A Different Way

Ch.23 Burden

Disclaimer I do not own My Hero Academia

I only own the Plot and Original Characters

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*Narrator POV*

Izuku's face held nothing but absolute shock as he stared at the President's neutral face who had her eyes on the many documents in front of her, as if what she just told Izuku was nothing serious. He stood inside her dark office with the only light being the little desk lamp illuminating her face. At her side was Hawks who avoided Izuku's eye contact instead finding a corner of the room more interesting.

Izuku: What did you say?

President: You heard me. You are to kill one Juan Santos, an extremist quirkist who has snuck into Japan and plans to blow a hospital up to promote his views onto our nation. Clear?

Izuku: But I.....I've never.

President: Killed? Well like I said you will do a lot of firsts while under me. Consider this one of your tamed ones. Now Hawks will show you where the man is located and will make sure you complete the job. Dismissed.

And just like that Izuku was dismissed in a state of shock. He followed Hawks out of the room and then to the air as the hero led him to the target. Soon they arrived on a roof overlooking a liquor shop where a man with three other men walked away, all in hoodies until one pulled his down revealing a Latin man with long messy hair fixing it before pulling the hood back up.

Hawks: That's our guy. Since it's bright out keep it discreet but how you go about it is up to you. I'll be watching closely, so no funny business.

Izuku didn't respond as he clenched his fist tightly with a conflicting face, could he do this? Izuku wasn't allowed to think about it long as in the corner of his eye he saw Hawks holding up his phone with a serious look. Izuku closed his eyes in conflict before opening them and disappearing in a blur. Izuku appeared the next moment in the alley holding the target by the throat, the man tried to struggle as Izuku held him up in the air with one hand.

Brown Eyes of panic and fear stared back into green eyes of reluctance and fear. Until finally a loud snap echoed throughout the aisle. Izuku flinched at the sound and dropped the corpse backing away from it with wide eyes. Hawks landed down not far and inspected the body, once satisfied he fired a quick text to someone.

Hawks: Good job. Excellent and efficient, you can return to UA now, and you are done for the day. I'll take care of this.

Hawks glanced back and saw Izuku standing completely still eyes locked onto the corpse. Hawks sighed as he got in front of Izuku blocking his view of it, making Izuku look at the older hero.

Hawks: Just some advice from one sucker to another. Next time make it quicker, it makes it less personal and easier to sleep at night. Take care Izuku.

Hawks used his feathers to wrap the body and took off with it leaving a still-frozen Izuku. Izuku then came back to reality collapsing to his knees and vomiting his breakfast. He began to hyperventilate as he stared at his hands with them shaking uncontrollably. Izuku clenched his fists hard causing him to tear through the gloves opening up his hands letting the blood leak to the floor, but getting him grounded back into reality. He then took off back towards UA.

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*Bang*

The occupants of the 1-b dorms looked up from their tasks seeing Izuku had slammed the door open. He quickly slammed it behind him and made his way through the commons.

Tetsu: Ah, Midoriya how was your patrol?

Izuku ignored his classmate and went straight up the stairs making them all look at each other, before Kendo nodded as she pulled out her phone and began to call someone. Izuku slammed his door shut as he made his way to his bathroom and began rubbing soap on his hands trying to wash it off. He was so preoccupied that he didn't even hear his door open. Izuku continued to rub furiously until a hand grabbed his wrist making him turn to see a panicked Ochaco.