Monsters Like Us

The street light flickered, and for a moment, something seemed to surface in those shrouded green eyes.
Something raw, something terrifying.
The rain pounded down on the pavement as their eyes met, one pair empty, one pair filled with an endless black fury.
Izuku felt something shatter in his chest as his built up emotions broke loose of their confinement and scattered outwardly in a great and sudden wave.

"Why should I apologise for being a monster!?" He screamed at the other party, who flinched sharply. "Why should I!?"

Rain poured down his face, mixing in with the tears falling from his eyes. He screamed to the broken sky.

"Has anyone, ever apologised for turning me into one!?"

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What does it mean to be a hero?
The question lingered in Izuku Midoriya's mind, persistent as a ghoul hellbent on taking its revenge.
He would think, to be a hero means to oppose the villain.
But what is a villain if not the result of a forgotten rescue or someone the hero forgot to save?
What is a villain if their reasons, in this economy, didn't have some connection to a long forgotten case ending in tragedy?
Izuku used to convince himself otherwise, choosing to drown in a river of denial than face his own obscured truth head on.
He sat, buried up to his neck in memories replaying over and over in his mind like a warning. He ignored the searing in his neck and the pain in his head as he recalled his own origin story, dressing the wolf up as a lamb and releasing it into the flock as though attempting to forget that the wolf had ever been there in the first place.
And he thought, what did it mean to be a hero?
Even after years of pondering, Izuku still didn't know.
Because despite everything he tried to bury, in the end he was always going to become the villain of the story.

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I do not own anything but the plot of this story, all rights to the MHA artist and author <3

(Ps, might be some BKDK elements but no overall romance)