Recoverance

"He'd been left as a six-year-old, thrown out like garbage, and it took him a long time to accept his reality. He was very much unwanted. Six years old and left outside the local police station, only clothed in a thin pajamas and a jacket that had been outgrown quite some time ago. His mom had promised to return to him, and being a child who absolutely adored his mother he'd believed her"

Abandonment is as well known for Hitoshi as the sun and the moon. First at age six and now at thirteen, young Shinsou Hitoshi has to fend for himself while also dealing with personal demons that keep trying to drag him under the surface as well as a meddling Pro hero who refuses to believe him when he says that he's fine. How annoying.

(Old story - have improved since chapter 1. Cross-posted to ao3. Part 1 out of a series. Involves mentions of abuse and death. Readers discretion is adviced.)