Bunny Savior

"I promise"

"What happened between you and your friends?" Rumi had asked.

Izuku, a bit hesitant, looked up at her. He met with her gaze as it was all set on him.

"What do you mean?"

Rumi only looked at him a bit more worried. She could obviously tell there was something that happened, he just didn't want to note it. But, it was poking at her and it was starting to get annoying.

She sighed.

"Come on ki-... Izuku, I could tell you obviously have something going on with your, qoute on qoute, 'Friends'. Ever since I tried to bring them up you've been.... Scared." Rumi said as she only grew more worried as she said it.

It's true.

With every mention of his classmates, he would always tense up or ignore it completely. Something Rumi was easy to pick up.

Izuku was a bit hesitant with his response.

"...It's-"

"Don't say 'Its nothing', that's not gonna slide." Rumi said quick to catch him.

Izuku looked up at her a final time, before letting out a sigh. This was something he wasn't going to escape.

"Not here..." He said looking back up at her.

"We should go somewhere else for this." He said as he stood up from his seat.

It's lucky they hadn't ordered their food yet, or they would have a pretty annoyed restaurant.

Rumi stood up and followed behind Izuku as they took a step outside. Izuku looked up at a near roof and activated 'Float' to fly up on top. Rumi followed behind as the landed on the top.

'Kinda forgot he could do that.' Rumi thought as she watched him walk over to the side and sat down, laying his back to the ledge.

Rumi walked over and sat down next to him.

Izuku didn't say anything for a few seconds, until he finally let out a sigh.

"So, you want me to start from the beginning?" Izuku said not looking in her direction.

"It would be nice if you did." Rumi responded to him.

He let out a slight giggle, but soon dropped it along with his smile.

"...It... It started around my second year..." He began.

"You heard about when I left UA, right?" Izuku asked turning towards Rumi.

That's right. After the war with Shigaraki, Izuku had left UA for reasons that were unknown at the time. But it was later on that she had found out that he left because he was being targeted. By who?

Shigaraki.

"Yeah, you left to keep your friends safe. But, what does that have to do with it?" Rumi asked waiting for Izuku to continue.

"Well, during the time I was gone, it was quite obvious that I changed. During that time, I realized what being a hero really felt like." Izuku said.

He was right.

Being a hero was obviously not a easy job. The weight of protecting everyone was sitting on your shoulders at all times. And if you weren't able to do that job, you were to sure feel useless.

And as someone like Rumi, she knew all to well how he felt. She had her fair share of past experiences, many for how she is today.

Rumi nodded for him to continue.

"...Later on in the year, I finally came back. I had expected to see all my friends again, and honestly, half of me expected them to run up to me all worried. But, that's not what happened..."

Rumi noticed that his face began to form a frown. One that she wouldn't point on, but she still felt like she needed to do something.

Rumi scooted closer to him as they now we're touching shoulders. Izuku at first looked to her, but he didn't move. In all honesty, it looked like he tilted to her slightly.

Izuku then continued.

"When I came back, I wasn't welcomed by most of everyone... They had thought I abandoned them when I left. Everyone looked at me with resentment and disgust. As if I wasn't the person that fought along side them." He said.

Slowly, Rumi could hear his voice slowly start to break as he talked.

"I...I felt guilty... I-i felt guilty t-that I left them.... I felt guilty that I didn't take their feelings into consideration... I felt guilty that...that I didn't even consider myself a hero..."

Izuku had slight tears filling up in his eyes. This was the first time he had spoken about it. He was never able to talk about it to anyone else. All might wasn't there... His classmates dispised him.... On top of that, his mother was gone as well.

Since then, all his feelings were shut and locked away. No one to talk to, no one to turn to. He was...

"I was all alone...."

Rumi watched as he slowly start to break down. Her body moved on its own as she pulled the boy into her arms. He was shaking.

For a odd reason, seeing him like that made her heart hurt. When he was shaking, all she wanted to do was hold him til he stopped. She didn't want him to feel like this. She didn't want for him to feel like he was nothing.

He was something.

Something to her now.

"I..." Izuku tried to speak up in the middle of his tears.

"I-i didn't want... Want t-to believe that I was alone... I-i wanted to b-believe that I was still.... Still worth it... B-but.... I couldn't.... I... I was alone..." He spoke through his tears.

With that, Rumi had began to feel slight tears fill her own eyes.

Hearing him say that he wanted to deny being alone, only to be hit with a shattering realization that he was. She didn't want him to feel like that.

She didn't want him to be alone.

Not anymore.

Rumi fully turned her body and pulled him into a full embrace. She squeezed him into a tight hug to make sure he knew she was worried.

Rumi laid her head on top of his.

"Izuku..." She spoke to get his attention.

She pulled him out from her hug to look at his face. It was stained with tears and still more coming. She grabbed his face for him to fully focus on her. She made sure to look him directly in the eyes.

"I'm here now, your not alone you got that." She lightly told him as his eyes widened.

"I'm not leaving you by yourself, I'm staying here..." She said as she pulled him into another embrace.

This time, he hugged her back as she buried his face into her shoulder.

"I promise."

Was the last thing said as they sat there holding each other.