One With The Shadows

Chapter 8

3rd person pov:

    Aizawa came back home later that day to see it clean and tidy. 'I can't believe he cleaned the house!' He arrived at the living room to see him resting on the couch with his cats.

    "Gosh problem child, just why did you clean the house? Kid, you're not here so you can do house chores and I even asked you to rest."

     Izuku shrugged his shoulders. "I did rest... but I needed to do something to get my thoughts together." Aizawa sat next to him. "Can you elaborate for me? Only if you are comfortable with it." Aizawa asked.

     Izuku side eyed him and gave it a thought before answering. "Well to begin with, everything doesn't seem real to me... The kindness, the honesty and the generosity I got from you, principle Nezu and recovery girl are just too good to be true. Then you tell me you can help me get better, to train me, to... help me become someone capable of helping other people. It's too good to be true. With everything I've been through, you would think that none of this is real, and it's all a dream that I would wake up from soon. It's just that things are happening so fast that I couldn't get the chance to comprehend it until now. All I had was the animals, the shadows and myself." By now Izuku was rubbing his hand. "I've always seeked comfort from animals, and if I couldn't find them, I'd seek it through the shadows and darkness. I never knew why, but it always seemed to ease me, to comfort me... make me feel safe. So knowing now that there is a possibility for me to lean on someone else seems just too serene for me. It even occurred to me that I actually died when I jumped, and I'm just seeing things that I wished for, but it doesn't make sense... I sound stupid don't I?"

     Throughout the entire time, Aizawa remained silent and just left Izuku to vent out his thoughts, he listened and didn't interrupt him once. So once Izuku finished, Aizawa got up and kneeled in front of him taking in both Izuku's hands and looked him straight in the eyes.

     "Listen to me Izuku and believe me when I say this, this is real. And you're not stupid for thinking that, but the opposite, I can understand why you would have these kinds of thoughts, as I've been through some kind of similar thoughts. You see and experience many and different kinds of situations during hero work, though I might not fully comprehend your situation, I can definitely understand the reason behind your thoughts. I've known you only for a few hours, but I can definitely tell you this, you are a bright child and even have a brighter future. You have so much potential, more than I have ever seen in the years of teaching and doing my job, even more so as a hero. We promised to help you and take care of you, to give you all your needs because you deserve it, and I'll always be there for when you need me, I promise. So lean on me or on Nezu or even recovery girl, I'm a hundred percent certain that they would lend you a shoulder or even a hand. I know it might seem like everything is changing for you, but I promise it's for the better."

    He got up and gave Izuku a hug.

    "You deserve so much... so please put your trust in us and let us help you. You might be quirkless-" he let go of the hug and looked him in the eyes again, "but you can become a hero, a true hero. You'll show the world what a hero truly means, and we'll be here to help back you up, quirk or no quirk, no question."

    A single tear dropped from Izuku's eyes, and then another, before he left his tears be.

    "This is the first, and probably the last time, that my tears have fallen so much... This really means alot to me, so thank you. Everyone told me I can't become a hero, and that includes Allmight as well-"

     "He WHAT!?"

    "Mhm. He said that all people like me can do is hinder people like him. Hearing it from Allmight is what caused any last bit of hope that I had left, disappear. Even if it was only a sliver."