Love Denied

Chapter One: Bad Decisions

My Hero Academia: Love Denied

Hello My Hero Academia fans. This will be my second MHA fanfic and one that I'm having fun working on. I will continue to work on my other MHA story, Dreams & Promises, at the same time, so hopefully I will be able to update both stories regularly. The cover image is not mine, and I couldn't find the author for it, so if by any chance you know or are the author please let me know and I will gladly give credit to that person. I hope you come to enjoy this story as much as I have enjoyed writing it. Again, I don't own any My Hero Academia characters.

Chapter One: Bad Decisions

Izuku Midoriya walked back to the dorms with his friends. They were done with classes for the day and now they were walking back together, talking and laughing. He looked at her while she laughed. The girl that had stolen his heart. She had been friendly towards him since the beginning. Always motivating him, helping him and more importantly, smiling at him. He had a feeling, and certainly hoped, the she felt the same way about him.

Izuku never experienced that before. He never had any friends and was always rejected by those who he attempted to befriend. Even the only person that he considered a friend when he was a child, Bakugo, had turned against him. Even worse, he became his worse tormentor. Bakugo constantly spoke towards him in the worst condescending way, made fun of his lack of quirk, physically assaulted him and even told him to jump off a roof and kill himself. The pain of such words went deep into his heart.

His teachers had witnessed all of it, and had done nothing. Izuku felt that he had nobody but his mother on his side. He still tried to make friends and even tried to speak with some girls that he liked. But he always got rejected, sometimes in a rather embarrassing way. The pain kept accumulating in his heart. All those painful words, the constant mocking and rejection always found a way into his heart that wanted nothing more than to love and be loved.

Many times he was on the brink of braking down, feeling like the pain in his heart would swallow him whole. But still, Izuku fought against the pain and tried to maintain a friendly demeanor, acting respectfully towards everyone, even as it took a bigger effort as time went by. After all, he wanted to be a hero, and that's how a hero was supposed to act. And after that faithful encounter with his idol, All Might, he finally felt he had a real chance to achieve his goal to attend hero school and become a professional hero. He was just now starting his second year at UA and things were looking good.

As he walked with his friends he kept up with the conversation, but always stealing glances at his crush. Looking into her beautiful brown eyes and her pretty round face. Sometimes he felt she didn't noticed the way he looked at her, but sometimes it seems she did. On those moments, she would get a small blush and quickly look away.

"Hey Deku. We should study together for the upcoming test." Uraraka said while both of them walked into the dorm's common room. "What do you think?" It was just them now as Iida and Asui continued towards their own rooms.

He smiled, "Sure, that sound like a good idea." He pressed the button to the elevators, "you want to meet back here in like an hour, maybe."

Uraraka nodded, "sounds good, Deku." They both got into the elevator. "Are you excited about what will get to do this year?"

He nodded, "yeah, I think this year will be a little more challenging, but in a good way."

After some more small talk, they eventually parted ways and made it to their respective rooms to change and relax for a bit.

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Uraraka was lying face up in bed, listening to some music after changing out of her uniform. She was thinking about Izuku and how he made her heart beat faster when he looked at her and smiled or when he spoke to her with some warm words of encouragement. But she wasn't thinking about how she wanted more or how to confess her feelings to him. No, she was thinking on how to push those feelings down and under control.