leaping through the thick mud, straight toward Izuku.

"Bakugo!" Eijiro called, "Don't do it! Bak- Katsuki!!!"

I raised both my arms when I was close enough to Izuku and aimed my fingers together. He braced himself when I jumped into the rain. I looked down at him and he glared up at me. When I came down on him, Eijiro shouted to me again. I landed on Izuku and wrapped my arms around him, pulling his head into my shoulder. I tackled him down to the ground and we rolled through the dark. He was confused and surprised, but I kept hugging him close to my chest.

"Izuku, I know that I was a terrible person to you!" I admitted, "I know that I hurt you! I know you never felt safe around me! I know you probably hated me just as much as I hated you! I know you and I weren't equal! But I was jealous! I was jealous because being a hero- a real hero -came so naturally to you, and it just didn't to me! I guess that jealousy made me want to prove that I was a better hero than you... so I'm sorry. I'm really, really, sorry." I hugged him close but tilted my head to the side. I sat taller and swept his wet, curly hair out of the way so that I could kiss his forehead, which I did. "And... that's from your mom. She misses you so much. She loves you so much, Izuku. Every day, she asks me when you're coming home; when she can see you again."

He shoved me off of him with an aggressive shove and wiped the kiss off of his forehead. "Don't kiss me after you just made out with your boyfriend. That's fucking disgusting. And, tell my mom that I'm not coming home. When she sees me next, I'll either be in prison or in a coffin."

I scrambled to my feet, slipping in the rain. "Izuku, she really misses you! She's hurting so much because you're a villain! Just go home! Don't go back to the League- they're going to assassinate you!"

"Oh, I know," He snapped, "I'm not that dumb. They already tried!" He began to chuckle, then cackle, "And when someone tries to kill a top-class villain, the top-class villain is never the one that dies!"

"Stop being so arrogant and go home!" I pleaded, "Please... I just want this whole crazy story to end already!"

"Deku..." Someone, a villain came out of the trees. He had strange glasses and a very bony face. He had long fingers that seemed to be webbed together and a hunchback. "I think that's my cue?"

Izuku looked over to him and smiled, "Yes, I believe so." The villain began to sulk up to me as Izuku kept talking, "Katsuki, you said you wanted to undo what you'd done? Well, my friend here, Universus, can let you see something that might be what you wanted. There's a chance that it is what you want, but you never know what could happen. His quirk is called..." Izuku smirked at me as the villain placed his webbed hand on my head, "...AU."