Waves (KiriBakuDeku)

Chapter 24

But if you loved me
Why'd you leave me?

Izuku's POV~

The building was chard. There were multiple people stuck in there. There wasn't anyway to tell who was who, but I think I had a good idea who they were.

After hearing what the rescue pros said about them, and the gun shot wound Kacchan got, I knew where they would have been, approximately, in the building. Sure enough, they found two bodies, or rather skeletons because the explosion and heat melted away basically everything else, right where they would have been when the place went up.

Any hope I had that they had gotten out, disappeared.

They were gone.

And I couldn't do nothing but learn to live with it.

But that was impossible.

I'd never be able to live with that. I'd never be able to live with the fact that I was so close to them, and I didn't save them. I didn't save them.

What kind of hero was I if I couldn't save the only two people that mattered?

I couldn't protect the two people who had always done everything in their power to protect me. I let them down. I failed them.

And now they were dead.

And it was all my fault.

Uraraka took me back home after everything died down. No one questioned it, knowing I must have known someone who had been stuck in there. They all knew I had a habit of getting to villains and trying to befriend them. Some didn't agree with it, but most thought it was a good tactic.

"Do you want company or to be alone?" She asked as we reached my apartment.

I looked up at her with water eyes. "I don't think I can ever be alone in this apartment again without going crazy." I told her honestly.

She nodded and lead me inside. "C'mon, you should go lay down and try to get some sleep. You were working the night shift." She pointed out. I agreed, but only because I was hoping that when I woke up, this whole thing would have been a bad dream.

As soon as I walked into my room, I broke down into tears again. Sitting on my bed, after beign throw there this morning, was Eiji's hoodie.

I sobbed while pulling it on over my head. It still smelt like him. I couldn't figure out if that was a good thing or not at that point. I crawled into bed and cried myself to sleep, only to be plagued with dreams of them dying over and over again, until I eventually just decided to stay up.

It had been two days since they died. Two days of crying. Two days of not sleeping. Two days of not eating. Two days of not drinking anything.

I was falling apart.

Uraraka could only do so much to help. When she ran out of idea on how to help me, she called Iida over, hoping he'd be able to do something. When that failed, she got so desperate, she called Shoto, knowing I'd at least listen to him.

But even my fear of him couldn't affect me.

Nothing seemed to matter anymore. Not my fear or my well being. It was all pointless. It was pointless without them.

I was currently sitting on my couch, a blanket pulled up around me, staring off into space. It was something I had done frequently after sleep became a no go. Shoto was next to me on the couch, loving the fact that I didn't care enough to move away from him. Uraraka was sitting on the other couch. They were both just scrolling through their phones.

I noise coming from my front door, like some trying to open it, caught their attention. I just figured it was Iida coming back with more food that I wouldn't eat. "I'll go get it." Uraraka said, getting up and moving through the living room and then disappearing into the kitchen.

I heard the door open and then her shout, "What the hell?!"

That caught my attention. And Shoto's. We both waited for her to reappear, wondering what happened.

But the person that rounded the corner, wasn't Ura. Seeing them nearly made me sick, even if I hadn't eaten in days.

"Why the fuck is he here?" Kacchan growled, pointing at Shoto.

I was frozen in place. Kacchan and Eiji were in my living room. They were alive and right in front of me.

I jumped up and ran over to them. I grabbed onto both of them, making sure they were actually real. When they didn't disappear in a puff of smoke, I broke down in sobs.

"Get the fuck out icyhot bastard." I heard Kacchan sneer. I could tell Shoto left after that.

"God we missed you so much Izu." Eiji said to me.

I pulled back, tears still running down my face. "B-but you're dead!" I shouted, scared that this was just another twisted nightmare.

"No we aren't baby. We're right here." Kacchan said, gently caressing the side of my face, reassuring that they were both there and alive.

"B-but-"

"We thought we were going to die, hence the text." Eiji started to explain. "But we found a gap in the walls of the building. It was probably opened from the fire, but it was an open space and we were able to get out. We lost our phones, which is why we never called or texted. We tried to get to you as soon as possible, but Kat was shot and we had to take care of that first. I'm so sorry you had to go through that for two days." Eiji said, pulling me back towards them, placing a kiss on my lips.

I melted into it. I had missed them so much and I still couldn't believe they were actually there. Right in front of me.

After Eiji let me go, I was pulled into another kiss, this time with Kacchan.

Once all the 'I missed you' kisses were done, they brought me back over to the couch, all of us sitting down, just like before.

"Everyone thinks you're dead." I pointed out.

"We know." Kacchan said.

"You know this means you can get away from all that villains stuff, right? The world thinks Zero and Red died in that building." I said.

"And they're going to stay dead." Eiji said.

I perked up at that. They were actually going to give it up.

"I love you guys. So much." I whispered.

"We love you more."

"Doubtful."