Callumwilson2002
Story Description:
Betrayal doesn't always come with warning-sometimes it comes with a kiss meant for someone else.
Izuku Midoriya learned that the hard way.
Cheated on by Katsumi Bakugo, his trust shattered by her affair with Shoto, Izuku's world didn't just break-it collapsed. And in the aftermath of that quiet, suffocating heartbreak, something impossible happened.
He fell.
Not metaphorically.
Not emotionally.
Physically-torn from his world and cast into another.
A harsher one.
A dying one.
The world of Red Dead Redemption 2.
Found half-conscious in the wilderness during the Van der Linde gang's early days, Izuku was taken in by Dutch and Arthur-not out of kindness, but curiosity. What they found wasn't just a lost boy...
It was someone changing.
Time moved differently there. Slower. Heavier. Real.
Two months in that world became five weeks back home-but for Izuku, those two months were enough to reshape everything. He learned to survive. To fight. To endure. And somewhere along the way, he gained something dark and powerful-
The strength of the Bell-Bearing Hunter.
When he finally returned, he wasn't the same boy who had been betrayed.
He was quieter.
Sharper.
Harder to break.
But not empty.
Because despite everything... his heart still reached forward.
Back at U.A., now a place where all students stand at eighteen and classes have shifted, Izuku finds himself surrounded not by the past-but by new connections that slowly, dangerously, begin to matter.
Marinette-gentle yet strong, whose love builds slowly through shared silences and soft, meaningful moments.
Toru-bright and unseen, yet always present, whose affection grows through laughter, touch, and quiet closeness.
Dess Holiday and Noelle Holiday-both born into this world, both carrying their own emotional weight, their bonds with Izuku deepening through trust, vulnerability, and late-night conversations that linger just a little too long.