Disclaimer: I dont own My Hero Academia. (kinda obvious)

Warning: This fanfic touches the theme of suicide. If by any means you are someone who has had experiences with this particular subject, either by experience or by proximity, I would advise against reading this or about reading with caution.

This is my second fanfic, and my second My Hero Academia fanfic

The lines between each segment of the story represent a timeskip. It should be easy to follow when each bit takes place, as it follows the main events of the manga. I tried to represent the characters as truth as I could.

Update: This story is meant to be read as a one-shot. The full explanation is in the last chapter.

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"If you want that much to be a hero, there's a faster way. Jump from the roof and hope that you get a quirk in your next life!"

The words, ringing in his ears, hurt more each time they were repeated, like a knife in his heart.

The cold wind, hitting him in the face, was liberating.

And for a moment, Izuku Midoriya felt that he would fly. That he would leave the ground and soar, like his heroes. Like him.

Closing his eyes, the youngling known as Deku took a step forward… and fell.

-/-

Bakugo waited outside the Principal's office, hands in his pockets and a million thoughts in his head. He had been called there by his teacher, who couldn't tell what the reason was. He had done nothing! He had told his friends to behave, knowing that any action they made could be traced back to him when he would apply to UA! If this was one of those idiots doing, they would answer to him!

Why, WHY WAS IT TAKING SO LONG?! Small explosions glowed on his hands. He was on his last nerves.

Suddenly, the door opened. "Come inside".

Passing the doorframe, Katsuki recognized the woman sitting in front of the principal as Midoriya Inko. Deku's mother. He remembered her slimmer and taller, though the last could have been more him than her. She was hiding her face on her hands, a handkerchief in between them. Surrounded by water, she was shaking as he took the seat at her right.

"Yes?"

"Young Bakugo, are you aware of what happened to young Midoriya?" asked the principal. Inko started to whimper, and the shaking turn more active. Bakugo watched her before he answered.

"Yes, I'm aware." He answered in a neutral tone.

The principal nodded. "What Mrs. Midoriya and I want to know is…"

Suddenly, a hand shot and took hold of Bakugo's arm. Surprised, he turned to see Inko, with red, puffy eyes, looking at him, pleading. "Do… do you know of any reason why he would… do it?" she asked, with a trembling voice and zero strength behind each word. Bakugo saw those eyes. Saw the eyes that used to know him back then, the eyes of a woman that smiled at him when he was invited to dinner, the eyes of the mother of his once friend. She was asking, no, pleading for an answer. Pleading for some sense in this situation.

But Bakugo couldn't give her any. He couldn't. "No", he stated.

Nodding, the principal allowed him to leave. Pulling his arm free, he walked out of the door without looking back. But if he had looked back, he could have seen the opened eyes of a mother, putting what little pieces she had together.

"He knows", she whispered, to no one but herself.

-/-

The attack on UA had attracted a lot of people to its doors, mainly reporters and some concerned parents. Being kept away by the advanced security system, none of them could so much as approach the line that separated the school with the outside world without a huge metal door automatically closing the gate, with no thought on who it hurt. Such an effective system should have kept the villains away, but the presence of the media was enough prove that it hadn't.

"Here they come! Class 1-A!"

"There he is! Todoroki Shoto, son of Endeavour! He's the one who saved All Might!"

"Miss, smile for the camera!"

Rushing to get some photographs as they exit the school, the media started to trample the students until some robots came through the gate and cut between the crowd, putting a space between them. Class 1-A turned around to the train station, the exception being a tall girl with spiky hair, who was picked up by a limousine. Everyone watched in awe. Bakugo, instead, watched in disgust.

"Damn elitist crow headed bitch" he muttered, clearly pissed. Today had being a bad day, and being outclassed again by the half-and-half bastard hadn't helped.

"Katsuki?" asked a voice. A very familiar female voice. The explosion user turned around to face his living nightmare: Midoriya Inko.

She had made a name for herself. Using what happened to her son, she had started a campaign to abolish mistreatment of non-quirked students in Japan's school system. Supported by some families with non-quirked members, as well as a lot of professional heroes, she had become a prominent political figure. She even dressed the part, in a black, clean suit. However, her face hadn't change. She still looked as if she had been crying. She always looked that way. It pissed Bakugo off every time he saw her on TV.

"What do you want?" asked the young man. It was the first time they had seen each other since the Principal's office.

Taking out a water bottle from her handbag, the green-haired woman took a sip. Bakugo had heard that she was always on risk of dehydration. "I came to try and talk to All Might" said Inko. "I thought his would be a valuable voice".

"Another person you want to control by crying your eyes out, I guess."

"Wha…" said Inko, shocked at Bakugo's level of aggressiveness. Composing herself, she hold back the tears. "Katsuki, I just want to make justice for Izuku, and make sure it doesn't happen again. I'm sure you think the same. You're going to be a hero, after all."

"WELL TOUGH SHIT, THE BASTARD WAS THE ONE WHO MADE THE CHOICE!" shouted Bakugo, with enough force to make Inko's eyes start to fill with tears. She fell to her knees, and started crying. None of them move for a couple seconds, until she raised her sight to look Bakugo in the eyes. But she wasn't shocked anymore. There was a weird resolution in her eyes. Sick of that, Bakugo turned around, leaving Inko crying, but with anger in her otherwise calm face.

He thought he hadn't been seen. However, that couldn't be further from the truth.

"Do you need help, Miss?" asked a gentle voice. Inko turned to see a brown haired girl and a pink girl, both of them offering hands to help her stand up.

"Yes, thank you, girls" said Inko, pulling herself up. Turning around, she smiled to the girls "I wonder, would any of you know where I could find either All Might or the Principal?"

"Huh? Why is that?" asked the pink girl "Are you from the press, miss?"

"Oh, no, not at all. I'm Inko Midoriya," she said, taking out some flyers and handing them out to the girls.

"Thank you. I'm Uraraka Ochaco, and my friend here is Ashido Mina. Was Bakugo rude to you, Miss?" asked the brown haired girl. She certainly was a bit more formal than her friend, who was reading the flyer already.

"Yes, he was. He used to be a friend of my son" said Inko, a knot forming in her throat at the mention of Izuku.

"Your son…" wondered Uraraka, when she suddenly was shown the business card by Ashido. She had horns, Inko hadn't notice, and black eyes that were open in surprise. After finishing reading the card, taking a last glance at the smile of the boy with green eyes that looked at her from a photo, with a hand covering her mouth, Uraraka returned her attention to Inko. "I… I'm so sorry, miss. I didn't recognized you. I've seen you on TV. And you say Bakugo knew your son?"

"Yes, he did", answered Inko.

"Umm… Uraraka? I think we could take her to see the Principal, and then he could talk to All Might" said Ashido. Uraraka nodded her head in agreement. However, she wasn't done with the conversation.

"Is there any way we could help you, Miss?" she asked with a stern look on her face. "Or at least could you tell us your story?" Uraraka sure knew that something didn't add up. Why had Bakugo shouted at her? And it was a Hero's work to help do the right thing, as All Might had taught them.

"Sure, it would be my pleasure" she said, smiling to the young girls. If only her Izuku had been born with different odds, he could have been a friend to this young ladies, she thought, as she walked with them inside her son's dream school.

-/-

"…she then told me that she thinks he could have been involved somehow"

"Uraraka-san, you can't just take everything as truth! He is our classmate!"

"I must agree with Iida, Uraraka. He may be painful to deal with, but he still is one of us."

Feeling identified by the description, Bakugo turned around and saw Uraraka, Ashido, Iida and class-rep Yaoyorozu glancing at him from the other side of the room. Quickly, they turned their heads. He would have shouted, but it was more trouble than it was worth, so he turned to his books.

"I think I should look into that", offered Iida, in a lower tone so that Bakugo wouldn't hear them. "My brother taught me how to do some detective work, and I can also ask him personally for help. If there's something off about Bakugo, I think I could look into it."

"Thanks, Iida-kun", said Uraraka, seriously. Mina had remained quiet through the whole interaction. When they had talked about what Midoriya Inko had told them, Mina had been the one to conclude that Bakugo may had been a key player in either pushing the kid to do what he did, or to not stop him of doing it. She was repulsed by the idea, and hadn't been her normal self all day. Uraraka, on the other hand, thought that there was some work to do.

"Don't mention it, Uraraka-san. However, I ask of you two to don't treat him differently before I get some conclusions", said Iida. "He's our fellow student, and he's training to become a Hero as much as us. I think that even he deserves the value of doubt."

-/-

"AND START!" shouted Present-Mic at full volume. The first match of the semifinals had started.

"HALF-POWER RECIPRO BURST!"

With a kick to the stomach, Bakugo lost all air in his lungs. He had tried to block, but Iida was too fast. Almost… too fast. He fell a couple of meters behind, closer to the border of the arena.

Looking up, the explosion-quirk user shouted, a sadistic smile appearing on his face "Come at me, Four-Eyes, let's see who is the better hero!"

"YOU ARE NO HERO!" shouted Iida, with a raged expression on his face. Bakugo's smile disappeared. What was he saying? Looking up, he realized how everyone on the stadium started to ask the same question. Had Ingenium's brother lost it?

"YOU DON'T DESERVE TO BE IN THIS SCHOOL, AND YOU ARE LESS WORTHY OF BEING CALLED A HERO!" shouted Iida at the top of his lungs, his eyes looking at Bakugo like he was scum. Bakugo wouldn't take this anymore. Pulling himself up, he launched himself towards Iida… only to be met to a kick to the face, breaking his nose with the strength of a car, and pushing him back again. Iida… was not holding back. This was his finals. This was what he had been aiming to.

"YOU'RE TALKING SHIT, FOUR-EYES!" shouted Bakugo, spitting blood. However, there was something that was affecting him. He started to recognize a puzzle. A puzzle that had started long ago.

"AM I, BAKUGO? OR HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN IZUKU MIDORIYA?!" Iida stated. Bakugo's eyes opened in surprise. He was in check. But what could he do? The name was out.

Murmurs came from the crowd, everyone talking between themselves. The name was somewhat famous at this point, especially after All Might had gone out to support Midoriya Inko's pro-non-quirked movement. In the midst of the crowd, Uraraka, Mina and Yaoyorozu watched, surprised at how Iida was acting. He had told them he had gotten the last piece of information he needed a couple of minutes before his match, but hadn't disclosed anything. It was now his stage, and they were just spectators.

"Shut up" said a trembling Bakugo. This couldn't be how it went "SHUT UP!" he screamed, jumping towards his opponent. Managing to land a hit on Iida's face, he blew his glasses, breaking them, and pushing back the big guy a large distance.

"YOU ARE THE REASON HE KILLED HIMSELF! YOU KNOW IT! AND FOR A LONG TIME YOU HAVE BEEN KEEPING THAT INFORMATION A SECRET TO EVEN HIS OWN MOTHER, AND WHY!? FOR YOUR OWN SELFISH SAKE!" Iida had tears rolling down his cheeks. But they weren't tears of sadness. They were tears of anger. Of pure rage. Scum like this claim to be a hero? He was an insult to what being a hero represented, an ideal Iida had tried to reach his whole life. And at this point Iida had had enough. Turning around, he addressed the teachers, and the person that was there with them: Midoriya Inko. He had asked for her to be called that day. She was crying, being consoled by the principal. On Present-Mic's box, both he and Eraserhead looked at the scene without knowing what to think. "I ASK THE STAFF OF THIS FINE INSTITUTION TO DEAL WITH KATSUKI BAKUGO HOW THEY SEE FIT, SO THAT MIDORIYA IZUKU CAN REST IN PEACE!"

"That fucking nerd WON'T RUIN MY LIFE!" shouted Bakugo, pulling himself up and running towards Iida. It didn't mattered what happen after this. Nothing mattered anymore. He was going to kill the person in front of him.

"RECIPRO BURST!" screamed Iida Tenya, with as much force as he could. He threw a kick…

And it connected, cracking Bakugo's jaw.

As he lost consciousness, Bakugo watched a lot of things. He saw Inko crying. He saw class 1-A looking in horror. And he saw Iida, looking down on him, victorious, while he fall to the ground and his senses went off. And he knew, that it all had ended. That there wasn't going back from this. That Izuku had won at the end.

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Thanks for reading. If you have any criticism, (or if youlikedit) please, I would love if you leaved a feedback. Sorry for any misspellings, as English is not my first language.

A couple of points, I mainly had Iida be the one who confronted Bakugo because, as it was previously implied, he tends to trust people a lot. Also, if some detective work should be done, he could either do it himself or ask his brother for help. Also, because it is the calm people who, when they get angry, are the most terrifying. And I think of Iida as that kind of person.

Momo is class representative because, if Izuku hadn't entered UA, then she would have been the only student who got any points aparts from him/herselfs (thanks, Todoroki).

Finally, Todoroki is the one who saved All Might because he technically was the one who did it in the story. Also, that would be a punch to Bakugo's ego, and those have to be in a MHA story.

Hope you enjoyed it, wear your seatbelts. Peace.