Everything Is Falling Apart ( But At Least I Have You)

Epilogue

After the events of that fateful day when the LOV was finally defeated, Izuku finally gained some sense of normalcy in his life. That's not to say that everything was as it had been before he started at UA. As it turned out, no matter whether you were constantly being attacked by villains or not, being a hero in training was always hectic and full of danger. But Izuku wouldn't have it any other way. Maybe it was telling that he didn't think he could happily live a life where he wasn't experiencing something adrenaline-inducing at least once a week. A therapist would probably say that it was a cause for concern, but that didn't matter to Izuku. When he was out in the field or training with his classmates, the world suddenly seemed brighter, there was an obvious meaning to life glaring at him, and that was to save people. To save people no matter how hard it was to reach them. His conviction had remained strong despite all of his trials and tribulations, and that was something that Izuku was immensely proud of. 

"Oi, Nerd, hurry up, I'm not going to wait forever!" Katsuki called from outside of Izuku's bedroom door.

"Coming, Kacchan!" Izuku yelled back. 

It was hard to leave his bedroom knowing that he would never be coming back. It looked bare without the plethora of All Might posters he had pasted onto the walls. The bed looked too blank. the light streaming through the window just didn't look right without the blue and red tint his curtains gave it. As strange as his bedroom looked without all of its decorations, he couldn't bring himself to leave. Leaving meant the end of an era. Leaving meant that he had completed his three years of hero training and that he would be going on to side-kick under Mirko before he swiftly worked his way up to a rookie hero. 

Graduation had snuck up on them far too quickly for Izuku's taste. He was standing in his room, wearing his full UA uniform for the last time. He was only 18, he felt too young to be thrust into the world of heroics without his classmates and teachers there to guide him, but he was excited nevertheless. His childhood dream of becoming heroes, with Katsuki at his side, was finally coming to fruition.

There had certainly been setbacks. The LOV. His kidnapping. His exclusion. The Hero Safety Commission. They'd all been events and organisations that were determined to stop Izuku from reaching his full potential, but he had prevailed. In less than an hour, he would be walking up onto a stage in front of his mum and everybody from his cohort at UA to shake Nezu, Aizawa and All Might's hands. He would be graduating from the top hero school in all of Japan, and he couldn't be prouder. 

"Get moving, Nerd," Katsuki's startled Izuku out of his reverie, he turned to see his boyfriend scowling at him from the doorway, "You've had enough time to cry about leaving the room you've hardly even slept in for the past year. Get moving!"

Izuku laughed and wiped the few tears that had gathered in his eyes, "Ok, Kacchan, let's go. We don't want to be late."

"Why do you think I've been trying to get you to move for the past twenty minutes?" Katsuki huffed. 

"Be quiet, it hasn't been twenty minutes, it's been five minutes at most," Izuku chuckled. 

"Felt like twenty minutes to me, " Katsuki grumbled underneath his breath. 

Izuku simply laughed some more and took his boyfriend's hand. The two young men walked down the hall, away from their teenage years of murderous villains and danger and into a world where they would protect everybody that they could.

Thank you so much for reading this story until the end. As I've made clear throughout writing this, I lost motivation to write this a while ago, however, I'm not the type to leave something sitting there unfinished. As hard as it was at times, I pushed through and I finished this story. And, in all honesty, as much as I sometimes wished I hadn't started writing this, I am somewhat happy with how it turned out. It's far from the favourite fanfic I've written (that's reserved for my babies 'Travel The Distance' and 'Fuck Men!!! (But Not Like That)') I'm glad I wrote it.

Not so subtle self-promo aside, I truly am thankful if you managed to read through all of this and you stuck around. Knowing that there are people who care enough about this fanfic to comment on it was truly something that kept pushing me to write and update. Thank you for the support.

Also, seeing as it's the 1st of June, Happy Pride Month! It is my first pride month comfortable with the fact that I am asexual and whilst I most likely won't do anything due to my extremely introverted nature, it's nice to know what I am after literal years of being confused.Anyway, I hope you have a wonderful day wherever you are and thank you so much for reading.