Dead Hero's Heart

Chapter 58

🛑This chapters mentions torture. If you are unconfortable with it, you are advised into skipping said chapter🛑

IZUKU'S POV

When this power was given to me, no one had told me of the hardships I would have to go through. All Might had thought that there was no need for me to know then. After all, there wasn't any deadly foe after this power. He had been supposingly taken down some years ago by my mentor, the first ever successor to survive from these hands of his.

But, even after the league's first attack, even after I learned what I was destined to do, what carrying on this quirk meant, I never once thought of giving up. Because, this quirk was now mine and so was the responsibility. And I am a hero, and heroes don't back down even when they are faced with the cruelest of villains.

Through all this time as a successor of One for All, I have learned one thing. There were other people out there. There were people with far greater potential than me, far stronger than me and far more skilled than me. All Might could have chosen a quirked individual, or at least one that knew of their quirk, instead of a 'Quirkless' no one like me.

And yet, I was the one that he chose. And I liked to think that there was a reason behind it. That there was something in me that I couldn't see. Something far greater than was impossible to recognize. And I took pride to that.

But, as it seems, only me thought of that. And I had just happened to be lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time. Because now, the predecessors are saying that I cannot understand just how big of a danger All for One is. That I haven't tried hard enough so far. That I don't care about what happens to the rest of the world.

But I do. I have seen All for One with my very own eyes too. I know what he is capable of. And I have tried my hardest. I have been training day after day to perfect my usage of the Quirks. And, of course, I care about the world. I may not show emotions now, I may seem heartless to many. But I never stopped being a hero. And I would never turn my back to other people.

So, what they are accusing me of is wrong. And it hurts to know that they think of me that way. They say I'm selfish. Because I want to save Ochako. So, what? Am I not allowed to be selfish for once in my life? Is it that bad!? After all, nothing is going to happen. They go on and on and on about how me revealing myself is going to cause a disaster. But I don't understand it. They never explained it to me either way so does it really matter?

I struggled against their grips. I have been doing this for a while now. My eyes were wide open as I overlooked at my friend in front of me. Uraraka trembled from fear in the hands of Toga. She was coughing madly as she fought against the hand that held her neck and choked her. She was scratching the villains hand madly though the other girl didn't seem to care. I would go as far as to say that she actually enjoyed it.

The knife on her other hand had been brought dangerously close to my friend's face. As if she was taunting her, she had been moving it around, some times slashing slightly her skin and forming small scratches from which blood would be coming out of.

Toga had a lot of it too on her face. Probably from the second time I had thrown her. She had been licking it for some time now, giving her a wild and hungry look that upseted me greatly.

I continued to fight against their grips. "Let me go, please, let me go". I pleaded for them, but no one even dared to ease up a bit. The man whose glare scared me pulled onto my hair harder, forcing my head to remain in position so that I would be looking straight at the two girls.

"No, you have to go through this, you have to understand and learn what it truly feels like to be a successor if this power". Tears had been forming in my eyes and finally I could feel them flowing free. Droppets of water fell on my cheaks and moved down my jaw line before they started gathering there.