They're Not Here: A BNHA Villain Deku Fanfic

Chapter 5: The Before

"Katsuki-kun! Well we've just been getting to see more and more of you lately, haven't we?" Inko beams at me from where she's standing in the doorway clutching her handbag. "Izuku's pretty down right now, so he could use a friend. Come on in."

I follow her inside. It's been so long since I've been in here. Blah. Nostalgia feels gross. We walk into the living room where Deku is. He looks pathetic as expected. He's lying on the sofa with a bandaged head dazedly staring at a TV screen. "Izuku, honey," Inko calls gently. "Katsuki-kun's here to see you."

Deku doesn't budge.

Inko fidgets with her handbag. "Well I was actually just about to pick up some ingredients for dinner. So I'll leave you two alone. Take care of my boy, kay?" She walks out and a few minutes later we hear the door close shut behind her.

"So," I say triumphantly. "Looks like you didn't make it, huh?"

Deku's voice is so soft I almost can't hear it. "Come to gloat, Kacchan?"

"You bet I have! I've been waiting for this moment my whole life." I walk around the sofa and sit on the floor right in between Deku and the TV. "But seriously, though, what did you think was going to happen, Quirkless bitch? Like please don't tell me you're upset? All of this-" I wave my hand to gesture to his prostrate position "-is just because you're tired and you overworked yourself yesterday, yeah? It was too much for you, wasn't it? Big world out there isn't it, nerd? Tell me, just how badly did you do? Did you get a single point. Like a single- "

"NO!" Deku shrieks, jerking to a sitting position. My eyes twitch. "Not a single mother freaking point! Are you happy now? Is that what you wanted to hear?"

I guffaw and shrug. "I've warned you countless times, Deku. But no, you just had to show the world what a Quirkless wonder could do. Just had to try and break the stereotypes and records, didn't you? But now look what you've gone and done? Had to make a complete ass of yourself and every other Quirkless person out there-"

"SHUT UP!" The punch comes from left field. Completely random and without warning. It sends me flying across the living room and crashing into the television. The screen shatters and glass sticks into my back and into my legs as I collapse onto the floor.

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Just shut up!" Deku launches himself at me and gets three more punches in before I finally manage to send him backward with an explosion. Deku thuds into the living room wall, leaving a huge crack across the drywall. "Don't you think I get it?!" Deku screams, tears streaming down his face as he staggers to his feet. "You were right, okay? Does that make you happy? Can you die satisfied now?"

"Who the hell do you think you are?" I seethe, lifting my hand up for another explosion.

"Nothing! I'm absolutely worthless! I know! I know! I know!" He runs forward, gets flung back thanks to my explosion, only for him to leap right back up again. A second later I'm on the floor and my nose is broken. Blood is filling my mouth. He gets an explosion to his face and then I'm on top of him, clouting him in the jaw.

"I'll kill you!" I shout into his face. "I'll freaking kill you!"

Deku screams. Raw, pure, and rabid, before blowing me off of him. I shoot backward, across the room, through the wall, all the way outside into the damp morning air. He runs out after me and dives, fist reared back for another punch. I lift up my palms and shoot out an explosion mid-air. I can't tell if it hits him or not because I'm too busy crashing into the concrete and swearing at the top of my lungs.

"Die!" I gasp, pulling myself to my feet. "Just...die."

The smoke dies down and I limp forward ignoring the screams and phone calls of the extras on the sidewalks. I find him fighting to get to his feet and failing miserably. His whole body's covered in blistering burns and both of his arms and all of his fingers are broken for some reason. He realizes I'm standing over him and he gives up. He falls on his back and grins up at me with bloody teeth. "I made you...smile...Kacchan," he breathes.