Can't Save Me Now (Villain Deku AU)

Chapter 17

Bakugo's POV

My mind was racing.

My thoughts were moving faster than I could possibly comprehend. 

I couldn't stop running, I could hear the footsteps behind me, catching up. I knew without looking back that it was Izuku and Himiko.

Scythe and Massacre.

It can't be! They're the nicest people I know, there's no way they became bloodthirsty assassins! There's no way they didn't visit me before! It hurt to think that the people I consider my siblings were alive.

They were alive, and healthy, while I mourned their death.

They didn't say anything. 

They let me believe they were dead, they let their older brother believe they were dead, for fucking years.

Why didn't they just come over? Even a note in my mailbox would be appreciated. Something to say that I didn't have to mourn them anymore.

It didn't bother me that they had killed many, I knew it wasn't their choice, and if it was I couldn't blame them. But the fact that they never visited.

I wouldn't have shared!

I wouldn't have told anyone!

I thought they trusted me!

I thought they loved me!

Warm tears were streaming down my face, I just wanted to curl into a ball and cry. I just wanted them to hug me and tell me it was okay.

But I couldn't, I needed answers.

And I just couldn't deal with them at the moment.

It was the first time we met in fucking years, and the first thing I did was call them assholes and run away. 

I screwed this reunion up so bad!

My legs started hurting, because I had been running for a while. I thought. I didn't remember how long I had been running.

Maybe it was an hour, maybe it was a few seconds.

But it felt like an eternity.

"Wait!" I heard his desperate voice again, he just wanted to talk. Why was it so hard to stop and look at him?

Why was it so hard to face them?

Himiko sounded like she was about to cry. I was about to make my younger siblings cry. I was a monster.

"Kacchan!" That voice, that nickname, it echoed throughout my head. Suddenly, all the memories I had be repressing had come up.

All the late nights of All Might movies, all the times they showed up at my door in bandages. All the times we laughed and cried together.

And I stopped.

I collapsed to the ground in tears, facing them. 

Facing the only ones who could bring out the real me. The patient one, the one who never yelled, the one with a heart of gold.

I was about to make them cry.

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Izuku's POV

We had been chasing after him for a few minutes, calling out to him every once in a while. But nothing made him stop.

It felt terrible, we never thought that we would see him again, and now we were.

And we were so happy, shocked, but happy in that moment. 

Until he called us assholes and ran away.

It hurt that he did that, that our older brother wasn't able to see that we wanted so badly to tell him everything, but we couldn't.

That didn't stop us from running after him, though.

"Kacchan!" I finally called after him, I was afraid that I would start crying if I mentioned that old nickname again.

The memories it brought back were too much, but I was a villain. I could put my emotions ahead, for just a few minutes.

Right?

Kacchan collapsed to the ground facing us, and he started crying. It hurt my heart so much to see him cry.

We ran faster, and hugged him. And then we also started crying.

It took a few moments for us to stop the tears, everything, and to be able to hold a conversation with each other.

Kacchan let us go, and we sat across from each other.

Just looking, not knowing what to say.

We weren't expecting to meet him, especially at that moment. We weren't ready for it. We didn't have a clue what to say.

Kacchan finally broke the ice. "I missed you guys so fucking much." I didn't remember him cursing, but we also started.

"I missed you too, Bomberanian." He tousled her hair, as we laughed. It was sad but happy at the same time.

I decided to say something emotional. "I'm sorry that we never visited, or told you about Scythe and Massacre." 

"I'm sorry I called you guys assholes and ran away." He responded, pulling us in and hugging us. We hugged back.

"It was deserved. We didn't give you any indication that we were alive. We really are assholes." He looked at me regretfully.

"I know that you had no choice. I just have one question: Did you choose to be villains." He looked at us both, then he added, "I won't blame you if you did."

"No, we didn't. It was Father's choice, we were raising money for all three of us to get out of the hellhole." I think Kacchan forgot about our younger sister.

"Glad to hear that, Knives. Say, how's your younger sister. Is she alright now that you two are here?" 

There was an awkward silence before I said something. "Well, here's the thing," I cleared my throat before I continued. "Father told us she died the day we got caught." 

There was another awkward silence.

"I'm sorry to hear that. But I have another question. Why didn't you tell me you were alive? I would have never told anyone!" He added, hugging us tighter.

"Kacchan, we never thought you would. We just didn't want you, a hero, to be covering for two psychopathic villains."

"We would have continued killing once we got out, or at least Izu would. He wanted us two to start a non-villainous life once we escaped."

"If we were caught, we couldn't have you sacrifice your dream so that we could escape." I finished, he looked shocked, but also a little annoyed.

He paused before he responded. "It was a shared dream to be heroes, you sacrificed it for your younger sister, so I should at least be willing to sacrifice it for you."

We stopped talking, and slipped into a comfortable silence. And that's how Eraser Head found us. 

He was very confused to say the least.

Kacchan flashed him an apologetic smile before releasing us and getting up.

Eraser Head looked even more confused. "I don't know what happened, but you two are going to Nezu's office, and you." His eyes narrowed on Kacchan. "You're going back to the dorms and explaining what happened to the class, and to me." 

We hugged Kacchan one last time, before going to Nezu's office. The tracking bracelets showed a hologram path, and shocked us when we strayed.

That was one way to make sure we didn't run.