My Past Will Always Haunt Me

∩ Chapter 09 ∩

Groaning, the greenette blinked open his eyes, feeling someone holding him while shouts were heard. I'm not still at the institution am I? Looking around him, everything was blurry, and he couldn't quite make anything out except for a ceiling. A white, fake tiled ceiling with rectangular lights. I'm in a hospital, aren't I?

"He's awake!" A voice called out and suddenly multiple people were looking down at him, making him groan again. "Back up, he's just woken up." Many apologies were mumbled as he was helped to sit up, one hand on the back of his head while another was on his back. His vision began to clear, and he could clearly make out the worried faces of his classmates. "How are you feeling?" It was Katsuki who was helping him sit up.

"Tired, sore, drained," he replied, smiling down at Eri who latched onto him when Shoto let her go. "You keep your promise?" Eri just nodded. "Hey, Eri, look at me. I'm okay, and I'm probably going to be helped after this."

"But I had people who helped me, you had no one," Eri cried. Izuku's heart broke a little bit at the fact that Eri was feeling guilty for having people to help her when he didn't have anyone to help him.

"Pa- That man's institution..." Izuku sighed, trying to find the words. "It's not easy to find. Unlike with the raid, the location is difficult to get to. Pa- That man is good at hiding things, and he's faked medical records for every single patient within those buildings. I don't know how many buildings there are, or if it's just one big one, he never disclosed it. At least, not to me."

"What was his quirk?" Denki asked, now sitting next to Izuku as the adults continued to argue about... something. Probably me.

"I don't know," Izuku shrugged. "But whatever it was... he used it to the max."

"When we left Momo's memories, you looked as if you had seen something," Mashirao pointed out. "What did you see?"

Izuku was hesitant but continued on. "Momo was looking into a clearing back at the summer camp, and it was weird. Like with what happened to Denki, she spoke directly to me. I looked to see what she saw, and the red smoke was back. She said, 'do you see that, Izuku' and then she was in front of me. her eyes were blacked out with thick black tears running down her cheeks. Her voice was distorted as if someone was using her to talk through, like a vessel." The others were shocked. "This whole time I thought I had escaped," he looked towards Kai, mind racing before his eyes widened, heart picking up the pace as panic coursed through his veins.

Jumping up, he held Eri behind him, glaring at Kai who made eye contact with him. "Oh, you've figured it out, have you?" The woman laughed. "Papa said you were smart, patient 1346, but I didn't think you were this smart."

"You..." without realising, the boy's quirk activated. "You bastard! You tricked all of us, every single one. You did this just to get to me, didn't you?" Kai shrugged, smiling. "You know, Papa used to make me do his dirty work and he's replaced me with you. I feel bad for the man. Or I would if I actually cared for him."

"He cares for you, Zuku-"

"Don't!" He yelled, now panting as anger coursed through him. "Don't you fucking dare try to manipulate me. that man did it for ten years, I am done with being manipulated, being used as a pawn. I know damn well you planned to take someone from here to take back to Papa. Well no, I won't allow you to touch any of them." The two patients now stood eye-to-eye, power radiating from the both of them. "They are under my protection from Papa, and I won't let anyone from the institution touch them. Now, I suggest you leave before I do something I'll regret."

"What? You'll kill me?" Kai laughed. "Please, you can't kill."

"You realise I did Papa's dirty work, right?" Izuku scoffed. "That included killing whoever crossed his path and I did, because I thought I was doing the right thing. How do you explain that to a fucking five-year-old child?!" Taking a deep breath, he calmed himself. "Now leave. If you don't, I will kill you. It wouldn't be my first time killing someone, but this time it will be for a good reason. But wait, before you leave. I have a question for all of you 'heroes'."

"Yes, Young Midoriya?" Toshinori encouraged.

"There's something I just realised; you did this without our consent, without our parents' consent. How would the press and the public react once they find out that UA went through the darkest memoires of their students, forcing their fellow classmates to watch, without the consent of any of their students? You only told us about this yesterday. I understand you were getting things finalised, but you should have at least allowed us to consent or not consent to this activity! Many of us will relapse because of this, myself included, so thank you. You've fucked up." Turning his back to the heroes, Izuku just shook his head. "You know, you were people I looked up to, people I trusted, you were heroes. Guess my respect and trust were put into the wrong people, these" Izuku gestured to the students in front of him, to his family, "are the people my respect and trust should belong to. Only when you prove yourselves to not be utter dicks will I respect and trust you once more."

"Izu-" Shouta went to speak but at Izuku's glare he shut up.

"You. Fucked. Up." He growled before going to his classmates, picking Eri up and leaving with them behind him. When Shuzenji found out through Izuku, oh all hell rained down on Shouta, Hizashi, Toshinori and Nezu. Nezu especially. Kai was never heard from again, and nor was the institution. Izuku wasn't sure whether it was a good or bad thing, but his family assured him it was a good thing. Shuzenji and Ryo, after Ryo found out, offered the whole class therapy and to help them properly instead of the way the others went about it. They accepted, and over the course of the two years left of their time at UA they all healed and became great heroes, Eri learning everything she knew from the group of teenagers.