wait what?!?

pt. 17

(Izuku's POV)

I'm tied to a tree by the  river, and it feels like I'm drowning in the sound of the rushing water while I try not to panic. 

Maybe just a half-hour ago, I was out training in the jogging path I always take, when I hear rustling behind me, and next thing I know theres a hand on my mouth, and someone pinching my nose so I can't breathe until my vision goes blurry, and then dark. They didn't take me too far from where I was, but when I woke up, my arms were aching, and I realized they were tied behind a tree, stretched slightly beyond normal, making my arms hurt like crazy, and all of a sudden they go numb. 

I feel tears form at the corners of my eyes, and I take a deep breath.

Calm down, Izuku.

Calm down.

I can't, though. My breathing is still accelerated, and I can feel my heart thumping against my ribcage like crazy. I try to tune everything out, and I bite the inside of my cheek in another attempt to stay in control. 

"Im on my way,"  Kacchan had texted.

SHOOT.

I can't breathe. The thought of Kacchan coming here, and getting hurt because of me is suffocating me by the second.

Not this again.  (refering to the ACTUALLY CANON vigilante arc, wacko ik)

Please, not Kacchan.

Please.

I remember the brownies, the balcony at the mall, the picture of his backpack, and I can feel the memories slip away.

What if I never see him again?

A silhouette appears at my feet, and I look up to see Dabi glaring down at my sorry situation.

"Hi."

I don't say anything.

"Your little friends on his way. Or maybe you two are closer than that now, huh?"

"...h-how. do you know?"

"We've been on your trail for a while now. Reckless of you to leave the school so often. Did you really think you were the only person in japan who knows this place?"

"Kacchan- he k-knows it, too. Bitch,"  I spit at him. I figure it's better not to die having cursed only at Kacchan. That would be pretty messed up. 

"And now he's coming here. That worked out sooo  well, didn't it," Dabi smirks, his arms crossed.

"It's a shame. One of you is going to have to die now. And that means one of you will have to live without the other," he says, a sarcastic apologetic look on his face.

My eyes widen, and my lip trembles. I can picture Kacchan coming in a brave attempt, and only me getting to leave.

He completes me.

How could I ever survive without him?!