Hanahaki

Chapter 1

Izuku's pov

I double over in pain, clutching at my chest. It hurts, it hurts so bad. I can't imagine how much worse it's gonna get considering this is only the first stage.

I have hanahaki disease. It's basically a flowering plant that grows in the lungs of someone in a one sided love or of unrequited love.

There are a couple stages to the process, I guess you could call it.

Stage 1: the plant takes root. Basically small pains in the lungs. It hurts like hell, but considering the other pain you go through in the other stages, it isn't even considered a 3 on the pain meter.

That's where I'm currently at. Stage 1. I can take the pain and can hide it easily from others, but if I'm alone, or around the one I love, it gets worse for some reason.

Anyway, stage 2: the plant begins to grow. This is really painful. From what I've seen and read, the plant starts to just get a little bigger, but since it's using the carbon in your lungs, it can make you short of breath sometimes. It hurts really badly. Someone once described it as similar to breaking a bone while stage 1 is closer to stubbing your toe. You also start to cough up some of the petals, as the stages advance, you'll start coughing up full flowers.

Stage 3: the plant begins to flower. This has been said to be about as painful as having bricks dropped on you or having someone carrying something really heavy standing on you. It's difficult to breathe at this stage. The flower starts to take up more of the carbon you're supposed to be releasing and as it grows, it starts to grow thorn like vines that are constantly digging into your lungs. At this point, you are coughing up more petals, but not full flowers yet.

Stage 4: the vines take over. The plant and the vines are so big, they start to climb up your throat, they can even get into your bloodstream and cause you to start having flowers and leaves sprout all over your body. When the flowers bloom, it has to break through your skin and is some of the worst pain people are said to experience. On top of that, you can barely breathe. It's awful and is described as getting cinder blocks dropped on your chest after your ribs have already been broken. This is when you start coughing up not only full flowers, but petals and leaves as well.

Stage 5: death.

The cure for this disease? Well, there isn't one. Not really anyway. The disease is cured when the beloved returns the feelings or when the person with the disease dies.

You can also have them surgically removed, but upon the flowers removal, the victims love for the other are also removed.

I have stage 1 and shouldn't be complaining if I'm honest. It's really not that bad so far I guess, just a minor inconvenience. Nothing I can't handle.

Oh, you may be asking who the person I love is. Or you may not care and are just here to see if I'll survive.

The person I love is Bakugo Katsuki, and I know that he will never love me back.

But that doesn't matter. I'm not having my love surgically removed, I'd rather die. I'm thinking that maybe I can find some way to slow the progression of the plants, postpone the inevitable for a little while longer.

I don't want my feelings to go away, but I don't really want to die either. Maybe I'll get lucky and postpone the flowers until the end of the year.

I don't really know what my flowers will look like, it's different for everyone. All of the flowers are red but the type of flower varies for random reasons scientists aren't able to figure out.

It's speculated to have to do with whatever flowers were nearby when you fell in love, but I really don't know.

I've loved Kacchan since we were kids, but as kids you can easily mistake that love for friendship and vice versa. It wasn't until recently that I realized that I actually loved him and thus began the process of my slow and painful death.

No one in class knows. I don't want them too, they'll think I'm weak or something. I just...I don't know. They'll think I'm pathetic and weak.

I don't need their help and I don't need their pity. I'm strong enough to handle this on my own. Having my quirk helps as well, or at least I'd like to think it does.

I have this theory that since I can channel One For All and use it to make me stronger and faster, that maybe if I channel it in my lungs it'll slow down the disease.

I don't know, but I'm hoping to make it to the end of the school year.

First chapter done and what do you guys think so far? Idk if I like it too much, but honestly not the worst thing I've done. Also, don't worry, I don't plan on killing everybody off in this one (honestly I didn't plan on doing that in the other one either but oh well). Sorry for my horrible writing, bye