Blackout

Chapter 3

The next day was equally slow and painful for Izuku, for many reasons. Upon waking up he found that some of his old scars had started to bleed again, and that the stumps on his right foot had gotten inflammation due all the exercise from the day prior. Needless to say, he was in pain... Although it wasn't nearly as much as any normal human would feel, since the Nervelink isn't perfect and only gives him twenty percent of his sensory functions.

The Nervelink itself was being a hassle too. He had gotten a horrible rash around it, and he could tell that he needed an upgrade and reboot.... This, however, wasn't nearly as bad as what was going on in his mind...

He kept having nightmares, all night long, so he didn't even get an ounce of sleep. The memories of his brothers, Mashu and Yui, became more frequent ever since UA...

"Hey, Midoriya!" A voice called out, knocking Izuku out of his sleep. He was in the classroom, sleeping on his desk. The cyber-boy looked to his right, finding Kirishima there with a look of concern.

"Are you okay, you've been sleeping through every class so far... you were both trembling and shivering, while muttering something about a hospital, a ruin, and an alleyway... " Kirishima said, which shocked Izuku a little. Upon hearing all of this, everyone else walked closer to at least try and hear Izuku's response on the matter.

Izuku was surprised over the fact that he muttered in his sleep, probably a result of his deprivation, but he hated that details of his past came out. The hospital is where both Mashu and Yui died. The Ruin is a city ruin, where both his brothers died. The alleyway was where Romani died....

Izuku was mad over the fact that he had leaked details of himself, but he had to give them a satisfying answer now.

"My body hasn't been exposed to so much strain and exercise as it was during the test... I woke up with severe inflammation and rashes, and some of my scars opened up... So I'm in a lot of pain right now... " He said, his voice being strained. The others didn't try to object in any way, they only got more worried for him. Of course, some still wondered why a corpse of a man was in the hero course, but they also knew that he had done more than enough to prove himself.

"What about the muttering then?" Kirishima asked, clearly concerned. Izuku held three fingers up, as he said.

"Hospital, Ruin, Alleyway... Three things... The three things... Those are the three things that make me more insignificant than a man... " With an equally strained voice.

Kirishima was worried, so was everyone else. The top student in their class, proclaimed to be best in UA history, is so damn broken without repair. How unfair has the world been to this man? How much pain has he suffered already?

Kirishima walked up to Izuku, placed one of his hands on his shoulder, as he said.

"Me and some others are going to go grab lunch, you look like you could do with some food." With a friendly tone and smile. Izuku looked at Kirishima, expression unchanged, as he asked.

"Who are these others exactly?" Voice unchanged too. That is when a few walked up to them and said.

"That would be us."

Izuku scanned the group. It consisted of Uraraka, Ashido, Iida, and Asui. Izuku cursed the world for putting more or less all the doppelgangers in this group, as if to torment him more.

"Excuse me, can I join you too?" Yaoyorozu then asked, as she walked up to the group. Kirishima smiled as he said.

"Sure, the more the merrier!" To which Momo smiled happily. Izuku cursed himself even more, for the person who reminded him of Mashu was there now.