UA's Gremlins

Secret Conversations

Izuku and Katsuki lay in the hospital bed together.   They were being kept for observation after the battle and the fact that Izuku hadn't been fully healed when he'd snuck off.   The hospital staff had tried to separate them, but between their vicious refusal and Aizawa's veiled threats they were allowed to stay together.

Katsuki held Izuku close, fingers tracing the faint scar on the other boy's chest.  Red eyes were sad and cold at the same time.  Izuku lay on his side, letting Katsuki check him over.  The room was dimmed to nearly darkness, leaving them in a sense of pure privacy.

"Where are they?" Katsuki whispered.

"No one is near," Izuku answered.  "Big brother is at home...Aizawa and Ass Might are down in the waiting room.   I think they're standing guard."

Katsuki snorted and leaned in to brush a soft kiss against the scar.    "I almost lost you."

Izuku smiled, running fingers through the blond spikes.  "I almost lost you."

Katsuki looked up at him.  "Seriously, Izuku.   She could have killed you."

Izuku smiled softly, hands coming up to gently brush at the blond's cheeks.  "But she didn't.   Aizawa got the brats to save me.   And I found a new quirk that master would love."

Katsuki sat up, looking down at him.  "Stop it.   Izuku do you even realize what happened?"

Green eyes blinked up at him.  "Wasn't it to throw them off our scent?   She was just stupid in her orders."

Katsuki jerked to his feet, anger surging through his body.  "Izuku...she was ordered to hurt you.  Not ordered to injure but not kill you...just to hurt you.  That asshole ordered her to hurt you!   And he didn't tell us shit!"

Izuku sat up, listening.  "You mean...Master  ordered her to attack me like that without telling either of us?"

Katsuki nodded, hands glowing in the dark.  "The crusty motherfucker said Aizawa was too suspicious.   After all, why would they hurt one of us if we worked for them."

Izuku was silent. "It worked," he whispered.  "Aizawa was actually broken because of it.  He and the brats stayed to watch over me."

Katsuki turned to him.  He moved to crawl back into the bed to cling to Izuku.   

"I'm okay, my puppy," Izuku cooed at him.   "I promise I am perfectly okay."

"Why would he do that to us?" Katsuki whispered.   "We've obeyed every order.   You let yourself be bullied and hurt because he told you to.   You pretended to be weak because he told you to.   So why...why hurt you so badly?"

Izuku ran gentle fingers through his boyfriend's hair and down his back.  "I...don't know."

The two snuggled together, just holding each other.   Izuku wondered if the quirks were really worth it.   Was the place he'd known since daycare really worth staying...if nearly dying was the price to hide the truth?   He knew without his quirks that Katsuki was wondering the same thing too.  But where would they go if they turned their backs on their family?   Would they be arrested for their crimes?

"We'll be okay," Izuku whispered as he held his blond.  "We will be okay."