What it takes to be a hero

Awake and in distress

Katsuki was more than confused, at first, he was looking over his body then the next minute he was blinded by lights.

When he can see more than just light, he looks around and tries to move but his limbs felt like they were getting held down by some heavy object.

He saw his papa standing in front of him looking worried, he wanted to hug him but he just couldn't move.

Katsuki looked around the room to see all of his brothers sitting next to each other asleep using each other as pillows. He noticed his dad next to him laying his head on the bed, Katsuki tried to move his right arm, he looked down to see his right arm gone.

His papa walked into the room and he made eye contact before Katsuki let out an ugly cry.

"Katsuki?" "Katsu" "Kacchan" "Kat" His family's voices filled the room making his cries muffled.

Shouta laid down with him and held him like he did when he was younger, Katsuki's head was tucked into his chest.

"Kat, everything is going to be okay"

"B-but my quirk"

"Shhh"

Katsuki feels his hair getting played with and breathing in his father's scent of coffee and his body wash that he hasn't changed since they adopted them. He fights his eyes shutting but loses the battle and falls asleep in his dad's arms.

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The doctors were not sure when or even if Katsuki would wake up so the Yamada family got into a different schedule than they originally had.

One of their fathers would be with Katsuki all night then come home and the 5 of them would have breakfast together even though they didn't like it. They went to school together as usual since they knew Katsuki would get on their ass if he knew that they weren't going to school/work.

After school, the 3 brothers would walk to the hospital to see Katsuki while their parents finished up with work. The 3 boys would work on homework or talk to Katsuki about how their training was going.

One thing Izuku had noticed was that Eijirou avoided them and as far as they knew never went to see his older brother. He tried to tell himself that Eijirou was busy and that he would visit when he could.

When he asked his brother, friends said that they were all far from busy but they didn't know why Eijirou wasn't visiting Katsuki.

Izuku decided to leave Eijirou alone and that when Katsuki woke up, Katsuki would beat his ass.

When the doctors told them that they should start thinking about if they would take Katsuki off life support or not. Izuku was losing hope that he would wake up so he refused to leave Katsuki's side and so did Shoto and Hitoshi.

When they were awoken by Katsuki's sobbing they were more than happy but forgot one small issue. Katsuki had lost his arm meaning he could only activate his quirk with one hand.

When Katsuki fell asleep, Izuku could tell their parents were having a conversation without having to talk.

"Is Katsuki going to be a hero still?" he asked innocently

"I don't know Izu, I don't know" Hizashi answered him truthfully

"There has to be someone who can make a prosthetic arm that works with his quirk" Hitoshi chimed in.

"We'll look for Katsuki but for now let him sleep," Shouta said in a fatherly tone

Izuku texted Eijirou that Katsuki was awake but since he wasn't expecting a text back, he shut his phone off and laid next to his dad and Katsuki.

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Eijirou missed Katsuki so much but was too scared to see him, he didn't want it to be real.

Eijirou wasn't only avoiding the Yamada family, he was avoiding everyone including his friends.

He felt empty, and useless without Katsuki

Eijirou had no will to live, he wasn't actively trying to die but he wouldn't mind if he did die. He was diagnosed with depression in middle school but Katsuki always helped him cope with it.

Avoiding everyone just seemed kinder than to burden them

When he got the text from Izuku, he felt guilty

He didn't even know if Katsuki would want to see him after he heard that he never visited him once.

Eijirou owed an apology to everyone but first, he cried

He cried for the first time in months, it was ugly and full of pain, but his best friend was back.

He cried for everyone he hurt in the past months, his family, the Yamada family.

Eijirou decided he would visit Katsuki tomorrow and ask him out then and there because Eijirou realized he can't live without him

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Hi guys!

I'm sorry it took so long for me to update, to be honest, I was struggling and rewrote it multiple times because I couldn't decide what I wanted

I'm working on a small one-shot for this series and I found some requests for the Yamada's so I'm going to write those so be on the lookout for them!

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Thank you for all the support! I'll try to update within a week but no promises

Love all of you guys! Stay safe

- Rin <3