This time I will protect them I won't be a coward

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Damnit it! He was burning and freezing at the same time. Denki was struggling to breathe while his Uncle in his hysterical state kept digging the knife further into his delicate pale neck and at the same time kissing his mouth and neck with his own damn blood on repeat  and his piggy fingers kept twisting the bloody knife in his neck and his other free hand roamed around his body. Denki felt disgusted to the core.

He wanted to scream but no words came out of his mouth. He was in too much pain to think properly.

He was struggling to control his quirk from going berserk and he was bleeding everywhere. He could feel his white hoodie soaking up his blood.

'Ugh'.

Denki blinks his eyes at the ceiling. His vision was going blurry. He needed to do something.

'Think Denki come on Think!'.

His last resort was to scratch the man on the face and the smell of alcohol coming from the bastard only made Denki feel dizzy once again.

Denki's struggle only makes the man more angry and aggravated.  He growls like a wild beast and wraps his delicate wrists with his belt to make him immobile.

Denki was burning and freezing in pain. He felt like he was losing consciousness now.

'Someone please help me he thinks with futility..Midoriya...Bakugou ..anyone Sensei ....Mom'.

Denki could feel more tears rolling down his cheeks and his vision began to go black.

'Was he going to die like this all alone on the entryway floor while being assaulted by this piggy perverted bastard?'.

Then, suddenly all the lights of the hallway are turned on and the hallway becomes flooded with lights and there is a scream and shouting of his name.

Somewhere at Midoriya's residence.

Izuku woke up with a start from his pleasant sleep.  He did not know why but his heart was beating wildly in his chest.

He heard someone scream his name in his sleep but that voice was distorted.

Izuku swings his legs to the side of his bed and looks at the clock on his bedside table.  The clock read 2:15am.

Izuku sighs and feels like he won't be getting any sleep now and decides to go for a quick jog at the beach side. The one he cleaned up  during his training with All Might before the UA entrance exam.

He quickly changes into his athleisure clothes and steps outside his house and makes sure close the door quietly. And walks down the flight of stairs.

The whole residence of his area was quiet and the night air was chilly. His hands started to ache at the biting cold. So he puts them into his jacket pockets and starts walking towards Takoba Municipal Beach Park.

...

He reaches the beach and starts jogging around the track. He had put on his headphones. He was not a big fan of listening to music but he wanted to calm his racing thoughts. He opens a random music app and hits any genre of music.
Izuku resumes his jog and the random music starts flowing through his headphones.

🎶I've got another confession to make
So complicated let me try to explain
Don't want this feeling to go away
So it stays, it stays, it stays, it stays
Is it the way that you talk
That's causing me to freak?
Is it the way that you laugh
That's makin' my heart beat?
Is it the way that you kiss?
It's gotta be the way
You taste, you taste, you taste, you taste
You're such a gorgeous nightmare
Old habits never seem to go away
You make me feel brand new, yeah
We resurrect it's like I've come back to life
I feel so alive
I feel so alive
First impressions are hard to erase (hard to erase)🎶

Oddly this song reminded him of Kaminari Denki. His thoughts went back to their fight against Hero Killer : Stain.

And how his red hooded cape fluttered in the wind while Denki stood on top of the broken street lamp looking very ethereal but deadly as the golden static energy crackling around him and how his honey golden eyes glowed majestically when he used his whip to attack Stain head on with no fear.

Izuku looked at the boy with a new light. The boy always knew what to say at the right time and how he helped him calm down during the exercise test against All Might and how easily he made his self doubts disappear like the wind. And how calmly he would listen to his quirk analysis and rambling without making fun of him with great interest. He was always there for his friends. But who was there for him...huh.

Izuku stops his jogging and thinks to himself, 'That's odd why did that thought come across  his mind. A sign of loneliness. Was Denki lonely?'.

Izuku tries to recall conversations or snippets where Denki never mentioned anything about his home life.. no he never once said anything related to his personal life except one kid who Torodoki Shoto had mentioned. What was his name again ah right ! A general course student's name Daichi used his quirk to hurt him at the cafe.

Izuku is broken away from his thoughts when he feels his phone buzz in his pant's pocket. He pulls out his phone to check who was messaging him at 3:00am in the morning and stares at his phone in surprise.

Speaking of the devil, it was Kaminari Denki who had messaged him . Izuku sits down on the bench and clicks open the message to read it after some time he frowns at the message sent by Denki.

Something was not adding up or did not make sense to his mind. The message itself was weird. He waits for the boy's reply but sees that he has gone offline now.

Izuku sighs and puts his phone back into his pant's pocket and stares up the starry sky soon the sun will rise and it will be morning.

He too should get back home and start packing for the training camp as day after tomorrow they were going to be taken to the forest lodge.