I Met Him In The Wastelands | A BakuDeku Story |

Four | Izuku Midoriya, Wanted

"When I was fourteen I met the prince, he was very kind to me. I didn't think anything bad would happen if I agreed to be his... princess, I was wrong. I think when I was sixteen, he snuck into my room and... and... did things... to me. After that, I was planning to escape with the help of my mom but that's when he proposed to me in front of many from all over, I couldn't say no. Now here I am, a runaway on my wedding day," Izuku told the two males in front of him.

"Did things?" Kirishima questioned as Katsuki facepalmed at his dragon's stupidity.

"Ignore him, I'm assuming there is a lot to be filled in between your words," Katsuki said as Izuku nodded.

"There is, but I rather not speak about that," Izuku said as he watched the sun slowly set from inside the cave.

"That's understandable, Kirishima bring the wood over here I'll start a fire," Katsuki said as Kirishima nodded and grabbed the wood. He dropped it in front of Katsuki, Katsuki quickly stacked the wood and looked up at Izuku. Kirishima looked at Katsuki while the blonde just shrugged, Izuku watched as small sparks formed in Katsuki's hand. He placed his hand on the wood and with a small boom, a large fire was formed.

"Whoa! How did you do that?" Izuku asked as he looked at the blonde in amazement. Katsuki looked up at the greenette, he smirked as he saw the gleam in Izuku's eyes. Although he had his smirk on the outside he didn't have it on the inside, so he doesn't know where I'm from... or who I am.

"You don't need to know that," Katsuki said as Kirishima nodded. Izuku just smiled since he understood that the blonde didn't want to tell him, just like he didn't want to tell them certain things too. They spent the whole evening talking about the wastelands, Katsuki was helping navigate Izuku to the closest town. It wasn't long before the three boys fell asleep in the warmth of the fire.

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Izuku stretched as he slowly opened his eyes, his body felt quite sore from sleeping on the ground in a cave. He looked around to see that he's the only one there, Kirishima and Katsuki already left. He sighed and stood up, he remembered the route Katsuki told him to take to the closest town. He grabbed his bag and went to the opening of the cave, he looked around and saw that he had to climb down.

It took about an hour to successfully climb down, he groaned since his body was extra sore. He slowly started to walk toward the direction of the closest town, he was a bit nervous since Iida might still be out there. On his way there he picked some fruits off trees and bushes to eat along the way, he tried to get water but all the water pools looked like swamps.

Izuku heaved a sigh once he finally reached the town, his legs felt like they were about to fall off. He was walking for hours, he walked into the town and looked at all the food stalls. He started to walk toward one but he suddenly got pulled into a nearby alleyway, "Hey! Stop! Let me go!" he shouted as the person let him go.

"Sorry," the voice said, it was a soft and light female voice. Izuku turned around to get a good look at the girl, short poofy brown hair, rosy cheeks, and wide brown eyes. She was very cute and around Izuku's height, Izuku showed a kind smile to the girl.

"It's alright, why did you do that though?" Izuku asked the girl as she fidgeted with the staph she was holding.

"Do you not know?" she asked him.

"I don't, that's why I'm asking."

"There are wanted posters everywhere for you, they say you stole princess Izumi."

"No, you can't be serious right?"

"I'm plenty serious! Follow me and put a cloak on to cover your face." Izuku quickly took a green cloak out of his bag, he put it on and followed the girl. "This is the town center, everything is posted on this board here. Such as your wanted poster," the girl pointed to the board. Izuku looked at the board, a drawing of himself on a poster with wanted in big letter made his eyes widen.

He looked around the board and found many more wanted posters, one had a picture of the girl he was with. Her wanted poster didn't have a name on it, he looked at the girl and she looked away, "You're up here too? What's your name?" Izuku asked the girl who looked back at him.

"You're not going to turn me in?" she asked as Izuku chuckled.

"Look we're in the same boat, I wouldn't do that since I would get caught too," Izuku told her to which she gently smiled in reply. "Your name?"

"Oh! Right, I'm Ochako Uraraka. I'm wanted for witchery, which I can't deny since I am a witch," Uraraka told him as the two started to walk away from the board together. "Why did you take the princess? Where is she?" 

"About that, they are framing me. I didn't take the princess, it's a long story to why I'm wanted," Izuku told her as she nodded.

"I understand, wanna go to a tavern to get something to drink?" she asked as she pointed to a tavern.

"Sure, why not!" Izuku smiled as they went into the tavern. They sat at a table, they then ordered their drinks. They then started talking about random things. Every so often they would stop because they would watch a fight break out in the tavern, after the fight was over the two would just laugh. Izuku felt happy, an emotion he hasn't felt in a long time.

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"DAMN IT IIDA!"

Edited: 03-01-21

Word count: 1001