Footsteps of a Fallen Angel

The Secret Ending

A/N: I had this ending planned from the beginning, it should've been just a Shigaraki x Reader fic but I got sidetracked with Dabi and a few other things lol Anyways please enjoy this is the last and final update for this fic 🫶🏻 thank you for all the support 

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A couple of days after I had woken up, I spoke with my dad, Haru, Midoriya and Shoto. They told me about Tenko's and Touya's condition. I was able to talk to Tenko and Touya; it was a special request granted to me thanks to my dad's influences.

Tenko and I spoke for a while and came to terms that if only things had been different, if only had we met during other times we would've worked out. He was sad to hear me say so but he wished me the best.

He wanted my happiness even if it meant not being together; the same thing I want for him. We decided to stay friends and always support each other no matter what. We promised to write letters and if I was allowed to do so, I would visit him.

That being said, I was left to talk to Touya. Our conversation had gone similar to the way Tenko's conversation did. He was upset but he understood that our mental health was more important. He wanted me to be happy, to be with someone who could give me the happiness he nor Tenko could. He knew very well they couldn't give me a stable future. Especially since, for them it'd be years until they could get out of the facility.  

And thus he said something that shocked me to no end.

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About a few days after my talk with Touya, I thought about a lot of things. I thought back to the past in where I was quirkless and how my life was. I had always grown up thinking I lacked a quirk that I so desperately needed to be happy, to not be pushed aside and left alone.

I craved for the attention of my dad, for his approval, anything to get him to see me. I thought if he didn't see me, then no one would. 

But I was wrong.

There was someone who saw me for who I was. He saw me at my worst, at my best, when I was quirkless and when I had no one by my side. He was always there and he continued to be there even when I pushed him away.

I was the one pushing him away. The one person who never left my side and accepted me for who I was and that person was-

"I'm sorry for pushing you away, you really were the only one there for me. Even when I made mistake after mistake, you stood by me since we were young. You saw me for who I was and you still fought to bring me back. You never gave up on me even when you saw how deep in trouble I was." I gazed into his mismatched eyes. 

My hands were cuffed as we sat across from each other, but even then he had his hands holding mine. While I was dressed in white hospital scrubs, he was dressed in a casual white shirt with black jeans, his hair as usual was neatly styled and his eyes shining so beautifully. My heart skipped a beat as I heard his voice. 

His expression was soft and caring, "I could never give up on you, and that's because I love you. I think I always have, but I failed to notice sooner."

"Really?" I asked him with curiosity. So... Touya was right. What he told me about Shoto's feelings were true.

He nodded, "You were the only one who approached me not because of my surname or who my father was. You only saw me, Shoto- the person. You knew about my family's troubles and you always stuck by me. No one had ever done that for me. You always supported me."

I smiled with nostalgia. "We were always together..."

"Inseparable. Yet, I failed to see what was truly going on. I failed to see the enormous burden you carried." he frowned sadly.