𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐚 ||𝐊.𝐁 & 𝐈.𝐌||

XXX: Pay the Price

XXX: Pay the Price

Third POV

The car ride home was tense, but at home it was unbearable.

Izuku hadn't spoken a word to anyone by the time he'd arrived, and the first thing he did was head upstairs and lock himself in the nursery.

Katsuki on the other hand was quiet too, only giving everyone expressed orders to make their main priority on finding out where Akiko was, who took her and the original bounty poster.

• • • Evening • • •

Kirishima was the first to toss in the towel, dismissing himself from the search team to go talk to Katsuki who'd just about holed away in his office.

With a brief knock, he heard a voice tell him to come in, stepping inside to see Katsuki who was just sitting at the front of his desk, staring aimlessly.

"Come on, dude." Kirishima stated, locking the office door behind him, still completely flabbergasted at Katsuki's response back at Ashido's, "What the hell was that?"

"Literally anything else could've been better than that."

Pressing his back to the door, Kirishima watched how Katsuki was now paced back and forth, looking like he was second away from snapping.

"Fine," Kirishima sighed, "Did you mean what you said?"

"Obviously fucking not, Kirishima! You guys keep accusing me otherwise. At this point, I don't even know!" Katsuki finally blurted out, a torrent of emotions written all over his former mean mugging expression.

"So then tell me what you do know!" Kirishima pushed, trying to figure out what was going on with Katsuki.

He'd never seen him act like this before.

"That's the hardest part; ever since they arrived I can't explain shit! I can't explain why I give in to Akiko and was willing to drop nearly three thousand dollars on a bear she's probably get over in a couple of months, or why I let her grab my pinkie out of all fucking fingers I have, or hell, why I become so irritated hearing her cry or cough or look like she's in distress." Katsuki rambled, finding himself choking up just thinking about the little girl,

"And don't get me fucking started on her dam; Izuku, fuck, Izuku-! I already can't look him in the eye after telling him she got kidnapped, but heaven forbid that little girl is either seriously injured, hell, even dead I couldn't look at Izuku at all."

"If you'd ask me earlier on, before I got to know them, I probably could go about my day like nothing ever happened, but now I can barely eat or even work, knowing that Izuku has become an even bigger hermit and forced himself into a mini-depression over Akiko's disappearance. I would quite literally take out anyone or anything, even the fucking sun, to see another carefree smile on his face."

Kirishima adjusted his stance, watching how Katsuki's body heaved up and down after such a confession, "And yet you told him Akiko didn't mean shit to you. And that broke him even harder. So why didn't you just tell him what you just told me or some shit about how you'd try to find her?"

"For fucks sake Kirishima, oddly enough I find myself jealous at the idea and Awase even though I already killed him, but in case you haven't noticed Akiko is Izuku's everything. She's the only thing keeping him stable and because of me, his world is crumbling right in front of him. That's why I can't go to him and tell him that shit. Theres something preventing me from simply saying I'll bring her back.