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Izuku's POV
Month four
He watched his mom get skinnier.
He watched her throw up in a bucket.
Have chills, that shook the entire couch.
He cuddled her to his best ability and held her to help her consume his body warmth.
He was not sleeping at night.
Night terrors kept him awake.
The thought of her dying on him was too much.
She was so strong but oh so weak right now.
He missed a couple of weeks of school now because of his stubbornness.
They had a fight and he won for now about not leaving her side.
"Hey Green Bean, wanna go to the store with me?" His mother's frail voice knocked him back to reality.
He stood up from where he was sitting and then helped her up and she scooted her feet towards her bedroom.
She hasn't been sleeping in her room; it was just too far away from the bathroom.
He helped her get dressed and tried not to look at her skinny body and bruises that seemed to pop up everywhere on her body.
Her hair that was gone, he missed brushing it. Izuku could feel his hair growing back within the months since he first shaved his head but his mom's wasn't. So late at night he would keep shaving it.
He took up trying to keep wishing but no one seemed to hear him.
He felt so depressed lately.
Taking a blade to his thighs seemed to help, he told Kacchan and the boy made him throw away everything sharp.
"If ya feel this way fucking talk to me Deku! You know I will always be there for you.".
He stopped cutting but he still felt more depressed than ever.
They finally left the house and it was cloudy just as he was feeling.
Their first stop was a bookshop.
It made him miss those days as a small kid where she would read a small story to him before tucking him into bed.
The smell of books made him feel happy.
"Hey look, Green Bean, a section of DIY arts and crafts, wanna have a look?" She asked, he nodded and walked towards the section. There wasn't much that interested him, as he grazed the section on the books with his finger tip he got a papercut on a book that was about paper origami shapes.
"Green Bean did you find something? Oh! Orgamis are beautiful. Hard to make but I bet you'd be really good at it!" She praised him and kissed his finger with the papercut and they grabbed the book together and walked out after paying for it.
Once at home he read the poem that had came with the book it had read
"There was a belief in the city
About something very pretty
That a piece of paper could create wavers
Within the universe and grant wishes
Within it's every fold it had fragments of your prayers
But only if you had folded it into the symbol of creating life itself
The crane
It was said to only works when you've made one thousand
So if you have need
Or someone in need
You must create a thousand for your Prayers to be heard
But be careful weary traveler
For you only have one chance
If you fail
There is no returning
No retry
You get only one
We wish you luck on your aspires
For only one chance is what you have,
So good luck and don't be sad for
The cranes are with you
If only you believe it
To achieve it."
With that warning in mind he got to work. It was time to help mama .
A crane, one at a time.
It was difficult. He ended up with a lot of paper on the ground crumpled but by the time he finally achieved it after two hours he went to the kitchen.
He tumbled around his kitchen looking for something to put it in. A jar! A pickle jar came into sight and he ran to his room with it and then labeled it: Wishes.
This was going to be his start of helping his mom. With making origami and putting his wishes on it.
On the star he wrote please make my mom better. In a small scrawl. He carefully folded it and put it on the bottom of the jar.
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A Thousand Dreams ✔️
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