Break The Mask

Chapter nine

Katsuki didn't leave Izuku's hospital bed side. He refused to leave. Mitsuki would go and get both of their work, even though they didn't know if he'd wake up. 

Kirishima would come and visit too. He and Katsuki got close. They both planned to get into UA, Katsuki told Kirishima that Izuku planned to also. They had both looked down at Izuku's still form on the hospital bed.

It has been three, almost four, weeks since the incident. It had been very hard for the ones close to the small greenette. Katsuki had even refused to eat at some point during the second week. That hadn't gone well with Mitsuki.

"Do you think he'd be happy you starved yourself! No, so stop being a little dumb shit and go eat." 

She had a point. Izuku would be very upset with him if he stopped eating. So he did eat, but sometimes he couldn't stomach it.

The constant thought that he could have been there, he could have saved Izuku. He should have been more persistent on staying with him. Doku and his group got away with it. They got away with nearly killing another person.

No one knew it was them, the cameras were mysteriously down. But Katsuki knew. Those four were one of the main bullies, besides himself but he stopped.

After all, one could silence someone, one had super strength, one had a knife quirk, and the last one, the leader, could poison a person and get away with it. But the police wouldn't even bring them in for questioning. They were kids, what could they have possibly done.

They were writing Izuku's near death off as a suicide attempt! And it pissed him off to no end! They were the only ones, besides Katsuki and Kirishima, at the scene involving Izuku!

He needed to calm down. He put his head in his eyes and stared at the ground. He just wanted his best friend to be avenged.

"Izuku…please, you need to wake up." He looked at him and gently grabbed his hand.

"They written off those four trying to kill you as a suicide attempt…please I need you to wake up, they need to behind bars, but the police don't believe me."

He continued to speak to him, just hoping to get a reaction. But he doesn't move, all the moves is his chest as it rises and falls with his breathing.

"Kirishima and I are friends, at least that's what he says. I think you'd like him, he's bright and just about as innocent as you." He let a laugh.

He felt the tears build up as he continued to stare at his comatized best friend. He just wants him to wake up. It had almost been a month.

"Izuku…" his voice cracked. "Please!"

He held his head in his hands as tears started to stream down his face. He just wanted his best friend back. He just wanted his Izuku back.

"I need you." He whispered as he picked up the greenette's still hand. He brought it to his lips and gave it a gentle kiss. "Don't leave me forever."

*inside Izuku's head during all this*

He had been floating in the black nothingness for a while. He didn't know how long he had been there. But his whole body hurt.

He remembered what happened. He was pushed off the roof. But that was after he was stabbed, carved, and sliced nearly to death.

He remembered Katsuki- OH GOD KATSUKI YELLED FOR HIM. He saw him fall. Oh no, oh no, ohnoohnohonhoohnoohno.

During his panic, he heard a familiar voice within the dark. "Izuku…please!" 

He felt his hand be enveloped in warmth. He then felt a tingling feeling on the back of it. He held his hand up, but didn't see anything wrong. So that meant it happened outside of this abyss of darkness? That voice! It was Katsuki's!

"K‐Ka-Kacchan!" He looked around in the darkness. But that's all he could see, darkness. "P-Please! L-Let m-me g-go t-to K-Ka-Kacchan!"

Soon there was a flash of white in the darkness. He was back in that velvet room place. It had been awhile.

"Welcome back." He looked up to the high pitched voice. The man, Igor, sat at the desk with Lavenza standing next to it smiling at him.

"You're in quite the predicament." Igor spoke.

"You were almost killed, if Arsène hadn't gotten Pixie, you would be dead." Lavenza's smile turned sad.

"W-Who's P-Pixie?"

"I am!"

He turned towards the female voice. There stood, who he assumed, was Pixie. Arsène was standing next to her.

"Normally it takes finding the persona, but in your case, your main persona found them." Lavenza stated as she opened her book.

"I didn't want him to die." Arsène said. "Not before he met the other two."

"O-Other t-two?"

"Two more Fool Arcana personas."

"Yes, he is capable of doing that, good call Arsène."

"I know."

"W-When c-can I-I w-wake u-up?"

"That depends on yourself." Igor said.

"W-What?"

"Do you want to wake up?"

"Y-Yes!"

"Then wake up."

"H-How?"

"That is the question, is it not?"

Izuku frowned, he just wanted to get back to Kacchan. He wanted to wake up, but he didn't know how.

Igor looked over at the bookcases. "You have yet to read those, maybe you should try those."

He went over to the books and picked one up. He gasped and dropped it. 

"What is it Izuku?" Arsène came up to him.

"T-The-They're m-my m-mem-memories."

He picked the book back up. He looked at Igor and then back down at the books. Maybe, just maybe, the memories held the answer.

Just maybe, they were his ticket out of here. Then, he could see and talk to Kacchan again. He opened the book and began to read it, only to close it quickly after.

"I-I…I-It's b-back t-to w-when m-my f-father l-left." He whispered.

As he looked at the books, it was all the memories from when he was hurting in some way. So that's the catch. In order for him to get out, he's got to relive his worst memories of life.

He took a deep breath and opened the book back up. He will get out of here. He will wake up. He will see Kacchan again, even if he has to see his worst nightmares again.

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