Everything didn’t seem the same without Shouto around, the warmth of the other beside him during the day was replaced with the autumn breeze as Izuku left the school building back to his warm home. When he first entered the room, there was barely any laughter, and not even once did Bakugou set off any small explosions. Aizawa looked normal, acted normal, but Izuku saw how darker the bags under his eyes seemed. This was the second time one of their classmates was taken, and his boyfriend nonetheless. What was worse about it is that he was kidnapped by his own brother. Izuku let his feet take him home, too focused on the situation in hand, and any possibilities of what Dabi wanted from Shouto.
‘Did he plan for this to happen? Was he only trying to gain Shouto’s trust to take him after? Or was all this a misunderstanding? Shouto wanted to tell before, but couldn’t, maybe if he did tell me it would help a little right now. Wait, if Aizawa knows about this, then he would know what Dabi’s true intentions were, right? But Shouto wouldn’t give full details of their relationship in the past unless he wanted to. It would make sense for him to keep it a secret if Dabi was threatening him, but Shouto could have also chosen to keep it a secret too. Ugh, this is gonna be harder than I thought.’
Shaking his head, Izuku looked up to find himself already a few blocks away from the train station. It wasn’t surprising to say the least, he had done things on autopilot before that led him to weird situations after getting out of his thoughts. His mother said it was a habit he picked up on after learning about heroes, but Izuku didn’t see it as a problem most of the time. When the train station came into view after thinking of the past situations he had been in, it was crowded with workers, students, and a few pro heroes if he looked around carefully. Everything seemed normal until bits of pieces from a conversation he heard nearby caused the blood in Izuku’s veins to freeze.
“Did ya hear? There’s a rumor going on that Endeavor’s child was taken during the attack at the central park.”
“That’s just a rumor, it can’t be true.”
“Then explain the video someone took during the attack.”
“What video?”
“This video.”
Taking a deep breathe and mentally praying that this was fake, Izuku leaned a little closer over the man’s elbow to see a video of Dabi and the unconscious form of Shouto’s body in his arms. The video was clear, and it was zoomed in perfectly to get a good view of who the person it could be in his arms. Red and white color hair was the first thing he saw, but on the right side were dark spots of red that he wished wasn’t what he thought it was. Dabi barely moved to the side for a moment, and the dreadful feeling in his gut intensified. Blood was pouring out from a wound on Shouto’s face, but he couldn’t get a clear view of it after Dabi started to make another wall of blue flames form making him disappear. Making Shouto disappear. Izuku stepped back before he could alarm the other of his presence, taking slow deep breathes like he learned, clutching the straps of his bag tightly in his grip.
‘He’s gonna be fine, he’s okay. They wouldn’t want him to die yet, so they’ll take care of it. He’s not dead, just probably has a concussion...WHAT IF HE DIDN’T WAKE UP?! OH GOD!! HE COULD BE IN A COMA FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!’
Panic started to take over as his imagination started to make up things he wished weren’t true. The chattering turned into laughter. Crowds turned into villains. Everything started to change like an illusion. The illusion was breaking and fading into the reality of the situation. Izuku covered his ears to make the laughter go away, closing his eyes to look away from the images of the unconscious form of Shouto that soon faded into a bloody corpse.
‘It’s not real. It’s not real. None of this is real, just breathe, I just need to breathe, and calm down.’
Izuku started the breathing technique all over again, keeping his eyes closed, and ears covered to keep from thinking of the images again. The laughter started to change back to chattering. The villains changed back to crowds of humans and students alike. When he opened his eyes, there was no corpse, no villains, no laughter, just the busy train station. Breathing in deep one last time, Izuku uncovered his ears looking around to make sure no one didn’t notice. No one was staring, all stuck in conversations of their own, but he didn’t want to stay close to anywhere that involved that video. Fixing his bag, Izuku started to walk off somewhere slightly closer to the front, but a vibration in his pocket caused him to freeze. Taking his phone out, there was a message from Uraraka.
Uraraka
Meet me at the mall
‘At the mall?’
The train started to come to a stop after reading the message causing the people around him to push, and start walking in. There wasn’t anymore messages to help answer his question as to why, but it was all forgotten after the doors started to close from staring too much. Izuku ran forward with his hand out to stop the doors from closing, squeezing in before they shut behind him letting out a sigh of relief. Holding onto a nearby pole to keep his balance, Izuku stared out the window as the train started to move thinking of the possibilities that Uraraka had in mind.
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When Izuku arrived at the mall after being dropped off by his mother, everyone and by everyone, he meant almost half the class were waiting by the fountain. Uraraka called him over after noticing his green hair in the crowd, declaring they go shopping and have fun to lighten up everyone’s spirit. Izuku agreed to the idea even though Shouto wouldn’t be there to give his opinion on clothing, and childish appearance when something new is shown to him. He followed Uraraka, Iida, and Asui around, buying a new sweater and a few new winter clothing with the money he brought. However, while they were walking by a jewelry store, something caught his eyes as they walked by the window.
A silver bracelet with an amulet was a swirling color of ruby red and snow white causing a pink aura to surround it when put at a certain angle towards the light. Beside it was a silver bracelet as well, but the amulet was a emerald green. The colors of the first amulet, and the color he described the second reminded him of something...or a certain someone.
‘Shouto…’
Izuku didn’t realize he had been staring at the bracelets longer than he wanted to before Uraraka, Iida, and Asui were standing next to him staring as well.
“Do you want to buy those? If you don’t have enough money, I wouldn’t mind giving you some Midoriya!”
“No no no, it’s fine Iida. I just...nevermind.”
“Lets go then! I want to tell you guys something, but I gotta call the others first!”
Feeling a hand wrapped around his elbow, Izuku yelped after being dragged away from the jewelry store back to the fountain in front of the mall. Uraraka started to make calls to let the others know to meet them there, leaving Iida and Asui to start a conversation with him by the fountain. The conversation would change from one topic to another something he grown to after hanging out with them so often, but once they heard the yelling of a certain blonde, the conversation ended.
“WHAT DO YOU WANT ROUND FACE?!”
“Good to see you too Bakugou! But lets skip a few things, and get to the real reason why I called almost half you guys to meet me here.”
The group went silent while the everyone else around them continued their day acting like they weren’t there at all. Izuku picked up his bags from their position beside his feet, turning towards the zero gravity quirk holder, feeling his curiosity get the best of him as he waited with everyone else for her announcement. Uraraka stood on top of a bench, ignoring any looks she received before fist pumping her hand in the air smiling.
“I thought if he can make a plan to go rescue Todoroki!”
The idea of doing a rescue mission like they did for Bakugou didn’t seem bad, and from the looks of it, Yaoyorozu and Kirishima didn’t seem to disagree on the idea. The others however...
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Light In The Darkness
Fanfic"Mom...I know it's not right, but I can't do it anymore. The children, they're...like him more and more every day. And Shouto...his left side. Sometimes I look at him and hate what I see." Shouto drew closer, just enough for his left side to be seen...
