Gone (Deku x Shoto)

Chapter 4

(Shoto POV)

As soon as my assignment is finished I collect my things and there is a voice message and a text message. I open the text first.

AIZAWA: Come straight to the dorms after your assignment.

I listened to the voicemail and it said the same thing but there was something in his voice that made me panic. Did Izu hurt himself at his test yesterday? I drive as fast as I can and make it there just after 9 am. I walk into the dorms and the whole class is there in the pj's. I scan the room and don't see Izu. Aizawa starts walking towards me with his hands out and I can see he is crying. Why the fuck is he crying.

"Aizawa where is Izu. Aizawa please where.... is Izuku." I say my voice breaking.

"Shoto" he began. He never calls me that.

"No.no. please don't say it." I cry out. He walked over to me and wrapped his arms around me tightly.

"There was a fire at his mum and dad's last night. Nobody survived." He said as his voice shook.

I broke there and then. I slumped to the floor crying. Aizawa sat on the floor and held me as I sobbed. I was vaguely aware that others were also crying. Nothing matters. My whole reason for being had been ripped out from underneath me. Eventually, Aizawa picked me up and I really looked at him. He was covered in soot and dirt. My hand shook as I touched it and looked at my fingers. Suddenly there was an anger in me like I had never felt before. Aizawa must have seen it in my eyes as he dragged me away to the dorm I was sharing with Izu. We stepped inside.

"Did he do this?" My voice shook. The look Aizawa gave me told me I was right.

"I'm going to kill him," I say through my teeth.

"Shoto you can't. You can't even let him know you suspect it was anything other than a freak accident or we will never get him. I promise you we are working on it. You have to promise. I will not rest until he answers for all his crimes. But if we don't do it correctly he will get away with it. Do you understand?" Aizawa grips my shoulders making sure I hear him. I nod numbly.

"I...I want in. I want to get justice for....for him." I can't bring myself to say his name.

He nods at me giving my shoulders a squeeze before he leaves. I look about our room. The bed is still unmade from when we got out of it yesterday. His t-shirt is still draped over the computer chair. I walk over and grab it holding it to my face. I breathe in his beautiful strawberry scent and collapse to the floor as fresh tears take over me. I sob on the floor clutching his T-shirt like it is a lifeline. I cry so hard I can't breathe and fall asleep on the floor. I am woken up to someone knocking on the door. I ignore it and just lay there. Whoever it is leaves and I sit up staring at a photo of us. I stand up and pick it up running my fingers down his face. Everything feels numb.

"Izu we were supposed to grow old together, have a family. What am I going to do now?" I gently place it back on the chest of drawers.

Anger rises in my chest again. He took that future from me from us. I start grabbing the drawers and yanking them out and throwing them across the room. When I throw on the top one I notice something else falls out other than clothes. I go over to the drawer and see an envelope and a small box. I pick them up and sit on the bed. I took the paper out of the envelope, my hands shaking as I unfolded the letter out revealing Izu's handwriting.

"My Sho,

I'm putting everything down here so I don't forget anything or ramble. From the very first time I saw you I knew you were special. I knew you were made for me as I was made for you. You were the one thing I was missing in my life and now it's complete. I can't wait to start our lives together outside of school. I can't wait until we do all the things we longed for together. You make me the happiest man on the planet and if I died tomorrow know that I would die happily because of you. You are my reason for everything. That is why I have a very important question for you. Shoto Todoroki will you make me the happiest man and marry me. Yours forever Izu xxxx"